Images documenting radical protest and street marches in Brisbane comprising: 542 negatives and 332 digital scans.

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Pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, political ephemera, newspaper cuttings and political documents relating to protest politics and culture in Brisbane from the 1970s; debates and issues within the International Socialists and Socialist Action; research work, photographs, interviews, transcripts of interviews, and correspondence relating to Jean Devanny; correspondence; and documents relating to Carole Ferrier's academic activities.

Transcript of hearing relating to bashing of student during demonstation in Brisbane, 1977 (Folders 1 & 2) ;photographs of Right to March demonstrations, Brisbane, 1978 (Folder 3) ;papers relating to a political controversy about Sir Garfield Barwick's shares in Mundroola Pty. Ltd. (Folder 4). Material in Folder 4 originates from period 1978-1981 when Mark Plunkett was assistant private secretary to Bill Hayden (then Leader of the Opposition). Plunkett was asked to investigate the activities of Mundroola Pty. Ltd., the Barwick family company, of which Sir Garfield Barwick was a director, for possible conflicts of interest. Gareth Evans started action to impeach Barwick.

Correspondence, leaflets, brochures, minute books, membership lists, newsletters, press clippings, publicity material relating to activities of various Queensland branches and organizations to which she belonged, including Australian Labor Party branches and factions, the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties and the Australia-China Society.

Duplicated typescript document, 25 leaves, unpaginated, compiled by the QCCL and released on 28 September 1982. The document takes issue with the Commonwealth Games Act 1982 and the powers it affords police and specially deputised persons; the attempts of the Queensland Government to ban street marches not approved by the Queensland Police; and the lack of payment of award wages on Aboriginal Australian reserves. Also includes political cartoons and newspaper cutting collages throughout.

The following is listed on the index page, after the cover page:

1. Commonwealth Games Act Commentary by Q.C.C.L.
2. Correspondence to Prime Minister Fraser [Malcolm Fraser] re Games Act
3. Commonwealth Games - A Survival Kit prepared by D.C. McKelvey [David Chris McKelvey], Lecturer in Law, University of Queensland
4. "[Land Rights:] Are You Game? Protest and Sport in Queensland", Legal Service Bulletin, August 1982 by Peter Applegarth
5. Criticism of Police Minister Hinze's [Russ Hinze] refusal to gazette Orders-in-Council and to specify "prohibited things" under the Act
6. The Police Commissioner's March Ban Declaration
7. The Police Department's Double Standard
8. Editorial, Telegraph, 23.9.82, comparing the Games Act with South African assembly laws
9. Queensland street march laws and peaceful public assembly - a recent example
10. Liberal Party Director says Games Act "basis of a police state"
11. No case for games laws
12. Existing laws more than adequate
13. Australia the big loser in Brisbane

The following is listed on the same index page, under the heading 'Award wages':

1. Commentary on reserve wages by Q.C.C.L.
2. Letter to Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state) Tomkins [Ken Tomkins]
3. Letter to (federal) Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Wilson [Ian Wilson]
4. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state), Porter [Charles Porter]
5. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs, Tomkins
6. D.A.I.A. [Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs] Wages to Reserve Aborigines

Materials, primarily typescript, some signed and some with handwritten notes, relating to Fair Play Committee, an organisation opposed to holding the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, due to laws affecting civil liberties. Materials comprise leaflets, newspaper cuttings, press releases, a telegram, and a newsletter. Also includes correspondence between Fair Play and Amnesty International Australian Section (now Amnesty International Australia), the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, the Australian Government, the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, National Sports Council of Tanzania, and Action for Aboriginal Rights.