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Attorney-General’s Information Service – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AGIS-ATSIS)
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The Attorney-General's Information Service - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AGIS-ATSIS), produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, is a subset of the AGIS database.
AGIS is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published material on all aspects of law. The AGIS-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Source documents include over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, and selected articles from major law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Subject coverage deals with legal issues such as land rights, native title, customary law, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines in the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, indigenous intellectual property, and Aboriginal youth and juvenile justice. There are also records dealing with reconciliation and social policy and welfare issues related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
- Frequency: Bi-Annually
- Coverage: 1975 - present
- Records: 5190
- Subjects covered:
- Constitutional & administrative law
- Criminology & criminal justice
- Indigenous peoples
- Law of specific jurisdictions & areas
- Political science
- Private, civil & family law
- Social Sciences (General)
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