External Links

General Resources

• University of Richmond's Constitution Finder
• Venice Commission's Codices Index
• National Parliaments of the World
• Australian Electoral Commission
• Australian Parliament
• Australian Parliamentary Education Office
• International Association of Constitutional Law
• Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia Includes biographical entries for all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, details of election and referendum results, constitutional material and statistics and tables on matters associated with the Parliament.
• Australasian Legal Information Institute
• Discovering Democracy Home Page
• Constitutions Made Simple

Constitutional Forms and Values

State Constitutions

• NSW
• South Australia
• Victoria - with notes on how it works
• Western Australia (a)

Preamble

• ABC's Preamble site (included a 'create your own preamble' game)
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Education Office, Constitutional Referenda in Australia

Head of State

Australia

• Australians for Constitutional Monarchy
• Australian Republican Movement

International

• Governor-General of Canada
• Governor-General of New Zealand
• The British Monarchy
• The Commonwealth

Representative Democracy

Australian Parliament

• Australian Parliamentary Education Office

State & Territory Parliaments

• Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
• Legislative Assembly of the ACT
• Parliament of New South Wales
• Parliament of Queensland
• South Australian Parliament
• Parliament of Tasmania
• Governor of Victoria

Australian Governments

• Australian Governments' Entry Point

International

• National Parliaments of the World
• Women in National Parliaments around the World

Rights

Australia

• Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Research Paper on the Preamble/Bill of Rights

International

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50th Anniversary

Citizenship

• High Court's decision in the Heather Hill case (23 June 1999)

Courts

• Federal Court of Australia
• Supreme Court of Victoria
• Database of Commonwealth, State and Territory court decisions
• High Court of Australia

Indigenous People and the Constitution

• Reconciliation Australia
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive

Constitutional Review and Change

Australia

• Former High Court Chief Justices discuss constitutional review

International

• The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament (includes run-down of the Blair Government's constitutional refom plans)

Miscellaneous

France

• Portal to sites on French, francophone and comparative constitutional law (see also http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.cottin/rfdc99.htm)

Nepal

• Laws of Nepal - an exclusive site on Nepalese Constitutional Law, Sectoral Legal Regimes and Human Rights

Constitutional Justice

• Venice Commission (Centre on Constitutional Justice)