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The ephemera collection contains documents of The Shadow Ministry. These may include: Shadow Ministry management groups, members and senators.

Material in the Programs and invitations ephemera collection of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York visit includes official and state concert programs, ceremony, dinner, and Parliament opening invitations, souvenirs, train timetable, reports from the Royal Celebration Committee, and entry cards to railway stations, parks, and museums.

Material in the trade catalogues ephemera collection covers significant information on Australian companies, businesses, industries, manufacturers, retailers and trades, describing their services and products. This promotional literature includes catalogues, advertisements, announcements, brochures, calendars, cards, coupons, directories, flyers, handbills, labels, notices, novelty advertising, pamphlets, price lists, tokens.

Papers of Hallam, 2nd Baron Tennyson; his wife Audrey Georgina Florence, Lady Tennyson; Alfred Aubrey Tennyson, 2nd son of Hallam; Zacyntha Boyle, mother of Lady Tennyson; and miscellaneous papers. The papers consist of diaries, commissions, secret despatches, family correspondence, correspondence relating to administration and defence, telegrams, drafts of speeches, accounts, newspaper cuttings, invitations, photographs and passports.

The papers of MS 8869 are divided into two parts: 1. Papers of Bern Brent's parents, Helene and Otto Bernstein, include early family papers; poems by Otto Bernstein; papers relating to childhood; imprisonment in Siberia and escape, World War I; Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, World War II.2. Papers of Bern Brent include family correspondence 1920s-1960s (some of which is in German), particularly during World War II when family members were separated in Australia, United Kingdom, Germany and the United States; papers relating to the voyage on the 'Dunera', 1940; papers relating to the Hay and Tatura Internment Camps, Australia, including poems, diary, sketches, correspondence, publications; teaching materials and research documenting the direct method of teaching English to migrants in Australia, and teaching methods in Europe and Southeast Asia; publications by Brent including articles, book reviews and his book My Berlin suitcase: memories of a childhood (9 boxes, 1 fol. item).

A collection of postcards issues by the Vanuatu National Cultural Council in 2017 to promote the preservation of oral traditions and stories in a series of books for children titled 'Nabanga Pikinini: A Collection of Vanuatu Custom Stories Adapted for Children.'. Illustrations by Vanuatu artists Joseph John, and David Tovovur.

The National Folk Festival was first held in Melbourne in 1967, and was initiated by The Victorian Folk Music Club, The Monash Traditional Music Society, the Burwood Teachers Folk Club and performers Martin Wyndham Reed and Glen Tomasetti. From 1969 until 1991 the festival traveled interstate each year, and was hosted at least once in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Fremantle, Alice Springs, Perth, Kurunda and Maleny. The increasing size of the festival made it harder for the hosting states to organise the festival every year, so since 1992 the festival has been held each year in Canberra, with a 'feature state' on the program - providing increased performance opportunities for artists from that state. The Festival takes place at Exhibition Park in Canberra, and is held from Easter Thursday - Easter Monday.

Records of the Youth Affairs Council of Australia (YACA) and its predecessor, the National Youth Council of Australia (NYCA).

The Nimrod Theatre Company, also known simply as The Nimrod, was an Australian theatre company in Sydney, New South Wales. It was founded by in 1970 by Australian actors John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler, and produced "good new Australian drama". The Company was originally located in Nimrod Street, Kings Cross, in a building which is now home to Griffin Theatre Company. The company moved in 1974 to Belvoir Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, but retained its original name. From 1981-1988 it also played in the Seymour Centre theatres, but ceased operations in 1988. Subsequently, the Surry Hills venue became known as the Belvoir St Theatre.

In 1956, the Australian Opera Company was formed in Sydney under the auspices of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. By 1957, it changed its name to the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera Company, and in 1970, the company became known as The Australian Opera. In 1996 Opera Australia was formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera (VSO) companies. [Please refer to the separate PROMPT files access material relating to each iteration of the organisation under its different name: Australian Opera Company, 1956-57; Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera Company, 1957-70; the Australian Opera, 1970-96; Opera Australia, 1996 onwards]