Directories

•Australian White Pages: http://www.whitepages.com.au

•Australian Yellow Pages: http://www.yellowpages.com.au/

•Business Directory: http://www.aussie.com.au

Searching for an Australian website? Try : 

• http://www.webwombat.com.au

• http://www.yahoo.com.au

• http://www.ozsearch.com.au

• http://www.anzwers.com 

Tourist information

• Australian Tourist Commission: http://www.australia.com

• Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/aust/aus.htm

• Tourism Victoria: http://www.visitvictoria.com

For basic background information on Australia consult:

• The best index to Australian information resources: http://springboard.telstra.com.au/australia

• Charles Sturt University’s excellent "Guide to Australia" (http://www.csu.edu.au/australia): culture, geography, nature, tourism, science and education, trade and commerce, travel and communication). This site is an important resource for students of Australia. It provides detailed information on the Commonwealth and on each of the six states and two territories 

• The Australian Embassy in Washington’s website: www.austemb.org/sites.htm

•"Australia in Brief": http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib2001/index.html

• "Fabulous facts about Australia" (maps and information on dimensions, land tenure, deserts, mountains, lakes, islands, etc.) the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group’s excellent website : http://www.auslig.gov.au/facts/facts.htm

Australia in figures

For a comprehensive overview of contemporary Australia see:

• "Australia now: a statistical profile" at: http://www.abs.gov.au/
The blurb reads: "It provides a comprehensive overview of the economic and social conditions of contemporary Australia, together with their administrative and legislative background. It also describes Australia’s government, international relations, defence, geography and climate. Its pages provide sufficient background information to establish a context for the statistics and to help in understanding and interpreting them.)

• "Australia now" is also a series of fact sheets covering aspects of contemporary Australia and Australian policies and attitudes on a wide range of issues : http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/index.html

Australian English 

The following dictionaries are "musts" for the student of Australia:

• The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary. Third edition. (Bruce Moore, ed.). Oxford University Press, 1997. 1616 pp. ISBN 0-19-550617-0

• The Australian Reference Dictionary. (Anne Godfrey-Smith, Janet Hadley Williams, Joan Hughes, Shirley Purchase and W.S. Ramson, eds.). Oxford University Press, 1991. 919 pages. ISBN 0-19-553296-1

• You can search the Macquarie Dictionary for free at http://www.dict.mq.edu.au

• A few Australian English words are defined and available at http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/Austwords
 

Religion

• The National Council of Churches in Australia: http://www.ncca.org.au/

• Australian Catholic Bishops Conference: http://www.catholic.org.au

• The Anglican Church of Australia : http://www.anglican.org.au

Farming

• The National Farmers’ Federation represents 30 farmer organisations and their 120,000 members. These organisations include the Australian Cane Growers Association, the Rice Growers Association of Australia and the Queensland Cattlemen’s Union. The NFF’s headquarters is in Canberra, near Parliament House: http://www.nff.org.au

The Environment

• Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.au

• Australian Conservation Foundation: http://www.acfonline.org.au

Industrial relations

• The Industrial Relations Court of Australia: http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/IndRelCt/irca.htm

• The Australian Council of Trades Unions (ACTU): http://www.actu.asn.au publishes Workers Online Magazine (http://www.labor.net.au/workers/)

• The Minerals Council of Australia (http://www.minerals.org.au) represents miners and mining companies.