Law reform
Updated Term 1 2024
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We have some links here to help you find information. Below that we have some links on each of the topics to get you started.
As you do further research for this task try using SweetSearch instead of Google. SweetSearch is designed to bring up results that are more relevant to students. Add inurl:au at the end of your search to find websites from Australia.
You can use the SLASA Referencing Generator for your bibliography. See Miss Hewson for the login details.
We have some links here to help you find information. Below that we have some links on each of the topics to get you started.
As you do further research for this task try using SweetSearch instead of Google. SweetSearch is designed to bring up results that are more relevant to students. Add inurl:au at the end of your search to find websites from Australia.
You can use the SLASA Referencing Generator for your bibliography. See Miss Hewson for the login details.
How to find information
We have a resource on researching for legal studies to help you find information from a variety of sources (which the syllabus requires you to do). HSC Legal Studies Guide - A guide created by the State Library on how to use their resources to research for Legal Studies. Finding cases for Legal Studies - Art of Smart [archive] - An article by a former Legal Studies student on how to find legal cases. *what does [archive] mean? Hint .gov websites are a good source for Legal Studies. |
Finding media articles
There are three ways you can do this: Option 1: Go to a news outlet's website and search for your topic. Some news websites have a better search function than others. There are links to some news outlets further down the page. Option 2: Using Google, search for your topic and add site:[your news outlet] at the end of the search. eg. copyright site:abc.net.au Option 3: If you want to search more than one news outlet at once, use Google News. You can use the filters on the left to limit the search to Australia, and you can click the tiny arrow at the right-hand end of the search box to use the advanced search, which lets you limit the search to recent articles, or specify words that you don't want appearing in your search results (use this to remove irrelevant results). |
Some high quality news outlets: ABC News The Guardian Australia Sydney Morning Herald Australian Financial Review The Conversation - Articles written by academics in a journalistic style. |
Finding legal information
You can use these websites to find cases, judgements and other legal sources. They are all similar, so use the one that you find the easiest to use. Australian Legal Information Institute LawCite Jade Vertical Divider
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Finding academic information
'Academic information' means information that has been written by experts and 'peer reviewed', which means other experts have reviewed it and confirmed that it is correct. This means the information is trustworthy and of a high quality. Academic articles are a good resource to use in Year 11 and 12. If you have a card for your local library you can register it to access the State Library databases. Using the State Library databases How to read academic articles The State Library also subscribe to a database called Factiva, which searches news articles. |
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