Material related to the Gibson family, founders of Gibson & Howes, one of the sugar companies that subsequently formed 'Bundaberg Sugar', and material related to the life and interests of Brenda Gibson Martin, a member of that family.

23 blueprints and drawings. Includes plans for wool washing machines and drying machines. Some plans are for alterations.

Consignment books, sales journals, ledgers, cash books, receipt books, wages/salaries books, insurance registers, day books, petty cash books. Mine record books, agenda books and minutes. Note books from the Blackheath Colliery, Bonnie Dundee Coal Company, Harts Aberdare Collieries Ltd., Caledonian Collieries, Edward S. Cornwall Colliery and Rothwell Haigh Colliery. Maps and plans of above collieries and geological and topographical survey maps.

Typescript novels, short stories, published articles, playscripts; notes and outlines for stories, plays and articles; diaries, photographs, correspondence (including letters to his wife Anne Moloney), newspaper cuttings, books on film and writing.

Correspondence, manuscripts, journals, publications.

Research material (including notes and photocopied archival material) and correspondence relating to Deebing Creek and Purga Aboriginal Missions. Includes transcripts of interviews, photocopies of Queensland Department of Public Instruction records, material for history thesis, and files of Deebing Creek Cultural Committee relating to the Committee's efforts to have part of original Deebing Creek Mission made an Aboriginal reserve. Also includes letters from Frances Wright, and maps. Much of the material was used for Bill Thorpe's book, 'Remembering the forgotten : a history of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland 1887-1915'. Includes typescript and CD copies of Thorpe's thesis, 'Archibald Meston and the Aborigines'.

Personal papers. Correspondence and other papers relating to his parliamentary life, Australian Labor Party, election campaigns, work with Australia-China Council. Conference reports, brochures and publicity material relating to the international peace movement of 1940's and later. Personal correspondence, diaries and press clippings relating to his overseas tours. Biographical files including details of the Lenin Peace Prize award in 1961. Associations: Australian Railways Union, Workers' Political Organisation, Australian Labor Party, Australian Peace Council, World Council of Peace, Australian Assembly for Peace. Correspondents include: Lady (Jessie) Street. Large collection of photographs, including many of representatives at world conferences for peace and disarmament.

Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

3 volumes of newspaper clippings, theatre programmes, photographs, fliers, relating to theatrical career of Barbara Stellmach.

Draft manuscripts, autobiography, correspondence, Tatura Camp programmes, postcards, oral interview. The initial contact with the donor was through Dr Gunther Bonnin who was studying the speech patterns of German-born migrants in the Darling Downs region. Goener's writing reveals his Saxon origin, and lack of education in written English. He writes fluently, but his spelling and speech patterns are reproduced by ear. He refers by name to a number of German migrant families.