There are many introductory web-based and hard-copy resources that assist in finding, reading and making sense of the law. Some of these are referred to in Kennedy with Richards (2007, Appendix); more can be found in books on legal research; for example, Milne and Tucker (2008). The National Legal Aid website is also a useful starting place for help with legal material. Legal dictionaries can be accessed through the publicly accessible Australian Legal Information Institute (Austlii) website, which is run by the Faculties of Law of the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology, Sydney. These resources are neither duplicated nor listed exhaustively in this Appendix. However, a few introductory and explanatory points are made about the citations and location of legislation and cases in this book, which aim to make the reading and citations more accessible to non-law readers. As such, they do not always comply with strict legal citation protocols (eg for legal protocols, see Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc 2003; Rozenberg 2003).

LEGISLATION

Most of the legislation covered in this book is Australian and can be found on the Austlii website. Commonwealth legislation can also be found linked to from the Attorney-General's Department website. Legislation of the states and territories is available through the parliamentary websites for each of the jurisdictions.

In general, in this book legislation is cited as follows: the name of the Act is followed by the year of its enactment and in brackets the jurisdiction responsible for it.