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Queensland Government publications

A guide to accessing Queensland Government publications at SLV and online.

Online

Queensland Parliamentary papers are not available online as a defined set and there are no online indexes to them.

Use The Queensland Government's Departmental reports and strategic plans website to access annual reports of government departments and instrumentalities. Various dates are available, but mostly starting from 2010/2011. Dept of Education and Training annual reports, for example, go back to 1997.

Annual reports, from approximately 1991, are also available via the Online Tabled Papers search page. Select "Annual Reports" from the Category drop-down. 

Tabled papers

1989-current
Ability to browse or search this database.

Registers of tabled papers

1862-Nov.1992 (1st-47th Parliament)
Browse registers of Legislative Assembly Tabled Papers covering these dates. These registers do not provide the full-text of tabled reports. You can look for the full-text of reports using Tabled papers.

Committee reports

  • Current committees - For current committee publications, see Committees' publications. Search by publication type and committee. Reports are available as pdf files.
  • Approx. 1989 to date - Search via Publications - filter by Publication Type: "Tabled Paper", and choose a Committee. 
    Otherwise search Online Tabled Papers, Category = "Committee Paper", using combined date and keyword and/or member's name.
  • Former committees - A list of former committees and their associated past inquiries are available here.

Printed

Full text

Use the online equivalents, e.g., Tabled papers and Record of proceedings in preference to retrieving hard copy.

2000 to 2012
Queensland. Parliament. Parliamentary papers - In this year range Parliamentary papers no longer include annual reports of government departments and instrumentalities.

1902 to 1999
Queensland. Parliament. Parliamentary papers. Up to about 1996 interfiled with Journals of the Parliament of Queensland. From 1997 annual volumes; before then sessional volumes. From 1992 no longer include annual reports of government departments and instrumentalities.

1860 to 1901
Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly … with the various documents connected therewith. Includes Parliamentary papers from the Legislative Assembly.

1860 to 1901
Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Council. Journals of the Legislative Council (with papers). Includes Parliamentary papers from the Legislative Council.

Indexes

1860 to date
No separate general indexes. Table of contents rather than an index is included in front of bound volumes.
Use the online indexes to debates from 1860 instead.