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This guide contains useful resources and links that you are able to freely use. The guide is for both primary and middle/secondary students.

Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. It features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers and business people, as well as multi media content.

 

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's official statistical organisation. It assists and encourages informed decision making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by providing a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service.

To access the Australian Bureau of Statistics click here

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative website that pulls together Australian biodiversity data from multiple sources, making it accessible and reusable.

The ALA helps to create a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity for scientists, policy makers, environmental planners and land managers, industry and the general public, and enables them to work more efficiently. 

 

ParlInfo allows you to search and find Australian Parliamentary information. This includes hansards, bills, committee reports, media publications, Parliamentary Handbook and a whole lot more.

Below are some links to useful websites and databases to legal research tools.

Australasian Legal Information Institute : Case Law from the most superior Australian courts and tribunals as well as current and past Federal, State and Territory Legislation.

ComLaw : Federal Register of Legislation  is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents.

Lawyers Weekly : Lawyers Weekly is an authoritative source of independent news, analysis and opinion about the practice of law in Australia.

 

The joys and challenges of immigration…

This website by the National Archives of Australia has extensive information on migration to Australia including images taken by the Department of Immigration to promote the government's migration and settlement activities 1946 to 1999. During these years  government photographers snapped 22,000 images of people arriving and living in Australia.

 

The Flora of Australia is designed for use by anyone wanting authoritative information on the names, characteristics, distribution and habitat of native and naturalised vascular plants in Australia.

Listed below are a range of ABC websites that may be useful. Don't forget to refer to yur assignment to see what type of resources are required (scholarly, peer-reviewed, popular) etc.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is a dictionary of national biography. In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.