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The Australian Government has appointed the Copyright Agency to manage the education copying scheme (Statutory Education Licence). The licence, set out in the Copyright Act 1968, allows educators to copy and share text and images in ways that usually require permission provided that fair compensation is made to the creators of the content.
Copyright deals with the right to copy a work and referencing deals with the creator/authorship. Regardless of a work's copyright status, you always have an obligation to reference it - cite and attribute it - otherwise you could be plagiarising. Plagiarism is not a legal issue - it's an ethical one. It is taking someone else's work, or more usually ideas, and claiming they are your own.
Under Australian copyright law, work published (anywhere in the world) in an author's lifetime are, in Australia, protected for the life of the author plus 70 years from the end of the year of the author's death. After the protection period, they enter the "public domain" - meaning out of copyright. For more information about the duration of copyright see the Australian Government's factsheet here. Regardless of a work's copyright status, you always have an obligation to cite and attribute it.