Records relating to the proposal for an Undergraduate Medical School at the Australian National University and of a National Institute of the History of Medicine; papers relating to an adjudication by Dr F B Smith in reference to Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834–1920 [published by Croom Helm Ltd, 1984].

This material was collected by F D Mercer and includes business records, correspondence, memoranda, mortgages and bills of sales, notes and printed material about shipping based in Albany, Western Australia and the Albany fruit export trade.

Copy of the diary of R McGregor Watson re settlement of the Gulf Country, 1873; and Charles Edward Flinders, 45 Years in the Great Nor-West of Western Australia, 1933.

A collection of transcripts of minutes related to the Inquiry into Trade in Wool 1958–1959 and the Wool Marketing Committee of Inquiry 1961.

Subject files relating to issues investigated as Economic Consultant to the Federal Government, 1973- 1976.

Papers relating to the 1982 Gas Price Arbitration Case between Alliance Petroleum Australia & Others (Producers) and the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL). Professor Gruen served as a special arbitrator on the case with Mr R L Hunter QC and the broad issues of the case include the terms of operation of the 1971 Agreement ( with amendments) between the parties, and the question of the Producers' entitlement to an adjustment in price 'on the basis of the changed value of the subject sales gas'. The papers include transcripts of proceedings, exhibits and submissions, reports, agreements and printed material.

Material relating to the 1986 Review of the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act (1975), including the final report (March 1986), draft reports, submissions, printed material and miscellaneous working papers.
In February 1986 Senator Button (then Minister for Industry, Technology & Commerce) requested Professor Gruen, as as an economic advisor to the Federal Government, to conduct a review of the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975. Gruen's brief was to examine the Act and its administration in order to determine the need for improvements and suggest appropriate changes. Professor Gruen was also instructed to examine the merits of the inclusion of a National Interest Clause into the Act.

Material related to the 1984 Panel of Review of the proposed Income and Assets Test comprising documents circulated to panel members, miscellaneous working papers and printed material, some with annotations. Professor Gruen served as chairman for the Panel of Review. It also contains a Transcript of Evidence (Draft) and Submissions made to the Panel's supervising body, The Senate Standing Committee.

Microfilm of the Minute Book of the Factory Employees' Union of Australasia containing records of the Union from Dec 1909 until Jan 1911, general notices to members, newspaper cuttings, together with photographs and obituary notices referring to the General Secretary, Alfred Walter Carter.

Minutes of Federal Council (1972-1987) and sub-committees, annual reports, financial records, files of Executive Director Wendy McCarthy, office and research files, posters, educational videos and printed material. Includes material relating to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) education programs, videotapes on family planning and sexually-transmitted diseases targeted at Pacific Island cultures, and video recordings of Pacific women.

Minutes of the board, minutes of commitee of reference, memorandums and articles of association, subject and staff files, annual reports, property reports, financial records, year books and staff newsletters, tapes of AGM, and records of company predecessors: Grazcos Co-op Ltd, Graziers Co-op Shearing Co Ltd, Farmers and Graziers Co-op Ltd, Farmers and Settler's Co-op Grain Company Ltd. Also includes share register of Ray Bladwell & Co Ltd.

The deposit consists of minutes of the association's inaugural meeting, minutes of annual general meetings and committee meetings, executive reports and financial records. Subject files in the deposit consist of correspondence, press clippings and releases, constitution and incorporation records, statistical records, salaries, and industry matters re vehicle standards, fuel consumption, taxation and the motor cycle industry. Includes records of predecessor the Federal Council of the Chamber of Automotive Industries.

Printed material relating to the 1975 Federal election including newsletters, leaflets, press releases, speeches, how-to-vote cards, cartoons, and posters from the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal and National Country Party, the Socialist Workers' League, the Australia Party and other organisations.

Membership and financial records. Includes records of predecessor the Victorian Agricultural Implement and Machine Makers Society.

Correspondence files including files on conditions of employment and case files.

Correspondence and subject files including constitution, Executive minutes (1964-1993), committee minutes, case files, and files on conditions of employment.

Minutes of the Brickmakers and Clayworkers Employees' Union (1901-1929), the Federal Council of the Federated Brick, Tile and Pottery Workers' Union (1912-1925), the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Brick, Tile and Pottery Workers' Union (1926-1973) and of the Northumberland and Lithgow Branches, files relating to yards and employers, award files, photographs and printed material.

Agenda papers, minutes and reports of federal executive meetings and conferences, office files, arbitration records and transcripts re Tax Officers Case (1960s), press cuttings, historical material and publications.

Minute books, constitution and rules, subject and industrial files, correspondence, factories correspondence, membership and financial records, wages books, publications, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and photographs. Includes minutes of NSW Confectioners' Society and NSW Journeymen Confectioners' Union, and records of successor the Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia.

Minutes (1909-1925), rules, financial records, and subscription books (1917-1953). Includes Tasmanian Branch ledger and subscription book (1920-1952).

Minutes (1886-1896, 1909-1957), correspondence, financial records, records relating to 1919 Tooth's strike, and membership records (1937-1950, some earlier).

Minutes of NSW Branch (1965-1976) and federal conferences (1928-1966), certificate of registration for Journeymen Coopers' Society of NSW, awards, rules and badges.

Minutes of Queensland Branch (1912-1956), rules, financial records and correspondence.

Minutes of South Australian Branch (1939-1961), correspondence, membership register (1921-1935), financial records and printed material.

Minutes of Victorian Society of Coopers and Victorian Branch of Federated Coopers of Australia (1880-1949), reports of conferences, correspondence files of Federal Secretary, rules, membership records, financial records of Victorian and other branches, arbitration material, and printed material.

Financial records and membership address books of the Victorian Society of Coopers and the Victorian Branch of the Federated Coopers of Australia.

Minutes of the Zeehan Branch of the Amalgamated Engine Drivers' Association of Tasmania (1905-1910) and of the Tasmanian Branch (1918, 1930-1931), cash book of United Certificated Engine Drivers' Association of Victoria (1886-1910), newspaper cuttings on Mount Lyell strike (1910-1912), arbitration transcripts and rule books.

Minutes of Annual Conference, Federal Council and Executive Committee (1907-1986), copies of Victorian Branch (1958-1963) and Coast District (1954-1956) minutes, industrial files, Federal Council membership roll (1909-1932), correspondence, financial records and printed material.

Management Committee minutes (1971-1979), subject files, industrial files, rule books, and workers' compensation legal case files.

Subject files and unlisted material.

Minutes (1915-1933), correspondence, financial records, arbitration material, rule books, leaflets and one photograph (1913).

Branch records for Newcastle (1947-1988), Maitland (1934-1983), Central Illawarra membership cards (1966-1981), Canberra including membership cards (1967-1987), and Parramatta (1968-1990).

Minutes of Management Committee meetings (1956-1992), correspondence and subject files, and workers' compensation files.

Federal Office records: minute books of meetings of Federal Council (1912 - 1948), minutes, agenda papers and reports presented to Federal Council (1911 - 1957), correspondence (1912 - 1950s), specification for army hats (1940s), correspondence with Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Customs concerning tariffs on imported felt hats (1930 - 1932), material relating to awards (1909 - 1950s), rule books, including of the Australasian Association of Felt Hatters (1905), contribution and rule books of the Australasian Association of Journeymen Felt Hatters (1909), and rules of Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters of Great Britain (1909). Victorian Branch records: minute books (1885 - 1955), records of contributions and dues paid by members (1945 - 1954), records of hours worked and wages paid to members (1917 - 1934) and correspondence from W. Smith of the Australasian Association of Felt Hatters, Victoria, to the Vigilance Committee and S. Grimshaw (1909).

Rough minutes of committee and general meetings (1939-1940, 1963-1981), Secretary's correspondence (W. Peters, K. Cashman, 1957-1980 with gaps), membership and financial records (1940s-1970s), including member cards, contributions books and contributions to various appeals. Also includes some rubber stamps.

Rules of the Federated Felt Hatting Employees' of Australasia (1912-1952), correspondence of the general secretary W. Peters and K. Cashman (1962 - 1983), General Secretary's working papers (1948 - 1991), some membership records for the New South Wales, Victorian, and South Australian branches (1936 - 1984), industrial files (1914 - 1984), apprenticeship records (1911 - 1984), financial records (1944 - 1984), photographs of union marches, union members and hat making (no dates), newspaper cuttings, hat advertisements and May Day ribbons (1950s - 1990s), Akubra News (1981 - 1984) and miscellaneous booklets (1887, 1947, 1955) including the Revised General Laws of the Journeyman Silk Hatters' Society of New South Wales (1887).

Letter books of the Branch Secretary (1930s), correspondence (1943 - 1959), income, expenditure and balance sheets, arbitration material, rules for federal and branch divisions, Journals of International Federation of Hatters and Hatters Gazette (1911 - 1924).

Minute books, correspondence, industrial agreements, rule book, circulars, financial records, papers re State Electricity Commission of Victoria (1948-1953) and equal pay campaign (1967).

Minutes of meetings and contribution ledger

Minute books of general and executive meetings, membership and contribution books, financial records, arbitration papers, correspondence and newspaper cuttings

Publications including pamphlets, periodicals, Acts, awards, government publications, books and rules

Minutes of meetings (1920 - 1945, 1963 - 1995) correspondence and election files, also minutes of meetings for Toowoomba Sub-Branch (1918 - 1930, 1964)

Miscellaneous minutes, branch and federal correspondence, membership lists, arbitration material, circulars and leaflets.

The records include Branch minutes, Federal Council and Federal Executive minutes, subject files, correspondence files, finanical records, printed records, a diary, meeting attendance book and miscellaneous material.

Minutes of meetings (including of the predecessor United Furniture Trade Society), correspondence, financial records, membership lists, publications, photographs, and objects including a banner.

Minutes of general, special and Committee of Management meetings (1947-1964), applications for membership (1915-1972) which include name, address, factory where employed, age, branch of trade and signature. There are three runs of cards: one organised alphabetically, another by date 'taken off the records' or 'resignation' from 1964 to 1972 and the third of misplaced resignations.

Membership registers and dispute file

Correspondence files, papers relating to the Metropolitan Gas Company and arbitration transcripts.

Minutes of Federal Council, Conference and Executive (1942-1975 copies), SA State Council (1940-1944), Adelaide Branch (1925-1927, 1939-1991), Port Adelaide Branch (1965-1975), Chemical Workers Branch (1968-1987) including SA Branch of Federated Artificial Fertilizers and Chemical Workers' Union, SA Metal Trades Council (1940-1948) and Athol Park Progress Association (1957-1959). Adelaide Branch membership records and correspondence.

Minutes of National Conference (1908-1945), National Council (1922, 1943-1947, 1952-1953), New South Wales State Council (1916-1958), the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales (1905-1909), Sydney Branch (1912-1914, 1940-1943, 1948-1950), Balmain Branch (1936-1945), the Foundry Workers' Joint Management Committee (1936-1944), the Wire Workers' Union of NSW (1928-1938), the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants' Society of South Australia (1908-1914) and the SA Branch (1917-1919), rulebooks and other printed material.

Minutes of the National Executive Council (1938-1944), the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales (1901-1905), the Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales (1901-1906), FIA Sydney Branch (1914-1953), Newcastle Branch (1942-1960), Port Kembla Branch (1943-1953), Victorian Branch (1940-1960), and Queensland Branch (1949-1956).

Correspondence between FIA and other organisations (1945-1946) and Australian Labor Party material forwarded to Laurie Short as a member of the Central Executive of the New South Wales Branch.

Minutes of National Council (1951-1969), Sydney Branch (1952-1956), Adelaide Branch (1946-1961) including South Australian Branch of the Federated Artificial Fertiliser and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia, Newcastle Branch (1943-1949), Queensland Branch (1943-1944, 1962), some membership records, correspondence, financial records and printed material.

Minutes of National Council (1976), rule book, arbitration material, election results (1960s-1970s), badge and wooden plaque.

Minutes of National Council (1935-1951) and National Conferences (1944-1949), rule books, correspondence files, photographs and printed material.

Minutes of the Queensland Branch (1913-1981), Toowoomba Branch (1939-1952), membership records (1913-1935, 1952-1953, 1966-1981), correspondence, financial records, arbitration material, and some photographs.

Minutes of the SA Liquor Trades Employees' Union and the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia SA Branch (1907- 1912, 1918-1948), correspondence, financial records, membership lists for SA, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales (1907-1911), arbitration files, photographs, lapel badges and rosettes. Minutes (1920-1958), financial records and membership records of the Port Pirie Branch of the Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union of South Australia.

Membership records (c. 1956), correspondence, rules, financial records including Launceston Branch, arbitration files and printed material.

Minute books of NSW Branch General and Special meetings, 1916-1929; minute books of Executive Council and Federal Council meetings, 1915-1952

General office files, 1956-1988

Minute books, wages books, state awards, membership records, correspondence, ACTU Congress material, circulars and publications.

Membership and financial records, rule books, branch and sub-branch minutes (Southern Sub Branch and Federated Mining Mechanics and Surfacemen’s Mutual Protective Association, Lithgow Branch), industrial records, case files and transcripts. Includes records of predecessor the Colliery Mechanics Mutual Protective Association, Hunter River District.

Minutes of ACT Branch meetings (1960-1983), material relating to amalgamation with Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union (1992) and commemorative mug.

Minutes of NSW Branch (1920-1940) and Newcastle Branch (1928-1950), financial records, rule books, membership records (1916-1944), award files, photographs and medallion presented to Joe Coote (1912).

Numbered subject files including Branch minutes, correspondence, arbitration material, membership records (1950) and printed material

Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union: minutes of Queensland State Council (1957-1964, 1977-1982), Queensland Branch (1921-1930, 1940-1971, 1983-1986), Ambulance Branch (1972-1976), Foodstuffs and Allied Industries Branch (1969-1978), Leather and Allied Trades Branch (1968-1975), correspondence, financial records and copies of Amalgamated Shearers' Union tickets (1890-1895); Federated Jewellers, Watchmakers and Allied Trades Union of Australia: minutes of Queensland Branch (1934-1983); Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation: minutes of Queensland Branch (1946-1964); Milling, Baking, Cooking and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Queensland, then Amalgamated Foodstuffs Union of Queensland: minutes (1919-1939, 1949-1950, 1955-1957) and printed material.

Minutes of general, sectional and Management Committee meetings (1916-1944), Caretakers' minutes (1938) and membership list (1923).

Minute books, correspondence, financial records and a history of the union (1858 - 1958).

Minute books, accident benefit book and financial records. Includes minutes of predecessor the Iron Founders Trade Union of Victoria.

Minute books, contribution books, financial records and accident pay register.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings, members contribution books and financial records. Also includes members contribution to the Corporation Employees' Association and Benefit Society (1913-1919).

Files of the NSW Branch president, Garry Young, re the ACTU Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Committee (Port of Sydney) activities: crew lists, press clippings, and correspondence (N280/1-34) and membership registers of the Federated Ship Painters' and Dockers' Union of Australia (N280/35-45).

Minutes, copies of letters sent, financial and arbitration records. Includes records of predecessors Brisbane Shipwrights Provident Union.

Minutes, membership records, rule books and awards. Includes records of predecessors the Port Adelaide Shipwrights' Society and rule books of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia.

Minutes, membership and financial records, rule books and agreements. Includes records of predecessors Port Phillip Shipwrights Society and rule books of Shipwrights' Provident Union of the New South Wales Industrial Union of Employees, Coast Shipwrights' and Boatbuilders Union of Workers, and the Port Adelaide Wood and Iron Shipwrights Society.

This deposit consists of 67 photographs of Federal Councillors, office bearers, organisers and members.

Minutes, correspondence files, reports and financial records, agendas, memos, bulletins, photographs of Presidents, organisational chart and printed material. Includes records of the Automotive Products Manufacturers Association of Australia.

This deposit contains correspondence files, reports, rules, minutes of Executive meetings (1974-1983) and Women's Committee, submissions to government, reports, printed material and material relating to the registration of the Union of Australian College Academics.

Federation of College Academics: minutes of Council (1973-1975), NSW Council (1984-1989) and committees, subject files about conditions of employment and NSW Colleges of Advanced Education; Union of College Academics: NSW Branch minutes (1987-1990) and correspondence; University Academic Staff Association (NSW Division of the Federated Australian University Staff Association): minutes of Executive and Council (1979-1989), correspondence and subject files; Academics' Union of New South Wales: Council minutes (1989-1990).

Minutes of Federal Council and Executive (1943- 1954) and New South Wales Branch (1950-1961) and Victorian Branch (1944-1955), subject files including rules, minutes, correspondence with NSW, Victorian and South Australian branches, financial records and arbitration material, NSW Branch membership records (1943-1956) and office equipment for inking stencils.

Federal Council records including minutes (1943-1952), correspondence with branches and other associations, surveys of employment conditions, arbitration material, subject files, copies of minutes and reports of NSW, Victorian, Queensland and South Australian branches, and printed material.

Records of the NSW Branch including minutes (1943-1951), correspondence with government departments and other associations, surveys of employment conditions, arbitration material, subject files, copies of minutes and reports from Federal Council and other branches, and printed material.

Records of the Victorian Branch including copies of minutes and reports of Federal Council, Victorian and other branches, correspondence, circulars, membership records including lists for NSW and South Australian branches, financial records, arbitration material, and printed material. Includes copies of minutes and reports of the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia.