Drafts, notes and research materials relating to Race Relations in Australia (Methuen, 1982).

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Documents, leaflets, newspaper cuttings and correspondence on various topics, subject files, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photographic material, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters.

People in the photographs include: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Ruth Wallace, Muriel Callofe [? Spelling], Joyce Lightning, C. Smith, M McBride, Sandra McGinness, Margaret Macdonald, Kerrie Davis, Gladys O’Shane, Lynette Macdonald, Margaret O’Shane, Doris Webb, Pat O’Shane, Janet Webb, Josie Dyer, and Marcia Langton.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.

Twenty one (21) glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison:

1. ‘Mattamundukka waterhole at the Lammermoor Homestead’, published in Bennett, Mary M., ‘Records’, Vol 1, p70
2. ‘Mattemundukka on Tower Hill Creek’
3. ‘Lammermoor Homestead’
4. ‘Royal Wilton Stud cows’
5. ‘My last muster’
6. ‘Robert Christison in 1857’
7. Notes of race on back of photograph of R Christison
8. ‘R Christison, 1912’
9. ‘R Christison, 1877’ [damaged]
10. ‘Tommy’, full portrait of a young child taken in 1898
11. ‘Tommy’, in European dress in garden taken in 1898
12. ‘Warmbunny’ taken in 1898
13. ‘Charley’, portrait taken in 1898
14. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
15. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
16. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1896
17. ‘Topsy’, portrait taken in 1898
18. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1898
19. ‘Ko Bro’ portrait taken in 1896
20. ‘Wyma’, portrait taken in 1898
21. ‘Ko Bro, Wyma and friends’.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource 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.

Collection reflects Mrs Tuxworth's interest in the local history of the Northern Territory. It includes: correspondence, personal papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reel to reel tape, and twenty three diaries of Banka Banka station from 1928 to 1961 (some years are missing)

Hilda Tuxworth obtained some of the Banka Banka diaries around the time Mary Ward was selling the property. This took from 1970 to 1972 when the sold the property. Mary Ward shared the diaries between her niece, Val Edwards, and Hilda. Banka Banka Station was established by Thomas Nugent as a cattle station in 1895. Nugent left the station to his sister, Mary Ambrose. The first diary from 1928 to 1931 would have been recorded during the ownership by the the Ambrose family. The Ambrose Family owned and ran the station until Paddy Ambrose put Banka Banka on the market in 1940. Ted and Mary Ward bought it in 1941. Capital from the Wards' Blue Moon Mine was used initially to purchase and then to undertake improvements and developments of the station. From 1945 weather details began to be recorded in the diaries. Ted Ward died on 17 March 1959. Mary Ward ran the station until 1970. In 1972 the land titles for the pastoral lease were transferred to Nelson Bunker-Hunt.

Material includes: Queensland Labor Womens's History Collection 1890-1900, Queensland Women's Service Collection, Federal Council for Reconciliation - first and second agenda papers 1991-1996, selected issue files (environment and social policy development) 1893-1999, Margaret Reynolds speech files and press release 1983-1999, correspondence with Queensland ministers.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Correspondence, subscription orders, photographs, index and reviews related to the journal The Aboriginal Child at School.

This collection is comprised of correspondence by Dick, Elsie and Lindsay Roughsey; the manuscripts of Dick Roughsey; the manuscripts of Percy Trezise; and 20 original artworks by Goobalathaldin (Dick Roughsey) and Percy Trezise, many of which were proposed illustrations for The rainbow serpent (1979). It includes some explanatory notes by Fedora Fisher.

A collection of 245 political posters. Themes and causes represented include: world peace, anti-uranium mining, Aboriginal land rights/sacred sites, protection of the environment, disarmament (including many 'Hiroshima Day' posters), Greenpeace, FOE (Friends of the Earth), MAUM (Movement Against Uranium Mining), and the alignment of women's groups and churches with these causes. Also present are posters calling for attention to youth and disabled housing, Timorese refugees, prisoners of conscience, and women's rights.