Anthropological field notes and reports.
1 notebook and 1 typed report.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file at Barambah:

Bob Simpson (Barambah)
Happy (Namboor)
George Lane (Nambunnu)
Frank Simpson (Nephew to Bob) (Yonguarboomi)
Leddie Brown (Wakanulli)
Kenny Simpson (Turrbumma)
Mrs Ada Beckett (Narrkul)
Isaac Owen (Brother to Mrs Ross)
Willie Owen (Brother to Mrs Ross)

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file at Uranga:

Jack Noble (Gawongowau)
Willy Wandunna [spelling uncertain, may be Wandana]

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of Men’s Business, Women’s Business, initiation and infanticide. 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.

A selection of news items from the mid 1970s which deal with the political style of Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen, and also with allegations against the Queensland police force. Channels 2, 7, 9, 0.

This file consists of mostly Friends of the Earth ephemera from Queensland with some material from other state branches.

Approximately 630 minutes of recorded interviews between Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Julianne Schwenke relating to Oodgeroo's life, work and worldview. The interviews were originally recorded as part of Schwenke's PhD research.

Print out of eighteen (18) selected pieces of email correspondence between Fran de Groen and Laurie Hergenhan from 24 Jul 2017 to 26 Aug 2019. Fran De Groen printed these emails between her and Hergenhan on 10 June 2021. Includes: personal information like holidays and associates. Other correspondents in the email trails include: Craig Munro, Alan Lawson, and Richard Fotheringham.

Handwritten letter from David Malouf answering three questions that Yvonne Smith had asked: how did An Imaginary Life first come to be published; how were Fly Away Peter and Child's Play published; and in writing Johnno ( what was the possible influence of Peter Paul Ruben's painting The Return of the Peasants from the Fields. As the questions were not included in Malouf's response, Smith has provided a transcript of the handwritten letter with the questions included. Typed transcript of the Diary of David Malouf written while writing Child's Play, Fly Away Peter, and short stories in January / February 1981. The handwritten version of this transcript was shared with Malouf over lunch and he shared information about the content which Smith has included as footnotes.

Elizabeth Smith interviews Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba 11 May 1990 for an article to accompany Smith's book review of 'Kath Walker in China' in Queensland Writer vol. 2 no. 1 1990. Sound cassette is accompanied by typescript transcript (11 p.) which is a fuller version than the one published in Queensland Writer.

Thirteen exercise books of poetry written by Kath Watson. Date range on inside covers. Books arranged chronologically. All entries are handwritten; some have handwritten comments by Kath Thomas. Inserted in book 5 is a handwritten note (1 leaf) by Kath from a later time period (undated). Removed from book 13 are 4 typescript leaves.

Typescript poem by Ian Scott McDowall written before his death in 1945.
Accompanied by two leaves with brief notes about the author, by the donor, Kath Watson; written in or before 1987.