• Brian Palmer's website "Palmer's Oz Politics" provides the best introduction to Australian government, politics and public policy. It has a very useful list of links: http://www.webone.com.au/~bdpalmer/

• A wide-ranging survey of Australian politics and current affairs is provided by David Moss’ Australian Politics Resource: http://plato.itsc.adfa.edu.au/apr

• Ausinfo: http://www.agps.gov.au is responsible for the dissemination of government information 

• The Armidale Politics Page: (http://www.une.edu.au/arts/PAIS/Politics/armpol.htm) provides information as well as links.

• "The Good Citizen: Australian democracy and citizenship": http://www.abc.net.au/ola/citizen/default.htm

• A useful resource database: http://www.curriculum.edu.au/democracy

• The Office for Government Online is available at http://www.ogo.gov.au

The Australian Constitution 

• The full text of the Australian constitution is available at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/constitution.html

The Commonwealth (= federal) government

• "The main directory of Commonwealth Government websites": http://www.fed.gov.au

• The Prime Minister of Australia’s website(http://www.pm.gov.au) sets out biographical details about the Prime Minister as well as policies and speeches. 
 

The Commonwealth Parliament

• The Commonwealth Parliament’s website (http://www.aph.gov.au) includes details about all Members of Parliament and senators as well as up-to-date information about what Parliament is doing.

• http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard provides access to the Senate Hansard, the House of Representatives Hansard, and to the transcripts of the proceedings of all Senate, House of Representatives and Joint Committees. 

• The Leader of the Opposition’s website (http://www.aph.gov.au/house/oppn/index.htm sets out biographical details about the Leader of the Opposition as well as policies, speeches, and links to his party’s sites.
 

The Senate

• http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/

• http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/hanssen.htm verbatim report of Senate proceedings
 

The House of Representatives

• http://www.aph.gov.au/house/

• http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/hansreps.htm verbatim report of House of Representatives proceedings

The republican debate and other constitutional issues

• The Samuel Griffith Society has published all the papers on constitutional issues presented at its annual conference since 1992. They can be consulted at http://www.samuelgriffith.org.au

• "The Australian Republic issue: a Guide" : http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/republic.html, continually updated, is probably the best source of information on the republican debate. 

• The Constitutional Centenary Foundation’s website (http://www.centenary.org.au) provides details about the February 1998 Constitutional Convention, the republican issue, the November 1999 referendum as well as very interesting fact sheets about Australia. 

• The Australian Republican Movement: http://www.republic.org.au

• The Australian Monarchist League in Australia: http://www.monarchist.org.au

•Australians for Constitutional Monarchy: http://www.norepublic.com.au

"Current hot issues" (drugs, immigration, racism, One Nation, etc.)

• The New South Wales Parliament’s website provides useful information on current problems. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au

• The Parliamentary Education Office, which was set up to "encourage students to become active and informed citizens through developing an understanding of Australian political democracy" provides interesting dossiers on current issues. It can be accessed via http://www.peo.gov.au

Political parties

• Liberal Party of Australia: http://www.liberal.org.au

• Australian Labor Party: http://www.alp.org.au

• National Party of Australia: http://www.nationalparty.org

• Australian Democrats: http://www.democrats.org.au

• Greens: http://www.greens.org.au/

• Pauline Hanson’s One Nation: http://www.onenation.com.au

• Queensland National Party: http://www.npa.org.au

Elections

The Australian Electoral Commission (PO Box E201, Kingston, ACT 2604; phone 02 6271 4419; fax 02 6271 4558) publishes a very useful Electoral Newsfile "for the information of people interested in the Australian electoral process." 

Its excellent website (http://www.aec.gov.au) provides invaluable information on all aspects of federal elections (history, voting systems, results, etc.)

Each state and territory has its own electoral commission.

Local government

The website of Focus, Australia’s local government newspaper: http://www.loc-gov-focus.aus.net/