define the suitability and precautions of government publications
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Directories
Debates, Speeches & Announcements
Reports & Papers
Legislation
Types of Government Publications
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Types of government publications
Overview
Parliamentary Debates
Parliamentary Papers
Reports
Official Records
Green Papers and White Papers
Royal Commissions
Legislation
Other publications
Overview
Government publications cover an enormous range of materials and subjects. They include reports of Select, Standing and Joint Committees, Royal Commissions, Commissions of Inquiry, together with the more regularly issued annual reports etc. of government departments and agencies.
For a good overview consult GovPubs: The Australian Government Publications Guide. This archived site has useful explanations of the different types of publications, series title changes over time and any accompanying official indexes available - all useful when tracking down past publications.
Also helpful:
Harrigan, M. (1990), The Guide to Government Publications in Australia. A copy is held in the Wollongong Campus Library's Law Collection at the KZ/015.94053/HAR/1 call number.
Parliamentary debates
See the information provided under the 'Parliamentary Debates, Speeches and Announcements' tab in this guide.
Parliamentary papers
See the information provided under the 'Reports and Papers' tab in this guide.
Reports
Many reports published as parliamentary papers are also published in a non-parliamentary paper edition. Many libraries often receive the individual report edition as well as the parliamentary paper edition. If so these are listed individually in the relevant library catalogue. The catalogue record may also include a reference to the corresponding Parliamentary Paper number.
The word 'department' is sometimes abbreviated to 'dept' and it is important to try searching by the abbbreviated term if your first search doesn't work. Try, for example a Keyword search on: dept immigration ethnic affairs
Official records
The official records are summary records of proceedings and therefore do not record everything said, apart from the wording of motions. They contain information regarding members of committees, records of attendance and details of papers tabled but not printed. The official records of the Commonwealth Parliament and State Parliaments have different names.
Commonwealth
The Journals of the Senate is the official record of the activities of the Senate; the Votes and proceedings is the official record of the House of Representatives. They are prepared after each sitting day and are republished at the end of each parliamentary session in bound volumes.
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