Government documents
Note: Different units at Deakin use different referencing styles. Check your unit assessment information to find which style you are required to use.
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- Law reform commission report
- Parliamentary commission report
- Parliamentary debate
- Royal commission report
Law reform commission report
- The type of publication (‘Report’, ‘Issues Paper’ etc.) should be included, where appropriate, as the document type.
- Where reports contain multiple volumes, include the volume number in the pinpoint reference.
- Pinpoint references should be to page numbers where available. Paragraph numbers may be referred to in addition to page numbers or where page numbers are not available.
Name of Law Reform Commission, Title (document type and number, month year) pinpoint.
12 Victorian Law Reform Commission, Civil Justice Review (Report No 14, March 2008).
41 Australian Law Reform Commission, For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice (Report No 108, May 2008) vol 1, 339.
Parliamentary commission report
- Where a committee is from one chamber and this is not evident, then the name of the chamber is added before the committee name, as in the addition of 'Senate' in the example below.
- Pinpoint references should be to page numbers where available.
- Paragraph numbers may be referred to in addition to page numbers or where page numbers are not available.
Committee, Legislature, Title (year) pinpoint.
11 Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice (2009) 26.
39 Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Administration and Operation of the Migration Act 1958 (2006) 280–1 [9.30]–[9.38].
Parliamentary debate
For parliamentary debates (or 'Hansard'), speakers' titles such as 'Senator' need not be included; however, if the position of the speaker within the ministry or shadow ministry is relevant, it may be included.
Jurisdiction, Parliamentary Debates, Chamber, day month year of debate, pinpoint (Name of Speaker).
2 Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 18 June 2008, 2642–4 (Bob Brown).
78 Victoria, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 4 May 2006, 1289–95 (Rob Hulls, Attorney-General).
Royal commission report
- No jurisdiction is included in the citation.
- Where reports contain multiple volumes, include the volume number in the pinpoint reference.
- Pinpoint references should be to page numbers where available. Paragraph numbers may be referred to in addition to page numbers or where page numbers are not available.
Name of Royal Commission (document type, month year) pinpoint.
12Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (Final Report, December 2015) vol 2.