Legal research guide

Use this resource to access authorised Commonwealth legislation including Acts, Regulations and Bills. Formerly called ComLaw.

Search all Australian legislation from one site. All principal legislation is categorised under the Lawlex subject index. This includes Acts, Bills, Regulations, Plans and By-laws. The subject index includes 29 categories with subcategories as relevant to those principal categories.

Access Bills from Federal Parliament.

Find the Explanatory Memorandum by navigating to the Act and clicking "All versions". The Bill and associated EM will be linked at the bottom.

Listed with Bills.

A digest summarises and explains the context, purpose and structure of the Bill.

This database contains copies of Commonwealth of Australia Explanatory Memoranda for Bills from 1980.

This index lists all items identified as Explanatory Memoranda or as Comparative Memoranda from 1901 to the end of 1982.

Some selected Memoranda after 1982 (and not available on the Internet elsewhere) published on Parliament of Australia website.

Guided search for second reading speeches.

Parliamentary Papers collates key documents that have been tabled in the Australian Federal parliament.

Contains reports from Australian and New Zealand Law Reform Commissions.

Authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia.

Authorised reports of decisions of the Federal Court of Australia.

Unreported judgments of the High Court, Federal Court, Family Court, Tribunals and Commissions.

The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system.