Papers include material of Lawrie, Australian Country Party, National Country Party of Australia and Young Country Party. Minutes, correspondence, federal and senate election campaigns, referendum campaigns, federal secretariat and ministerial releases, meeting notices and agendas, conferences, media releases, resolutions, circulars, speeches, programmes, policies, pamphlets, financial and accounts records, reports, transcripts, typescripts, diaries, photographs, press cuttings, constituents requests, submissions.

Papers relating to exploration of Antarctica, particularly Douglas Mawson expedition 1929-1931. Magazine and newspaper clippings, travel brochures (Adventure Associates, Quark Expeditions), some typescripts, some papers relating to ANARE Club.

Photographs, maps, postcards, relating to Mills' service in World War 1.

Letters from Gwen Harwood and her husband, F.W. Harwood, to Alison Hoddinott and her husband W.G. Hoddinott. Includes "Sappho cards", parodies of other Australian poets, accounts of Gwen Harwood's first meetings with James McAuley and A.D. Hope, a full account of the Walter Lehmann Bulletin hoax, and manuscript poems. Also typescript for "The lion's bride", dream book, and Sappho cards to Thea Goodwin. Alison Hoddinott's book, Blessed city : the letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell January to September 1943 was awarded the Age Book of the Year in 1990.

Minutes and reports of the Queensland Place Names Board 1967-68; minutes and related correspondence of the Oxley Library Advisory Committee 1967-69; material relating to the Australian Dictionary of Biography; typescripts; lecture notes; newspaper clippings. Collection reflects author's academic interests; board responsibilities; and research into the history of Queensland, local government and labor politics.

Scrapbooks containing concert programs, tickets, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs; audio cassette.

Publications, reprints of periodical articles, monographs, conference proceedings, conference papers, book reviews and audio cassettes of interviews with her. Also includes unpublished papers, seminar papers, correspondence relating to national and international conferences and material relating to social work in the health field in Australia.
Bulk of papers 1960-1984.

Material relating to Australian and international playwrights, including correspondence, subject files, newspaper cuttings and interviews.

Business records, letterbooks with prices, wages and accounts, job books for monumental and terrazzo work, photographs for Petrie family business of monumental masonry.

Recordings of interviews with Brisbane music identities and others; transcripts of recordings; copies of Stafford's Pig City thesis; manuscripts of the Pig City book; publicity material, a newspaper cutting, a program and other ephemera relating to the 2007 Pig City concert and associated events.