ACTU Industrial Officers Conference – Tuesday 25 July 2006,
Name
Web based research: legal and corporate
Address
Pros
Cons – Commercial /
Union/ Academic
Search Engines
Google
www.google.com.au
Australia limit, I’m feeling lucky finds website/best link
Dogpile
www.dogpile.com
All the big ones! Google, msn, yahoo, ask jeeves
Government
Govt Portal -
www.australia.gov.au
Australian Bureau of Statistics
www.abs.gov.au
New look with more downloads and history.
Dept Workplace Relations, Australian
www.dewr.gov.au,
Policy New? Labour Market Info Portal
Workplace
www.workplace.gov.au
WageNet - DEWR
www.wagenet.gov.au
Source of all agreements/ awards
Post WC?
AIRC – Commission
www.airc.gov.au
Source of all AIRC documents
Post WC?
OEA – Office of the Employment Advocate
www.oea.gov.au/
Australian Building and Construction
Commission
OWS – Office of Workplace Services.
www.abcc.gov.au
Aust Fair Pay Commission
www.fairpay.gov.au
Award Review Taskforce
www.awardreviewtaskforce.gov.au
Workchoices the website
www.workchoices.gov.au/
www.ows.gov.au
Caroline Pryor – AMWU
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ACTU Industrial Officers Conference – Tuesday 25 July 2006,
Web based research: legal and corporate
Company searches
ASIC – Securities Commission
www.asic.gov.au
Names index free
Use Information brokers;
ABR, Lawpoint
Lawpoint
www.lawpoint.com.au
ASIC plus
C
Australian Business Research
www.abr.com.au
ASIC plus
C
IBIS World
www.ibisworld.com.au
Authoritative
C
Transnational Corporate info
www.transnationale.org
Lots of background info for free; European perspective
Reports 180 Euros,
European perspective
Business whos who of Australia Online
bww.dnb.com.au
Modestly priced, succinct directory information.
C
www.austlii.edu.au
A Free, comprehensive, all jurisdictions
Some areas not up to
Law and Legislation
Aust Legal Education
date.
ComLaw – Aust Attorney Generals Dept
www.comlaw.gov.au
G: Free takes over from Scaleplus
CCH
www.cch.com.au
Reports, comprehensive, IR portal,
C
LexisNexis
www.lexisnexis.com.au
Legal publisher/ Reports/ News
C
Parliament
www.aph.gov.au
Bills, Speeches, Library analysis.
Caroline Pryor – AMWU
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ACTU Industrial Officers Conference – Tuesday 25 July 2006,
Web based research: legal and corporate
Media
Workforce
www.workforce.com.au
Authority / History, Links – Thomsons
C
Workplace Information
www.workplaceinfo.com.au.
HR – links – email – Paul Munro
C HR
Workplace Express
www.workplaceexpress.com.au
News – links – email – Specialist News
C
Workers Online - LabourNet
workers.labor.net.au
Labour Start
www.labourstart.org
AAP
www.aap.com
Factiva
www.factiva.com
International, Tracks (CA service)
C
Access
www.accessap.com.au
Political news, media releases, PDF’s
C
ABC
abc.net.au/news/politics/
Authoritative.
New Matilda
www.newmatilda.com.au/
Crikey
www.crikey.com.au
U
Eric Lee
C
General – add in your favourites
Action for Australia.
www.getup.org.au
Choice
www.choice.com.au
Popular, Consumer, Environmental Advocacy info
National Library of Australia
www.nla.com.au
Ask Now.
Caroline Pryor – AMWU
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