About AustLII

What is AustLII?

AustLII is Australia's most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information, serving the needs of a multitude of users with over 600,000 hits daily. AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law. AustLII relies on the generosity of its contributors to operate. To make a tax deductible contribution please use our contribution form.

What does AustLII do?

The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To that end, we have become one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with 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 for example) and a substantial collection of law journals.

Legal Information on AustLII

AustLII maintains its own collections of primary materials: legislation and court judgments ("case law"). Some legal training or familiarity with the subject matter is sometimes required to make use of these documents.

Alternatively, AustLII also has a collection of secondary materials: commentaries and summaries on the law. This includes large projects such as the Australian Indigenous Law Library, the Australiasian Law Reform Library, the Australasian Law Journals Library and many others.

If you have no legal training but are trying to find out some legal information then consult the Community Legal Information pages. Select the subject matter that you are interested in and click on the links until you find the information you're after.

Help on using AustLII is available. You can consult the comprehensive on-line help pages for help on searching and locating information, or you can download and print the more extensive AustLII User Guides.

Finding out more about AustLII

• Disclaimers - disclaimers of legal liability for our free service.

• Privacy Policy - AustLII's privacy protection practices.

• Copyright Policy - AustLII's Copyright and Usage Policy.

• Linking - AustLII's policy and guidelines for creating links to AustLII materials.

• Personnel - Who's Who at AustLII.

• How to contact us - offices, mail, phone, fax and e-mail.

• Funding for AustLII and for its international projects - details of who has helped us.

• Technical infrastructure - our computing and communications resources.

• Employment opportunities with AustLII - we need good people!

• Thanks - nice things others have said about us.

• Awards - recognition which we have received.