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Images, videos and plans: Media Studies toolkit

Finding and using visual media in your research and studies


Banner image sources: Pixabay 12345 licensed under a CC0 Public Domain licence.

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Law Beat

Data visualisation tools

Communicate and summarise data more effectively through a visual representation.

Social media searching

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Data and Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is a national statistical service which collects and makes available statistics and research on many aspects of Australian life, from demographics to industry and trade to social trends. The ABS also conducts the national Census of Population and Housing every 5 years.

Search via Statistics for information in the areas below - which are further broken down into more specific topics on the ABS website.

  • Economy
  • Labour
  • Industry
  • People
  • Health
  • Environment
  • COVID-19
  • Research
  • Census

More advanced ABS analysis products such as TableBuilder Basic, TableBuilder Pro and Microdata are discussed in the UWA Library Statistics and Data guide.

Key journals

Find journals on your topic in OneSearch:

  1. Search your topic on OneSearch.
  2. Click on "Resource Type" on the left panel to expand and click "Journals". 

Government sites

Elections

Opinion polls

Google resources

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

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 Except for logos, Canva designs, AI generated images or where otherwise indicated, content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.