ABSTRACT
While the federal sites of all three parties prominently displayed links to their state and territory branches, not all were accessible. Of the twentyfour possible sites available, three were offline and one was totally outdated. The Queensland and Western Australia Liberals sites were ‘under construction’, as was that of the Tasmanian Green Party. The Queensland Labour Party site, while accessible, was actually just an old electoral site. Most of these sites promised further developments soon.5 Of the remaining twenty sites that were ‘live’, as Table 7.1 reveals, the Liberal Party sites proved the most difficult to locate. The Liberals in the Northern Territory and Tasmania were not listed on Yahoo, the Federal Parliament site or that of The National Library. The search for links in to the sites provided a similar story (see Table 7.2). The ALP and Green state parties enjoy a significantly higher profile on the web than their Liberal rivals. While the latter averaged 37 links in per branch, the Greens had over a third as many (61) and the ALP almost ten times as many, with over 350 links in to each state and territory website.
