This collection contains published and unpublished manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and some prose pieces by John Blight, correspondence with individuals including Thomas Shapcott, Judith Wright, Bruce Beaver and Barbara Giles, and organisations, newspapers and literary societies. Also included are congress and festival pamphlets and papers, newspaper clippings and family photographs.

Material compiled in the course of researching the 1980 PhD thesis A study of Australian descriptive and travel writing, 1929-1945. Includes notes taken during conversations with Ernestine Hill, Louise Campbell, Laurie Hergenhan and others in 1972. Also includes correspondence with Robert Hill and others.
Records and ephemera relating to women in the labour movement and in the arts. Includes material relating to the Organising Committee of the Fourth Women and Labour Conference, the Feminist Film Workshop Resource Book Stage I’, and the Women & the Arts Advisory Committee’

Transcript of hearing relating to bashing of student during demonstation in Brisbane, 1977 (Folders 1 & 2) ;photographs of Right to March demonstrations, Brisbane, 1978 (Folder 3) ;papers relating to a political controversy about Sir Garfield Barwick's shares in Mundroola Pty. Ltd. (Folder 4). Material in Folder 4 originates from period 1978-1981 when Mark Plunkett was assistant private secretary to Bill Hayden (then Leader of the Opposition). Plunkett was asked to investigate the activities of Mundroola Pty. Ltd., the Barwick family company, of which Sir Garfield Barwick was a director, for possible conflicts of interest. Gareth Evans started action to impeach Barwick.

Contains postcards, greeting cards and letters,1991-1995 from Gwen Harwood to Gregory Kratzmann; draft typescript introduction, typescript and computer disk with manuscript for A Steady Storm of Correspondence published by UQP in 2001; notes by Normal Talbot on transcripts of letters from Gwen Harwood; and draft of talk on Gwen Harwood to VCE students in 2012.

Research notes, books, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Nancy Bonnin's introduction to the 1975 University of Queensland Press edition of David Hennessey's The dis-honourable and to her 1985 book "Katie Hume on the Darling Downs." Also included is an essay on Hennessey's The Outlaw entitled "The Australian Bushranger : Cultural Catalyst."

Correspondence, medical reports and articles, case notes, and newspaper cuttings pertaining to Dr. Rae W. Dungan's clinical work with polio sufferers in the 1930s and the 1940s and his collaboration with Sister Elizabeth Kenny.

Correspondence, personal papers, ephemera. Political publications, video and letters related to the 2001 Ryan by-election. Papers relating to Australian theatre productions, 1970s-1980s: includes photocopied newspaper clippings, sound cassettes, and slides. Also reports of Popular Theatre Troupe, Brisbane, 1976-1978.

Programs of theatrical, musical and other performances held at Mayne Hall on the University of Queensland's St. Lucia campus from 1970 to 2002.

Correspondence, policy documents, political ephemera, journals and monographs relating to the Pauline Hanson Support Movement, One Nation and the City Country Alliance.

Business and administrative records of The Women's Bookshop, Highgate Hill, Brisbane from its inception in 1984 to its sale in 1998. Includes financial records, promotional material, correspondence, publisher's catalogues, flyers, photographs, posters and ephemera. The poster collection is comprised of 341 posters (which includes 48 screen printed or hand coloured posters plus two copies of a 1993 calendar) which exhibit graphic design history and local / social history from 1984 to 1998.