Correspondence, reports, ephemera, and articles have been collected around the areas of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters: culture and cultural events; education; politics; rights; welfare; and SEMP (Social Education Materials Project).

Ephemeral material, partial articles and reports, photocopied material, and newspaper cuttings held in the Culture and cultural folder include:

• Photocopied typescript of the lecture given by HC Coombs, Aboriginal Australians 1967-1976 : a decade of progress?, at the third Walter Murdoch Lecture delivered at Murdoch University on 19 October 1976, 27 leaves; with a with compliments slip from HC Coombs attached.
• Photocopied typescript 'Summarized statement of Tuntable Organization and rule', 1978, 2 pages.
• Report on the Wandjina Appeal, photocopied typescript, 2 leaves, undated.
• Advertisement for a Course for Aboriginal and Islander Organisations by the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal and Islander Housing Co-operatiave Society, 1980, 1 typescript leaf.
• Stradbroke Island Mangement Organisation flyer, 1980.
• Notice for a meeting of the Aranarawai Company, 1978, 1 photocopied typescript leaf.
• Facismile copy, incomplete, of Good contacts, with the stamp of the Queensland Aboriginal Affairs Head Office on front cover, 1979.
• Agenda for the Annual Sporting Organisations Meeting, typescript, 1979, 1 leaf.
• Report on the Long Island Project, photocopied, 3 leaves, undated.
• Victorian Aboriginal Health and Dental Clinic flyer, 2 pages, 1978?
• Flyer for Aboriginal Studies : Aborigines Woomera, approved by the Depart of Education and the Catholic Office of Education, 1 leaf, 1977.
• Blank petition form to support the New South Wales Aboriginal Sites Survey, 1 leaf, 1977.
• Flyer by the Dampier and District Recreation Association invitation to the 1971 Commonwealth Literary Fund Tour conducted by Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Ian Mudie, 1 leaf, 1971.
• Invitation to the Yeti Theatre and Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Dancing, flyer, 1 leaf, 1976?
• Brochure: 'How to apply for a grant from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs', undated.
• Blank housing loan application for the Aboriginal Loans Commission, undated.
• Flyer by Ian Hamilton for the 'The Brisbane Line : a ritual trance-walk', 2 pages, 22 Dec 1980.
• Brochure: Trachoma from the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, 2 pages, undated.
• Brochure: The deed of grant in trust : land tenure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland from the Queensland Government, 2 pages, undated.
• Photocopy of at three papers by KS Strehlow: 'Aboriginal land rights' (undated), 'Strehlow aboriginal research foundation' (dated 1977), and 'Strehlow and Central Australia' (undated).

Included in this series: autobiographical and biographical material, which includes the film Shadow sister; an address book; a diary; personal financial information; material by or relating to her sons, Denis and Vivian; notebook with rhyming words; notebooks with Aboriginal words; and unidentified material, most with Kath's' handwriting.

Notebook containing handwritten short stories titled: 'What the seagulls told me' and 'The grey gum story'.

Writing paper note book containing handwritten short stories titled: 'Kooril', and 'Coopee (Possum)'.

Spiral dux notebook containing handwritten short stories titled: 'Where's mother?', 'Muma's pet', 'Not our day', 'Booah (Bloodwood gum)', and 'Mai (Black bean)'.

The original folder had two titles 'Unpublished playscripts and stories'. Some scripts have multiple copies, some have drafts, and some have annotations. It contains the following scripts: 'Bora. Initiation' (3 drafts), 'Civilised savages: one act play', 'Old Mick' (3 drafts, one incomplete), 'Playabout corroboree', 'Tail of platypus' (3 drafts), 'Tea party. Review.' (2 drafts), and 'You can't trust no one no how'. The last item is a photocopied typescript (8 leaves) with 'Tape excerpt (verbatim)' written across the top of every page. The 'interviewee' is an Australian Aboriginal giving a commentary on the 'Police' ; 'What is an Aboriginal?'; and 'Discrimination'.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource mentions cultural ceremony and Bora initiation. It may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

This file contains 16 speeches or reports and notes by, or attributed to, Kath Walker. They are:

1. Speech beginning, "I grew up on Stradbroke Island.."
2. '20th Century Aborigines'
3. 'Re Aboriginal Voting in Queensland : an Aborigines Point of View'
4. 'Powerless Australians'
5. 'International Women's Day : re Equality, Development and Peace'
6. 'The Ethnic Problem in Australia'
7. 'Political rights for Aborigines', F.C.A.A.T.S.I. Conference
8. 'Black and White Power in Queensland : An Open Letter to the People of Australia'
9. 'Moreton Island'
10. 'Teachers notes: more contemporary Australian poets. Speak no. 2. Kath Walker.'
11. Handwritten notes and transcript beginning, "Mr Elliott, Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome. Thank you for coming here tonight to demonstrate your interest in, and concern, for Stradbroke."
12. Review of book by Kevin Gilbert Because a white man'll never do it by Kath Walker.
13. 'Australian one-act plays : a select list' [by Kath Walker] with annotations.
14. 'Kath Walker Transcript' of cassette from Cinetel Productions (9 leaves)
15. Unruled notepad with handwritten notes for speech or report about the Queensland Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Women, Migrants, Aborigines and Youth. Notepad begins with unrelated notes such as shopping lists.
    There are also 8 loose pages which may belong to speeches in this subseries.

Postcards and greeting cards from friends and admirers as well as postcards collected in her travels.

The original folder had the title 'Unpublished poems and stories, copies only, for America'. It contains a list of stories and poems (2 copies) with handwritten details for Kath Walker. The poems: ‘Blue Crane’, ‘Mangrove Bird’, ‘Minjerriba’, ‘Butcher Bird’, ‘Moongalba Peacocks’, ‘Credit and Loss’, ‘The Golden Voice’, ‘Oration’, ‘On Trugganner’, ‘Papua New Guinea’, ‘Bluff Mountain’, ‘Little Bean’, ‘Hari Sastra’, ‘Iban Longhouse’, ‘Yussef (Hi-jacker)’, ‘Commonplace’, ‘Exile’, ‘Grey Gum’, and ‘Sister Poet’. An extra poem, not on the list is included: 'Son of a son of mine'. Short stories: ‘Wail Rock’, ‘No horses for a month’, ‘Ole Mick’, ‘The Bunyip’, ‘Black Jimmy's Crime’, ‘We Look after our Own’, ‘I feared old Kindarra’