The collection comprises personal and official correspondence, diaries and notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, speeches, press releases, articles, newspaper cuttings, reports, ministerial briefing notes, cabinet documents and other papers relating to Uren's career in politics, and the Ministerial portfolios of Urban and Regional Development, Territories and Local Government, and Local Government and Administrative Services. The papers also contain a large number of files on uranium as well as papers on energy and industry, the environment, and the Australian Labor Party.