The tapes are of four evenings of lectures: Professor Sir Ernest Titterton and Dr SM Hamberger (26 March – including morning radio interview), Professor Ted Ringwood and Professor GHJ Taylor (2 April), Professor SF Harris and Dr TB Millar (9 April) and Dr B Selinger and Professor S Kaneff (16 April).

The audio tape recordings, typescript copies of seminar papers and an index relate to a series of seminars presented by the Development Studies Centre in 1977–1978.

The cassette tapes record Tom Owen reminiscing about his time as Registrar of Canberra University College. There are also copies of recordings of events such as the laying of the foundation stone for the Haydon-Allen building, and the opening of the RG Menzies Building and the Chemistry building, and tapes relating to his early life, the Richmond Hoyts Cinema, and oral histories recorded in the 1990s. Some tapes are annotated with file references 14.1.0.83-14.1.0.92 (ANUA 53).

Side A: STD Segression. 1. Face the pain- rise from the darkness (Eezee); 2. No allegiance - threats & facts. Side B: STD Dreamkillers. 1. Sarah - scorched earth policy

Oral history interviews recorded for the book Voices from the ships : Australia's seafarers and their union, 2008, by Diane Kirkby.