In summary:
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News |
| ABC News Online |
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| Newsradio |
Many useful links, including international media/newspapers |
| News Interactive |
Extensive news coverage, including news search facility |
| The Age |
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| The Australian |
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Place/street/company/personal names |
| ASIC |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
| Australian geographic place names |
MUST SEE! |
| Whereis Online |
"Australian Street Atlas" |
| White Pages |
Australian business and personal names listing |
| Yellow Pages |
Australian businesses etc. grouped according to service |
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Legal |
| ANSTAT |
Australian legislation research resource |
| AUSTLII |
Acts and regulations from most States and the Commonwealth, court transcripts etc. |
| Find Law |
Listing of legal resources |
| www.geocities.com/juliebrebner |
Listing of legal resources |
| www.lawportal.com.au/full_screen.asp |
Extensive listing of legal resources |
| www.lectlaw.com/inll/53.htm |
Australia-based online law library |
| www.legalonline.vic.gov.au |
A good source of legal information |
| www.osiris.gov.au/ |
Full text of Australian Federal Awards, Agreements, Decisions, Variations and Decision Summaries of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission |
| Victorian Law Reform Committee |
Report on "Technology and the Law" |
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Dictionaries |
| www.english-dictionary.us |
A powerful, no-frills English dictionary containing over 200,000 references with both US and British spellings |
| http://dictionary.com |
Online dictionary/thesaurus |
| http://odwin.ucsd.edu/glossary/others.html |
A list of dictionary and acronym references, including a number of computing-oriented references (American) |
| www.acronymfinder.com |
An acronym finder taken from the above reference page (American) |
| www.onelook.com |
Search engine that searches a huge number of dictionaries |
| www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html |
The American-British/British-American Dictionary |
| RxList |
An Internet drug index |
| www.wordsmyth.net |
A comprehensive dictionary/thesaurus - including a handy "search for approximate spelling" option (American) |
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General |
| Gifts of Speech |
Women's speeches from around the world |
| Fast facts file |
"Fast Facts File" on a variety of topics including Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Constitution; international organisations and links |
| Rulers |
Heads of State and Government of all countries and territories |
| The History Channel |
Search any topic in history |
| The History Place |
"Great Speeches Collection" |
| LibrarySpot |
Libraries online - includes references to law libraries, medical libraries etc. |
| Litrix Reading Room |
"A quiet place for lovers of good writing" |
| Reference Desk |
"The single best source of facts on the Internet" |
| Reference Desk Internet help |
Pages of Internet-related tutorials |
| Ozguide |
A guide to Internet information sources for Australian journalists - emphasis on Australian material - excellent site |
| www.xe.net/ucc/full.shtml |
"The Full Universal Currency Converter" |
| www.wotif.com.au |
For last minute holiday deals |
| www.check-in.com.au |
Last minute accommodation Australia wide |
