Includes: State committee minutes; correspondence; state and federal Communist electoral material 1937 onwards; Communist Party, Queensland Branch District Conference papers 1951-59; subject files covering issues such as 'Aboriginal issues' and 'Youth'; miscellaneous pamphlets and newspaper clippings; extensive range of photographs.

Hecate Press records includes correspondence, submissions for publication, press releases, newspaper cuttings, subscription files, photographs, paste ups, proofs, and advertising, mostly, for the journal 'Hecate : an interdisciplinary journal of women’s liberation'.

Correspondence consists mostly of unsolicited submissions and attached self-addressed stamped envelopes. Rejected submissions are not kept. The letters from submitters may have notes written on them by Hecate Press editors (primarily Carole Ferrier and Bronwen Levy) or a simple ‘Rej’ [Rejected] written on the letter. The submissions were mostly poetry, although short stories and articles were also sent to Hecate Press.

'Hecate' is an international feminist academic journal. The focus is material relating to women and also creative work and graphics. It runs reciprocal advertisements with other feminist and socialist publications as well as exchange subscriptions. The Literature Board of the Australia Council as well as donations have been sources of financial assistance.

Some material is for other Hecate Press publications including ‘Australian Women’s Book Review’.

43 reel-to-reel sound tapes of oral history interviews with police in Papua New Guinea during 1986. Some of the interviews are in local dialects.
Most tapes are from 1986.

Material related to the Electrical Trades Union Federal conferences 1945,1947,1958,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964 and Electrical Trades Union Queensland conferences 1955,1957,1959,1961,1963. Combined Federal Railways Unions 'Constitutions and Circulars' 1947-1948. Peace activism material. Periodicals.

The collection contains tracings, drawings, blueprints and linen plans for residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Also includes work of Alexander I Trewern, younger brother of E P Trewern. Includes 38 photographs (20 x 26 cm or smaller), nine oversize photographs (most on paper mounted on board) of buildings by Trewern, including his own house; specifictions for St. Matthew's Anglican Church and the Upper Mt. Gravatt Methodist Church; three envolvopes from the American Face Brick Association with plates for houses; publications relating to houses by G. L. Sutcliffe; and journal cuttings.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, newsletters, brochures, subject files, minutes, notes, memos, press releases.

Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Architectural drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland, mainly hospitals and schools.

Two hundred and three (203) photographs of Queensland towns from circa 1880s to1890s, and 211 black & white 35mm negative derivatives with 13 proof sheets.

References, typescripts, photographs, publications, and certificates relating to the education and career of R.W.H. Hawken.