Newspapers and news sources: Journalism toolkit
A guide to finding newspapers, news magazines and news sources. It details both current and historical sources that you can access through the University Library or on the web.
Selected journalism and digital media news blogs and websites
Social media searching
- Google TrendsExplore Trending Stories in real time by category and location.
- Twitter TrendsmapTool providing analysis and visualisation of historical data from Twitter 2013-2023
Research & Data
- Australian Data Archive (ADA)The Australian Data Archive (ADA) provides a national service for the collection and preservation of high quality enhanced digital research data for secondary analysis, including a significant collection of Opinion and News Poll data.
UWA staff and students are entitled to download Australian Social Science Data Archive material after completing an 'undertaking' form.
Registered users (registration is free) can also analyse and visualise most data online.
Political and governmental resources
- Australian Politics and Elections DatabaseCreated by researchers associated with the University of Western Australia, this website provides general information about Australian parliamentary politics and elections, across different states from 1850's and for the Commonwealth from Federation in 1901.
- Australian Electoral CommissionInformation resources about the electoral process, levels of government, and voting services. Includes details of electoral divisions, enrolment statistics and past election results.
- Hansard - Parliament of Western AustraliaThe official record of parliamentary debates.
- Parliament of Western Australia - Advanced SearchSearch the entire Parliament web site, or limit searches to nominated sections such as Bills, Chamber Documents, Committees or Tabled Papers.
- ParlInfo - Advanced SearchSearch the entire Parliament web site, or limit searches to nominated sections such as Hansard, Bills, Chamber Documents, Committees or Tabled Papers, etc.
- Crickey: The Poll BludgerAnalysis and discussion of elections and opinion polls in Australia.
- Crickey Opinion PollsAn independent Australian source for news, investigations, analysis and opinion.
- Lowy Institute PollsThe Lowy Institute’s flagship annual poll has revealed how Australians see the world and their place in it. It is the leading Australian survey on foreign policy and informs public debate.
- Roy MorganAustralian-based independent market research company, which now operates globally, with more than 80 years of tracking social trends and developing innovative methodologies and new technologies.
Law Beat
- AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute)Complete texts of all publicly available court and tribunal decisions.
Go to our Legal Research Library Guide - Free Law Tab - for an extensive listing of sources for law-related information sources.
Inclusive of Cases & Courts, Legislation, Law Reform, Treatise and International Courts and more.
Data visualisation tools
- Data Visualization, Infographics and Online JournalismJournalist's Toolbox links to data visualisation tools portals and blogs.
- Tableau publicPopular free visualisation tool.
- Visualising DataData Visualisation website/blog about visualisation tools, resources and ideas.
- UWA Text Mining Library GuideA list of tools that can assist with text mining visualisation.
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