This official Website of the Australian Parliament offers the sort of information one would expect from such a site: information about current members, summaries of pending legislation, historical background, descriptions of the committees of the House and Senate and their functions, and publications of the legislative body. In particular, the Parliamentary Library, which can be linked to from the site map, features an online version of the Parliamentary Handbook giving a history of the parliament and details about current parliamentary activity; background and research papers on pending issues; the Monthly Economic and Social Indicators series (MESI), which contains tables and graphs for the major economic and social indicators of the country; and more.