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Australian Politics and Government
Subject terms
Australian politics
Democracy Australia
Federation Australia
Parliament
Politics
Prime Ministers
Junior Reference
to be used in the Library
Australia in: 1910 (part of series)
The Australian Flag: the First 100 years
A Century of great Australians
Commemorating one hundred years of the Federation of Australia 1901- 2001
The Prime Ministers of Australia
The shape of Australian History
Adult Reference
to be used in the Library
A documentary history of Australia (series)
A handbook of Australian Government & Politics 1890-1964
A handbook of Australian Government & Politics 1965-1974
A handbook of Australian Government & Politics 1985-1999
Websites
Encyclopedia Britannica onlinelog in using your library card number
Prime Ministers
Prime Ministers Collections @ the Australian War Memorial
www.awm.gov.au/pm/index.asp
National Museum Of Australia - Canberra
www.nma.gov.au
Commonwealth Government & parliament
Government & Parliament
http://australia.gov.au/topics/government-and-parliament/parliament-of-australia
Our Government
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-government
Fact sheets on Australian Government
http://australia.gov.au/topics/australian-facts-and-figures/factsheets-on-australian-government
Documenting a democracy
101 key documents in the founding of our democracy.
http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/
Parliament Education Office
www.peo.gov.au/students/index.html
State & Local Governemnt Fact Sheets
www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au/nsw.php3
Federation
Federation
www.peo.gov.au/faq/faq_1.html
Federation gateway
http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/federation-of-australia
Centenary of federation website
pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10492/20020604-0000/www.centenary.gov.au/index.html
Toward Federation NSW
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/key/HistoryTowardsFederation
Political Parties
Australian Labor Party
www.alp.org.au/
The Liberal party of Australia
www.liberal.org.au/
The Nationals
www.nationals.org.au/
Democratic Labor Party
www.dlp.org.au/
The Greens
nsw.greens.org.au/
The Democrats
www.democrats.org.au/
Local Government
Local Government
www.gosford.nsw.gov.au
Department of Local Government
http://dlg.wa.gov.au/
State Government
State Government
www.nsw.gov.au
Timeline of NSW government
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/resources/history
The state electorates are Wyong (map enclosed)
www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au
Members of the State Parliament Legislative Assembly
The Gosford Area (map enclosed)
http://www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au/elec.php3?ID=202&srch=browse_elec&list_params=parliament%3DNSW
If you look at the State Government website the overview of responsibilities are different again you will see a list of departments such as health, trains etc - these services operate across the whole state.
www.nsw.gov.au
There is a student fact sheet on the State government website that explains both state & local government.
http://www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au/nsw.php3