For Travellers to Australia
The State Library of Western Australia is a valuable place to find tourist and travel information for those visiting any part of Australia. This page lists some of the information resources available on states other than Western Australia.
Resources can be found using the Find Guides to search our catalogue.
Some categories of guides which might help you:
- Guidebooks to towns and places.
- Accommodation guides.
- Street directories.
- Maps.
- Activity guides.
- Magazines and newspapers.
Some of the resources which might help you include: (The links will take you to the catalogue record for the publication for more information. The catalogue record will give you holdings and location information, so that you can find the books, maps or serials)
General tourist guides for Australia include:
- Explore Australia
- Lonely Planet Australia
- Amazing Australian journeys : your essential self-drive guide
- Country towns in Australia
State Guides
Street Directories for the Australian capital cities are available on the First Floor:
- UBD Sydney city and suburbs street directory
- Gregory's maxi street directory : Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra
- UBD Melbourne & surrounds street directory
- UBD Brisbane, Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast street directory
- UBD Adelaide street directory
Street directories for country areas are also available:
- UBD New South Wales country link street & travel directory
- UBD street directory Victoria cities and towns
- Queensland country link street & travel directory
- UBD South Australia and Northern Territory Country Link street & travel directory
- UBD Tasmania cities and towns street and travel directory
Maps
Eg.
Guidebooks for particular activities
- Australia's best walks
- Walking in Australia
- 4wd Touring Australia
- James Halliday's wine atlas of Australia
Magazines
Newspapers
The main morning paper for each capital city is available in hardcopy for three monthes on the Ground Floor, and then available on microfilm on the First Floor:
A range of other papers are available electronically.
Australian Telephone Directories are available on the First Floor. They are also available online - White Pages and Yellow Pages
Tourism websites by state or territory:
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Page last updated: Monday 20 September 2010