AustLII, the web site of the Australasian Legal Information Institute, provides full-text databases of most Australian decisions and legislation, both of the Commonwealth of Australia (ie federal) and of states and territories, and incorporates links to New Zealand material on the NZLII site. Also included are treaties to which Australia is a party, and access to the full text of nearly a hundred Australian legal journals.

This site is the entry point for information and online services provided by the government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The "Topics" tab gives access to an alphabetical list of subjects which includes "Law and Justice". Under each subject heading are official publications, statements of government policy and links to other relevant sites. At the foot of every page there are links to the web sites of state and territory governments and of local councils.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice. It publishes frequent reports to aid government in policy-making, which may be found on the web site.

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), a federal agency which was established in 1975, conducts inquiries into areas of law reform at the request of the Attorney-General. Most of its Final Reports, 1975 onwards are available free on the web site, as are Discussion Papers 1979 onwards (also selected papers from earlier years), Issues Papers 1996 onwards, and the journal Reform, retitled ALRC Brief in 2011.

This guide, compiled by Kirsty Wilson and Robin Gardner of Melbourne University Library, outlines free legal resources for Australian legal research (legislation, case law and secondary sources), and provides links to research guides covering Australian and foreign/international/comparative law. Also included is a section on historical resources, mostly on constitutional matters.

The National Library of Australia provides this gateway site for Australian law. It is divided as follows: main sites; law by jurisdiction; legal profession. The home page has a link to an introduction to the Australian legal system, provided by the Attorney-General's Department.

The Australian Privacy Foundation is a non-government organisation dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of Australians. The Resources section of the web site contains Commonwealth and State/Territory privacy laws, laws of other countries and international instruments. There is also a directory of associations, media releases and papers published by the Foundation and a history of privacy law and policy. Guidance is given on how - and to whom, depending on the sector or industry concerned - to make a complaint relating to intrusion of privacy.

This Australian Government site allows access to Australian treaties by subject, type and/or country, or date. Links are provided to multilateral treaty status sites, and there is information on treaties generally and treaty making. 

The Centre was established by the University of Melbourne in January 1996, its purpose being to undertake and promote research on corporate law, corporate governance and securities regulation. The web site includes a monthly Corporate law bulletin, September 1997 onwards (subscription is required to view the most recent bulletins), a substantial collection of research reports (see Centre Activities>Research), and annual reports, 1996 onwards. The section "History of Australian Corporate Law" includes links to key Australian and UK legislation, reports and other documents from the 1800s onwards.

ComLaw (Commonwealth of Australia Law) is a legal information retrieval system owned by the Attorney-General's Department, permitting full-text searching of legislation of the Commonwealth of Australia. For each item of legislation it is possible to view multiple versions, as in force at various dates. Government notices as published in the Gazette are available from October 2012 onwards. This resource incorporates FRLI (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments) and has replaced SCALEplus, which was decommissioned on 8 October 2010.

The reports featured on this site are of Tasmanian cases from 1824 onwards, when Tasmania (then named Van Diemen's Land) was separated from New South Wales to become a colony in its own right. Contemporary newspapers are the main source, and the period so far covered is 1824 to 1843. Amongst other content  there is an index of cases 1840-1857, and the records of pre-1850 appeals to the Privy Council from the Australian colonies. The site is published by the Division of Law, Macquarie University and the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

A primary aim of this project is to make available the early case law of New South Wales before effective formal law reporting was established in the latter part of the 19th century. The main source is contemporary newspaper reports. At present it concentrates on Supreme Court decisions between 1788 and 1855: there are currently no decisions for most of the 1860s and 1870s. Also included are a number of cases concerning Aborigines from later years, and the surviving records of pre-1850 appeals to the Privy Council. The site is published by the Division of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney.

The Family Court of Australia is a specialist federal court. Its web site provides extensive information including court lists, recent judgments and practice directions. Links are provided to AustLII's Family Court of Australia cases database, and (also on AustLII) to the legislation under which the court operates. Publications reproduced in full text include the Family Court Bulletin (in "About the Court"), papers and reports on many aspects of family law, and annual reports 1997 onwards.

The Federal Court is a superior court of record exercising a broad jurisdiction, both original and appellate, in Australian federal law matters. The resources available for practitioners on its web site include practice notes, administrative notices, forms, hearings lists, legislation and detailed information about the Court's registries in each Australian state. Judgments, February 1977 onwards, are provided via links to the AustLII web site.

Federal Law Review is a journal covering constitutional and administrative law, published by the Faculty of Law, Australian National University, since 1964. There are three issues a year. This archive covers 1995 to 2011 (no.1), but note that issues are restricted for five years from the date of archiving. The most recent issues of the journal are on a separate site, and a subscription is required. Click on "Publisher's site" for details.

FindLaw Australia is a service provided by Thomson Reuters Australia. It includes legal news and articles arranged by subject area, and directories of law firms and individual lawyers.

GovPubs is an initiative of NSLA (National and State Libraries Australasia). It provides descriptions of selected Australian official publications and enables the user to locate titles or series either in libraries (subdivided by state) or on the internet. Web publications may be browsed separately from printed ones.

The Law and Justice Foundation is an independent statutory body which works to improve access to justice for the people of New South Wales. Its web site provides a gateway for legislation, case law and court information, covering the whole of Australia, not only New South Wales. The “Legislation and Parliament” and “Judgments and Courts” sections complement AustLII in that there are links to alternative sources of data. There are also links to decisions of some quasi-judicial bodies not included in AustLII.

The Australian Parliament site contains Bills 1996 onwards and Bills digests 1976 onwards, Hansard (for both the Senate and the House of Representatives) 1981 onwards, and Committee Hansards (Senate, House and Joint) mid-1990s onwards. Coverage dates of the latter vary according to the Committee. The Parliamentary Library section includes an index of Parliamentary Papers, 1992 onwards (under "Key Internet Links"); within "Publications" there are Bills digests, 1976 onwards and Background Notes (formerly E-Briefs: background documents on current issues, including links) 1999 onwards.

This is a narrative guide to Australian legal research, written by law librarians Nicholas Pengelley and Sue Milne and published on the LLRX.com site March 2009. It includes hypertext links to the sources mentioned.

SAI Global is a commercial provider of legal and regulatory information. One of its services is Lawlex, which has some free and some subscription-based elements. All users may search or browse Australian Commonwealth and state/territory legislation and view the full text as currently in operation, as provided by the relevant official government publisher. Links to Hansard debates are provided for Acts in some cases. Subscribers have access to additional information such as details of progress of Bills, commencement, amendments since last consolidation and summary of all amendments since enactment. Other SAI subscription services include regulatory newsfeeds and Safety, Health & Environment (SH&E) Monitor.

Queensland judgments are available on the Supreme Court of Queensland Library (SCQL) site, with new ones added within 24 hours. The archive goes back to 1992 for Supreme Court (Court of Appeal) judgments and to 2000 for Supreme Court (Trial Division). Other services provided by SCQL for legal practitioners include the UCPR Bulletin, indexing cases that have considered the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules; the weekly Queensland Legal Updater current awareness service; and biographical information about Queensland's judiciary: Supreme Court, District Court and magistrates.

The Sydney Law Review is the quarterly journal of the University of Sydney Law School. The contents list of the current issue is displayed on the home page, with links to full text, and previous issues from volume 25 (2003) onwards can be viewed in their entirety in pdf. The collection of case comments entitled "Before the High Court", which are are a regular feature of the journal, can also be browsed separately using the menu to the left of the screen.

This is Australia's "whole-of-government entry point", a gateway site providing access to online information resources for the Commonwealth Government, the state and territory governments, and the Australian Local Government Association with its links to local council and local government association sites.