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.

Kath Walker drawings: 9 drawings; 2 drawings on card (covered with contact?); Sketch Book (25 cm); Sketch Book (25 x 36 cm); and 1 drawing, sticky taped onto board (signed on back by Kath Walker); One A6 unlined notebook with pencil sketches. In a separate folder: Invitation to an exhibition of Artwork (and fabric design by) Kath Walker, 6 to 15 Jul 1981: 4 typescripts (all annotated) with the price list for the Kath Walker Exhibition, 6 to15 Jul 1981; Program from the Noosa Gallery Society for an Exhibition of Paintings by Kath Walker, 12 to 17 Sep 1981 which includes prices and poems No More Boomerang and Biami; photocopy of invitation list for Kath Walker Exhibition; handwritten list of invitees; Kath Walker Exhibition expenditure (2 copies, annotated).

This file includes; various itineraries; leaflets and handouts regarding Expo 88; Kath Walker election material; two flyers and a ribbon with 'ALP Kath Walker for Greenslopes'; Application by Kath Walker and material for Honorary Warden with the Archaeology Branch Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement; 1 students notebook with handwritten notes; events and programmes; promotional material on the programme 'Roots'; handwritten shopping lists; 1980 calendar; newspaper cutting from The Telegraph from 21 Nov 1945 of returning prisoners of war, one of whom is Private E. Ruska of Dunwich; a photograph holder (photograph missing) from Lennons Hotel; and handwritten notes by an undetermined author.

Exercise book with 'Rhymes' on cover and inside has lists of various English rhyming words. Collins Red Circle account books with Vivian Walkers' name on the front with page of words in Aboriginal language(s). Tudor Writing Pad with two pages of words in Aboriginal language(s). Small lined notebook with one page of words in Aboriginal language(s).

Publications:

5 poets, 75 1975, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron. [Inscribed by Ray Carmichael. Includes a sketch]

9 poets 80 1980, Nine poets eighty, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron Park, Qld. [Inscribed: To Kath, Love Jan TJ. (Note the ‘Moongalba’ ref. on p 3)”]

Aboriginal Council 1979, Barambah, Cherbourg 1904-1979, The Council, Cherbourg

Aboriginal land rights : action booklet : extend the freeze! amend the Bill! : Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, 1976. 1976, [Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign?], [Redfern, N.S.W.?]

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League 1969, Social services for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, The League, Cairns, Qld.

Adler, E 1981, Justice for aboriginal Australians : report of the World Council of Churches team visit to the aborigines June 15 to July 3, 1981, Australian Council of Churches, Sydney.

Andersen, M, Neill, L & Pitt, G 1974, 3 poets 1974, North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kedron Park.

Angus, A 1967, Variety of verse, s.n., Bairnsdale. [Inscription from Dorothy Hilda Featerstone. Includes a letter from Dorothy and an accompanying a copy of The Poetry Lover, no.107, 1965, with handwritten note]

Answering your questions about Aborigines : with directory of Aboriginal Departments and reading guide 1969, 4th ed. edn, Aboriginal Affairs, Parkville, Vic. [‘Aboriginal & Islanders Tribal Council’ stamps]

Anti-Slavery Society For The Protection Of Human Rights 1970, The Aborigines of Australia : a report to the Committee, Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, London

Australia. Department of Territories 1963, The Aborigines and you, Government Printer, Canberra.

Australia. Department of Territories 1960, The skills of our aborigines : prepared for use by the National Aborigines' Day Observance Committee and its associates in connexion with the celebration of National Aborigines' Day in Australia, 8th July, 1960, Government Printer, Canberra.

Australia. Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. Australia. Office of the Commissioner for Community, R 1979, Let's end the slander : combating racial prejudice in teaching materials, Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, Canberra.

Australian National Commission for Unesco 1953, Australian Aboriginal culture : an exhibition, Government Printer, Sydney.

Bamaga High School 1973, Bamaga High School magazine, [The School], [Bamaga, Qld.]. [‘Mrs K.W.’ on cover]

Barker, B & Barker, M 1979, Australian Aborigines - towards a history (trial course), Brenn Barker, South Caulfield, Vic. [Signed by Brenn Barker to Kath Walker]

Baxter, JK & Olds, P 1972, Letter to Peter Olds : poem, Caveman Press, Dunedin.

Beier, G 1976, Exhibition of batik, prints, gold leaf drawings, and welded iron sculpture, Port Moresby, 25 June 1976.

Bennett, MM 1957, Human rights for Australian aborigines : how can they learn without a teacher?, Truth and Sportsman Ltd., Brisbane.

Bennett, S 1975, Poems from the paddy wagon, Cochon, Townsville. [Limited to 50 copies. Inscribed to Kath from Steff Bennett 22 Feb 1975]

Black Resource Centre 1976, The Queensland Aborigines Act and Regulations, 1971, Black Resource Centre, Brisbane.

Blandford, PWPW 1941, Netmaking : for seamen, yachtsmen, Boy scouts and others, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow. [Handwritten on cover ‘Museum Art Gallery Moongalba’]

Boyd, D 1974, Rolling thunder: a personal exploration into the secret healing powers of an American Indian medicine man, Delta, New York, NY. [Inscribed by Riley Smith, December 1978, Bloomsburg, Penn., USA]

Buchanan, C 1974, We have bugger all! : the Kulaluk story, Race Relations Department, Australian Union of Students, Carlton.

Campbell, AH 1958, The Aborigines and Torres Islanders of Queensland, United Nations Association, Western Suburbs Branch, Brisbane.

Cato, N 1957, The dancing bough, Angus & Robertson, Sydney. [Inscribed by Nancy Cato, 27 May 1967]

Cato, N 1958, All the rivers run, Heinemann, London. [Inscribed by Nancy Cato, 1981]

Chatswood High School 1965, Punari : the annual magazine of Chatswood High School, The School, Chatswood [Handwritten on cover ‘page 15’]

Chester, L 1965, Unikara, Penpress, Brisbane. [Inscribed by Leonard Chester, 28 Oct 1965]

Chimojalmako / Soul, 1975, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif. [Inscribed by some contributors]

Church and community (Christchurch, N.Z.) 1969, 1972, National Council of Churches in New Zealand, Christchurch. [Interview with Kath Walker in vol. 29 no. 9 1972 issue; Aboriginal Charter of Rights on back cover of vol. 26 no. 3 1969]

Colliver, FS & Queensland. Dept. of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. Archaeology, B 1974, Some plant foods of the Queensland aborigine, Colliver, Frederick Stanley and Queensland. Dept. of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. Archaeology Branch, St. Lucia.

Conspiracy by the state : defend Walker, Garcia & Lacey 1975, Ad Hoc Committee for the Defence, Spring Hill, Qld.

Coreno, M 1964, Ricordanze : liriche, R. Ozola, Rome. [Inscribed by Mariano Coreno 19 Dec 1964]

Council for Aboriginal Affairs 1970, *Report on consultations with Queensland Aborigines, Council for Aboriginal Affairs, Townsville.

Dalgleish, HD 1968, Tie my swag to a rainbow, The Author, Perth. [Signed by author, 1968]

Daugavas, V 1978, Latvia and Latvians, Central Board 'Daugavas Vanagi', London. [Accompanied by letter 17 Sep 1979]

Dawe, B 1978, Sometimes gladness : collected poems, 1954-1978, Longman Cheshire, Hawthorn, Vic. [Inscribed ‘To Kath From friends at North Brisbane C.A.E., 1 Feb 1981’]

Dennis CJ [1916?], Moods of Ginger Mick, Angus and Robertson, Sydney. [Inscribed by Hilda Lane, 16 Mar 1965 with newspaper cutting, poem by Hilda Lane ‘Black Babies’ pasted to inside cover and ‘The glove tree’ pasted to inside back cover; includes a poem by Hilda Lane to Dame Mary with love inserted in book]

Dostoyevsky, F 1974, Notes From The Underground, Bantam Books, New York, NY. [Inscribed by S.S. “Smokey” Rovner, 28 Aug 1975]

Downs, I 1970, The stolen land, Jacaranda Press, Milton, Qld. [Signed Kath Walker 1979]

Publications:
Scarborough, JC 1966, Uncle Toms wurley, Author, Adelaide.

Sergeant, H 1967, Commonwealth poems of today, Murray, London. [Signed by several people, 14 Aug 1968]

Sharpe, M 1977, Bundjalung reader. Baryulgil dialect 1 Institute of Aboriginal Community Development, Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, [Armidale, N.S.W.]

Sherman, P 1976, Melba, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia. [Inscribed by author, 10 Nov 1980]

Sixty years on : a commemorative publication for The Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section 1981, Brisbane, Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland.

Snyder, G 1960, Myths & texts, Totem Press, New York. [Inscribed by author, 21 Sep 40081]

Snyder, G, 1977, The old ways : six essays, City Lights Books, San Francisco. [Inscribed by author, 21 Sep 40081]

Spencer, B & Gillen, FJ 1927, The Arunta : a study of a stone age people, Macmillan, London. [Signed by Kath Walker; Signed by W. H. Coull 17 Apr 1944]

Stanner, WEH 1969, After the dreaming : black and white Australians : an anthropologist's view, A.B.C., Sydney.

Strano, L 1969, Una forcatella di spine, Ital-Print, Sydney. [Poem by author for Kath Walker, 26 Nov 1970]

Strano, L 1970, Mostratemi la via di gire al monte, University of Auckland, Auckland. [Signed by author]

Strehlow, TGH 1961, Nomads in no-man's-land, Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, Adelaide.

Strehlow, TGH 1964, Assimilation problems : the Aboriginal viewpoint, Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, Adelaide.

Stuart, D 1971, Ilbarana, Georgian House, Melbourne. [On title page ‘return to Kath Walker Moongalba via Dunwich Stradbroke Is 4163’]

Summers, HJ 1966, Ashes of the angry years : a novel, Australasian Book Society, Sydney. [Signed by author; Signed by Kath Walker]

Suradi, B 1962, Contemporary progressive Indonesian poetry, League of People's Culture, [Djakarta?] [Inscribed by Ted ?, Jun 1963]

Sutton, B 1974, The champion sticker licker : and other stories, The Communist Arts Group, Brisbane.

Sykes, B 1979, Love poems : and other revolutionary actions, Saturday Centre, Cammeray, N.S.W.

Thomson, DF 1946, 'Justice' for Aborigines, The Herald, Melbourne. [Name and address for R. G. Hill on cover]

Tomlinson, J 1900, Reflections of a fool : and other poems, s.n., S.l. [Inscribed by author, 20 Feb 1968]

Tomlinson, J 1974a, Confessions of an opiat eater, Wobbly Press, Darwin. [Inscribed by author]

Tomlinson, J 1974b, Institutionalization : a way of life in Aboriginal Australia, Amnesty International, Brisbane.

Tomlinson, J 1977, Is band-aid social work enough?, The Wobbly Press, Darwin. [Includes letter from Carl Wallace, 12 May 1977]

Tuck, A 1984, The Australian revolution 1983 : the threat to the family, the constitution, our system of law and way of life from the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Sex Discrimination Act, 3rd ed. rev. edn, The Australian revolution, The Author, Yandina, Qld.

Vleeskens, C 1979, Long hair : poems, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.

Walker, J 1960, No sunlight singing, Hutchinson, London. [Inscribed by author; Signed by Kath Waker]

Wannan, B, Allsop, J & Jack, K 1962, Baraiyo : Australian essays, stories, verse, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne. [Inscribed by Bruce ?]

Wignell, E 1981, A Boggle of bunyips, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney. [Inscribed by author, 15 Nov 1981]

Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. Gold Coast & Hinterland Branch 1980, Wildlife newsletter, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Surfers Paradise, Qld., vol. 7, no. 5, November 1980. [Article about Kath Walker as guest speaker]

Williams, J 1970, The dreaming vine : poems of peace, women & environment, Realist Publication, Sydney.

Wilson, LG 1973, A new start in a new state? : (Is an aboriginal new state movement the way towards rehabilitation of the Aboriginal people?), L.G. Wilson, Brisbane, Qld.

Wright, J 1965, The generations of men, First paperback edition edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

The original folder was titled 'Poems unpublished' and has a contents listing by Kath Walker. Some poems have been published since the author created this file. It contains 34 poems, some with copies or drafts. The poems are:

1. 'I'm Not’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
2. ‘Westerlies’ (On the back of ‘The glass island’ by Laurie Neill);
3. ‘Butcher Bird’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
4. ‘Hari Sastra’ (3 handwritten drafts);
5. ‘Little Bean’ (2 drafts, one handwritten);
6. ‘Oration’ (5 drafts);
7. ‘Full Moon’ (5 drafts);
8. ‘Mangrove Bird’ (7 drafts);
9. ‘Exhausted’ (2 drafts);
10. ‘Wedding Song’ (6 drafts);
11. ‘Dead Wood’ (6 drafts);
12. ‘Hercules’ (2 drafts);
13. ‘Child of Two Races’ (2 drafts);
14. ‘No Place to Go’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
15. ‘Roebun Lament’ (2 drafts);
16. ‘Blue Crane’ (handwritten);
17. ‘Will I?’ (3 drafts);
18. ‘Minjerriba’ (4 drafts, one handwritten);
19. ‘To a Policeman’ (3 drafts);
20. ‘Noises’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
21. ‘Credit and Loss’ (4 drafts);
22. ‘Furry Friend’ (4 drafts);
23. ‘Can you?’ (6 drafts);
24. ‘Lovers Quarrel’ (4 drafts);
25. ‘Yussef’ (6 drafts, two handwritten (one on a British airways waste disposal bag with an accompanying letter);
26. ‘Commonplace’ (4 drafts, one a photocopied handwritten draft);
27. ‘The Fisherman’ (3 drafts);
28. ‘Grey Gum’;
29. ‘Civilised Man’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
30. ‘Sunrise over Stradbroke’ (3 drafts);
31. ‘Poets (for Jack Davis)’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
32. ‘Black Prostitute’ (3 drafts, one handwritten);
33. ‘Sister Poet’ (1 draft, 1 carbon copy);
34. ‘Iban Long house’ (3 drafts, one handwritten).

Original folder titled 'French translations of Colloquium papers' and contains 10 poems: ‘Le Crime du Pere Jacquot Le Noir’ (incomple), ‘Le Racisme’, ‘Le Bunyip’, ‘Banal’, ‘Yussef (Hi-jacker)’, ‘La Civilisation’, ‘Mon Enfant’, ‘Mont Bluff’, ‘Les Droits De L'Aborigine’, and ‘Premiere Partie La Nature du Reve’ (incomplete).

Original folder was titled 'Short stories'. There is one screen play and 28 short stories. Some are edited or annotated; some have multiple drafts; some are written by Kathryn Ruska. Contains the following short stories:
‘The Armada’;
‘Black Jimmy's Crime’;
‘Boonah’;
‘The Boy who shot the kookaburra’ (condensed from Stradbroke Dreamtime) [on heat sensitive paper];
‘The Bunyip’ (4 versions, one by Kathryn Ruska);
‘The Bush Ranger’ (by Ruska);
‘Cookie’;
‘Edward Ruska’ (2 drafts, one missing first page);
‘Fantasy in Sepia’;
‘Flight into Tunis’ (2 drafts);
‘Gooboora and the Bunyip’;
‘Gubbin and Grasshopper’ (5 drafts);
‘Joshua and Roo-Roo’;
‘Judge Not’ (K. Ruska);
‘Koo-Poo’ (3 drafts);
‘Koorie and Boorie’ (2 drafts);
‘Lucy McCullock’;
‘The Magic Hour’ (2 drafts by Kathryn Ruska);
‘The Magic Hour’ (screenplay);
‘No Horses for a Month’ (2 drafts);
‘Poetic Justice’;
‘The Rosary Beads’ (2 drafts);
‘Swans and Che’ (handwritten);
‘The Tail of Pinky Platypus’ (2 drafts by Kathryn Ruska);
‘Tiny and Wee’ (3 drafts; one by Kathryn Ruska) ;
‘The Turtle’;
‘The Unhappy Golliwog’ (3 drafts; one by Kathryn Ruska);
‘We look after our own’ (2 handwritten drafts); and
‘What the Seagulls told me’.

The original folder was titled 'Manuscripts submitted to A&R' and contains short stories and poems submitted to Angus and Robertson. Some have corrections and annotations. Indicated in square brackets after the tile are handwritten notes that appear on the first page. Some may also have corrections. This file contains:
‘Beginning of Life’ (published as ‘The Beginning of Life’) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Biami and Bunyip’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Burr+Nong (Bora Ring)’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
Boonah (Bloodwood Gum)' [submitted to A&R.];
‘The Carpet Snake’ (published as Carpet Snake) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Curlew’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Dear Boys and Girls’ (letter) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘The Dugong Hunt’ (published as Dugong Coming!) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Dunwich Stradbroke Island Assimilation of Aborigines’ (2 drafts);
‘Edward Ruska’;
'The Exercise Book' [submitted to A&R.];
‘The Fisherman’ [? submitted to A&R.];
‘Going Crabbing’ [original had not submitted to A&R but the not has been crossed out. Accepted];
‘The Hunter’ (published as The Shark) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Interlude’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
'Joshua and Roo-Roo';
'Kill to eat' [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
'Mai (Black Bean)';
‘Midden’ (published as ‘The Midden’) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Mirrabooka (Southern Cross)’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Muma's Pet’ [submitted to A&R.];
‘Not Our Day’ [submitted to A&R.];
‘Pomera (Banksia)’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Racism’ (3 copies);
‘School Days’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Stradbroke’ [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘Talwalpin (Cotton Tree) and Kowinka (Red Mangrove)' [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
'Tia Gam (Lawyer Vine)' [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
'Tuggan-Tuggan (Silky Oak)' [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
‘We three’ (poem) [submitted to A&R.];
'Wher's Mother (published as Where's Mother) [submitted to A&R. Accepted];
'Wonga and Nudu' [submitted to A&R. Accepted].