Karl Langer's parallel rolling ruler in timber box. Inscribed on the rule is: Flavelle Bros. & Roberts, Sydney & Brisbane. Possibly made between 1868 and 1891. The brass ruler features two rollers set into top and penetrating to underneath, double-edged rule, and a handle at either end. On the bottom of the lid "S.1" has been carved into the timber.

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs, compiled for ABSCHOL from March 1963 to July 1966.
Scrapbook includes pamphlets and postcards.

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Five page paper on the women's movement written by Biff Ward with the help of the Survivors - a Canberra Feminist Group. Presented at the Marxist Feminist Conference in Sydney in June 1977.

Black print on yellow paper, both sides. A folded flyer created by the Women's Liberation Group promoting its inaugural meeting to be held on the evening of Wednesday 14 January in an unspecified year at a location on Druitt Street, Sydney. It also contains information about women's struggles in society in general, some history of the formation of the Women's Liberation Group and a call for women to support the Vietnamese people caught up in the Vietnam War. Additionally, enclosed within the folded flyer is a small unfilled form inviting those interested in the Women's Liberation movement to enter their details and post it to the Women's Liberation Group in Balmain, Sydney.

Agenda for a Seminar on Aboriginal Rights held on 13 July 1968 at Ann Street, Brisbane. The seminar was convened and organised by the International Women's Day (IWD) Committee in honor of the United Nations Human Rights Year. Eva Bacon was the Honorary Secretary and the Chairman was Royce Perkins, past president of the Aboriginal Advancement Council. Opening remarks were given by Mrs. D. Webb (possibly Doris Webb), President of the IWD Committee. Speakers included Paul Abernethy, Director of Abschol; Fred Bromley, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly; Manfred Cross, member of the Australian House of Representatives; L.G. McBride, President of the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines; Kath Walker, poet and Secretary of the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines; and Alex Macdonald, Secretary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council.

VHS video cassette, colour footage with sound, 18 minutes, of a documentary titled 'MUA picket - Brisbane - April 1998'. Features footage from the Australian waterfront dispute involving the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Patrick Corporation at the Port of Brisbane in 1998. Scenes of people, presumably MUA members, singing and chanting, accompanied by music by Canto Coro and Jumping Fences, taken at Camp Solidarity on 27 April 1998, are interspliced with scenes of interviews conducted at Camp Unity on 21 April 1998. Interviewees include Jeff Langdon, one of the organisers for MUA's southern Queensland branch at the time, and Greg Spilsbury, credited as an environmental consultant. End credits list Spontaneous Productions as producer, Justo Diaz as director and Russell (Russ) Hermann as editor.

Photocopied typescript. Three acts. Last leaf contains author's notes. Possibly from the 1970s to 1980s.

Photocopied typescript. One act. Last leaf contains author's note about portrayal of the characters. Undated. Possibly written in the 1970s.

Personal recount of the first recorded contacts between white European explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Captain James Cook, with Aboriginal Australians in an area referred to as Boonjie, possibly located on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. Original typescript.