Correspondence sent or received on behalf of OPAL, mostly to or by Muriel Langford:
Muriel Langford to Johannes Bjelke Petersen, 28 Feb 1968.
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen to Muriel Langford, 28 Feb 1968.
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen to Muriel Langford, 13 Mar 1968.
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen to David Martin, 13 Mar 1968.
Neville Bonner to Muriel Langford, 11 Dec 1969.
Muriel Langford to Neville Bonner, 17 Dec 1969.
MEL [Muriel E Langford] to PAL, undated.
Daphne Lavelle to Muriel Langford, 11 Mar 1986.
Muriel Langford to Daphne Lavelle, 20 Mar 1986 with a copy of the OPAL Memorandum of Assocation.

Poems and prose from admirers. Some of these writers are not identified. Some were regular correspondents. The writings in this file may also relate to letters from correspondents held elsewhere in the collection.

Authors sent their writings to Kath Walker, some in admiration, some for professional reasons. They may have been accompanied by correspondence that is filed elsewhere. Included is a thesis, prose, and poems.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of mortuary and birthing customs of Aboriginal peoples around Millaa Millaa in The Story of Emily Purcell: an Aboriginal woman born about 1890. It also 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.

Includes material from interstate branches.

Included in this file is materials, often accompanied by correspondence, such as leaflets, newsletters, minutes of meetings, and reports of activities, that relate to the following: Australian Participation in United States Bicentennial Celebrations; Australian Council of Churches; Australia Council. Public Lending Right Committee; Australian National Anthem Quest; Christian Science Monitor; Conference on Inter-cultural Education; Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland; Festival Music Pty Ltd; Orange Festival of Arts; World Literature Today; Popular Theatre Troupe (includes the following programmes) -- Black Theatre Arts and Culture Centre proudly presents “The Cakeman” by Robert J. Merritt , 9th January thru to 30th, Directed by Bob Maza. -- Aboriginal Mowanjum Dancers Parkerville Amphitheatre: Jan 22-31. Presented by the Aboriginal Theatre Foundation with assistance of the Australian Council for the Arts. --Yeti presents on stage Vietnam, directed by Paul Richards, choreographed by Vivian Walker; Queensland Multicultural Task Force; Queensland Arts Conference; and Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Conference, August 1984 (Kath Walker presented a paper on significant landscapes in the histories of Aboriginal peoples, with special reference to Stradbroke Island)

In this file, often accompanied by correspondence, are leaflets, newsletters, minutes of meetings, and reports of activities, from the following politicians and government departments: Aboriginal Loans Commission; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs; Australia. Department of Education; Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs; Australia. Department of the Interior; Australia. Department of Veteran's Affairs; Australian Labor party; Bonner, Neville T.; Commissioner for Community Relations (Albert Jaime Grassby); Coombs, H. C.; Everingham, Doug; Keeffe, Jim; Office of the Public Service Board; Papers sent by Senator Jim Keeffe; Papers sent by Senator Stewart West; Papers sent by Senator Susan Ryan; Parliamentary papers, Bills, and Acts; Queensland. Board of Adult Education; Queensland. Department of Children's Services; Whitlam, Edward Gough; All African Peoples Revolutionary Party. Australia-USSR Society.

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).

The Murri School (also known as the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School) was first established in 1986. This file contains the following correspondence:

Ian Levinge to Muriel Langford, 6 Nov 1986
Hope Neill to Sir/Madam, 20 Jun 1988
Marie Mollenhauer to Committee Members, 10 Mar 1989 [copy, board of management notice of meeting agenda attached]
Mathew Philp to Sir/Madam, 1 Aug 1989 [copy]
Robyn Oba to The Board Committee, 15 Aug 1989 [copy]
Dion Tatow to Board Members, 21 Aug 1989
Muriel Langford to the Editor (Australian Friend), 1 Jan 1991 [article draft attached]
Joan M Martin to Mavis Ingle?, 24 May 1991 [copy, licence attached]
Elizabeth Edwards to Mavis Ingle?, 19 Jun 1991 [copy, Raeco order for June 1991 attached]
Mavis Ingle to Les Hegarty, 22 Aug 1991 [written but not sent]
Paul Braddy to Margaret A Bruce, 30 Jun 1992 [copy]
G. Schuttlewood to Sir/Madam, 29 Nov 1991 [copy, correspondence 25 Jul 1991 attached]
Robert Tickner to Stella Johnson, 23 Dec 1992 [copy, Aboriginal education agreement attached]
Linda Velli to Mavis Ingle 4 Nov 1992 [copy]
Shane Williams to Mavis Ingle 2 Feb 1993 [copy]
Lisa O’Brien to Board Directors, 30 Apr 1993 [copy]

Photographs by Joel Higham of productions of Macbeth (April-May 2005) and As You Like It (May-June 2005) (digital print-outs and 2 DVDs) : 10 images for each production. Also programs for 1995 productions of Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra; and booking form from 1995.