Search tips

How to search the website

Basic search

To conduct a search using the basic search form:

  1. Place your cursor in the text box containing the words 'Keyword search', found in the top right-hand corner of every page of the website.
  2. Enter the keyword(s) you wish to search on and click on Go button on the right-hand side of the text box.
  3. Your search results will be displayed ranked in order of relevance.
  4. The results screen will show 10 search results per page. Use the arrows at the bottom of the page to navigate through the results screens (alternatively, you can sort the results by the date the page was last updated, using the sorting functionality at the top of each search results screen).
  5. To access a webpage from the search results, click on the page title.
  6. To refine or expand the search results returned, use the search form at the bottom of the search results page under the 'Search again' heading.
  7. Click Submit. Your search results will be displayed ranked in order of relevance.

Tips

When searching this website, ensure you only use alphabetical characters (a-z), spaces and asterisks.

Note that all keywords you enter will be searched for, unless you use the word 'or' between keywords, in which case webpages featuring at least one of the keywords entered will be returned in the results.

Using an asterisk allows you to search for any words that follow the asterisk. For example, searching for migra* will return search results containing migrant, migrants, migration, etc. Note: You cannot use an asterisk symbol as the first character of a search.

Last updated: 20 July 2009

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