Recordings of folk songs and dance music from Queensland and also stories, legends and recollections of customs and immigrant settlement, particularly German and Scandinavian in rural Queensland.

About 500 books, pamphlets, reports, leaflets, circulars, reprints and transcripts, mostly published 1920–1950, relating to communism, the labour movement and international politics. About half are Australian.

Papers and photographs related to Clark's life and work as an Australian historian of renown.

Folklore performances and oral history interviews recorded between 1981 and 1989, containing music, recitations and recollections of performances and local history.

Recordings of interviews made by Siobhán McHugh while producing various series for the ABC and also when working on her book Minefields and Miniskirts, together with papers and manuscripts.

Oral history interviews with prominent Australian women.

The Australian Inland Mission established 15 nursing homes, bush hospitals and services in remote Australian locations.

1290 recordings of interviews and readings from many of Australia's poets, artists, writers, composers, actors, academics, publishers, librarians, scientists, anthropologists, public servants and some politicians

Diaries, papers, photographs, maps and other material related to Australia's involvement in the Antarctic

27 recordings of traditional music, recitations, folklore and oral histories made in New South Wales between 1968 and 1995.

Oral history recordings by Ros Bowden for the Women of the land and Comic artists and illustrators projects.

Oral history interviews recorded by Neil Bennetts with leading Australian figures in a wide range of sports.