Images documenting radical protest and street marches in Brisbane comprising: 542 negatives and 332 digital scans.

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53 posters from both Australia and overseas relating to peace, nuclear disarmament, women's rights and other social issues.

130 posters organised into the following series : (1) Harridan screen printer; (2) general; (3) United Nations Decade for Women; (4) Indigenous; (5) International Women's Day; (6) Women's awareness; (7) Rallies and conferences Australia; (8) Rape; (9) Women's health; (10) Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and inter-sex.

A collection of 241 political posters. Themes and causes represented include: world peace, anti-uranium mining, Aboriginal land rights/sacred sites, protection of the environment, disarmament (including many 'Hiroshima Day' posters), Greenpeace, FOE (Friends of the Earth), MAUM (Movement Against Uranium Mining), and the alignment of women's groups and churches with these causes. Also present are posters calling for attention to youth and disabled housing, Timorese refugees, prisoners of conscience, and women's rights.

Badges relating to issues and groups such as the Aboriginal land rights, abortion, anti-war movement, anti-nuclear movement and university fees.

Transcript of hearing relating to bashing of student during demonstation in Brisbane, 1977 (Folders 1 & 2) ;photographs of Right to March demonstrations, Brisbane, 1978 (Folder 3) ;papers relating to a political controversy about Sir Garfield Barwick's shares in Mundroola Pty. Ltd. (Folder 4). Material in Folder 4 originates from period 1978-1981 when Mark Plunkett was assistant private secretary to Bill Hayden (then Leader of the Opposition). Plunkett was asked to investigate the activities of Mundroola Pty. Ltd., the Barwick family company, of which Sir Garfield Barwick was a director, for possible conflicts of interest. Gareth Evans started action to impeach Barwick.

Material relating to the Brisbane Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) including : correspondence (incoming and outgoing); handouts; leaflets; notices of meetings; financial papers. Miscellaneous material of other state CND committees and Australian and overseas peace and disarmament groups including: constitution of CND; leaflets, newsletters. Records of the Council for Democracy in Schools and for the Brisbane Outlook group: monographs; periodicals; pamphlets; newsletters; financial records; correspondence; newspaper articles; photographs.

Newsletters and bulletins ; notes ; conference programs and papers ; pamphlets ; letters ; meetings minutes ; articles, posters, newspaper cuttings of Springbok tours ; other newspaper articles ; University of Queensland handbooks and programmes. Relating to socialist movement in University of Queensland, Vietnam war student protests, leftist political ideology, trade unionism.

Photographs and negatives taken by Jennifer Gow of street marches from the University of Queensland to King George Square; arrests of protestors; and gatherings outside the South Brisbane watch-house in 1977.
Includes photocopy of Gow's press pass for 1977-1978.

Circular badge showing three interlocking circles and sun ray with snake on edge of badge designed by Richard Tipping in 1982.