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1 carton containing broadcast correspondence reports, scripts for TV reports, ABC memos, reports from West New Guinea, telegrams, and various documents collected in New Guinea; press clippings on New Guinea from 1962-1966; a black binder with photographic materials, including negatives and slides of New Guinea; 1 type 3 box of slides of the Kashmir region in 1977 by Marjorie Taylor (aunt).

Research papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

Contains research papers, academic articles, speeches, diaries, correspondence and government publications on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles. Papers re general Pacific Islands matters, including Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and the South Pacific Commission, constitutional development, and press cuttings. The collection was compiled by Allan during his time as an administrator in these Islands and as a researcher.

The series includes administrative files maintained by Davidson as Professor of Pacific History and Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, dealing with staff including appointments, students, the Coombs building, the New Guinea Research Unit and committees of which Davidson was a member. There are two files which include material about his death. There are also research files which include correspondence, research notes, press cuttings from the Fiji Times, South Pacific Commission papers, articles by Davidson and others, and typescript copies of his Peter Dillon biography and Samoa mo Samoa. There are also parliamentary debates from Samoa and Kiribati and photographs related to the four-volume book 'Pacific Islands' published in 1943-1945.

Correspondence, reports, press cuttings, research materials, contracts and employment documents, lecture notes and student essays, conference programs, manuscripts and publications, and interview tapes. Also includes records related to the Tongan History Association.

Diaries, 1931-2002
Film and theatre albums, 1932-1990s
Personal papers, 1921-2001
Large format material, 1920s-1982
Correspondence, 1956-2005
University research material, 1940s-1950s
Maps
Research materials, 1950s-2000
MAGNT Aboriginal Art Collection, 1960s-1970s
National Museum of Australia catalogue, 1992
Sound recordings, 1960s
Indigenous photographs, 1950s-1960s
Photograph albums, 1923-2005
Slides, 1954-1970
Movie films, 1960-1974
Super 8 films, 1974-1988
Videos, 1990-2000
Obituaries and condolences (for SA Wurm), 2001-2002

The collection consists of research works and papers by Shineberg; files of general research material arranged by subject including Andrew Cheyne's Trading Voyages, cargo cults, decolonisation, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati/Gilbert Islands, pacific labour trade, Marquesas Islands, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); undergraduate teaching resources and lectures; correspondence (including with Bronwen Douglas), photographs, computer disks, microfilm prints, material related to Shineberg's career, copies of archival material dating from the 18th century, card indexes and miscellaneous reprints.

Papers documenting Gerard Ward's research.

Jacqueline Leckie, 'Nursing and Modernity: Negotiating Traditions and Cultures in Fiji,' from box marked 'Engendering Health. Copyedited pages before final submission in 2005.'

Christine Weir, 'Fijian and Missionary Views of Health and Sickness, Life and Death in the Early Contact Period,' from box marked 'Engendering Health. Copyedited pages before final submission in 2005.'

The series contains the research materials of Timothy Macnaught on the history of Fiji. It consists primarily of his handwritten research notes, which he made on index cards, especially during his fieldwork in Fiji in the early to mid-1970s. These include research for his PhD thesis (Australian National University, 1975), and a folder of work for a study of controversial Fijian leader Apolosi Nawai (1876–1946).

There are also reproductions of historic sources and a small number of drafts or other writings by other authors on subjects relevant to the history of Fiji.

A significant portion of the series is in the Fijian language.

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

This collection comprises the research papers of K L Gillion, created primarily during his PhD thesis research at the Australian National University. These include handwritten notes, annotated publications, and datasets on Indian indenture and indentured labourers in Fiji, and the activities of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR).

5 page text. Latest date 1955. Printed in negative and not very legible.

Folder labelled 'Apostoli draft + Some Materials' containing extensive handwritten notes and index cards, clippings, photocopy of a (Fijian colonial?) government memorandam dated 1917, presumably towards a publication on Apolosi Nawai.

Contains research and personal notes of Macnaughten

Subtitle: 10th October 1974 Souvenir Programme. 60 p. staple bound book, colour cover and black and white contents.

Bundle of ~250 large index cards in original order. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Around 200 index cards

Typed transcript of 15 page speech bound with a pearl-headed pin on the topic 'what do Fijians think of Europeans.'

Macnaught's Honours Thesis, Macquarie Universtiy, ~87p., plus handwritten note.

Box (type 5) of ~1000 large index cards, plus 3 small notebooks, in original order with subdivisions marked by elastic bands. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Folder, marked John Natcon, of 8 photocopies of handwritten notes (3 p.) and Teaching in Rural Fiji, ed. A.G. Hopkins, 1972 (5 p.).

Masters thesis by Dayna Dias, University of Hawaii

Staple bound text on customs of Fiji (84 p), and a staple bound text consisting mostly of tables of place names, possibly school districts.

Folder (inaacurately) marked Carbon Paper containing handwritten lists.

Draft of Charles J. Weeks Jr.'s 1995 article submitted to Macnaught for review, differing in various respects from the final version published in Pacific Studies Journal 18, 3.

Folder, marked Bau, of photocopies of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, mostly undated but exceptions are c.1913-1917. Headings include Minutes, Joni Madraiwiwi, Tikina Moturiki, Land grants, Native Lands Commission.

Folder marked N Regs containing copies of microfiche printout of sections of the Fijian Ordinance of 1912, plus other microfiche printout of a few pages from the diary of D. C. (?) Lau, 1955.

Photocopy of a letter to the governer of Fiji, 1913, from A. Kemaitai of the Matanivanua concerning customs of Bau, plus a long document in Fijian headed 1745/14 and dated 1913

8 leaves of small notepapers, paperclipped, with cryptic notes by Macnaughten.

Stapled handwritten manuscript by Jean Dwyer.

Folder of research material, including photocopied maps, notepad marked Carew Papers, printout of The Story of a Little War, with attached note and annotations, paperclipped pages labelled Cakobau Records, hand-drawn map of part of Fiji (2 sheets), loose notepaper, photocopy of article on Fiji in The Daily Southern Cross, no date.

~59 large index cards with notes, containing internal dates from 1888-1944.

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, kept during Macnaught's time in Suva. Appears to be Macnaught's register of research notes (cards?).

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, used by Macnaught in Canberra in c.1973

30 black and white photograph with typed labels on verso, in ring-binder style plastic sleeves bound together with metal tabs. Photos seemly collected from various historical sources.

Folder labelled N.L.C. of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1892 to 1937. Headings include Education, Maloto, Sukuna.

Folder labelled Biographies of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1890 to 1933. Headings include Cakobau, Joni Maititini, Ratu Bola, Ratu Vuladaunibau.

Extract from unknown publication showing table of administrative information. 3 stapled sheets.

Tape bound booklet, 4 pages, of notes from Macnaught's dissertation withheld from public view.

Folder labelled Population of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1891 to 1953.

Folder labelled Chiefs of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1896 to 1973. Headings include Hierarchy, IQ, Lala, Roko, Tui Cakau.

Folder labelled Admin of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1895 to 1971. Headings include DC Conference, Fiji Admin, Native Dept, People, Roko, SNA.

Notebook labelled 'Serua' with Macnaught's name and address, binding lost, leaving 57 foolscap pages (1-53 handnumbered, plus 4 at the beginning) plus cover, filled with handwritten notes.

Folder labelled Land of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1938. Cards have heading 'Land'.

Folder of photocopies of handwritten entries labelled 'Native Regulations,' with dates mentioned up to c.1940

Folder labelled Draunikau of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1887 to 1937. Includes mention of the Tuka Movement. Headings include Tuka, Draunikau, Luveniwai, Nabobuco, Buobuco.

Handwritten manuscript pages, some marked draft b. (pp.1-8), draft c (pp.1-20), 3 handwritten large index cards, a prospectus for the Journal of Pacific Studies

Notebook with inserts containing draft of 'The Rise of the Korolevu: Chiefly Power in a Fijian Province 1830-1944' plus letters from informants in Fiji, part of an article with the header 'Deuba. The Society and its Background,' photocopies of printed material on the population of Fiji, with annotations and notecard, and a stapled bundle of lined sheets labelled 'notes.'

Folder labelled Bavan of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1893 to 1933. Headings include Batiki, Joni Madraiwiwi, Naikai, Verata.

Folder labelled Sukuna of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1912 to 1940. Headings include Diaries, Jiale Vuiyasawa, Nasoqo, Sukuna, Vakavanua.

Folder labelled Vakavanua of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1936. Headings include Bulis, Kadava, Land, Solevu, Turagaitaukbi, Verata.

Folder labelled People Women Child Welfare of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1888 to 1930. Headings include Absenteeism, Admin, Child Mission, Hygenic Mission, People, Women

Macnaught's Honours Thesis, Macquarie Universtiy, ~87p., plus handwritten note.

Folder labelled 'Apostoli draft + Some Materials' containing extensive handwritten notes and index cards, clippings, photocopy of a (Fijian colonial?) government memorandam dated 1917, presumably towards a publication on Apolosi Nawai.

Subtitle: 10th October 1974 Souvenir Programme. 60 p. staple bound book, colour cover and black and white contents.

Bundle of ~250 large index cards in original order. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Contains research and personal notes of Macnaughten

Box (type 5) of ~1000 large index cards, plus 3 small notebooks, in original order with subdivisions marked by elastic bands. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Around 200 index cards

Folder of research material, including photocopied maps, notepad marked Carew Papers, printout of The Story of a Little War, with attached note and annotations, paperclipped pages labelled Cakobau Records, hand-drawn map of part of Fiji (2 sheets), loose notepaper, photocopy of article on Fiji in The Daily Southern Cross, no date.

Photocopy of a letter to the governer of Fiji, 1913, from A. Kemaitai of the Matanivanua concerning customs of Bau, plus a long document in Fijian headed 1745/14 and dated 1913

Folder, marked Bau, of photocopies of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, mostly undated but exceptions are c.1913-1917. Headings include Minutes, Joni Madraiwiwi, Tikina Moturiki, Land grants, Native Lands Commission.

Folder, marked John Natcon, of 8 photocopies of handwritten notes (3 p.) and Teaching in Rural Fiji, ed. A.G. Hopkins, 1972 (5 p.).

Folder marked N Regs containing copies of microfiche printout of sections of the Fijian Ordinance of 1912, plus other microfiche printout of a few pages from the diary of D. C. (?) Lau, 1955.

Staple bound text on customs of Fiji (84 p), and a staple bound text consisting mostly of tables of place names, possibly school districts.

Folder (inaacurately) marked Carbon Paper containing handwritten lists.

Typed transcript of 15 page speech bound with a pearl-headed pin on the topic 'what do Fijians think of Europeans.'

Masters thesis by Dayna Dias, University of Hawaii

5 page text. Latest date 1955. Printed in negative and not very legible.

Folder labelled Population of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1891 to 1953.

Folder labelled Chiefs of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1896 to 1973. Headings include Hierarchy, IQ, Lala, Roko, Tui Cakau.

Folder labelled Biographies of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1890 to 1933. Headings include Cakobau, Joni Maititini, Ratu Bola, Ratu Vuladaunibau.

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, kept during Macnaught's time in Suva. Appears to be Macnaught's register of research notes (cards?).

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, used by Macnaught in Canberra in c.1973

Tape bound booklet, 4 pages, of notes from Macnaught's dissertation withheld from public view.

30 black and white photograph with typed labels on verso, in ring-binder style plastic sleeves bound together with metal tabs. Photos seemly collected from various historical sources.

Folder labelled N.L.C. of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1892 to 1937. Headings include Education, Maloto, Sukuna.

Draft of Charles J. Weeks Jr.'s 1995 article submitted to Macnaught for review, differing in various respects from the final version published in Pacific Studies Journal 18, 3.

Stapled handwritten manuscript by Jean Dwyer.

Folder labelled Admin of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1895 to 1971. Headings include DC Conference, Fiji Admin, Native Dept, People, Roko, SNA.

8 leaves of small notepapers, paperclipped, with cryptic notes by Macnaughten.

Folder labelled Bavan of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1893 to 1933. Headings include Batiki, Joni Madraiwiwi, Naikai, Verata.

Folder labelled People Women Child Welfare of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1888 to 1930. Headings include Absenteeism, Admin, Child Mission, Hygenic Mission, People, Women

Extract from unknown publication showing table of administrative information. 3 stapled sheets.

Folder labelled Sukuna of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1912 to 1940. Headings include Diaries, Jiale Vuiyasawa, Nasoqo, Sukuna, Vakavanua.

Notebook with inserts containing draft of 'The Rise of the Korolevu: Chiefly Power in a Fijian Province 1830-1944' plus letters from informants in Fiji, part of an article with the header 'Deuba. The Society and its Background,' photocopies of printed material on the population of Fiji, with annotations and notecard, and a stapled bundle of lined sheets labelled 'notes.'

Folder labelled Land of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1938. Cards have heading 'Land'.

Handwritten manuscript pages, some marked draft b. (pp.1-8), draft c (pp.1-20), 3 handwritten large index cards, a prospectus for the Journal of Pacific Studies

Folder labelled Draunikau of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1887 to 1937. Includes mention of the Tuka Movement. Headings include Tuka, Draunikau, Luveniwai, Nabobuco, Buobuco.

Folder labelled Vakavanua of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1936. Headings include Bulis, Kadava, Land, Solevu, Turagaitaukbi, Verata.

Notebook labelled 'Serua' with Macnaught's name and address, binding lost, leaving 57 foolscap pages (1-53 handnumbered, plus 4 at the beginning) plus cover, filled with handwritten notes.

~59 large index cards with notes, containing internal dates from 1888-1944.