AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute

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18 September 2009The Australasian Legal Information Institute provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials. AustLII is one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over 20 gigabytes of raw text materials and over four million searchable documents. AustLII publishes public legal information: that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports etc). AustLII's policy agenda is to convince parliaments, governments, courts, law reform bodies and other public institutions to make legal materials they control available free via the Internet.

The AustLII collection contains full-text databases of most Australian Court and Tribunal decisions and legislation. Current databases include Commonwealth, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Teritory, Queensland South Australian Tasmanian, Victorian and Western Australian, legislation and regulations, most federal courts (High Court, Federal Court, Family Court, AAT etc) and most state courts and tribunals. AustLII also includes a number of more specialised (subject specific) databases, an extensive law reform collection, a growing law journal collection as well as the most comprehensive index to Australian law on the Net.