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Useful tips for searching, finding information and using this site.

Help with Searching

When you use the search function on this website, you are searching the information in the indexes. Information contained in individual pages cannot be searched. For this reason you may need to try a variety of ways of finding information. These are listed below.

Browse

You can browse the gazettes by clicking the ‘Browse’ tab in the top navigation. From there you can browse by decade, year, month, day and then page by page. Browsing is particularly good if you are looking for a specific issue number or date of publication.

Basic search

You can search by keyword using either the search box in the top-right hand side of the screen or the in the middle of the homepage. Type one or more keywords into the field and click the ‘Search’ button. The search engine will find any records that include your search terms.

All basic searches that include more than one word will assume that you want to search for all instances of those words. For example: If your search is ‘cats dogs’, the results will show you everything that makes mention of both ‘cats’ and ‘dogs’.

• Search using ‘and’
• This kind of search will show you everything that includes each word. For example: When searching for ‘cats and dogs’, the search engine will only look for instances where the phrase ‘cats and dogs’ appears.

• Search using ‘or’
• Searches that include ‘or’, will show you everything that includes any of your keywords. For example: If you search on ‘cats or dogs’, the results will show you instances where either of these words appears.

• Search using ‘not’
• Searches that include ‘not’ or ‘-’ (minus) will exclude the relevant words. For example: A search on ‘cats not dogs’ will only search for ‘cats’.

• Search using phrases
• You can also search for an exact phrase by enclosing the words with quotation marks. This type of search will return all instances where the phrase occurs. For example: A search on the phrase ‘Dogs in Victoria’ will list every instance where this phrase occurs.

Advanced search

Using the advanced search option you can combine all of the above methods to finetune your search. You can also add in a specific date range, as well as choose one or more subject categories.

Searching for people’s names

You can find many details about individuals in the Gazette. Sometimes people’s names are listed in the index, but very often they are not. So if you are looking for information about a person it is useful to know something about them first. For example, that they won a government tender, or were appointed to a government position. With this information you can search using keywords related to the tender or position.

Search results

Results are displayed by category, summary, date, issue and page. You can sort your results by category or date in ascending or descending order.

To go to a particular page click the link under the ‘Summary’ column.

Printing gazette pages

To print an A4 copy of a gazette page, you need to:

• Download the PDF via the link in the top-right-hand corner.
• Find the page or pages you want to print.
• Click the printer icon or choose File then Print from the drop-down menu.
• Type in the page numbers you want to print and proceed as you would normally.

PDFs of gazette

If you’d like a copy of a particular gazette, you can download the entire edition via the PDF link in the top-right hand corner.

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