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Email and newsgroup
directories
Financial information
Government and legal
Management information
Marketing
Miscellaneous
News
Telecommunications
and the Internet
Travel
Web directories and
search engines
Email and newsgroup directories
Ozlists A list of Australian electronic mailing lists
WED email directory Comprehensive directory of email addresses from Australia the Pacific and Asia.
AusIndustry A one stop shop for business assistance including a sophisticated search facility for grants and other financial assistance.
Australian Stock Exchange Resource information on Australian stocks and shares.
Australian Stockmarket
Guide The mission behind this Australian
Stockmarket Guide is to provide basic and essential share investing information to
interested parties — primarily beginner-investors — to facilitate their
understanding of the mechanics of share investing and to enable them to invest/ trade with
greater
resourcefulness.
Certified Practicing Accountants The central web site for the CPA organisation. It is a good general gateway into the accounting profession.
The Australian Financial Services Directory Included within the Directory are hundred’s of Australian Publicly Listed Companies - An enormous Gold Mining/Resources and Precious Metals Index - Stock Market and Economic Reports - Charting Services - Share Quotes - Data Vendors - Fund Unit Prices - Investment Forums - Taxation Advisers - ATO Rulings - Stock Brokers - Fund Managers - Banks & Financial Institutions - Insurance Companies, Real Estate - Property Investments plus lots more . . .
Australian Government Directory As the name suggests this is a one-stop-shop for contact with the Commonwealth and all State Governments in Australia
Australian Institute of Law Want to find the exact wording of a piece of legislation? Contains links to a wealth of other legal info sites.
Australian Securities Commission The watchdog over Australian companies. Currently setting-up company search facilities on their Web site so you can search for details about a particular company or info on its directors, etc.
Business Channel Business Channel is an electronic information service designed by the Victorian Government to bring government agencies and services within easy reach of the business community 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Business Victoria The Victorian Government's business expansion and investment arm. A good place to start if you are looking for organisations that are either run by, or related to Government
Commonwealth Government Entry Point Beginning point for all Australian Government enquiries. All federal departments listed. Want to check the current state of industrial relations policy? etc.
Food Law and Policy Australia Pretty much whatever you wanted to know about the laws and regulations relating to food and food manufacture.
State Government of Victoria (Vicnet) Comprehensive site linking to a myriad of other State Government and private links. Want to know what's going on locally, or what major events are scheduled?
Business Council of Australia Established in 1983 to provide a forum for Australian business leadership to contribute directly to public policy debates in order to build a better and more prosperous Australian society.
Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters Want to do a bit of research? Trawl the electronic publications on the web. Alphabetically indexed.
The Internet Marketing Centre Really comprehensive resource site for anyone who wants to market their business via the internet. Up-to-date and well laid-out.
Writer's Resource Centre Comprehensive site by John Hewitt, contains a wealth of information and links for those interested in writing for pleasure or for marketing purposes.
APRA (Australasian Performing Rights Association) These are the folks you have to deal with if you want to use recorded music within your business.
National Speaker's Association Of Australia The National Speakers Association of Australia represents professional speakers throughout Australia.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ('Aunty' ABC) National broadcaster, up to date national news, heaps of other useful and interesting links.
Australian Financial Review Australian National financial news. Searchable
CNN News International news 24 hours per day. The most up to date global news service available.
Fairfax Publications Search the classified adverts from the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or the Financial Review. Looking for a job, or a property, etc. Just key in your search query and up it comes! Great resource.
The Age Melbourne based regional daily newspaper.
Telecommunications and the Internet
AltaVista Babelfish Cut and paste a foreign language document into this brilliant web site and it will translate it into English, or vice versa. It's free and it works really well.
Telstra Find out what's happening in the world of telecommunications. Lots of links and interesting information.
Africanet If your thinking of traveling to Africa, then you have to have a look at this site. Contains a great deal of general information as well as many links to for specific regions and\or tourism operators. Worth a look as it is a very attractive site that is fairly quick.
Lonely Planet Going somewhere? Check out the latest travellers news from the most obscure places before you go. Accurate and up to date.
Web directories and search engines
Australian Web Servers – Complete Listing As the name suggests, a complete listing of all web servers in Australia. Searching for something? See who's got web sites in your area.
Dogpile Strange name — very powerful meta search engine. Sends queries to (in order) Yahoo, Lycos'A2Z, Excite Guide, World Wide Web Worm, WWW Yellow Pages, What U Seek, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, OpenText, AltaVista, Excite and Hotbot.
Ezine Lists This is a site that keeps track of all the latest electronic magazines on the web. Searchable by topic.
Hotbot Powerful search engine with the ability to filter only Australian and NZ sites (select Oceania in the Geoplace box), also finds images and web pages by date.
Metacrawler Search Engine Powerful search engine that queries all the other major search engines: Excite, Yahoo, Magellan, Infoseek, Lycos and AltaVista. Fast and effective. Saves heaps of time typing-in repetitive search querys.
Search engine submission tips A great site for those of you who have web sites and want the search engines to find you and place your entry at or near the top of their listings. Covers all the major search engines with up to date information. Very valuable.
The Black Stump Aussie Page A comprehensive Australian directory of Web links organised into a myriad of subject headings. A good beginning point for any Australian search.
White Pages Australia Your trusty White Pages for the whole of Australia in electronic form.
Yellow Pages Australia Your trusty Yellow Pages for the whole of Australia in electronic form. Great for searching for suppliers or creating instant direct marketing mail lists, etc. Computer literate users can feed search results directly into a database to produce address labels or mail merge letters.
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