Includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing, public speeches, letters to the press, election campaign material, press clippings; also material relating to Wilfred Adams Russell, chiefly biographical clippings, and election campaign material. A major correspondent was Colin R. Chapman, P.R. and Research Consultant, who was active in Charles Wilfred Russell's election campaigns, and also in the interests of the Australian Democratic Union, Basic Industries Group, Australian Growers' Wool Marketing Committee, and other pastoral and political groups. The collection includes some bulletins and handout material issued by such groups. Also papers relating to history of Jimbour House, and the Bell family.

Correspondence, personal papers, ephemera. Political publications, video and letters related to the 2001 Ryan by-election. Papers relating to Australian theatre productions, 1970s-1980s: includes photocopied newspaper clippings, sound cassettes, and slides. Also reports of Popular Theatre Troupe, Brisbane, 1976-1978.