Government and organisations

Global

• OECD
• United Nations
• World Bank
• IMF (International Monetary Fund)
• World Trade Organization
• International Labour Organization
• European Union
• APEC
• Oxfam Community Aid Abroad

Australia

• ABARE (the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics).
• Austrade (the Australian Trade Commission online).
• Australasian Legal Information
• australia.gov.au is the portal for Commonwealth government information and services.
• The Australia Institute is an independent public policy research centre.
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • ABS Time Series Data is maintained by the Council of Australian University Librarians and offers a more direct route to many of the ABS statistics.
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Australian National Audit Office
• Australian State and Territory Governments is maintained by the National Library of Australia.
• Australian Government Directory
• Business Council of Australia A forum for Australian business leadership to contribute directly to public policy debates
• ComLaw Australian legislation and legislative instruments. As of 1 January 2005, all new legislation is published on this site and not on SCALEplus which will be phased out.
• CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).
• Embassy of Australia, Washington DC
• Federal Court of Australia
• Government online directory Australian government directory
• High Court of Australia
• Information Victoria for details about state government programs and services.
• Law Search Online offers access to information on current Commonwealth legislation.
• Office of the Employment Advocate Australian Workplace Agreements - Information for Employers and Employees.
• Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia is a comprehensive and consolidated index which provides information on the Commonwealth Government including annual reports, acts of parliament, parliamentarians bio-data, electoral divisions, etc.
• Parliamentary Library of the Parliament of Australia.
• The Productivity Commission is the Commonwealth Government's principal advisory body on all aspects of microeconomic reform, including matters relating to industry, industry development and productivity.
• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Small Business Website Commonwealth Government
• SCALEplus  contains legislation of the Commonwealth and non self-governing Territories (and related material such as Reserved Commonwealth Laws, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act and the Constitution (including ancillary documents) as well as Bills, explanatory memoranda/statements, tables, indexes and other finding aids).
• State Government of Victoria
• www.gov.au provides access to the information and services of the federal, state and territory governments.

  Industry specific bodies

  • Australian Automobile Association (AAA) supply a range of automotive and transport statistics.
  • The Australian Steel Industry from the Dept. of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
  • BTRE Transport Statistics provides statistics on aviation, transport, road and rail, shipping and ports, etc. from the Department of Transport and Regional Services.
  • Coal industry information from the Dept. of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
  • Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  • Key Automotive Statistics is prepared by the Dept. of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
  • Multimedia Victoria
  • Resources and Energy Page from the Dept. of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
  • Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Tourism Research Australia, a division of Tourism Australia, the new peak public tourism body.
  • Tourism Research & Statistics from Tourism Australia

Other Governments

• World Wide Government Information is maintained by the National Library of Australia and points to government information in New Zealand, Asia, Canada, United Kingdom, the US and Europe.
• Governments on the WWW is a comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web and includes more than 12,000 entries from 220 countries and territories.
• Yahoo Government Index
• U.S. State Department Country Commercial Guides look at international commercial environments using economic, political and market analysis.