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MS 8541 comprises material accumulated by Mary Sexton relating to women's issues and organisations including: banner inscribed "WEL National Agenda for Women", 1986?; two badges inscribed "Women are on the move" produced by the International Year for Women Secretariat, 1975, and badge inscribed "Unions are for women too"; three T-shirts inscribed with "A woman's place is in the Senate", "WEL" and "Call me Ms"; handkerchiefs produced for the 1980 United Nations Mid-decade Conference for Women held in Copenhagen; Pamela Denoon memorial lectures, 1989-2005, and flyers; biographical material on Pamela Denoon, 1988-1995; and, banner containing badges (1 box, 2 fol. boxes).

MS 9140 comprises press clippings, subject files, diaries, notebooks, correspondence, articles, drafts of books, conference papers, submissions and publications on issues such as equal pay for women, employment conditions, child care, abortion and trade union matters. People, organisations and events mentioned include: Anne Conlon, Wendy Fatin, Wendy McCarthy, Mary Owen, Pat Richardson, Mum Shirl, Gough Whitlam, Women's Electoral Lobby, Australian Labor Party, National Foundation of Australian Women, Women's Trade Union Commission, International Women's Year Conference (1975) and National Women's Conference (1990) (43 boxes).

The papers in this collection represent a comprehensive record of the two main areas in which Pittock has had a long-term involvement: climate change and Indigenous affairs.

This collection comprises instalments that contain medical patrol reports from Papua New Guinea and research papers and correspondence on the Mount Lamington eruption, Australian prisoners of war who died on board the Montevideo Maru and other topics connected with the war in the Pacific and Papua New Guinea in general. There are also research notes for Gordon Thomas's publication 'Prisoners in Rabaul: civilians in captivity', personal correspondence, and papers relating to Speer's wartime service and overseas travel.

The collection comprises original letters from Charlotte Louise Knight Gregson (nee Hughes) to her family of Middleton Hall, Northumberland, England after she emigrated to Australia in 1876 aged 26. Included are sketches, water colours, shipping documents, school reports and photographs. The letters detail her farming life in Harden, with comments on colonial life including the shearers' strike, suffragettes, 1890s banking crashes and bushfires. There is also mention of men going off to World War I, railway-building, the establishment of Canberra as the capital, and a relative who was part of Mawson's expedititon. Also included are letters from Frank Hughes (Charlotte Louise's brother) to his family, photographs of George Charles Knight Gregson and Frank Hughes, and a death notice and obituary of Stanly Hughes (Frank Hughes's son).

MS 4846 consists largely of the State Secretary's files of correspondence with the A.L.P. Branches in Victoria, the Federal Executive, state and federal parliamentarians, trade unions leaders, publishers, and the public. Included is the personal file of correspondence kept by the A.L.P.'s General Secretary, P.J. Kennelly. The remainder comprises circulars, committee agenda and papers; records of the Victorian Central Executive including roneoed copies of minutes, nomination forms, balance sheets and membership lists, and printed items. Also (1943-1954) Branch records removed when the Party split in 1955. The contents, in the same categories as those listed above, complement this material.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings (1936-1954), mainly reviews of Eleanor Dark's novels, and letters (1923-1974) from a number of the prominent Australian literary figures of the period. The correspondents include Manning Clark, Kate Baker, Jean Devaney, Flora Eldershaw, Mary Gilmore, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Eric Lowe, Marjorie Barnard, Ethel Turner, Xavier Herbert, Frank Dalby Davison, Brian Fitzpatrick, Alec Chisholm, Kylie Tennant, Meta Mackan, Ruth Park, Ethel Curlewis, C.B. Christesen.

This collection comprises research papers (a scrap book and correspondence), as well as personal papers, writing, notes, publication materials, and copies of Marjorie Skill's biography of Nellie Stewart, titled Sweet Nell of old Sydney, which was published by Urania Publishing Co. in 1974.

The papers consist of correspondence, reports, plans, specifications, and newspaper-cutting books, photograph albums, official publications and issues of journals. They document Bunning's early work as an architectural writer, records of the architectural firm of Bunning and Madden (1945 and 1976) and papers relating to the official inquiries on planning matters that Bunning undertook in the last ten years of his life. Of special interest are the papers relating to the design and construction of the National Library building, which Bunning regarded as his greatest achievement.

The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, opinion books, newspaper cuttings, notes, photographs and printed material.