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The deposit consists mainly of copies made on archival quality paper of documentation held by the Secretary, David Locke in 1993 and includes a chronology of events, press clippings, correspondence, campaign files, material from other Australian chapters of ACT UP and from ACT UP New York, and also campaign material such as postcards, stickers and posters.

Includes letter of thanks from Jeffrey Grad, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), and draft letter (not signed or dated) to Bruce Brown, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Sydney, concerning extracts from an interview with Bill Hathaway which were printed in the October issue of 'Outrage

Includes media kit on treatments and treatments policy, Canberra Manifesto (14 Action points), Open Letter to Conference Delegates; AIDS Action Pledge; protest organising papers, and press release dated 9 August 1990. Subject of papers include 'treatments and data

Includes 2 drafts of the chronology/timeline are included, the second of which was prepared for an AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne newsletter.

Includes photocopies of press clippings, with a particular focus on Warrnambool, regional Victoria. Subjects include 'Condomania

Includes correspondence between Chris Keily, Assistant State Secretary, TWU (Victoria), to Michael Connors, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), regarding the drug ddI; cooperation between unions and activist groups in pressuring pharmaceutical company / drug company Bristol Myers Squib; and letter of thanks. Also includes letter from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne to Bristol Myers Squib regarding the release of ddI for compassionate use.

Includes notices / posters: 'Say no to Marie Tehan' (Victorian Shadow Minister for Health); 'Kissing doesn't kill - greed and indifference do' (Kiss-in at Bourke St Mall 12 noon World AIDS Day 1 December 1990; 'Victorian State Liberal Party Resents Marie Tehan' - 'Kill a queer for Christ'. Also includes copy of 'The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Rage' (Melbourne newsletter); 29 November 1990 - 'kissing edition'

Includes: campaign brief consisting of campaign statement, copies of artwork for flyers and posters and t-shirts, list of Melbourne based deadlines and events; breakdown of actions for Melbourne events, breakdown of actions for Melbourne committees; Letter to all AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) chapters in Australia from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne regarding the Baume Review and D-Day protest; poster: 'a letter to Mr Howe

Includes information provided to Minister Lyster following her appointment as Minister for Health (Victoria). Includes AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) 'AIDS Action Pledge; 'AIDS buzzwords

Includes flyer/poster/circular for benefit concert (18 November 1990) at The Club, 132A Smith Street Collingwood, featuring Dekonstruct, the Flaming Abandon Supreme Dance Team, Barbra Quicksand, Crying in Public Places, Poets of the Machine, Jungle Rodeo, Ivan Davis, Barry Solomon, Dance Music by Caviar Club.

Includes flyer / notice for protest, demanding that people in prisons be given access to condoms, water-based lubricants, clean fits and bleach; safe sex and HIV/AIDS information; voluntary HIV/AIDS testing; post-test counselling; and sympathetic treatment. Minister Yabsley is identified in the notices as having introduced compulsory HIV testing for all NSW prisoners, and was to speak at the Conference on Tuesday 20 November 1990.

Includes a poster relating to the planned demonstration at 200 Queen St, Melbourne, on 17 April 1991; and a media release / flyer from the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria calling on the Victorian Police to 'Drop the Charge Against Rebecca Myers

Includes D-day campaign launch flyer; an AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne open letter requesting donations (signed by Shaun Wood, Andrew Hansen, and 'Geoffrey

Includes information sheet 'modified for AIDS activists

Includes letter to the Hon Joan Kirner, Premier of Victoria, (2 copies) dated 26 March 1991 about 'the recent report by the North Eastern Region (Department of Health) recommending the closure of Fairfield Hospital or its amalgamation with another institution; Letter to the Hon Maureen Lyster dated 25 June 1991 regarding the proposed closure of in-patient services at Fairfield Hospital; letter 10 April 1991 to Hon Maureen Lyster; and letter 10 April 1992 to Joan Kirner.

Includes open letter to Brian Howe, Minister for Health and Community Services, from ACTUP Melbourne on delays in access to treatments for people with HIV/AIDS; The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Truth newsletter/flyer 11 February 1991

Includes flyer for benefit, held Easter Sunday 31st March 9pm-6am at the Club, 132A Smith St Collingwood

Includes letter to Minister Howe, 22 August 1991; letter to Senator M H Lees, 23 August 1991; letter to Senator Jo Valentine 22 August 1991; letter to David Kingston, 22 August 1991, Medical Director of Hoffman-LaRoche regarding ddC availability; response letter from David Kingston, Roche Products Pty Limited, 26 August 1991.

Includes notice / advertisement for AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne benefit on 31 August, at The Club, 132A Smith Street, Collingwood.

Includes letter to Minister Brian Howe dated 22 April 1991; summary notes of meeting with Minister Howe - 24 April 1991 - present: Bruce Brown, Chris Gill, Bill Hathaway, Charles Roberts, Karen Stewart, Gerard Thomas, Tony Westmore. CDOSH: Brian Howe, Prue Power, Alan Bansimir, Terry Kenehan, Mary Scott.

Includes back page of newsletter includes an advertisement / notice for the 'Shed the Underworld

Includes papers include agenda; recommendations for adoption at the ATAC public meeting on treatments, Tuesday 16 July; A Qand A on the implications for treatments for HIV/AIDS of the Baume Inquiry into Drug Evaluation in Australia; and media releases on the Baume Report.

Includes joint letter / media release from the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (PCV) and AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne - 'On Sunday 14 July 2.30 at the Victorian Arts Centre Lawn, ACT-UP and the PCV will be presenting 'THE LOVE IN

Includes circular, flyers and media release protesting against the visit of President Bush to Australia in 1992.

Includes: letter to members of AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne from Jim Hyde, General Manager at the Victorian AIDS Council Inc. and Gay Men

Includes 'Don

Includes AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) complaint against the advertisement by Italian clothing company Benetton featuring a man dying of an AIDS-related illness. Includes a letter signed Tim Johnson for AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne (dated 28/4/1992); anti-Benetton campaign materials; press clippings; 'store picket

Includes AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne letter to Marie Tehan dated 19/10/92 - calling for urgent meeting 'to discuss how the Coalition plans to fight the AIDS crisis

Includes AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Australia Statement with 15 demands; word-processed draft of Statement, annotated with two additional demands.

Includes letter from Alan Morgan (the ALSO Foundation) to John Willis (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne), requesting repayment of an 800 dollar loan to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) for the production of T-Shirts, dated 23 Jan 1991; Response letter from John Willis to Alan Morgan on 29 Jan 91 - handwritten copy and typed draft provided

Includes letter with funeral services fees outline attached.

Includes: Letter to Health Minister Brian Howe dated 3 Nov 1992 regarding delays in campaign to combat discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS; second letter dated 17 Nov 1992 referring to earlier letter, noting no reply has been received; Meeting with Michael Day notes - attendees: Michael Day, Tim Johnson (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)), David Anderson (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)), Bill Hathaway (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)), PLWA representative.

Includes HIV Herald vol.2, no.5. - July 1992

Includes AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Letter of Demands to the organisers of 5th National AIDS Conference (21 September 1992) (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Australia); AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Australia meeting agenda 3 October 1992.

Includes Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) letter to members 25 June 1990 providing an 'update on the latest development concerning these important treatments [AZT and DDI], for the information of AFAO members and their constituents; Report back on meeting on the 6th International AIDS Conference held at St Vincent

Includes two press releases: Victorian AIDS Council Inc 'AIDS COUNCIL SUPPORTS ACT-UP D-DAY

Includes circular addressed to Mr Andy Macpherson, Chairperson, W.A.I.V.E./W.A. Aids Council

Includes letter from Ian Gould concerning the Gay and Lesbian Community Groups Forum; agenda for the Gay and Lesbian Community Groups Forum 11 September 1991; Australian National Council on AIDS (ANCA) documents: letter from Prof Peter McDonald, Deputy Chairperson ANCA to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne 9 September 1991; Letter from Professor Peter Karmel to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne 13 September 1991; ANCA bulletin (no.11); letter from the Also Foundation to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne.

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Includes letter from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Brisbane to Dr P. Tucker - Deputy Director General Queensland Health Department raising concerns with two documents: Secondary prevention and slowing the spread of HIV by J Ridgeway and Dr G Neilsen; and Queensland AIDS Council

Includes letter to Mr Chris Gill, AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) / Victorian AIDS Council, from Ray O

Includes 'Monthly summary - March 1991

Dates of Hansard include 13, 20, 21 February 1991; 5, 6, 7 March 1991; 28 May 1991 5,6 June 1991.

Includes press clippings (two articles): Fremantle Focus May 1991; West Australian 6 June 1991; circular from Wayne Roberts, Sexuality Information Department at the Curtin Student Guild (Curtin University of Technology); letter to Minister Howe from Wayne Roberts (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Perth) enclosing demonstration circular 6 June 1991, for demonstration at the offices of the Federal Department of Community Services and Health in Perth; Campaign material for D-Day demonstrations.

Includes LABRYS Newspaper (lesbian media) letter to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) regarding Anela Mardinkas, August 1991; letter to Geoffrey Harrison (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne) from Ian Hicks, Assistant Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 1991; Open letter from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Sydney, 14 August 1991, regarding Franca Arena MLC.

Includes 'Lowdown

Includes media clippings from the Australian Magazine and the New York Times; letter of congratulations from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Sydney regarding the 'Benetton success

Includes letter from Lyle Chan to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) Australia (25 May 1992), Lois Johnson, Charles Roberts, Geoffrey Harrison, Jeff Ward, Ruth Marshall, Regarding inclusion of ddC on the agenda of the 18-19 June 1992 ADEC meeting.

Includes articles by Ross Duffin, Lyle Chan and Geoffrey Harrison on Treatments, People Living with HIV/AIDS, and the 5th National AIDS Conference.

Includes newsletters: March 1993 - Newsletter no.12; Newsletter no.11 - February 1993; press clippings.

Includes 'Vox Populi

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Includes fundraising correspondence.

Includes letter from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP)/Melbourne to Brian Howe, dated 3 November 1992 (unsigned), cc. Ros Kelly, Laurie Brereton, Brian McMullen, Don Grimes, Peter Baume, Bill Whittaker, Ross Duffin, NPLWAC (National People Living with AIDS Coalition).

Includes letter to AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) chapters from AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY Global Action Committee, dated 17 October 1992, regarding planned World Aids Day 1992 action by international chapters of AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP). File also includes press clipping.

Includes bulletins dated Monday 20 July 1992, Tuesday July 21 July 1992, Wednesday 22 July 1992, Thursday 23 July, Friday 24 July.

Includes letter to Ms Meg Greenfield, Editor of the Editorial Page of the Washington Post from Mr Derek Link regarding her 'AIDS: Testing Drugs and Paying For Them

Includes obituaries for Warren Piece (born Warren Krause) and Michael Wright.

Includes a 'Silence equals Death

Includes 5 postcards (each with the same design), with nothing written on them.

Includes two postcards. One blank, one addressed to 'Johnny Wennick