 Rural Law Online
 The rural law website is an information resource on the law for all regional and rural Victorians, provided by the Victoria Law Foundation. Rural Law Online uses the services of legal experts across a broad range of topics of law, as well as linking web users to relevant primary sources of information, including government departments and peak industry bodies.
Rural Law Online has been produced via extensive community collaboration through relationships brokered by the Foundation with Deakin University, The University of Ballarat, Victorian Farmers Federation, rural financial counselors, the Department of Primary Industries, the Department of Sustainability and Environment and the Department of Transport and Regional Services.
 Rural Law Online addresses what was a serious lack of legal information accessible to Victoria’s regional and rural communities. This leading online resource provides free, comprehensive up-to-date plain language legal information on over 500 legal topics. The website also acts a portal for referral to local legal and other services. It regularly hosts interactive forums for regional and rural people to engage with each other and experts on topics of concern.
The 2006 Annual Report for the Victoria Law Foundation confirms that in the twelve months to 30 June 2006 Rural Law Online attracted more than 2.3 million hits, 156,000 visits and averaged 429 visits per day. It is the ranked as the number one resource for 'Rural Law' by Google.
Services delivered
- Complete website management including news, events, navigation and resources facilitated by the web-based Content Builder.
- General website services
- Detailed usage statistics
- Website Search
- Online forms for feedback and enquiries
- Dynamic navigation and sitemaps
- Single source publication management of the Rural Law Handbook
- Publish to multiple formats
- 500 page hardcopy
- Automatically published into over 1000 website pages
- Links database
- Dynamic glossary and index
- 'Find a service' application containing a searchable database of relevant organisations and services
- Fully moderated discussion forums including featured forums where experts are available to respond to enquries.
www.rurallaw.org.au
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