This notebook includes: poem beginning with 'Was it dream....'; 'Dawn' (poem); 'Can you?' (poem); 'Blackmans club' (poem); 'No place to go' (poem); 'Dawn' (poem); 'Report to Aboriginal Aged housing' on her visit to Cunnamulla; 'Speech to Seminar on Aboriginal Rights, 7 and 8 May 1971, Perth, Western Australia'; 'What the sea gulls told me' (short story); survey results of Aboriginal children; draft letter to Consolidated Rutile Corporation regarding establishing an Art Gallery, Museum and park at Moongalba'; 'Old age' (poem); 'Occupational therapy' (short story); list with visitor signatures dated 18 May 1978; and random notes throughout notebook.

Original folder titled 'Poems' containing typescript and/or handwritten poems which may have multiple copies or drafts. This file contains the following poems:
‘Aboriginal Charter of Rights’ (2 drafts, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
‘Balance’;
‘The Black Commandments’ (2 drafts);
‘Bluff Mountain’ (2 drafts);
‘The Boomerang’ (2 drafts);
'The Bunyip’ (2 drafts, from My people);
‘Civilization’ (2 drafts, published in The Dawn is at Hand, Jacaranda Press);
‘Commonplace’ (2 drafts, one typescript, one handwritten – with photocopy);
‘Community rain song', Dawn’ (2 drafts);
‘Dead Life’;
‘Death of a Bunya Pine’ (handwritten);
‘Dim Lit Street’;
‘Exile’ (8 drafts, handwritten);
‘Film Man’ (handwritten);
‘First Love’;
‘The Fisherman’;
‘For Llwelyn’;
‘Forbidden Love’ (3 drafts);
'Germany forgive our sins';
‘The Golden Voice’ (2 drafts);
‘Justice’ (written on the back of booklet, Information for your visit to Rome);
‘Lament of the Dead’;
‘Life gets Teadious’ (2 drafts);
‘Lost Love (for Bill)’ (with attached poem, 'Bill') (both handwritten);
'The Masterpiece’ (handwritten);
‘Mia Filo’;
‘Minjerriba’;
‘Moongalba Night’ (handwritten);
‘Moongalba Peacocks’;
‘Not my Style’;
‘Oh Truganner’;
‘Oration’ (written in red pen across typescript poem ‘Censored’);
‘Peacocks’ (handwritten);
‘Return to Nature’ (2 drafts);
‘Sammy Sparrow’;
‘Sister Poet’;
‘Son of Son of Mine’ (3 drafts, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
‘A Song of Hope’ (with letter);
‘Spinners’;
‘Spring is’ (photocopy of handwritten poem);
‘The Storm’ (handwritten);
‘Sunrise’ (2 drafts);
'Teachers';
‘Time is Running out’;
'United we win' (handwritten, published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press);
'We are Going’ (published in We are Going, Jacaranda Press).
Untitled poems (title from first line): 'But the speakers voice', 'Hello tree', 'Oh ancient city of Kano', 'We, at the Jungai Summer School', and 'Who stole his pride'.

9 site plan drawings for Moongalba: Drawings (7) for Moongalba (Architect unknown); and Sketch drawings (2) for the Proposed development 'Moongalba National Aboriginal Cultural and Training Centre Stradbroke Island' by John Kershaw (Architect).

The original folder was titled 'Poems unpublished' and has a contents listing by Kath Walker. Some poems have been published since the author created this file. It contains 34 poems, some with copies or drafts. The poems are:

1. 'I'm Not’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
2. ‘Westerlies’ (On the back of ‘The glass island’ by Laurie Neill);
3. ‘Butcher Bird’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
4. ‘Hari Sastra’ (3 handwritten drafts);
5. ‘Little Bean’ (2 drafts, one handwritten);
6. ‘Oration’ (5 drafts);
7. ‘Full Moon’ (5 drafts);
8. ‘Mangrove Bird’ (7 drafts);
9. ‘Exhausted’ (2 drafts);
10. ‘Wedding Song’ (6 drafts);
11. ‘Dead Wood’ (6 drafts);
12. ‘Hercules’ (2 drafts);
13. ‘Child of Two Races’ (2 drafts);
14. ‘No Place to Go’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
15. ‘Roebun Lament’ (2 drafts);
16. ‘Blue Crane’ (handwritten);
17. ‘Will I?’ (3 drafts);
18. ‘Minjerriba’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
19. ‘To a Policeman’ (3 drafts);
20. ‘Noises’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
21. ‘Credit and Loss’ (4 drafts);
22. ‘Furry Friend’ (4 drafts);
23. ‘Can you?’ (6 drafts);
24. ‘Lovers Quarrel’ (4 drafts);
25. ‘Yussef’ (6 drafts, two handwritten (one on a British airways waste disposal bag with an accompanying letter);
26. ‘Commonplace’ (4 drafts, one a photocopied handwritten draft);
27. ‘The Fisherman’ (3 drafts);
28. ‘Grey Gum’;
29. ‘Civilised Man’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
30. ‘Sunrise over Stradbroke’ (3 drafts);
31. ‘Poets (for Jack Davis)’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
32. ‘Black Prostitute’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
33. ‘Sister Poet’ (1 draft, 1 carbon copy);
34. ‘Iban Long house’ (3 drafts, one handwritten).

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.

Original folder titled 'Burr-Nong Centre'. The file includes correspondence (draft outgoing, outgoing and incoming); 'Summary of Recommendations put forward in "The Feasibility of the 'Boornong' Project"'; and documents on bora grounds.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of ceremony. 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.

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’

Album 2 - Unsorted photographs of Kath Walker, her family and friends, overseas trips. Images of Kath Walker from her youth to her later years. Images numbered 14.162 to 14.373

Three folders containing contact sheets, negatives, slides, and photographs.