This transcription of the original item was compiled and annotated by Richard Fotheringham. There is a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. Footnote on first page: 'Two manuscript notes in different hands are written in the right margin at this point ... indicates that this was compiled c. 1902 (Thomas died Jan 1904).' These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

Typescript poem with handwritten title and date.

"Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, June 3, 1896." Note on cover: 'Information on the same subject from two other sources'.
Last page entitled 'Mika or Kulpi' includes extracts from 'Psychology of Sex' by Havelock Ellis (1917) and 'Strange Sexual Customs' by Professor Paulo Montegazza (1932).

Original Super8 film of protests by Aboriginal Australians before and during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Footage by Ian Curr and Lachlan Hurse. Accompanied by DVD copy.

Contents:
Section A
First rally, 3 Aug 1981
Tent Embassy King George Square; speaker Cheryl Buchanon

Section B
Roma Street Forum
Speakers include Phil Perrier, G Gen

Section C
March up Turbot Street
1982 Commonwealth Games sign
Kooris support Murris
Adelaide St March (silent)
Boomerang Tours Bus
Black control of Aboriginal affairs – Land rights ban
Abolish QLD Acts
Land Rights chanting and banners and people looking on in Adelaide Street
Sit down and bystanders
Adelaide and George Streets

Section D
Musgrave Park Tent City 1982 protests
Left arts
Preparing to march from Garden City, final instructions
Approach to Games site over freeway
Police blockade
QEII in distance
Confrontation with police
Sit down
Arrests begin
Land rights flags
Media, including Aboriginal film crew
Special branch

Section E
Roma Street Forum
Speakers include: Kay Saunders, Axe Fraser, N. Bonner, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (speech and poem) Mick Miller (TV and media focus created by marching), Cheryl Buchanon, Susan Ryan (ALP senator), Gary Foley.
March up Turbot Street (beginning)
John Tracy and child
March coming around

Handwritten history of Moongalba including hand drawn map with names of inhabitants (9 p.) -- "Grannies Moongalba history" list of Grannies of Moongalba -- 'Australian Aboriginal legend of the lightnings playground on Moreton Island (Moolgunfun) -- four handwritten partial pages -- one newspaper cutting from the Telegraph Feb 28 1936 on Sam Rollands -- two photographs of Paul Tripcony's grandmother Sydney Rollands (mother of Sam Rollands) -- photograph of Paul Tripcony aged about 22, inscribed to Dear Vince with best wishes from Paul -- photograph of Fernandez Gonzales and family showing dugong fillets -- photograph of early Amity.

Badge depicting tree of tears with text 'Stolen Generations commemorative badge, Sorry Day - 26th May'. In the 1990s the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission commenced an inquiry into the forced removal of the children. The Bringing Them Home report, tabled in Parliament on 26 May 1997, acknowledged the longstanding practice and the devastating impact that the removal policies had on children and their families. One of the key recommendations of the report was an official apology from the government. As part of the grassroots campaign calling for an apology, the first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998.

Letter from Queensland Office of Chief Protector of Aboriginals, Brisbane, to Miss O. Reeves listing Aboriginal tribal names in the Boulia district, dated 15 Apr 1937.

Personal recollections of life in north Queensland in 1930s.