Research material for publications; personal papers; and papers relating to Dr Murphy’s career at the University of Queensland, and his membership of the Australian Labor Party. Also research material, including handwritten manuscripts (including memoirs by Margaret Fisher), correspondence, notes, photographs, photocopied articles, and newspaper cuttings, for the biography of Andrew Fisher, which Dr Murphy was working on before his death. Includes W.H. Demaine's ‘Diary, written on the voyage to Maryborough, Queensland, Australia in the year 1880 on board the sailing ship Silver Eagle from Plymouth’.

Correspondence, financial records and accounts of TLC, ALP and Trades Hall,Toowoomba. Diaries, speakers' notes, minutes, bulletins/periodicals, receipts, programmes, pamphlets, registrations, publications, decisions, press releases and Labour Day records.

Accompanying letter to Joy Guyatt (16 Dec. 1959; 2 leaves, handwritten)

Correspondence, principally between 1964 and 1968; minutes of branch meetings; membership lists; brochures; articles; extracts from publications; speeches; conference papers; newsletters.
Bulk of records from 1964-1968.

Letter to Mr J. Keeffe, Secretary, Queensland Branch of the A.L.P. re activities of Labor Women's organizations and with Labor's platform and policies.

The complete contents of the Roman Catholic Archives of the Archdiocese of Perth pertaining to the Catholic Social Studies Movement, transcribed and typed; also an introduction on the importance of the documents.

Includes discussion papers on immigration policy, Queensland Branch organisation, trade unions, reports on federal intervention in Queensland Branch, Queensland voter attitudes, 1974 Labor-in-Politics Convention, submissions, Centre Caucus Newsletter, text of Dr. J. Cairns' address to 1974 Labor-in-Politics Convention, short stories, etc.

Typescript pages of meeting minutes from 16 June 1964 to 15 June 1971.
Incomplete.

Typescript pages of meeting minutes from 17 August 1967 to 19 July 1973, with some circular notices submitted to Branch meetings.
Incomplete.

Report of the campaign director, Tom Burns, 6 February 1967.