Duplicated typescript report, two pages, by Lambert McBride (Lambert George McBride), State Secretary for Queensland, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Dated 20 April 1973. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides information on the The Aborigines Act 1971, public housing, and the establishment of the Legal Aid Service. There are two copies of the first page of the report.

Duplicated typescript, black type on yellow paper, with questions prepared by the FCAATSI for submission to candidates at public meetings or by correspondence. Questions are divided into three categories relating to the federal government's responsibility for Aboriginal peoples; Aboriginal land ownership; and Aboriginal wages and employment opportunities. Also asks about the idea of conducting a referendum to amend Section 127 and Section 51 Paragraph XXVI of the Constitution due to discrimination against Aboriginal peoples. Signed by Pauline Pickford, Honorary Secretary.

Duplicated typescript report by Neville Perkins, Abschol Convenor, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973, though the original date of the report is 12 October 1972. Includes a one-page preface that addresses conference delegates and introduces the report as an overview of the objectives and functioning of Sydney University Abschol.

Duplicated typescript report by Jack Horner, Convenor, Legislative Reform, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Two copies, two pages each or four leaves total. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides updates on federal and state legislations affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Particularly singles out Queensland as the state in need of of further amendments to laws. Also contains information on Aboriginal Advisory Councils and Aboriginal land trusts, such as the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.

Duplicated typescript report Joyce Clague (or Joyce Claugue), State Secretary for Central Australia and Northern Territory, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides information on a push for wage equality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees, the need for mobile health clinics and other health services, a request for social service pensions, and other matters affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Central Australia and Northern Territory. The second leaf appears to be an attachment to the report but is inconsistently paginated (as 2). It argues for the urgent need for teachers educating Aboriginal children to receive special race relations training to combat prejudice and ignorance.

Duplicated typescript report on decisions and actions taken during the first year of the Gough Whitlam-led federal Labor government. The report focuses on policies that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including the establishment of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, the appointment of Gordon Bryant as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, royalties paid to Aboriginal peoples living on reserves in the Northern Territory affected by mining development, and plans to establish an Aboriginal Land Fund. Report author is unknown, though it was possibly produced by an Australian Labor Party department. Also includes a table titled 'Purposes of proposed additional allocations to the States for 1972/73', in which the funding allocations for the six Australian states are categorised into housing, health, education, employment, special work projects and regional projects. Table includes previously authorised allocations.

Duplicated typescript report, two copies, one page each, by the State Secretary for Victoria, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (possibly Geraldine Briggs). Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides an update on the status of Aboriginal affairs in Victoria, specifically in relation to employment, housing, health, education, and youth.

Duplicated typescript. First page contains an account of police interactions with members of the Indigenous community in Townsville on the night of New Year's Eve 1971 and early morning of New Year's Day 1972. Details allegations of racism and prejudice on the part of the police in these interactions. Signed off by J. McGinness (Joseph Daniel McGinness), President of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, January 1972. This document is accompanied by a duplicated typescript letter, two pages, dated 13 January 1972, addressed to the proprietor of the Terminus Hotel in South Brisbane, Queensland. This letter details an alleged incident of racial discrimination on the night of 23 December 1971 against a couple of patrons, Colin and Val Blaw. The letter is signed off by Roy Hopkins, Secretary. A typescript addition at the bottom of the second page of the letter notes a lack of reply to the letter and calls for supporters to attend a sit-in at the Terminus Hotel on a forthcoming Monday night, possibly 14 January 1972.

Duplicated circular letter from the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders titled 'Land rights - an urgent appeal', dated 1 September 1977, and sent from Woden, Australian Capital Territory. Takes issue with the negative impact of uranium mining in Australia on Aboriginal communities, particularly in the Alligator Rivers Region and East Alligator Region. Appeals for support and donations to launch an education and advertising campaign to raise awareness about land rights issues. Mentions the recent formation of an Anti-Uranium Sub-Committee of FCAATSI. Signed off by Marcia Langton, General Secretary, FCAATSI; Jim Keefe, Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Tom Uren, Deputy Leader of the Opposition; George Georges, Opposition Whip in the Senate; Cyril Primmer, Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria; Jim Roulston, Vice President Australian Council of Trade Unions; Allen, Sorrensen, Australian Conservation Foundation; Penny West, Campaign Against Racial Exploitation; Pam Hartgerink, Friends of the Earth; Frnak Muller, Movement Against Uranium Mining; and Ian Macdonald, Executive Member, National Youth Council of Australia.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.