Typescript and handwritten drafts poems from Tropical skiing, Stalin's holidays, The stunned mullet, Thin ice and other poems, and Collected poems 1970-1998, as well as drafts of other uncollected and unpublished poems; drafts of reviews of art and poetry; drafts of theses and essays; lecture notes; personal and literary correspondence; copies of publications including work by Forbes; work by other poets sent to Forbes for publication or comment.

Three diaries written by Allan Nash from 1909 to 1915. Diary of 1909 and first part of 1914, records Allan Nash's daily life as a teacher and working on the farm in Gympie, Queensland. Diary of 1914 (second part) records Allan Nash's enlistment and training with 2nd Australian Light Horse, and their departure from Brisbane and landing in Egypt. Diary of 1915 records their deployment from Egypt to Gallipoli, landing there on 12 May 1915, and events at Gallipoli up till Allan Nash's death on 29 June 1915. This diary includes a few personal papers, and card from Mrs A W Nash of thanks for sympathy in loss of Major Allan Nash.

Research notes, manuscripts, correspondence relating to novels Blood Red, Sister Rose and Gossip from the Forest.

Diary and autobiography written by Edward Alfred Huybers, Tasma's brother.

The collection reflects not only the emergence of the central organising body of the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, achieved in 1947, but the often radical and pioneering nature of the Queensland labour movement itself. This is especially to be seen in documents relating to the 1890s shearers' strikes, the Cosme Settlement, the 1912 tramway strike, the 1946/48 strikes and those of the 1960s. Includes minutes (1922-1984), reports, agenda and decisions, financial records, correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Papers relate to : industrial disputes, Cosme colony, the Eight Hour Day Movement, Communist Party of Australia (Queensland) and Australian Labor Party, Workers' Educational Association, Australian Labor Day Committee, Queensland Industrial Court, Trade Union congresses, and Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Includes issues of The Organiser (1937-1939) and Cosme Monthly (1894-1904).

Contains clippings from the Brisbane Telegraph's daily reports of te strike and leading articles from other newspapers.

Papers primarily concern Russian-Australian relations, 1803-1946, and cover initial Russian contacts with Australian colonists in the nineteeenth century, consular/diplomatic relations, involvement of Russian political radicals in Queensland politics before and after World War 1, formation of the Communist Party of Australia, and Russian immigration to Australia. Includes copies of official documents from Russian, Finnish, British and Australian archives; journal articles, early Russian-language newspapers, memoirs, travel accounts, private correspondence, drafts of published works, photographs. Documents are in Russian and English.

This series is comprised VHS videos, and digital video and audio recordings.

Box 1
Item 1
Gung Ho to Paradise : a community theatre pageant (copyright ACTU Queensland Branch), VHS.

Item 2
Choirs to Congress 1997, VHS.

Box 2
Folder 8
USB with 10 videos of Combined Union Choir performances, 2018 to 2023. Printout of text file listing the videos is in the folder with the USB.

Items 1-7
Seven audiocassettes of recordings of the Combined Unions Choir.

Items 8-21
Fourteen 3.5-inch computer microdisks (floppy disks) containing files possibly relating to interviews with people associated with the Combined Unions Choir.

Item 21
Combined Unions Choir at Mad Ass Folk Club, CD-R, undated.

Item 22
Gung Ho to Paradise, on DVD-R [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Items 23-24
Choirs to Congress, 1997, on two DVD-R discs [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Item 25
Union Choir movies, undated on CD-RW.

This series is comprised of records relating to performances including: administrative records, sheet music, schedules, and song lyrics.

Box 1
Folder 1
Marco Shortez. ‘The CUC Inchoiry (working title)’, photocopied, includes score, (removed from plastic folder), 1995?

Folder 2
List of known CUC performances, 2006.
Photocopy of pages from Combined Unions Choir Tenth Anniversary Song Book , 1998.
Newspaper cuttings and articles about the Choir’s history.

Folder 3
Song book, Title unknown (Missing Cover), Forest Lodge: Newsletter Printery, undated.
Working Class and National Songs, photocopied, unknown publication details, undated.

Folders 4-13
Ephemera, articles, photocopies of photographs, Choir notices and information, musical event flyers, folk festival brochures and flyers (including Maleny Folk Festival), sheet music. 1988 to 1997.

Box 2
Folder 1
Song lyrics and planning documents for the recording an audio recording. Printed out from CD-ROM which is also in the folder.

Folder 2
Sheet music and report on the performance of Dust in 2015. Printed out from USB which is also in the folder.

Folder 3
Sheet music, programme, performance notes for the Combined Unions Choir River Works performance. undated.

Folders 4-5
Draft script, booking form, evaluation report, sheet music, travel information for the tour for the Fair Play Cabaret, 2006.

Folder 6
Rehearsal schedule, sheet music, flyers and articles about the Dust, 2013.

Folder 7
Flyers, sheet music, recording script relating to Under the cover of covid, 2021.