Minutes of Builders' Labourers' Federation Federal Council and Management Committee (1964-1993) and Federal Conference (1965-1979), of the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia/Building Workers' Industrial Union Building and Plasterers Division Executive (1924-1989), of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union Executive (1946-1979) and Management Committee (1951-1992), of the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association Federal and State Council (1927-1991) and of the State Executive of the Construction and General Division of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (1992-1995), membership records of the South Australian branch of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union (1950-1990), subject and arbitration files, photographs of FEDFA committee (1915), Cyclone Tracy cleanup 1975 and union tour of USSR in 1970s, and audiovisual material (Paul Robeson concert).

Draft chapters of, and sources for, Conciliation Can Work: A History of the Commonwealth Bank Officers’ Association; manuscript of Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the Second World War.

Some papers on the Master Builders Association of ACT and publications on the Australian building industry.

Minutes and agenda papers of federal council meetings, minutes of federal executive meetings, financial records, 1993 National Conference papers of successor the Automotive Metals and Engineering Union, Vehicle Division.

The deposit consists of correspondence (copies), media files including press cuttings and media releases, publications and print material, speeches of the Chief Executive of COSBOA, submissions, annual reports, financial documents, and reports.

Financial and personnel records, subject files including client and marketing files.

Minutes of the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association (1970-1977), confidential minutes of Executive Committee (1960-1977), agenda for annual conference, General Council and Committee meetings, minutes of various commodity committees, files of the President and Chief Executive of the NSW Farmers' Association, arbitration files, submissions to governments, financial records, audiovisual material, printed material and microfilm copies of minutes of Pastoralists' Union and Graziers' Association of NSW (1890-1977).

Files relating to the Mudginberri dispute against the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union, including transcripts of evidence, telex messages, financial records, and legal papers.

Applications to vary rules, 1947-1990; Australian Shipping and Shipbuilding Statistics, 1957-1964; two Council seals

Files relating to the 1974 long-term sugar contract with Japan.

Committee, monthly and annual meetings from 1947 to 1988; rough minute books from 1964 to 1976; subject files from 1985 to 1981; financial records from 1979 to 1973, Federated Public Service Assistants Association publication 1959 to 1973.

Minutes, correspondence, drafts of talks, financial papers and reports, newspaper cuttings, conference papers, newsletters and press releases

Share and dividend registers

The collection includes records of the MUA Dispute Archive Project consisting of union records and correspondence; Australian Council of Trade Unions and Victorian Trades Hall Council minutes; Trade Union Training Authority speaker notes and fact sheets; Australian Services Union fliers and administrative documents; Finance Sector Union correspondence and administrative documents; Health and Community Services Union flier and newsletter; Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance flier and minutes; National Tertiary Education Union correspondence and NSW Branch information kit; police association correspondence and newsletter; Transport Workers Union NSW flier and minutes; Victorian Independent Education Union newsletters and fliers; Australian Manufacturing Workers Union leaflet, newsletter and newspapers; Community and Public Sector Union ACT journals and flier; correspondence, leaflets and posters produced by non-union groups; official documents, legal and parliamentary records including speeches, transcripts, minutes; fliers, posters, booklets, electronic communications, film, photographs, artwork, music, poetry and media releases. Files of Lindsay Tanner gathered by the MUA Dispute Archive Project consists of media clippings, transcripts of electronic media interviews, Hansard extracts, notes and correspondence, and documents relating to legislation. The deposit also includes papers of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, the NSW Fire Brigade Employees’ Union, and unionist Carmel Shute, media releases and circulars, printed material, video and audio tapes; research files consisting of legal documents, reports, newsletters and documents relating to the Dubai stevedoring venture, news clippings, and leaflets; Maritime Union of Australia files, speeches and news reports.

The deposit consists of correspondence files; financial records; minutes and meeting papers of the National Council and Conference Executive; conference files; reports re Standards Association of Australia; grant application files; and standing committee reports.

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].

Audio tapes with biographical interviews of Fred Paterson. The Fred Paterson Story [sound recording]: Rhodes scholar, theologian, atheist, town councillor, first Communist to be elected to an Australian parliament: a life of service, East Perth : Grand Specialities - Round & Round Cassettes

Records relating to the dispute concerning the non-payment of untaken sick leave to ex-employees of the Sydney County Council by the Electricity Commission of NSW as collected by Ron McGann. Includes correspondence, notes and transcripts of legal cases.

Convention minutes (1928-1965) and general and industrial files (1945-1989) of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, minutes of District Board of Management meetings (1967-1985), minutes of Queensland Colliery Employees' Union Board of Management (1981-1988), records of United Collieries and the Union Coal Mining Company Pty Ltd relating to Nymboida Colliery (1975-1981), records of the Colliery Mechanics Mutual Protective Association, Hunter River District (1911-1930), records of the Federated Mining Mechanics Association of Australasia (1923-1987), minutes of the Broken Hill Mine Mechanics Association (1977-1979) and records of the Muswellbrook/Singleton Branch of the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association (1982-1988).

Correspondence and reports of steering committees, conference and projects files, country files including correspondence with national unions and projects carried out in those countries, correspondence with affiliated organisations, issue files and media files.

This deposit includes minutes of meetings of the SAIT executive, minutes of meetings of smaller organisations in South Australia including the Barossa Teachers' Association (1908 - 1978), the Kingston Area Teachers' Association and the Primary Teachers' Association.

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

Minutes of the Federal Executive (1941-1992), biennial conference (1945-1984) and of State divisions and Sydney, Newcastle, Port Kembla, Fremantle and Devonport branches, correspondence with branches, membership books (1942-1949), rules, financial records, industrial and subject files about shipping companies including the Australian National Line, and printed material.

This deposit includes the union's constitution and rules (1960 - 2000), reports of annual conferences (1950 - 1989), minutes of executive meetings (1916 - 1980), minutes of council minutes (1937 - 1977), verbatim reports of council meetings (1968 - 1975), transcripts and taped interviews for 'Dazzling Prospects' oral history project (1985 - 1986) and histories of the union from 1965 and 1989. Also includes records of local branches: Bowen-Proserpine, Bundaberg, East Moreton, Leichhardt, Lockyer, Lower Burdekin, Northernmost and the North Queensland Teachers' Association (Townsville).

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).

Transcripts of oral history interviews.

Administrative files including rules, National Council and Executive minutes, Branch minutes and correspondence, employer files and membership records.

Industrial files by industry. Aircraft industry files on Qantas, TAA, Aerospace Technologies of Australia, Federal Airports Corporation and Civil Aviation Authority; aluminium industry files; AMDEL; chemical workers; Commonwealth Authorities files on AAEC ANSTO, ACT Electrical Authority, CSIRO, OTC, Postal Commission, Telecom Commission, SMEC, SMHEA, CSL, ACT Health Commission, ACT Schools Authority, Australian Defence Industries, Australian Maritime Safety Authority; Spectrum Management Agency; CSR; metal industry files; paint industry; pipeline authority; space tracking; state awards; steel industry; private industry files; state public service, municipalities, authorities and instrumentalities files on Brisbane City Council, Victoria Roads Corporation, ETSA, HEC Tasmania, Melbourne Water, NTEC & PAWA, NT Municipalities, NT Public Service, Queensland Electrical Authority, SA Local Government, SEC Victoria, Melbourne City Council, and others; universities and colleges files on the Australian National University, Duntroon Military College, Canberra College of Advanced Education, University of Tasmania, Darwin Institute of Technology, and others; vehicle industry files on Toyota, Ford, GMH, Leyland, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Renault, International Harvester, Volvo, Isuzu and general files; oil industry; building industry; defence contracting; printing industry; and Australian Public Service files

The deposit consists of Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association classified industrial files 1948-1963; transcripts of proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry into the Stevedoring Industry 1955; transcripts of proceedings for the Waterside Workers Federation Award Amendments to Award re Constitution of Boards of Reference 1954; reports of Royal Commissions; newspaper cuttings; printed material; legal records; and also includes records of the Keilsoil Company. The deposit contains bound industrial files re Waterside Workers Federation of Australia 1913-1945; Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia 1935-1938; Federated Ship-painters and Dockers' Union of Australia 1935-1943; Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen's Association of Australasia 1909-1942; Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers 1909-1929; Merchant Service Guild / Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers 1908-1942; Marine Cooks Bakers & Butchers Association of Australasia 1908-1942; Federated Shipwrights, Ship Constructors, Naval Architects, Ships Draughtsmen and Boat Builders Association of Australia1922-1923 (1930); The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia 1936-1942; Merchant Service Guild of Australasia 1906-1931; Federated Clerks Union of Australia 1936-1942; Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia 1911-1946; Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union1911; Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union of Australia 1930-1932; North Australian Workers Union 1948.

Files including minutes, constitution and rules, membership lists, branch financial statements, conference papers, arbitration material and printed material. Includes minutes of Tasmanian sub-branch (1961-1983).

Newspaper cuttings (organised by subject), Research paper re Papua New Guinea and New Zealand including pamphlets, circulars, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, course notes, manuscripts and published material.

Arbitration material relating to basic wage cases, national wage cases and other proceedings in the Commonwealth Court of Arbitration and Conciliation. Collection is not fully listed and may contain other material from the Victorian Employers' Federation and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce collected by David Plowman.

Material used in the preparation of the book Teachers Education and Politics by Dr Bruce Mitchell (1975). Includes file of the National Association of Labor Teachers.

Minutes, subject and convention files, convention proceedings, membership records, brewery books, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material.

Subject files and unlisted material.

Records of the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre including minutes,reports, correspondence, financial records, training course material and printed material.

Personal papers of William Wade and some company records including plans.

Correspondence, subject files, arbitration files, membership registers (1939-1988) and press cuttings (1940-1950).

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

Financial and legal records, including wage books and motel bookings.

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 and meeting papers, reports, conference reports, records relating to the International Federation (IFBPW), correspondence, subject, project and history files, photographs and printed material. Includes records of state divisions (Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia) and clubs, including disbanded clubs: Nelson Bay (Charter); Sydney Northside; Fremantle; Maroochydore; Ulverstone; Wynyard; Redcliffe; Singleton; Ettalong; Cootamundra; Charleston; Campbelltown; Blue Mountains; Kiama; Mosman; Dubbo; Woollahra; Kyneton; Gosford; Burwood and District; Blue Mountains (Charter); Nelson Bay; Merridin; Broken Hill; and files on Campbelltown, Cairns, Northam, Numurkah, Queanbeyan, Renmark, Roma, Sunshine Coast, Eastern Goldfields.

Files relating to Commonwealth government agencies in New South Wales including Department of Defence, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australian Electoral Commission, Department of Administrative Services, Attorney-General's Department, Telecom, the Special Broadcasting Service, the Australian Taxation Office and the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Minutes, rules, membership records, correspondence, merger and industrial papers, reports and manuals. Records include minutes of Central, Southern, Wynyard and Devonport branches.

This deposit contains Federal Council minutes (1938-1978), Federal Conference minutes (1948-1978), subject files and arbitration files relating to ABC and SBS employment.

Circulars, minutes and agenda papers, correspondence, general and subject files, branch files, membership records and payments, financial report. Branch records include Sydney; Victoria; Queensland; Canberra; Newcastle; South Australia; West Australia; Wellington; Auckland; South Island; and London-ANZ Division. Includes London minutes 1993-1994.

Minutes of Executive Committee and general meetings (1960-1988), annual reports, correspondence, meeting files, subject files, membership records (1960-1965, 1986-1988), and financial records.

Branch office files including Branch Committee minutes (1988-1991), dispute reports and files on working conditions.

Papers relating to her professional life. Working files re Australian Society of Archivists, Business Archives Council, Records Management Association of Australia (Victoria), Melbourne University Records Management Papers, cassette tapes on appraisal.

Secretary’s files, minutes of meetings, conference papers and programs, membership records, history files, photographs, publications and essays (WD Borrie Essay Prize).

The deposit consists of AEU General Secretary John Garland's papers: subject files, photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings and publications of union and other organisations. Includes records of predecessors Amalgamated Engineering Union and Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union.

Diaries, ACT Teachers Federation materials (minutes and notes of Sexism Committee, election campaign material, publications), papers about the ACT Trades and Labour Council (including notes on campaign for recognition as equivalent of a state labor council), personal conference papers, annotated training material, and subject files on general left campaigns.

Files and loose papers relating to the Victorian Branch and Federal Executive of the ALP, including ALP Socialist Left; some Plumbers’ Union records and printed material. Includes a copy of The George Crawford Papers 1940 -1990.

Office files including internal correspondence, reports, circulars, conference papers, industrial legislation, budget and arbitration papers. Includes records of predecessors: Federated Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia and the National Union of Storeworkers, Packers, Rubber and Allied Workers.

Minutes of branch and council meetings, subject and correspondence files, industrial and electoral records, membership records, submissions, rules, press cuttings, printed material, trophies and signage, embroidered veils, photographs and audiovisual material. Formerly the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (NSW) Branch.

Minutes of Branch Executive and Council meetings, reports, register, newsletters, outgoing mail, federal conference papers and some minutes. This deposit holds records of both the General and Technical and Supervisory Divisions of the ACT Branch of the AMEU, and the records of its predecessor, the Association of Draughting, Supervisory and Technical Employees, ACT Branch.

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 Australasian Society of Engineers Adelaide No. 3 Branch (1916-1920), Walleroo Branch (1921-1952), SA Branch (1914-1929, 1939-1991), South Australian Executive Committee (1942-1991), Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees SA Executive Committee (1991-1993), subject files, financial records, and photographs.

These records include copies of The Professional Officers' Association Chronicle, arbitration files, general correspondence, files, minutes of general meetings and minutes of committee meetings.

Minutes of meetings - Federal Council, 1946-1960, Committee of Management, 1978-1981, Finance and Trustees, 1965-1974, Stop Work, 1962-1987, biennial conference, 1948-1956; Returning Officers’ files, 1966-1983; industrial agreements and awards, 1936-1982; arbitration material, 1976-1981; correspondence/subject files, 1951-1980; financial records, 1975-1980; Co-operative Bulk Grain Handlers files, 1957-1986; Fremantle Lumpers’ Union and Fremantle Tally Clerks' Union conference, 1947; press clippings, 1951-1969; printed material, 1966-1973.

Minutes of Branch management committee meetings 1987-1988.

General office files, 1956-1988

Port Adelaide Tugs (Ritch & Smith Tug Company) correspondence, roster, award and voyage agreements, 1950-1984; ships decommissioned A-Z and correspondence/subject files, 1946-1988 (includes general correspondence concerning Seamen’s Union involvement in the war in South Vietnam).

Correspondence, subject files, arbitration material, case files, manuals, and printed material.

Minutes of committee and general meetings, membership registers and contributions books, industrial papers, financial records and photographs of memorial plaque for Henry Bessell.

Marketing division and advertising records, records relating to the construction of the Cranbourne plant, catalogues and manuals, photographs, publications and training course material.

Notes, press cuttings and files relating to Communist Party of Australia campaigns; papers relating to Richmond municipal politics; poetry and songs, pamphlets and leaflets, printed material on communism theory and international politics.

Classified correspondence files (1983-1987) and publications (1918-1978) including memorandum and articles of association of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of NSW and the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of NSW and the rules of the Graziers' Association of NSW and other associations.

Records of the New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Fremantle branches consisting of minutes, membership lists, memoranda and circulars, financial records, correspondence, rules, reports, awards, photographs, wage book, registration certificate and ephemera.

This deposit includes subject classified office files (1965 - 1991), annual general meeting minutes and reports (1965 - 1982), branch correspondence (1971 - 1988) and printed material.

Subject files (1970-1990), conference papers (1952-1955), papers relating to J S Baker's history, arbitration files, financial records (1921-1970), Sydney Branch contribution books (1929-1934), submissions and reports, and printed material.

Classified office files including minutes, correspondence, reports, policy documents, industry awards and agreements, and port services award files.

Arbitration records, register of members out of work (1881-1887), mortality fund register, administration files re Federal Council circulars, rules and agreements, minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, press cuttings, printed material, photograph and ephemera. Includes records of branches and districts of predecessors Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, and iron ship builders, shipwrights and sheetmetal unions.

Files relating to imports of actors, theatre productions, and television advertisements. Also papers relating to various disputes including Australian Opera Part-Time dispute, SBS Television presenters case and the Travel Allowance Dispute.

Correspondence, minutes and agenda, reports, membership files, submissions, conference papers, accounts, video and sound recordings.

Minutes, agenda and position papers of meetings and teleconferences, policy issue files re competition policy files, files of the Education Sub-Committee and Professional Liability Committee, subject files, correspondence files, reports of constituent bodies, Master & Day files, and printed material. Also includes meeting papers of the Telecom Small Enterprise Policy Panel.

Minutes (copies) of executive, general and finance committee meetings, correspondence, subject and arbitration files, photographs and videotapes. See also the Health Services Union of Australia.