Letters sent and received by the Women's Abortion Campaign (WAC). The letters include information on public meetings, demonstrations, conferences and other events in which WAC was involved, as well as lobbying efforts and activities. Some outward correspondence appears to be drafts or different versions of the same letters. This series also includes statements of support for various WAC initiatives, invitations sent and received by WAC to participate in activities and events, and a notebook with a handwritten record tracking incoming and outgoing correspondence.

Box 1
Item 2
Unbound yellow notebook titled 'WAC correspondence', with a handwritten record of correspondence, both sent and received by WAC, for 1993 to 1995.

Folder 4
Inward correspondence, 1978 to 1990
15 letters and mail-outs, 14 typed and one handwritten. Some of the senders include the Minister for Health; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Brisbane Women's Health Centre; Transport Workers' Union of Australia; Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association; Queensland Railway Employees Union; The Senate; Bryant Burns; Women's Abortion Action Campaign; and Union of Australian Women.

Folder 5
Inward correspondence, 1991
29 letters and mail-outs, most typed, some handwritten, as well as eight statements of support from various organisations for an August 1991 rally organised by WAC. Some of the senders include the Children by Choice Association; Right to Life Australia; Electoral and Administrative Review Commission; Brisbane City Council; University of Queensland Academic Staff Association; Tweed Heads and District Hospital; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Queensland Police Service; Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees' Association; Union of Australian Women; Queensland Health; Peter Beattie, Molly Robson and Kenneth Victor McElligott, Legislative Assembly Queensland; Treasurer of Queensland; Minister for Employment, Training and Industrial Relations; Minister for Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, Minister Responsible for Ethnic Affairs; Minister for Land Management; Minister for Justice and Corrective Services; Minister for Health; Dean Wells, Attorney-General of Queensland; Office of the Premier of Queensland; Margaret Kirkby, Women's Abortion Action Campaign; and Minister for Environment and Heritage, among others.

Folder 6
Inward correspondence, 1992
Three cards, and 83 letters and mail-outs, some typescript, some handwritten. Some of the senders include the National Organization for Women, Inc; Office of the Premier of Queensland; Children by Choice Association; Australian Federation of University Women Queensland; Domestic Violence Resource Centre; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Family Planning Association of Queensland; Labor Women's Organisation; Minister for Health; Women Lawyer's Association of Queensland; Peter Beattie, Michael Veivers; Lawrence Springborg, Tony McGrady and Russell Cooper, Legislative Assembly Queensland; Brisbane City Council; Deputy Premier Queensland; Office of the Lord Mayor Brisbane; Attorney-General of Queensland; Public Sector Union; Planned Parenthood; Women's Abortion Action Campaign; Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Women's Services Department; Margaret Reynolds; Women's Health Centre; Queensland Teachers' Union; Queensland Association for Gay and Lesbian Rights, Inc; Rockhampton Trades and Labour Council; University of Queensland Academic Staff Association; Queensland Police Union of Employees; The Senate; and the Queensland Women's Consultative Council, among others. Also includes a letter from the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission inviting WAC to present at a public hearing in November 1992 in Brisbane, accompanied by additional information about the hearing, as well as the transcript of the hearing. Also includes ten copies of a joint letter to the Editor of The Courier Mail authored by WAC and signed by numerous organisations, including the Brisbane Rape Crisis Centre, Tableland Women's Centre, Union of Australian Women, Women's Electoral Lobby Brisbane, Children by Choice Association, Young Parents Program, among others.

Folder 7
Inward correspondence, 1993
One card, and 68 letters and mail-outs, some typescript, some handwritten. Some of the senders include the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Carolyn Mason, Office of the Cabinet of Queensland; Minister for Health; Women's Health Centre Brisbane; Women's Legal Service; Marjorie Gray; Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union; Queensland Health; Abortion Rights Network of Australia; Children by Choice Association; Queensland Teachers' Union; Women's Electoral Lobby; Australian Labour Day Celebrations Committee; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Queensland Women's Consultative Council; Dale Spender, Quentin Bryce and Margaret Reynolds; QUT Student Guild; Women's Abortion Action Campaign; Minister for Justice; Peter Beattie and various other members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; Office of the Premier of Queensland; Women's Electoral Lobby; Women's Legal Service; Law Reform Commission Australia; Minister for Police and Emergency Services; and Australian Medical Association, among others.

Folder 8
Inward correspondence, 1994 to 1998
One card, and 31 letters and mail-outs, some typescript, some handwritten. Some of the senders include Margaret Reynolds; Queensland Association of Independent Legal Services; Queensland Right to Life; Australian Labour Day Celebrations Committee; Children by Choice Association; Office of the Premier of Queensland; Women's Legal Service; The Senate; Women's Legal Service; Coalition of Women for a Realistic Criminal Code; Peter Beattie; Working Party Towards a Peak Women's Organisation; Women's Abortion Action Campaign; and the Association for the Legal Right to Abortion (W.A.), Incorporated, among others.

Folder 9
Outward correspondence, 1979 to 1980, 1986, 1989
Seven letters and mail-outs, six typescript, one handwritten. Some of the addressees include the Australian Council of Trade Unions; Women's Legal Service; Premier of Queensland; and WAC supporters, among others.

Folder 10
Outward correspondence, 1991
31 letters and mail-outs, most typescript, some handwritten. Some of the addressees include Ken McElligott, Minister for Health; Brisbane City Hall; Susan Hocking; Brisbane City Council; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Commissioner of Police; Jeni Eastwood; Brisbane Women's Health Centre; Children by Choice Association; Dean Wells, Attorney-General; members of the Queensland Criminal Code Review Committee; Queensland Council for Civil Liberties; Griffith University Watchdog Committee; and WAC supporters, among others.

Folder 11
Outward correspondence, 1992
57 letters and mail-outs, most typescript, some handwritten. Some of the addressees include the Women's Health Centre; Queensland Association of Independent Legal Services; Ken Hayward, Minister for Health; Children by Choice Association; Renate Klein and Jocelynne Scutt; Janet Ramsay, Women's Health Policy Unit, Queensland Health; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Brisbane City Council; National Organization for Women, United States; Commissioner of Police; Brisbane City Hall; International Socialists; Helen Kerr, University of Queensland Health Service; Women's Abortion Action Campaign; QUT Student Guild; Editor of Refractory Girl; Editor of Healthright; Editor of Australian Modern Times; Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of New South Wales; Carolyn Mason, Office of the Cabinet of Queensland; Wendy Harmer; Kaz Cooke; Dale Spender, Women's Consultative Council; Office of the Status of Women, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; and WAC supporters, among others. Also includes an application for funding support from the Search Foundation.

Folder 12
Outward correspondence, 1993
40 letters and mail-outs, most typescript, some handwritten. Some of the addressees include Dean Wells, Minister for Justice and Attorney-General; Kaz Cooke; Australian Services Union, Union of Australian Women and other unions; Janet Ramsay, Women's Health Policy Unit, Queensland Health; Abortion Rights Network of Australia; Children by Choice Association; Parliament House Brisbane; various members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; Women's Legal Service; Australian Labour Day Celebrations Committee; Women's Electoral Lobby; Women's Consultative Council; the Search Foundation; Wayne Goss, Premier of Queensland; Trades and Labor Council of Queensland; Australian Law Reform Commission; Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital; and WAC supporters, among others.

Folder 13
Outward correspondence, 1994 to 1996
Eight letters and mail-outs, typescript. Some of the addressees include Anne Warner and various other members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; Wayne Goss, Premier of Queensland; and WAC supporters, among others.