Databases and journals

InfoRx for Health Professionals Freely available quality online health information maintained and developed by librarians at the Australian Department of Health and Ageing as a public service to the health professionals and clinicians of Australia. - includes links to free journals, databases, consumer health and more.

Key free databases: PubMed, Cochrane Evidence Based Healthcare

Statistics
Health status of Victorians includes Burden of Disease ABS@ - full text of Australian Bureau of Statistics publications
Australian Institute of Family Studies - links to Australian statistics on families and social issues
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics
Commonwealth Government Statistical Clearinghouse - the central point for all Australian Commonwealth Government surveys involving 50 or more businesses. National Statistical Service Includes survey standards, manuals and guidelines
Victoria.Department of Sustainability and Environment - "Know your area" -online Victorian demographic, social and economic statistics. Includes statistics on regions, suburbs and population projections
Echidna: health services profiles for Victorian regions - health services, status, and other health related indicators for communities across rural Victoria. Includes Postcode profiles Maintained by the School of Rural Health Monash University.
WHO Statistical Information System - World Health Organization guide to international health related statistics (requires full internet access)
Globalhealthfacts.org global statistics on HIV, TB, malaria and more. Includes Programs , funding and finance with global comparisons of health workforce numbers.
World in Your Pocket: A Handbook of International Health Economic Statistics includes the most current available data, presented in separate sections on health status, health care costs, health resources, health resource utilization and health system performance.
Official Statistics on the Web maintained by the University of Auckland library - provides links to official international statistics. Searchable by country, region of topic

Legislation
Australian Law Online Commonwealth Attorney General's guide to online legal resources. Parliament of Australia Library. Law internet resources - Australian and international law. Guides to specific topics: administrative, health, welfare, etc. National Library of Australia. Australian Government Publications Guide. Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers located in National and State Libraries and on the internet. Victorian legislation

Victoria	Vic Gov I Austlii

Commonwealth and Interstate legislation:

	Acts	Bills	Regulations
C'wealth	SPlus I Austlii	Billsnet I SPlus	SPlus I Austlii
NSW	Austlii	NSW Gov	Austlii
S A	SA Gov I Austlii	-----	SAGovIAustlii
Qld	Qld Gov I Austlii	Qld Gov	Qld Gov I Austlii
WA	WA Gov I Austlii	WA Gov	WA Gov I Austlii
ACT	ACT I Austlii	ACT Gov-	ACT Gov I Austlii
Tas	Tas GovI Austlii	------	Tas Gov
NT	NT Gov I Austlii	------	NT Gov I Austlii

Government gazettes

Victorian Government gazettes online from 1998

Hansard:

Victoria online and searchable from 1991 I Commonwealth

Indigenous issues
DHS Koorie Health website publications, data and Victorian national and international links
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Australian Department of Health and AgeingIndigenous portal resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services

Guides to internet sites
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Research, information and links on indigenous issues

Indigenous Affairs Resources Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health

WWW Virtual Library : Indigenous health

Indigenous allied health Australia


Indigenous issues in the news

ABC Indigenous news online
Australian Policy online : indigenous issues latest reports and selected journal articles

Journals

Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
Medical journal of Australia articles on aboriginal health


Statistics

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Welfare Unit AIHW statistics and information on the health and welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslandersAustralian Bureau of Statistics
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Productivity Commission

extras:
Reference managers in the library presentation HLi July 2009 (link to sample style)