This series contains drafts, notes, research material, and correspondence. Dead birds, published by ABC Books in 2007, is set in the early days of exploration around Papua New Guinea. It is based on the 1877 journal of Italian naturalist, collector and explorer Luigi d'Albertis and his crew as they travel by boat up the Fly River in the steam launch 'Neva' collecting birds of paradise, ethnographic artifacts and undiscovered specimens. A New Guinean tribesman is killed by Albertis' crew and his head preserved in a specimen bottle. The story, narrated by the head in a jar, is a story of race relations. Included in this series are notes, research material, and drafts.

Personal collections of Glenn Cooke relating to his interest in design.

Comprises: 1 sculpture, 11 framed works of relief sculpture, 3 paintings and 273 panels of the artwork SIEV X. Captions and ephemera relating to exhibitions in Box 4.
7 steel framed display panels, 180cm x 90cm

This series is comprised 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Union Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people.

Album 1
Colour photographs (219), black and white photographs (13) and 1 black and white real photo postcard, from 1988 to 1995
Contains photographs grouped by year and under the following headings : 1988. Getting organized; May Day; Christmas. 1989 : May Day; Coffs Harbour , the bus, at the motel, the theatre, meeting the Newcastle People’s Chorus, Rehearsing, Printing T-shirts, Songwriting workshop, Conducting workshop, Discussion and farewell, Recording session, Libby Sara goes bush for six months…, and Michael Roper takes over; Laurel Power elected MLA; Maleny Folk Festival. 1990 : Remembering Ewan McColl and Jim Peterson; Opening the art space under the TWU Buiding; Rehearsal break; Hiroshima Day; Gulf War peace demo; Union of Australian Women 40 years. 1991 : Barcaldine Shearers’ Strike commemoration; the Tree of Knowledge; Speeches; Billet; The re-enactment; Free breakfast from a hotel; Waiting to rehearse; Women’s conference; Inside the theatre; the railway station; Dawn on the way home; May Day in Brisbane; Festival Fringe. 1992 : TLC May Day dinner. 1993 : Maleny, the Flames of Discontent. 1993 : African songs project; African songs concert in Sydney; a billet; box office; back stage; At the concert Solidarity Choir of Sydney; Voices from the Vacant Lot; Halt on the way back to Brisbane; Latin American songs project; Archbishop Tutu sings with the choir. 1994 : Mark Shortis; May Day; Stradbroke Island festival; the new banner; Jacinto Herrera; Christmas. 1995 : Palm Sunday; May Day; Opening the Queensland Women in War exhibition; Union Choir’s greatest hits.

Album 2
Colour photographs (180) from 1996 to 1997
1996 : Festival Hall election rally 27 February; Palm Sunday; Limestone Cabaret - in Ipswich, and Paddington; Emma Miller fundraiser; Commemorating the Ipswich Rail Workshops; Mark and Adrienne’s wedding; At rehearsal; New offices for Queensland Advocacy Inc. 1997: Australia Day Reconciliation Choir; Reconciliation Choir reunion and recording; Palm Sunday; May Day; Lord Mayor’s reception for Archbishop Napier; Anti-racism rally in Ipswich; Choirs to congress; welcome buffet; Conductors meet; Rehearsals – in the TLC Building; and at Culturebank; Concert at Culturebank; Concert in Ipswich; Women’s Reconciliation dinner; Soiree at Roger’s.

Album 3
Colour photographs (165), sizes vary, related to the performances of Fair Play Cabaret, 17 colour photographs of the Hiroshima Day performance, and 6 colour photographs of 'Rekindling', 2006.

Box 1
Folder 14
Photocopied photographs, one photograph each per A4 page; with handwritten notes identifying people. Undated.

Box 2
Items 26-28
Three CDs with digital photographs.

This series comprises 474 architectural drawings by Graeme Thiedeke from his time working as a student in the 1960s, to his work in Canada, Mexico, Malayasia, United Arab Emirates and Australia.

Handwritten personal diaries of Glenn Cooke covering the period 1980 to 2006.

Files of reports, newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera relating to advocacy activities and exhibitions.

Correspondence received from other writers, editors, friends, and others.

This series is comprised of forty-seven (47) files of correspondence from asylum seekers held in detention on Nauru by the Australian Government.