The original collection consists of 41 cassettes of interviews with prominent Australian women recorded by Mitchell in the years 1981 to 1987. The interviewees include:

• Joy Baluch – former Mayor of Port Augusta
• Dame Beryl Beaurepaire, AC, DBE – political activist, feminist and philanthropist
• Raelene Boyle AM, MBE – Olympic Games' silver medalist (athletics)
• Evonne Cawley AC, MBE – former No 1 professional tennis player
• Dame Mary Durack AC, DBE – author and historian
• Beatrice Faust AO – author and women's activist
• Dawn Fraser AC, MBE – 8-time Olympic medallist, 15-year world record holder and former politician
• Heather McKay – retired squash plater, winner of 16 consecutive British Opens
• Marlene Mathews AO – retired sprinter
• Dame Roma Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC – an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor
• Robyn Nevin AO – actress
• Pat O'Shane AM – retired teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, and Aboriginal activist
• Elizabeth Riddell – New Zealand-Australian poet and journalist
• Edna Ryan – feminist and labour movement activist and writer
• Maggie Tabberer AM – fashion, publishing and television personality
• Margaret Whitlam AO – social campaigner, author, and athlete.

The 2005 instalment contains 85 cassettes of interviews, mostly with women, recorded by Mitchell between 1981 and 2001. The interviewees include the following Australians:

• Robyn Archer AO – singer, writer, stage director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts
• Betty Churcher AO – arts administrator
• Cheryl Kernot – politician, academic, and political activist.
• Carmen Lawrence – academic and former politician (Premier of Western Australia)
• Patrice Newell AM – former model, television presenter turned author
• Susan Ryan – politician and public servant
• Anne Summers AO – writer and columnist
• Amanda Vanstone AO – former politician and a former Ambassador to Italy
• Wendy Whitely AOM
• Carla Zampatti AC, OMRI – Italian-born Australian fashion designer and businesswoman.

There are also interviews recorded in New York with leading feminists such as:

• Betty Friedan – American feminist writer and activist
• Erica Jong – American novelist, satirist, and poet
• Kate Millet – American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist
• Gloria Steinem – American journalist and social-political activist
• Naomi Woolf – American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.

Manuscripts and personal papers

The papers mostly relate to Mitchell's books and consist of:

• manuscripts
• reviews
• letters from readers
• publicity material
• newspaper cuttings
• itineraries.

There are also reviews and letters concerning her radio and television programs, copies of articles written for the Australian, and some photographs.

Photographs

The Library holds photographic portraits of Mitchell taken by:

• Greg Barrett (1993 – not yet digitised)
• Dean McNicoll (1997)
• Bob Givens (2005).

In 1989, the Library purchased a collection of oral history interviews recorded by Mitchell when she was writing her books:

• Tall Poppies
• Winning Women
• The Matriarchs.

In 2005, a second instalment was purchased, comprising:

• drafts of her books
• correspondence
• press cuttings
• tapes and transcripts of interviews.

The oral history recordings received in 1989 are held in the Oral History and Folklore Collection.

There is a collection-level entry in the catalogue, but the interviews have not been individually catalogued.

The papers are housed in the Manuscripts Collection.