On 10 May 1985 the University of Queensland awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws to Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. Up to 5000 UQ students, UQ staff, trade unionists and other outraged citizens attended the protest outside Mayne Hall, St Lucia, where the award ceremony was to take place. Although the ceremony proceeded, the Premier did not attend.

6 letters, 1 entrée card, and 1 photograph, relating to the University of Queensland graduation ceremony on 10 May 1985 where then-Queensland Premier Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was awarded an honorary degree.

Press cuttings, typescript articles, reports, pamphlets, periodicals. 10 boxes contain material relating to the development of self-government in Papua New Guinea. 3 boxes contain material relating to left-wing politics and the student protest movement in Brisbane in the early 1970's.

Documents on student unrest and protest at the University of Queensland from 1964 to 1978. Includes newsletters, correspondence, programs of events, periodicals, pamphlets, handouts and flyers.

Notes, newspaper cuttings and a work diary pertaining to Feilding Chippendale's work as a horticulturalist on the University of Queensland's St. Lucia campus in the late 1930s. Also photographs of University of Queensland students (mainly in the Botany, Argriculture and Entomology Departments) on field excursions.

Reports, minutes, correspendence, plans, newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the history of the University of Queensland, its colleges, clubs and staff association. Includes series on the planning and development of the St Lucia campus in the 1940s and 50s, the university's sporting clubs and competitions, the UQ War Memorial Committee, the Co-ordinating Committee for Overseas Students and FW Robinson's guide to the University, published in 1957.

Articles, correspondence, manuscripts, radio scripts, note books, newspaper clippings, records of the Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade, the Workers' Educational Association and the University of Queensland Senate.