A national support network for people identifying as asexual. Asexuality is a sexual orientation defined by a lack of sexual attraction to any person of any gender.
Australian Biography Online contains material collected for Film Australia's Australian Biography TV series. Full interviews are available as transcripts as well as videos for viewing and downloading.
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Laws and standards for all aspects of construction in Australia. Contains the National Construction Code (previously Building Code of Australia). Register for free access.
This index provides a searchable database of cemetery inscriptions for over 1,100 Australian cemeteries and over 1.7M inscriptions. Particularly strong in regional NSW cemeteries, each index entry is accompanied by a digital image of the headstone.
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The Australian Hydrographic Service of the Royal Australian Navy is responsible for publishing and maintaining the Australian national chart series. You can view thumbnail images of Australian charts with the Australian Chart index as well as find out some detail about each chart.
A project by the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society to list all the cinemas and theatres of Australia and New Zealand. Details will include the address, current status of the building, owners, architects and dates.
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The Australian Copyright Council is an independent, not-for-profit Community Legal Service dedicated to promoting understanding of copyright law and its application. It was established in 1968, the same year as the enactment of the Australian Copyright Act 1968.
The ACC provides easily accessible and affordable practical, user-friendly information, legal advice, education and forums on Australian copyright law for content creators and consumers. See the Resources page for Fact Sheets and books about Copyright in Australia.
This is the online version of the multi-volume reference work. It contains authoritative biographical entries on over 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1994. It can be searched by name, gender, religion, cultural heritage, and occupation.
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This site provides contact details of Australian embassies and other representative offices throughout the world. The site also includes links to Australian embassy web pages where available.
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The Australian Government Web Archvie is a collection of Commonwealth Government websites with the earliest content collected in 1996.
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A database of more than 20 000 historic, natural and Indigenous places in the Register of the National Estate, the National Heritage List, the Commonwealth Heritage List, the World Heritage List, and places under consideration for any one of these lists. Information includes a place's values, its legal status, its significance, physical condition, history and photographs if available.
The Australian Indigenous Index or INFOKOORI is a State Library of NSW index to the Koori Mail: the fortnightly national indigenous newspaper, published in Lismore, NSW, since May 1991, that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia. INFOKOORI is also an index to biographical information from other periodicals held by the NSW State Library including: Our aim : a monthly record of the Aborigines' Inland Mission of Australia. (19071961), Dawn : a magazine for the Aboriginal people of N.S.W. (19521969), New Dawn (19701975) and Identity: Aboriginal Publications Foundation (19711982). Full-text versions of Dawn and New Dawn are available from AIATSIS. Published by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, they contain family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, and hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW. Historical information about Aboriginal people and communities is also being added from other newspapers published in NSW that are held by the NSW State Library, such as the Armidale Express, the Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent, the Australian Evangel, Today, the Daily Examiner (Grafton) and the North-western Watchman (Coonabarabran).
The inflation calculator uses data on consumer and retail prices to calculate changes in the cost of purchasing a representative basket of goods and services. This calculator is provided by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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AIATSIS is a research, collections and publishing organisation with a priceless collection of print, photographs, video and audio. It promotes knowledge and research on all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, languages and stories. You can explore their online collections, research guides, publications, and many digitised collections including The Koori Mail, Dawn and New Dawn, notebooks and diaries.
(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia)
AIHW is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics. Most AIHW publications are available in paper copy and online.
The Australian Libraries Gateway is a directory of Australian libraries. Entries include library contact details, information about services and online catalogues. Use this site to find libraries in a geographical area, libraries of a particular type (for example public, university, health), and cultural heritage via on-line exhibitions, events and image collections.
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