RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, or more meaningfully, Really Simple Syndication. In brief, RSS is an alternative view of a web page that allows you to subscribe and read the content in RSS newsreader software.
Whenever the web page is updated your newsreader will automatically display the new item.
There are many news readers available and many are free. Some news readers are programs you download and install on your computer and others are web-based services that you access with your web browser. There is a list of RSS readers maintained at RSS Compendium - RSS Readers.
To subscribe to an RSS feed, click on a link below and select "Copy Shortcut" or "Copy Link Location" to copy the location URL and then paste it into the appropriate place in your RSS reader. Follow the instructions for your particular news reader.
You can subscribe to receive all new articles, or articles for individual sections.
Webmaster Use
If you control the content of a website and would like to integrate ALP News into your website you can use Javascript Integration - available to anyone with knowledge of HTML.
The javascript method allows you to reference ALP's News Javascript code in your sites' HTML, allowing you to style the content to integrate with your sites' theme.
Example HTML Snippet for all new articles:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://eherald.alp.org.au/rss/js/articles.php "></script>
The URL stubs for particular sections are:
National Politics: /rss/js/natp.php
State and Territory Politics: /rss/js/satp.php
Magazine: /rss/js/mag.php
Party News: /rss/js/news.php
Letters, Comments and Notices: /rss/js/lcn.php