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Videos and audio recordings

This series is comprised VHS videos, and digital video and audio recordings.

Box 1
Item 1
Gung Ho to Paradise : a community theatre pageant (copyright ACTU Queensland Branch), VHS.

Item 2
Choirs to Congress 1997, VHS.

Box 2
Folder 8
USB with 10 videos of Combined Union Choir performances, 2018 to 2023. Printout of text file listing the videos is in the folder with the USB.

Items 1-7
Seven audiocassettes of recordings of the Combined Unions Choir.

Items 8-21
Fourteen 3.5-inch computer microdisks (floppy disks) containing files possibly relating to interviews with people associated with the Combined Unions Choir.

Item 21
Combined Unions Choir at Mad Ass Folk Club, CD-R, undated.

Item 22
Gung Ho to Paradise, on DVD-R [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Items 23-24
Choirs to Congress, 1997, on two DVD-R discs [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Item 25
Union Choir movies, undated on CD-RW.

Photographs

This series is comprised 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Union Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people.

Album 1
Colour photographs (219), black and white photographs (13) and 1 black and white real photo postcard, from 1988 to 1995
Contains photographs grouped by year and under the following headings : 1988. Getting organized; May Day; Christmas. 1989 : May Day; Coffs Harbour , the bus, at the motel, the theatre, meeting the Newcastle People’s Chorus, Rehearsing, Printing T-shirts, Songwriting workshop, Conducting workshop, Discussion and farewell, Recording session, Libby Sara goes bush for six months…, and Michael Roper takes over; Laurel Power elected MLA; Maleny Folk Festival. 1990 : Remembering Ewan McColl and Jim Peterson; Opening the art space under the TWU Buiding; Rehearsal break; Hiroshima Day; Gulf War peace demo; Union of Australian Women 40 years. 1991 : Barcaldine Shearers’ Strike commemoration; the Tree of Knowledge; Speeches; Billet; The re-enactment; Free breakfast from a hotel; Waiting to rehearse; Women’s conference; Inside the theatre; the railway station; Dawn on the way home; May Day in Brisbane; Festival Fringe. 1992 : TLC May Day dinner. 1993 : Maleny, the Flames of Discontent. 1993 : African songs project; African songs concert in Sydney; a billet; box office; back stage; At the concert Solidarity Choir of Sydney; Voices from the Vacant Lot; Halt on the way back to Brisbane; Latin American songs project; Archbishop Tutu sings with the choir. 1994 : Mark Shortis; May Day; Stradbroke Island festival; the new banner; Jacinto Herrera; Christmas. 1995 : Palm Sunday; May Day; Opening the Queensland Women in War exhibition; Union Choir’s greatest hits.

Album 2
Colour photographs (180) from 1996 to 1997
1996 : Festival Hall election rally 27 February; Palm Sunday; Limestone Cabaret - in Ipswich, and Paddington; Emma Miller fundraiser; Commemorating the Ipswich Rail Workshops; Mark and Adrienne’s wedding; At rehearsal; New offices for Queensland Advocacy Inc. 1997: Australia Day Reconciliation Choir; Reconciliation Choir reunion and recording; Palm Sunday; May Day; Lord Mayor’s reception for Archbishop Napier; Anti-racism rally in Ipswich; Choirs to congress; welcome buffet; Conductors meet; Rehearsals – in the TLC Building; and at Culturebank; Concert at Culturebank; Concert in Ipswich; Women’s Reconciliation dinner; Soiree at Roger’s.

Album 3
Colour photographs (165), sizes vary, related to the performances of Fair Play Cabaret, 17 colour photographs of the Hiroshima Day performance, and 6 colour photographs of 'Rekindling', 2006.

Box 1
Folder 14
Photocopied photographs, one photograph each per A4 page; with handwritten notes identifying people. Undated.

Box 2
Items 26-28
Three CDs with digital photographs.

Administration

Administration records created and collected by the Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated (TERSGI).

Box 1
Item 1
Digital video disc (DVD) containing Helen Findlay's born digital files collected while in the position of secretary for TERSGI and a volunteer for the Multicultural Development Association (MDA). The files are in a variety of formats including Microsoft Word 97-2003, Microsoft Excel 97-2003, PDF and JPG files. Files are arranged into ten folders. Nine of these folders hold archival records, primarily administrative, relating to TERSGI and MDA, covering the period from 1999 to 2019 (incomplete). One folder holds records relating to Annual General Meetings, as well as annual reports. Dated: 1995 to 2019.

Folder 1
General administrative files from 1990 to 1994, and 2010. Includes two typed copies of the TERSGI constitution, one annotated with pen; a handwritten list of household essentials and vendors; a typed summary of TERSGI, its objectives and activities; a typed appeal for volunteers and donations; a contact list of Community Refugee Settlement Scheme (CRSS) groups; mail out templates for invitations to TERSGI picnics; a document titled 'Review of the Community Refugee Settlement Scheme' prepared by the Settlement Planning and Evaluation Section of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; and a record of tutors allocated to refugee clients. Also includes a typed letter by Helen Findlay nominating Audrey Ledwich for an Australian Honour in 2010.

Folder 2
Membership applications, dated 1990 to 1997, 2001, and 2007.

Folder 3
Mailing lists, and membership and subscription listings, 1992 to 2000.

Folder 4
Information sheets and service support documentation created or collected by TERSGI possibly to assist refugee clients with resettlement. Includes a typed list titled 'Essential things to know'; a Social Security pocket rates card pasted to scrap paper; contact lists and organisational charts of branches within the Department of Immigration; a photocopy of a handwritten page of English language class options for adult refugees; and a brochure of community programs funded by the Department of Immigration. Dated: 1993 to 1996.

Folder 5
Two leaves of notes, one typed, one handwritten, for what appears to be an introductory speech delivered at a talk arranged by TERSGI in 1991. The speech introduces speakers Judith Given and Lyn Robinson and their talk titled 'Access to English language training for people of non-English speaking background'. The speech also mentions a question and answer session with Linda Mortensen, the coordinator for the CRSS at the Department of Immigration.

Folder 6
Research, excerpts and ephemera relating to refugees and immigration from 1993 to 1995. Includes a document with a typed theological quote, undated, with no author attribution; typed discussion papers about the operations of the Department of Immigration at the Australian Embassy in Belgrade and its processes around visa applications from Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Romania; a September 1994 issue of MAI newsletter by the Mutual Assistance for Indochinese; a photocopy of a newsletter article about Nick Bolkus and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; and a copy of a typed poem titled 'They came walking, walking' by Joseph G. Healey.

Ecumenical Refugee Support Group Incorporated