Photographs, typescript articles, correpondence, diaries, notes and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration and general life in Papua New Guinea. The collection was assembled by Dr Peter Cahill, from material donated by members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. Some slides of the Middle East, Australia, England and Ireland.
Bulk of papers from period 1930s-1950s.
Includes explanatory notes by Dr Peter Cahill.

Ephemera, badges, posters, drawings, newspaper cuttings scrapbook, and videorecordings relating to radical politics, labour movements, student demonstrations, and student activities, including some theatre productions.

Eight notebooks with mss notes and drafts of work later published (mostly in the Bulletin), eight historical essays and a history of the Upper Hunter region in New South Wales.

Manuscript, proof copies and correspondence related to Prof. Peter Wolfe's book Jean Rhys, published by Twayne Publishers in 1980.

Photographs, biographical notes, collected correspondence, poems, addresses, newspaper articles, and reports related to Edward Harold Fulcher Swain's career as a forester. Includes letters written by Harold Swain to Jules Tardent, and Jules and Myrle Tardent; typescript copies, made by Nancy Foote (daughter of Swain), of newspaper articles, correspondence, articles, and diary entries, by or relating to Swain are in this collection. Nancy Foote typed these from the originals in 1970 to 1971 and provided copies to 'Mr Tardent' (Jules Tardent). Jules Tardent and Swain worked in the forestry industry.

Research material relating histories of the Duckett White, the Macdonald, the Nicholson and the Morisset families.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and administrative records, newsletters and bulletins of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section (FAW(Q)), and some records of the Fellowship's Redcliffe branch and national and interstate bodies. Papers, typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and personal ephemera of FAW(Q) founding member Constance Gittins. Copies of bulletins produced by the Realist Writers' Group Brisbane.

Correspondence from asylum seekers detained on Nauru; files of reports, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to the asylum seekers; sewing projects created by the asylum seekers; paintings and relief sculptures created by Kate Durham.

Architectural plans and drawings from the firm of Cullen and Partners. Many of the drawings are for Roman Catholic churches and schools in the Brisbane area, also includes hotels, commercial buildings and residences in Queensland.

Copies of Hansard pages, political ephemera, newspaper cuttings, interview transcripts and other research material concerned with Vince Gair, and drafts of chapters from Brian Stevenson's PhD thesis on Gair.