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NetWatch September 2003

Authors: Anne Greenshields
Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Ian Lee MPsych, Grad Dip LIS
Librarian, Murdoch University Library
Issue: Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2003)


  Australian legal sites and developments

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material

Australian sites and developments

Recent Australian Publications: A monthly easy-to-use files of new Australian publications, including printed materials such as books, journals, maps, music, and newspapers; as well as multimedia material and electronic resources from the National Library of Australia
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/rap.html

Australian Institute of Criminology: Recidivism of Sexual Offenders : Rates, Risk Factors and Treatment Efficacy 124 page pdf report
URL: http://www.aic.gov.au
URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/reports/2003-06-recidivism.html

Law Reform Commission of New South Wales
Report 100: Contempt by Publication
Report 101: Questioning of Complainants by Unrepresented Accused in Sexual Offence Trials
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/lrcindex
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r100toc
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r101toc

Commonwealth of Australia: Government Publications

Royal Commissions

Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry "On 29 August 2001, the Honourable Terence Rhoderic Hudson Cole RFD QC was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into certain matters relating to the building and construction industry. The Royal Commissioner presented his final report to the Governor-General on 24 February 2003. The Final Report was tabled in Parliament on 26 and 27 March 2003". Final report.
URL: http://www.royalcombci.gov.au/index.asp

Senate Committees of the Current Parliament
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/com-list.htm

Senate Select Committees

Joint Committees Administered by the Senate

Parliamentary Library Publications

Western Australia 

Gordon Inquiry Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Use the link to Interim Report.
URL: http://www.fvcainq.dpc.wa.gov.au/fvcainq/fvcainq.nsf/Main?OpenFrameSet

Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1996 and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (CLMIDA) 1996 : "The purpose of this review is consider the operations and effectiveness of the Mental Health Act (1996) and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (1996) and make recommendations as to alterations in the legislation."
URL: http://www.health.wa.gov.au/mhareview/index.html

Water Reform in Western Australia "This report contains the results of detailed analysis of the comments received by the Water & Rivers Commission during the first phase of consultation on proposals to reform laws governing water resource management in Western Australia". Allocation and trading in water rights. Phase 1 Consultations
URL: http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/water_reform/Wr7/analysisreport.htm#Summary


Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

Indian Parliament: Parliamentary debates, Bills, Acts (India Code), Regulations. Information about the Indian Parliament, Members, links to Ministers and Ministries. An invaluable resource.
Some materials only available in Hindi.
URL: http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/

Law Reform Commission of Tanzania reports, discussion papers etc [pdf]
URL: http://www.lrct-tz.org/

South Africa Government Online Parliamentary debates, Bills, Acts (under Documents & Reports), Regulations. Information about the Indian Parliament, Members, links to Ministers and Ministries. An invaluable resource.
URL: http://www.gov.za/
URL: http://www.gov.za/documents/index.html

World Trade Organization - Documents Online 100,000+ official legal documents of the World Trade Organization. Full coverage from 1995.
URL: http://www.wto.org
URL: http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp


Banking and Finance

Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia "The Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia is the government agency responsible for the administration and regulation of the personal insolvency system in Australia." Use the dropdown menus at the top that include information for debtors, creditors and information about part X.
URL: http://www.itsa.gov.au/

World Trade Organization - Documents Online 100,000+ documents of the World Trade Organization. Full coverage from 1995.
URL: http://www.wto.org
URL: http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp

Business, Corporations & Securities

Australia: Senate Committee. Corporations and Financial Services
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/corporations_ctte/index.htm

Provisions of the New Business Tax System (Taxation of Financial Arrangements) Bill No. 1) 2003 [PDF] - Tabled 13 August 2003
Provisions of the Financial Services Reform Amendment Bill 2003 [PDF]- Appendix 3 Tabled 21 August 2003
Australian Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/EET_CTTE/reports/index.htm

World Trade Organization - Documents Online 100,000+ documents of the World Trade Organization. Full coverage from 1995.
URL: http://www.wto.org
URL: http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp

Censorship

Beacon for Freedom of Expression "An international database on censorship of books and newspapers, and literature on freedom of expression, produced by the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression." Search for publications about censorship, as well as for information about censored material.
URL: http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/

Children and Young People

Gordon Inquiry Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Use the link to Interim Report.
URL: http://www.fvcainq.dpc.wa.gov.au/fvcainq/fvcainq.nsf/Main?OpenFrameSet

Citizenship & Migration

Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USA)
URL: http://uscis.gov/graphics/

Provisions of the Migration Legislation Amendment (Identification and Authentication) Bill 2003 (18 September 2003) Australia. Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/migidentification03/report/report.pdf
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/index.htm

Provisions of the Migration Legislation Amendment (Sponsorship Measures) Bill 2003 (12 August 2003) Australia. Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/migration03/report/report.pdf
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/index.htm

Constitutional Law

Australia, Parliamentary Library Research Papers online
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/online/index.htm

"The Founders' Constitution" is an anthology of documents from the 17th century through the 1830s about popular government in the United States.
URL: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/

Resolving Deadlocks: a discussion paper on section 57 of the Australian Constitution Released by the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard. This paper considers additional options for resolution of deadlocks between the Senate and the House of Representatives
URL: http://www.pmc.gov.au/docs/constitutionalchange.cfm

Crime & Criminal Justice

Australian Crime Commission (Formerly National Crime Authority)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/acc_ctte/index.htm

To examine Australian Crime Commission's response to trafficking in women for sexual servitude
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/acc_ctte/sexual_servitude/index.htm
Recent trends in practices and methods of cybercrime
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/acc_ctte/cybercrime/index.htm

GRECO - Group of States Against Corruption "GRECO evaluates through a dynamic process of peer pressure, the compliance with undertakings contained in the legal instruments of the Council of Europe to fighting against corruption". Site includes instruments, conventions and other documents.
URL: http://www.greco.coe.int/

Hate Crimes American Psychological Association's summary page, includes Legislation, congress briefings position papers, and testimony.
URL: http://www.apa.org/ppo/issues/phatecrime.html?CFID=2636796&CFTOKEN=52010796

History of the FBI
URL: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/historymain.htm

Justice Policy Institute (USA) "a project of the Tides Center is a Washington, DC-based think-tank that is committed to reducing society’s reliance on incarceration."
URL: http://justicepolicy.tempwebpage.com/

Questioning of Complainants by Unrepresented Accused in Sexual Offence Trials (Law Reform Commission of New South Wales)
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r101toc
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/lrcindex

Recidivism of Sexual Offenders : Rates, Risk Factors and Treatment Efficacy 124 page pdf report from the Australian Institute of Criminology
URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/reports/2003-06-recidivism.html
URL: http://www.aic.gov.au

Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1996 and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (CLMIDA) 1996 : "The purpose of this review is consider the operations and effectiveness of the Mental Health Act (1996) and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (1996) and make recommendations as to alterations in the legislation."
URL: http://www.health.wa.gov.au/mhareview/index.html

Directories, Guides and Search Engines

Australian Government Publication Register "The Publications Register provides access to a range of resources on Australian Government publications. You can search or browse government agency listings for publication information or follow links to existing online publication resources".
URL: http://www.publications.gov.au

Chambers and Partners Global Guide "A guide and directory to the world's leading lawyers in over 170 countries. Law firms and individuals are ranked according to their reputations in different areas of specialization".
URL: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/chambersglobal/index.cfm

EUR-Lex - The Portal to European Union law "Attempts to publish the whole body of European Union law, and in particular the legislation and the case law, as well as the decisional procedures between the Commission and the other institutions in all official languages"
URL: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html

HealthInsite " Through this site you will find a wide range of up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma". A Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative.
URL: http://www.healthinsite.gov.au

International Transport Law: "Legal Resource guide for international transport law. It includes a database of forwarding conditions, commentary on developments in the law, links to Internet sites on law and transport practice, resolving disputes without litigation, recent cases on international transport and more".
URL: http://www.law.deakin.edu.au/research/subject/inttransport.htm

RAVE :"a data base that covers recent publications (articles and decisions) in public international law and European law by listing them systematically and providing their citations. In addition it permits, via hyper links, direct access to relevant material published on the WWW (judicial decisions, national statutes, documents of international organizations and full-text articles). The ever expanding offers on the WWW are continuously observed and opened up in a systematic way to save users a time-consuming search of their own".
URL: http://www.jura.uni-duesseldorf.de/rave/e/englhome.asp

Education

Association of American Colleges and Universities (USA)- links to member universities, conferences, publications etc.
URL: http://www.aacu-edu.org/

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment from the perspective of providing distance education in the United States.
URL: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

International Association of Universities (UNESCO) "brings together institutions and organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional and national bodies active in higher education".
URL: http://www.unesco.org/iau/

Employment & Industrial Law

Inquiry into Workplace Relations Amendment (Protecting the Low Paid) Bill 2003 [PDF] (19 June 2003) Australian Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/EET_CTTE/reports/index.htm

National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Australia)
URL: http://www.nohsc.gov.au/default.asp

Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry "On 29 August 2001, the Honourable Terence Rhoderic Hudson Cole RFD QC was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into certain matters relating to the building and construction industry. The Royal Commissioner presented his final report to the Governor-general on 24 February 2003. The Final Report was tabled in Parliament on 26 and 27 March 2003". Final Report.
URL: http://www.royalcombci.gov.au/index.asp

Environment

Inquiry into the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002. Australian Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/ecita_ctte/index.htm

Water Reform in Western Australia "This report contains the results of detailed analysis of the comments received by the Water & Rivers Commission during the first phase of consultation on proposals to reform laws governing water resource management in Western Australia". Allocation and trading in water rights. Phase 1 Consultations
URL: http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/water_reform/Wr7/analysisreport.htm#Summary

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. Alerts and publications. Includes full text of substantial texts such as Esty, Daniel C & Ivanova Maria H (eds) "Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities" Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2002
URL: http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter/

European Union

EUR-Lex - The Portal to European Union law "Attempts to publish the whole body of European Union law, and in particular the legislation and the case law, as well as the decisional procedures between the Commission and the other institutions in all official languages"
URL: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html

GRECO - Group of States Against Corruption "GRECO evaluates through a dynamic process of peer pressure, the compliance with undertakings contained in the legal instruments of the Council of Europe to fighting against corruption". Site includes instruments, conventions and other documents.
URL: http://www.greco.coe.int/

Family Law

Family Violence Court Report "The Joondalup Family Violence Court project was launched in December 1999. This final evaluation report provides an overview of the Joondalup Family Violence Court's effectiveness in achieving its stated aims and key information regarding the profile of domestic violence in Joondalup and other nominated locations. It also provides a number of recommendations for future Family Violence Court initiatives in the State"
URL: http://www.justice.wa.gov.au/displayPage.asp?structureID=25289764&resourceID=76221353

Gordon Inquiry Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Use the link to Interim Report.
URL: http://www.fvcainq.dpc.wa.gov.au/fvcainq/fvcainq.nsf/Main?OpenFrameSet

Provisions of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2003 (13 August 2003). Australia. Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/family03/report/report.pdf
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/index.htm

Gender

GenderNet : TheWorld Bank site which "seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/gender/

Health & Medical Law

DrugInfo Clearinghouse "DrugInfo Clearinghouse is a service provided by the Australian Drug Foundation. Goal is to inform and support drug prevention in Victoria. The first port of call for high quality, evidence based drug prevention information".
URL: http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/

HealthInsite " Through this site you will find a wide range of up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma". A Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative.
URL: http://www.healthinsite.gov.au

Report on a Rights Analysis Instrument for use in Evaluating Mental Health Legislation " Through this site you will find a wide range of up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma". A Commonwealth Government of Australia initiative.
URL: http://www.mentalhealth.gov.au/resources/reports/ranalysis.htm

Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1996 and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (CLMIDA) 1996 : "The purpose of this review is consider the operations and effectiveness of the Mental Health Act (1996) and the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (1996) and make recommendations as to alterations in the legislation. On this website you will find the Review's Terms of Reference, minutes of meetings, newsletters, copies of legislation, a range of resource documents and links to other sites."
URL: http://www.health.wa.gov.au/mhareview/index.html

Review of the Self-Regulatory System for Alcohol Advertising 70 pages pdf from the Department of Human Resources, Victoria.
URL: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/phd/publications/downloads/ncraareport.pdf
URL: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/

The Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes a research Research Paper online from the Australian Parliamentary Library.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2003-04/04rn13.htm
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/online/index.htm

Housing, Property and Development

Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry "On 29 August 2001, the Honourable Terence Rhoderic Hudson Cole RFD QC was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into certain matters relating to the building and construction industry. The Royal Commissioner presented his final report to the Governor-general on 24 February 2003. The Final Report was tabled in Parliament on 26 and 27 March 2003" Final report.
URL: http://www.royalcombci.gov.au/index.asp

Human Rights

To Examine Australian Crime Commission's Response to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Servitude (Australian Crime Commission)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/acc_ctte/sexual_servitude/index.htm

Indigenous Australians

Inquiry into the Progress Towards National Reconciliation (9 October 2003) Australia. Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/reconciliation/report/report.pdf
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/index.htm

Inquiry into The Effectiveness of the National Native Title Tribunal from the Australian Parliament Joint Committee Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/ntlf_ctte/index.htm

Gordon Inquiry Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Use the link to Interim Report.
URL: http://www.fvcainq.dpc.wa.gov.au/fvcainq/fvcainq.nsf/Main?OpenFrameSet

Intellectual Property

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment from the perspective of providing distance education.(USA)
URL: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

Designs Bill 2002 and the Designs (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2002 [PDF] - Tabled 28 May 2003 Australian Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/EET_CTTE/reports/index.htm

RAVE :"a data base that covers recent publications (articles and decisions) in public international law and European law by listing them systematically and providing their citations. In addition it permits, via hyper links, direct access to relevant material published on the WWW (judicial decisions, national statutes, documents of international organizations and full-text articles). The ever expanding offers on the WWW are continuously observed and opened up in a systematic way to save users a time-consuming search of their own".
URL: http://www.jura.uni-duesseldorf.de/rave/e/englhome.asp

World Trade Organization - Documents Online 100,000+ documents of the World Trade Organization. Full coverage from 1995.
URL: http://www.wto.org
URL: http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp

International Law

Diplomacy Monitor (St. Thomas University School of Law, USA) - tracking "latest major diplomacy-related documents from around the world"
URL: http://www.diplomacymonitor.com

Inquiry into Australia's Relations with Papua New Guinea and the Island States of the Southwest Pacific (12 August 2003). Australia, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fadt_ctte/reports/index.htm

GRECO - Group of States Against Corruption "GRECO evaluates through a dynamic process of peer pressure, the compliance with undertakings contained in the legal instruments of the Council of Europe to fighting against corruption". Site includes instruments, conventions and other documents.
URL: http://www.greco.coe.int/

World Trade Organization - Documents Online 100,000+ documents of the World Trade Organization. Full coverage from 1995.
URL: http://www.wto.org
URL: http://docsonline.wto.org/gen_home.asp

Journals, Essays and Newspapers

Diplomacy Monitor (St. Thomas University School of Law, USA) - tracking "latest major diplomacy-related documents from around the world"
URL: http://www.diplomacymonitor.com

Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary (USA): articles and commentary on topical issues, archives are both searchable and browsable.
URL: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository: "The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools". (USA)
URL: http://lsr.nellco.org/

Oxford University Press. Searching is free, results include abstracts and some free articles.
URL: http://www.oupjournals.org

Recent Australian Publications: A monthly easy-to-use files of new Australian publications, including printed materials such as books, journals, maps, music, and newspapers; as well as multimedia material and electronic resources from the National Library of Australia
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/rap.html

Law Reform

Law Reform Commission of New South Wales
Report 100: Contempt by Publication
Report 101: Questioning of Complainants by Unrepresented Accused in Sexual Offence Trials
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/lrcindex
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r100toc
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r101toc

Law Reform Commission of Tanzania reports, discussion papers etc [pdf]
URL: http://www.lrct-tz.org/

Legal History

Law in Mexico Before the Conquest features of Aztec and Maya law explained with text and contemporary images.
URL: http://www.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec/Home.htm

Media and Communication

Contempt by Publication (Law Reform Commission of New South Wales)
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/r100toc
URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/lrcindex

Inquiry into the provisions of the Spam Bill 2003 and the Spam (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003. Australian Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/ecita_ctte/index.htm

Inquiry into Competition in Broadband Services. Referred: 26 June 2003 Australian Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/ecita_ctte/index.htm

Review of the Self-Regulatory System for Alcohol Advertising 70 pages pdf from the Department of Human Resources, Victoria.
URL: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/phd/publications/downloads/ncraareport.pdf
URL: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/

Taxation

Provisions of the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (No. 7) 2003 [PDF] (Tabled 10 September 2003) Australian Senate Committee Economics
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/reports/index.htm

Provisions of the New Business Tax System (Taxation of Financial Arrangements) Bill No. 1) 2003 [PDF] - Tabled 13 August 2003
Provisions of the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (No. 5) 2003 [PDF]- Tabled 21 August 2003 Australian Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/EET_CTTE/reports/index.htm

Torts

National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
URL: http://www.nohsc.gov.au/default.asp

Transport

International Transport Law: "Legal Resource guide for international transport law. It includes a database of forwarding conditions, commentary on developments in the law, links to Internet sites on law and transport practice, resolving disputes without litigation, recent cases on international transport and more".
URL: http://www.law.deakin.edu.au/research/subject/inttransport.htm

Law of the Sea, a new directory of predominantly Australian resources on weblaw.
URL: http://weblaw.edu.au/weblaw/display_page.phtml?WebLaw_Page=Law+of+the+Sea
URL: http://weblaw.edu.au


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