The deposit consists of minutes of the NSW Institute of Journalists, AJA NSW Branch committee and sub-committees, Federal Executive and Branches (duplicates only), correspondence, arbitration case files, transcripts and research material, financial material, membership records, photographs, serials and printed material.

Items related to pre-doctoral research undertaken by Jim Specht at ANU, including correspondence, materials relating to the Department of Prehistory, materials relating to fieldwork including diaries, reports, data sheets, photographs, negatives, and slides.

Minutes, correspondence, newsletters and other material from the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and its predecessors.

Bound carbon copies of letters, general subject files including arbitration and industrial records. Includes records of the High Council of Public Service Organisations re minutes, annual reports, superannuation files.

Federal Executive, Sydney Office subject files (a continuation of deposits A12/2/ 1-283B and E228/ 1-425), copies of outletters and circulars, transcripts of court proceedings. Incudes subject files of Federal Executive Industrial Officer, Melbourne (a continuation of deposit E229/ 1-37).

Largely consists of material on HIV/AIDS in the Asia/Pacific region. Also contains materials on other health and governmental issues. See box list for more details.

Files on the affairs of the NSW Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation, notably green bans and Federal intervention; records of the Builders' Labourers for Democratic Control; personal correspondence, notes and diaries, drafts of an unfinished history of the Branch; papers relating to the Darling Harbour Construction Project; papers collected by Abe David; photographs, pamphlets, leaflets, posters and serials.

All types of company records including memorandum and articles of association, financial records, correspondence, branch and conference reports, legal documents, staff records, annual wool reviews, clients' private account books, ledgers and journals, newspaper cuttings, registers and share materials.

Minutes of meetings - Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union, 1889-1922, WWF Sydney Branch, 1922-1991, Federal Council, 1944-1964, Federal Committee of Management, 1942-1954, Sydney Port Committee, 1991-1993, Stop Work meetings, 1944-1992; Disciplinary Committee minutes and other papers, 1910-1990; Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority files, 1942-1978; membership records, 1891-1952; letter books, 1902-1916; subject/correspondence files, 1917-1992; arbitration material, 1902-1992; elections, 1930-1987; Ron Maxwell’s papers, 1952-1972; conference minutes and reports, 1914-1965; WWF rules and awards, 1890-1991; other unions’ rule books and membership cards, 1910-1957; photographs, 1880s-1960s, 1994; ephemera, 1992, audiovisual material, 1992; clubs’, groups’ and committees’ files, printed material, newspapers and journals. Includes, also, records of the Sydney Mechanical Branch, 1950-1983.