Black type on double-sided white paper. Provides information about the history, purpose and aims of OPAL, particularly across the spheres of housing, education, employment and welfare and social relations.

Half fold brochure, black type on yellow paper. Provides information on activities, projects and initiatives of OPAL, including the OPAL magazine, Miss OPAL Quest, bursaries and scholarships, holidays, career fairs, and art exhibitions.

Copy of a flyer, black handwriting on yellow paper, advertising an exhibition of traditional Aboriginal art to be held from Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July at the Queensland Room, McDonnell & East Ltd Building, arranged by OPAL. Exhibition will feature Arnhem Land bark paintings, carvings, weapons, artefacts and feathered headdresses.

Black type on white paper with author's original signature in blue pen. A statement written to affirm the OPAL Board's support for Aboriginal land rights, while addressing the issue of the loss of Aboriginal lands due to acts of encroachment by mining companies. Argues for Australia to establish a Claims Commission, modelled on that of the Indian Claims Commission in the USA, with the power to award compensation to Aboriginal Australians for dispossession of their land. Signed by Neville T. Bonner, President OPAL.

Notice of a public forum to be held at the OPAL Centre on Anne Street in Brisbane on the evening of Friday 27 October. The purpose of the forum is to suggest solutions to problems faced by Aboriginal Australians. The panelists include Denis Walker, J. Herlihy from the Legal Aid Committee, Sam Watson (Junior), Darcy Cummins and a representative from the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra. Chaired by Reverend J.R. Sweet. For more information attendees are encouraged to contact Sam Watson (Senior), Liaison Officer for the Brisbane Branch of OPAL.

Black type on white paper. Information booklet. The second page notes it is intended to be the pilot issue of a recommenced quarterly magazine made to raise awareness in the Brisbane community of the work carried out by OPAL. The booklet covers the history, aims and objectives, and key people of OPAL. Includes articles on OPAL's first president Jim Hamilton; Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the OPAL Centre (Geerbaugh) on Anne Street was named; the Miss OPAL Quest pageant; and Yelangi Pre-School. Booklet contains an insert of a blank OPAL membership application form; the form indicates it cost $1 to join OPAL and an applicant had to be nominated by two current OPAL members.

Copy of a trifold brochure, brown type on yellow paper, undated, promoting the Geerbaugh Aboriginal Cultural Centre, also known as the OPAL Cultural Centre. Address for the Centre is listed as 466 Ann Street, Brisbane. Features a biography and a black and white photograph of Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the Centre was named. Contains a list of items for sale (didgeridoos, boomerangs, spears, bark paintings, shields, paintings, and other artefacts) as well as sketch illustrations of these objects. Includes black and white photographs from inside the Centre showing displays of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and a hand-drawn map of where the Centre is located in the Brisbane central business district.

Typescript, 3 leaves, with some handwritten emendations; titled 'Thursday, 30.9.82'; typed on the back of research material that appears to have been used in the writing of the book on cane growers by Muriel Langford or perhaps someone from OPAL. This is an first person account of events on Thursday 30 Sep 1982; at times it is a verbatim account (with quotation marks handwritten); Muriel Langford is mentioned in the third person in the first line. It includes details of the march by Australia Aborigines and their supporters from Mt Gravatt down the Pacific Highway, and the police actions to stop the march. People mentioned include: Ross Watson, Freddy Martin, Maureen Watson, Carole Ferrier, Bob Wetherall, Les Melezer, Pam Jones, Marcia Langton, Jean Skuse, Fr Mick Hayes, Fr Warby, Stan Stanley, Paul Richards, Budga Davidson, Mick Miller, and Pastor Harris.

Typescript, 3 leaves, with some handwritten emendations; titled '4th Oct / 82' and half way down the first page 'Tuesday 5th Oct. at Roman Street Forum at 11.30'; typed on the back of research material that appears to have been used in the writing of the book on cane growers by Muriel Langford or perhaps someone from OPAL. This is mostly a verbatim account of events on 4 and 5 October 1982. People mentioned include: Ross Watson, Kevin (a delegate from NSW), Kath Walker, Neville, Garry Foley, Dennis Walker, Les Collins, Bertie Button, Rachael Cummins, and Marcia Langton.

Typescript, 5 leaves, with some handwritten emendations; titled '6th October, 1982 - Wednesday', half way down the first page is handwritten '7.10.82 Thursday' above 'Roman Street Forum, and on the last page 'Friday, 8.10.82' ; typed on the back of research material that appears to have been used in the writing of the book on cane growers by Muriel Langford or perhaps someone from OPAL. It is written in the first person, often with verbatim details. People mentioned include: Steve Mam, Julee, Pastor Blake, [Russ] Hinz, Dave Fergusan, Ross Watson, Garry Foley, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Mr Tomkins, Stephen Welsh, Jose Sailer, Alana Doolan, Billie Craigee, Gwen (Hopetown Mission), Grace Smallwood, Maureen Watson, Bertie Button, Jimmy Edwards, Jean Phillips, Nev Bonner, Aunty Janie Ray, Netta Tyson, Beryl Wharton, and Charlie Perkins. Final entry is handwritten account of some details of what happened on the Saturday.