One way that helps us take action is to have quick access to lobby someone in the system. Here are some links that might be useful.

GOVERNMENT

• Victorian Parliament
• Commonwealth Ombudsman
• Equal Opportunity Commission for Victoria
• Community Information and Services for Australians - (Incidentally they have a good link to peak community bodies on this website if you wanted one)
• Parliament of Australia: Who’s Who
• State Ombudsman - Victoria
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• Attorney General
• Office of Women’s Policy

GENERAL

• Office of the Commissioner for Complaints (complaints about Commonwealth funded aged care services)
• Federal Government Guide (Like the old Gold Directory)
• Department of Justice (Victoria) (includes links to Consumer Affairs, Human Rights Consultation, Office of the Public Advocate, etc)
• Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs (Fed)

LEGISLATION AND LEGAL

• Australian Law On-line
• AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute)
• LawAccess (plain language legal information and assistance services)
• SCALEPLUS (site maintained for the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department)

NEWSPAPERS

• Guide to Australian newspapers
  
• List of Member Newspapers
• NLA (National Library Australia) (has an index for books, journals and newspapers under FIND section)