Government

General

• The Governor-General of Australia, Sir William Deane.

• The Prime Minister's homepage

• The Cabinet, and the outer ministry.

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General directories

• The primary directory is the Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point.

• The AusInfo site provides online information of interest to Australians (and others).

• The Office for Government Online also has a good directory.

• The National Library of Australia also has a brief directory of government sites.

• The Australian National University offers several access points to government sites, although these are not as current as the two noted above:
  • General listing of all levels of government in their Australian Governments on the Net (1994).
  • Commonwealth government sites are given in the List of Commonwealth government sites. (1994).

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Parliament

• Commonwealth Parliament.

• Biographies for the current members of the House of Representatives, and for the Senate from the Parliamentary Handbook.

• The best single site for current information about the Government is given by the Parliamentary Library.

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Federal Cabinet Ministry

• Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Treasury
• Primary Industries and Energy. See especially their "Rural Book" for 1998, 1996-97, and 1995.
• Environment, Sports and Territories. Department of Environment and associated agencies maintains a very extensive site, Australian Environment, which is a part of the Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN).
• Communications and the Arts
• Workplace Relations and Small Business
• Social Security
• Foreign Affairs and Trade, see especially their publications list and the useful Fact Sheets on Australia. Much useful information here. Also read the Consular Newsletter. Check their directory of information. Australia's Foreign and Trade Policy White Paper, "In the National Interest"
• Industry, Science and Tourism. See Office of National Tourism.
• Defence
• Transport and Regional Development
• Health and Family Services
• Finance and Administration
• Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA).

Outer Ministry

• Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Science and Technology
• Schools, Vocational Education and Training
• Resources and Energy
• Small Business and Consumer Affairs
• Family Services
• Defence Industry, Science and Personnel
• Attorney-General and Justice
• Sport, Territories and Local Government
• Veterans' Affairs
• Aboriginal and torres Strait Islander Affairs

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Other Federal Agencies

• See the large directory of Commonwealth Government Agencies.
• High Court of Australia
• Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), allows online ordering of publications.
• Australian Tourist Commission
• Office of Government Information Technology
• Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and their list of Institute and Divisional sites.
• Royal Australian Air Force and the Army.
• Directorate of Army Research and Analysis
• Austrade, the Australian Trade Commission
• Australia Council.
• Australian Customs Service
• National Library of Australia, see also the Images 1, documentary images. This is a database of over 13.000 images of works of art. The NLA is also putting their individual Finding Aids on line and taking the lead in electronic publishing. See the article National Strategy for Provision of Access to Australian Electronic Publications: A National Library of Australia Position Paper. Also, check out the PANDORA Project, "Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia".
• National Museum of Australia
• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, discription of maps and order forms.

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State and Local

• The New South Wales state government.
  • List of NSW metro and country Councils

• Queensland state government homepage.

• Western Australia
  • WA local councils

• South Australia

• Tasmania
  • Local councils
  • Tasmania Parliament

• Victoria
  • Local governments. state Parliament. Members of Parliament, past and present. See listing of MPs with their own web pages.

• Northern Territory

• Australian Capital Territory

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Political History

• The ANU has a project which provides biographies of former Australian senators and members of the house of representatives (but only back to the late 1960s).

• The best source for Historical Parliamentary Information is from the Parliament itself. This is a very good site.

• Australian Electoral Commission offers some useful information about elections in Australia.

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Australian representation in other countries

• Australian Embassy:
  • Washington DC, USA.
    See also Denver, Colorado USA.

  • Stockholm, Sweden. (and Denmark, Estopnia, Finaland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway!)

  • Paris, France, (in French).

  • Tokyo, Japan, (In Japanese).

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina, (and Uruguay and Paraguay - In Spanish).

  • Madrid, Spain, (In Spanish).

  • Beijing, China
    See also Hong Kong
    and Shanghai (in Chinese)

  • Korea, (In Korean).

  • Germany, (In German and English)

  • Indonesia

  • Italy

  • Kazakhstan

  • Lebanon

• Australian High Commission:
  • Malaysia

• Australian Mission:

  • European Union, (also Australian Embassy to Belgium and Luxembourg).

  • Geneva, Switzerland

  • Taiwan (in Chinese, also in English)