Minute books, letterbooks and some financial records of the Queensland Shearers' Union, Blackhall, the Queensland Labourers' Union, Barcaldine and Springsure, and the Amalgamated Workers' Union and Australian Workers' Union, Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville, including some records of the Australian Labor Federation, Barcaldine and the Workers' Political Organisation, Charleville and Warrego. AWU records of the 1956 shearers strike were microfilmed and then returned.

Queensland Shearers' Union: financial and membership records for Blackall, Hughenden and Longreach Branches; Queensland Labourers' Union: financial and membership records for Barcaldine, Hughenden, Longreach and Comet Branch, Springsure; Amalgamated Workers' Union/Australian Workers Union: financial and membership records for Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville; AWU Longreach correspondence and photographs; records of the Australian Labor Federation (Barcaldine), Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland (Longreach), the Australian Carriers' Union and the Australian Labour Party (Longreach 1922-1926), and records of the 1956 shearers' strike.