Minutes of Victorian Branch meetings, 1909-1917; Committee of Management minutes, 1948-1965, minutes of Stopwork meetings, 1950s-1980s; Federal Office Secretary’s reports, 1948-1984, correspondence/subject files A-Z, 1948-1984; Shipboard Committees’ records, 1950-1984; reports, mainly concerning maritime matters, 1927-1981; arbitration and maritime enquiry records, 1940s-1970s; rules and awards, 1900-1996; photographs, 1911-1980s; sound recordings, 1963; drawings and plans, circa 1950s; press cuttings, 1950s-1980s; printed material, 1930s-1980s.

Minutes of Federal Executive (1925-1991), Federal Council (1945-1989) and some Branch minutes, correspondence and membership records, administrative and subject files, arbitration material including State award files. Material dated after the 1991 amalgamation is created by the Australian Services Union.

Records of the Australian Telecommunications Employees' Association, New South Wales Branch: minutes (1958-1988), membership register (1917-1976), subject files including correspondence with General Secretary, sub-branches in New South Wales and Canberra, other State branches, other unions, Labor Councils and Telecom, incoming and outgoing telexes, reports, Federal circulars, copies of Federal Council and Executive minutes, files of Rod Parkinson, Marilyn Toni Brown and Colin Cooper, dispute files, arbitration files and reports, and printed material. Records of the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers' Association, New South Wales Branch: membership records (1960s-1970s), subject files (1980s) including arbitration material, Telecom Consultative Council material, files relating to working conditions and occupational health and safety issues. Joint ATEA/ATPOA material (1988-1992) includes subject files, copies of Federal Council minutes, outgoing correspondence and telexes, circulars, and branch reports. Also includes membership cards for the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union of Australia/Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union (1940s-1970s).

NSW Fire Brigade Employees' Union minutes of State Council, Executive and general meetings (1948-1983) and other sections and committees, correspondence with register, subject files, arbitration material, circulars (1953-1993), transcripts of oral histories, reports and submissions, conference and seminar papers, Canberra branch files, discipline and grievance case files, newspaper cuttings, photographs (1964-1986), rules and printed material. NSW Fire Brigade Officers' Association minutes of Executive and general meetings (1944-1948) and NSW Fire Brigade Senior Officers' Association minutes (1954-1975), correspondence, industrial files, financial records and membership records.

Humes Ltd correspondence files and financial papers, 1970s-80s.
Includes, also, Humes Ltd minutes 1940s-60s; Humes Ltd Board papers 1981-2; Humes Ltd Board papers and minutes 1983-4; Humes Ltd Board papers and minutes 1984-55; Humes Industries Board Minutes Index, undated; Steel Mains Pty Ltd Board papers 1978-83; Australian Tube Mills board papers 1985-6; Hume Industries (Far East) Directors reports 1979/80; Hume Industries (Far East) Board papers 1976-7, 1980-1; Hume Industries (Malaya) Board papers 1979-81; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers 1975-6; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers and report 1977-83; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers 1984-6; Hume Pipe (UK) Board papers 1974-85; Vitaclay Pipes Board papers 1981-4; ARC Industries minutes 1951-76; ARC Engineering minutes 1931-47; ARC Engineering minutes 1946-51; ARC Engineering minutes 1951-8; ARC Engineering minutes 1958-63; ARC Engineering (VIC) minutes 1958-71; ARC Subsidiaries’ minutes, 1950s-60s.

Minutes and subject files, correspondence, arbitration and financial records, copies of circulars, media releases, organisers files, workers compensation envelopes, membership and compensation records, records of Sub-Branches and Sections including Port August, Mile End Yard, Peterborough (includes minutes), Metropolitan Shunters section (includes minutes) and Metro Guards Section.

Federal Council minutes (1961-1973), copies of Branch minutes: NSW, Victorian, Queensland, South Australian, Western Australian, ACT, Watchmen's Employment Committee and Northern Australian Workers' Union Branches, correspondence and subject files, rule books, reports, financial records, Ray Gietzeldt's files as General Secretary, industrial files and printed material. Minute books of New South Wales Branch (1940-1980), Sydney Shipping Industry Section (1956-1980), Victorian Branch (1945-1963), Western Australian Branch (1963-1982), ACT Branch (1960), Queensland Branch (1930-1956), NSW and Tasmanian Branch correspondence, and industrial files. Includes miscellaneous records of the Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation (1902-1966), minutes, membership records, files and financial records of the Pyrmont Sugar Works Employees' Union (1905-1973) and minutes of the Metropolitan Cleaners, Caretakers and Lift Attendants Industrial Union of Workers, Western Australia (1927-1930). Deposit received in 2002 consists of arbitration files (1940s-1980s), correspondence, printed material and copies of Branch minutes (1980s-1990s).

Minutes of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Queensland State Executive (1924-1934), BWIU State Executive (1949-1987), Brisbane Branch (1949-1987) and Building Trades Group of Unions (1941-1982), membership list (1961-1980), subject files, arbitration files, state delegates convention records (1954-1994). Minutes of Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union Queensland Branch (1917-1988) and sub-branches: Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Townsville, Maryborough, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Cairns and Mackay, minutes of Queensland Plasterers' Union, Gold Coast Branch (1978-1980) and membership list of Association of Self Employed Building Workers (1972-1982). Records from 1993 were created by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.

Records of predecessors to the National Farmers' Federation: minutes of the Primary Producers' Council of Australia (1943-1949), the National Farmers' Union of Australia (1949-1969), Executive Meetings of the Australian Farmers' Federation (1969-1972), the Australian Vegetable Growers' Federation (1945-1965), the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation (1969-1979) and the Australian Seed Producers' Federation (1974-1976), conference papers, correspondence and subject files, administrative files and printed material. Includes files of Alex Norquay as Secretary of various vegetable growers' organisations.

The deposit consists of office files (subject), financial statements and publications. Office files include reports, minutes, correspondence, circulars, branch records, membership lists, registers and directories, congress files, financial records, records re government departments and other associations, photographs and printed material.

Minute files (1973-1984), correspondence and subject files, arbitration material, rule books, printed material, posters, banner, certificates (including Barrier Ranges Drivers' and Firemen's Association 1892) and photographs. Includes records of sub-branches: Lake Macquarie, Sydney, Power, Granville, Central Illawarra (membership records 1952-1979) and Canberra (membership records 1957-1970).

Minutes (1915-1927, 1938-1976), correspondence and subject files, financial records, some records of the Sydney, Canberra and Power sub-branches, photographs and printed material. Of significance is N81/39, an address by Bob Hawke to the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemans Association of Australia (NSW), State Council Meeting, 25 - 27 June 1969. Recorded in the minutes is the decision to support Hawke in the ballot for President of the ACTU.

This deposit contains minutes of meetings of the ACT Primary Teachers' Association 1972 - 1977 and the ACT Secondary Teachers' Association 1968 - 1972. Records of the ACT Teachers' Federation comprise office files, 1972 - 1976, newspaper clippings 1975 - 1984, meeting papers of the Interim ACT Schools Authority 1975 - 1976 and the ACT Schools Authority 1977 - 1985.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings, 1920-1922, 1933-1937; Port Adelaide Waterfront Employment Committee minutes, 1942-1946; office files, 1914-1983; accident reports, 1938-1950; financial records, 1926-1968; Social and Sports Club, 1963-1968; membership material, 1900-1969; statistical analysis of men employed on Port Adelaide wharves, 1931-1935; press and radio pick-up announcement notices, 1957-1968; printed material, 1935-1986.

This deposit consists of the records of the Federal Office of the Musicians' Union of Australia. The bulk of the records cover the 1950s to 1980s. Minutes of the Annual Conference can be found in this collection covering the years 1955 to 1977, as well as an extensive set of subject files documenting the Unions' activities from the 1960s. Further material includes import files detailing visits of overseas artists; arbitration transcripts, a transcript of an Inquiry into the Copyright Act 1982, rules of the Federal Office and MUA Branches, rules of other unions and of the Musicians' Club of Victoria, printed membership lists (1965-1981), miscellaneous printed material, stickers mainly produced as part of the Keep Music Alive campaign and badges.

This deposit includes records from the South Australian Public Teachers' Union, Women Teachers' Guild, South Australian Institute of Teachers, Primary Teachers' Association, Male Assistants' Association, Southern Teachers' Association, High School Senior Mistresses and Assistants' Association and the Port Pirie Teachers' Association. Records include minutes of meetings, subject files, some photographs and annual reports.

Registers of officers and staff (1852-1944), staff reports (1928-1962) and staff record cards (1962); Chairman's Board agenda papers (1951-1960); financial records including register of mortgages and share registers; clients' documents, Melbourne and Sydney offices (1886-1958); 'historical' material (1864-1977); legal case files; correspondence of G A Manning to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide offices (1939-1967); General Manager's and Secretary's correspondence with branch offices and London Office including presscopy letterbooks (1899-1962); correspondence with stations: Bunna Bunna, Canonbar, Corinda, Dumble, Eremeran, Manfred, Mulgawarrina, Weribone (1944-1955); Wool Department files, Stock Department files and Land Department files. Also includes records of the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association and the Wool Selling Brokers Officers' Association of Australia (1914-1953) including minutes, financial records, arbitration material and press cuttings.

Minutes (1922 - 1960), records of subsidiary companies Lincoln Knitting Mills Pty Ltd (1920-1940) and Lincoln Spinning Mills Pty Ltd (1920 - 1940), memorandum and articles of associations, financial records, share material, correspondence, secretary's files, general office files, sales records, ledgers and journals, material re Provident Fund and staff superannuation scheme, staff record cards, plans and specifications, books and photograph.

Copies of minutes, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, printed materials and photographs, maps and plan, station records. Includes records of constituent Australasian Sheep Dip Company some records of the Ottery Mine (near Tenterfield, NSW) and Quambone and Mungrabambone Stations (Central Division, NSW).

Records of the Melbourne and Sydney offices of Robert Reid and Company Limited: minutes, financial records, share registers, correspondence, stock and sale records, staff records, and records of subsidiaries Hustlers Pty Ltd and T Pickles and Son Ltd. Share records of Reid Murray Holdings Limited.

All types of company records including minutes, staff and agents' conferences records, correspondence, financial records, ledgers and journals, Shipping Department accounts and records, manager's reports, merchandise stock lists, salaries and wages records, payroll records, staff pension fund returns, Accountant's and Administration department records, stations valuations, insurance papers, Auditor's reports, Stock department and Wool department records, instructional books and training notes, publications, pamphlets and posters, building plans, photographs and newspaper cuttings.

All types of company records including branch manager's reports, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, deeds and documents, salaries and wages books, stations valuations, Insurance department records, Shipping department records, registers, papers re Woolbrokers Staff Association, publications, pamphlets and photographs. Also includes records of subsidiary companies: Williams' Pty Ltd, Rockhampton (acquired in July 1943); Friends (Pty) Ltd, Gladstone (acquired February 1949); McKimmons (Pty) Ltd, Townsville; Dalgety Trading Company Pty Ltd.

This deposit consists of records of E W van Senden prior to and during his appointment as manager of Dalgety and Co Limited: Personal letters from his fiancee, banks, clients, the Hon George Riddoch, relatives etc; business letters, negotiations and documents re the transfer of his business concerns to Dalgetys, share certificates, company prospectus, diaries, receipts, cash books, legders and plans (1887-1917). Papers in French relating to his office as Consular Agent for France in Adelaide: correspondence with thte French Consul General in Sydney, letters and documents received re: shipping, passenger lists of French ships "Australien", "Ville de la Ciotat", and "Caledonieu" (1907-1908), trade, requests for information, letters from James Page former Consular Agent, and information on accounts (1907-08). Branch records: Minutes of Local Board of Advice (1906-17), letters recieved till 1912 and later correspondence of Adelaide managers (1897-1966), superintendent's monthly returns (1919-29), working papers for returns (1948-49), managers' reports to Head Office (1907-60), Stock Department reports (1931-41), financial documents (1897-1960), taxation returns records (1913-61), registers of properties, profits & loss, salaries, deeds, securities and signatures (1900-54), managers' diaries (1901-04), press cuttings (1928-33), annual reports of Dalgety and Co Ltd (1897, 1899, 1902-13), annual reports of other companies, and a small number of prints, photographs and plans.

The deposit consists of manger's correspondence with other branches 1906-1963; correspondence files and papers concerning clients; copies of wages and payroll tax returns 1947-51; company leases 1887-1946; financial and insurance records; clients' documents 1891-1942; salaries book and sheets 1915-57; security registers 1895-1960; shipping information 1895-1903; Melbourne Branch conference minutes 1946; staff reports 1890-1927; printed material including annual reports 1882-1960; pamphlets 1882-1953; serials 1888-1954; plan, map 1912, and photographs c. 1924-1958.

Minutes of the Australian Letter Carriers' Association Executive Council (1923-1924) and conferences (1915-1924), minutes of the Postal Sorters' Union of Australia Federal Executive (1924-1925), correspondence of the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union with branches, Public Service Board, Postmaster-General's Department, Superannuation Board, members of parliament and other unions, and information files including reports, press cuttings and printed material.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and arbitration records, photographs and publications. Records re the State Instrumentality Unions Committee and the War Railways Committee, papers of State Divisions and of the Victorian Railways Classification Board. Includes records of predecessor the Federated Railway Locomotive Enginemen's Association.

Tailors' Trade Protection Society registers, 1870-1899; minutes (with the Tailoresses' from 1905), 1903-1907; Tailoresses' strike book 1883, registers 1888-1893; Pressers' Union minutes 1888-1902; Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union records 1902-1907; Victorian Branch minutes 1908-1909; Tasmanian Branch balance sheets 1918-1938; Federal Council minutes 1907-1949; copies of branch minutes 1923-1949; Federal correspondence 1913-1956; arbitration material 1907-1959; financial papers 1921-1949.

Minutes of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia, Graziers' Federal Council and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council including annual convention and Executive Committee (1891-1976), minutes of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council (1956-1960) and annual meetings (1945-1960), papers of the Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962-1976), office files, and printed material.

The material in this deposit is divided into three sections:

1. Records created at Head Office: correspondence with branch offices, 1937-50; balance papers for Australia, 1941-60; balance sheets for stations, 1905-57; records of clients' accounts, 1925-40; income tax returns, 1915-50; provident and pension fund records, 1899-1958; applications & correspondence with Lands Dept, c. 1897-1943; wool clip statistics, 1890-1928.

2. Records created at stations: records for Charlton Station (including correspondence, 1902-41; financial records, 1881-1938; sheep and shearing records, 1891-1941); Dunumbral Station (merino stud book, 1905-1913); Milroy Station (ledgers, 1943-1954); Mogila Station (financial records, 1933-44); Mossgiel Station (financial books, 1891-2, 1906-35; stock books, 1886-9, 1931-48; and Summervale Station (ledgers, 1942-61).

3. Records relating to subsidiary companies absorbed by AML&F Co Ltd and to clients: Paroo Pastoral Co; Australian Sheep Farms Ltd; Frank Watson & Co Pty Ltd; McPhie & Co Pty Ltd; Yeates Bros Pty Ltd; H P Veness & Co Pty Ltd; A McLean & Co Pty Ltd; E W Sparke Pty Ltd; Bovril Australian Estates Ltd & allied companies; G M Richmond (Mogila); G M Richmond & Son (Mogila);Includes some minutes, financial records, articles of association, share records and reports.

Minutes of general and Management Committee meetings, correspondence, subject files, cash books, membership records (1973-1982), contribution lists (1931-1989), rule books, press cuttings, photographs, printed material, J Weir broadcast transcripts (1948-1956), industrial files and training files. Includes records of predecessor NSW Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employees Association.

Ledgers; journals; cash books; station financial records and monthly returns (showing information re persons employed, stock, rainfall); reappraisement of rentals of some of the company's stations in the western division of New South Wales between 1890 and 1904; information re. income and working expenses of the company's stations between 1893 and 1943; contracts of sale, miscellaneous papers and maps relating to the company's stations.