Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, cards, photographs, publications, typescripts, manuscripts, booklets, notebooks, diaries, theatre programmes, agendas, constitutions, minutes, reports, receipts, accounts, legislation, research material, notes, press statements, propaganda, submissions, tapes, posters, plans, family history, map, Aboriginal flag.
Bulk of papers from 1961 to 1982.

Collection reflects Mrs Tuxworth's interest in the local history of the Northern Territory. It includes: correspondence, personal papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reel to reel tape, and twenty three diaries of Banka Banka station from 1928 to 1961 (some years are missing)

Hilda Tuxworth obtained some of the Banka Banka diaries around the time Mary Ward was selling the property. This took from 1970 to 1972 when the sold the property. Mary Ward shared the diaries between her niece, Val Edwards, and Hilda. Banka Banka Station was established by Thomas Nugent as a cattle station in 1895. Nugent left the station to his sister, Mary Ambrose. The first diary from 1928 to 1931 would have been recorded during the ownership by the the Ambrose family. The Ambrose Family owned and ran the station until Paddy Ambrose put Banka Banka on the market in 1940. Ted and Mary Ward bought it in 1941. Capital from the Wards' Blue Moon Mine was used initially to purchase and then to undertake improvements and developments of the station. From 1945 weather details began to be recorded in the diaries. Ted Ward died on 17 March 1959. Mary Ward ran the station until 1970. In 1972 the land titles for the pastoral lease were transferred to Nelson Bunker-Hunt.

Banka Banka cattle station, 100 km north of Tennant Creek, was bought in 1940 by Mary and Philip (Ted) Ward. The file contains copies of photographs of life on Banka Banka station. Also some photographs of Mt Isa, Camooweal, and Howard Springs.

Correspondence from friends and fellow writers, editors and critics; mainly concerned with literary interests and personal news. The earliest letter is dated 29 Sep 1923 and the latest 6 Jan 1980. The bulk of the letters were written in the 1950's and 1960's. In all there are over 1700 items. Periodicals to which reference is made include: The Advocate; The Catholic Leader; The Catholic Weekly; Contact; Crosscurrents; Expression; Makar; Meanjin Papers; Poetry Australia; Poetry Magazine; 20th Century; Vista. Associations: Catholic Writers' and Readers' Association; Catholic Poetry Society; Poetry Society of Australia.
Included in the correspondents are: Thea Astley; Vincent Buckley; Emily Bulcock; Edna Carroll; C.B. Christesen; Delia Craig Antoine Denat; James Devaney (163) Margaret Diesendorf; Tom Dimes; Rosemary Dobson, R.D. Fitzgerald (48); Maureen Freer, John Gartner; Dame Mary Gilmore; Paul Grano; A.D. Hope (42); R.G. Howarth (47); Rex Ingamells (13); Kevin Kelly; Pat Lawler (55); David Little; David Locher; Llewelyn Lucas (22); Frederick Macartney (51); James McAuley (32); Ian Mudie; Walter Murdoch; Frank Murphy (243); J. Jarvis Nye; Grace Perry; Margaret (June) Saunders (20); Henry Schoenheimer; Thomas Shapcott; Walter Stone; Imogen Whyse (29). This list does not include correspondents with only one or two letters, or purely personal correspondence.

Federal, state and local minutes, correspondence, rules, awards, submissions and decisions. Trade Union journals. Photographs. Miscellaneous. Federal and State circulars. Union membership lists and Queensland industry subject files (Construction, dairy, earthmoving, fertilizer, meat, oil, paper & pulp, sugar, timber, waterfront & mining industries)

Manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, research notes, literary awards, publishing contracts, diaries, drafts of speeches, some Astley family history material. Includes two portable Hermes typewriters: green, in case 7 x 29 x 31 cm; and cream, in case 8 x 31 x 32 cm.

Meeting papers, minutes, addresses, broadcasts, typescripts, correspondence, published material, subject files, submissions, articles, lectures, notes and drafts. The collection includes papers relating to the Committee on Future of Tertiary Educations, Standing Committee of Professional Board, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australian Universities Commission and AVCC.

Typescript and handwritten poems, with ms emendations, for the book Hart : poems, 1974. Accompanied by some "exercise" poems plus some poems included in Selected poems 1939-1975.

File of press clippings, pamphlets, periodicals, notices, dodgers, mostly relating to student action.

Typed account of the lives of Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes, and their early days as convicts at Botany Bay.