The University of Queensland

Manuscript Collection UQFL 281 : Guide to the Papers of Marie McFarlane

Table of Contents

• Scope and content note
• Biographical note
• Series descriptions

Scope and content note

Documenting left politics and struggles in Brisbane, 1960's - 1990's

• 1949-1995
• 18 boxes, 34 posters
• Available for reference
• Reports, pamphlets, brochures, conference material, meeting minutes, correspondence, journals and posters relating to Left-wing politics in Brisbane.
• Emphasis on women's activities and the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union.
• Arrangement by organisation.

Biographical note

Marie McFarlane held a number of elected positions with the trade union movement from the 1970s to the 1990s.

She was a shop steward for many years of Australian Technical Employees Association/Australian Telephonists and Phonogram Operators Association.

She was also shop steward for Food Services PMG Telecom Queensland.

In 1978 she became the first honorary secretary of the Working Women's Charter Committee and held that position until 1987.

Series Descriptions

Box 1

File A:

Women in Trade Unions Network (WITUN) - Qld (1985-1987)

• Correspondence and general letters
• Notices for general meetings, social events, seminars and marches
• Minutes of WITUN meetings
• Membership applications
• Proposed constitutions
• Brochures
• WITUN accounts 1985-86
• Steering Committee reports

The Working Women’s Centre (1981-1985)

(Working Women’s Information Service abbreviated to WWIS

Working Women’s Centre abbreviated to WWC)

• Owen, Mary "The working women's centre" reprinted from
  Radical Education DossierAutumn 1991
• Working Womens Information Service Bulletins, 1980-81
• Correspondence
• Working Women’s Centre Reports to Unions 1980-81
• Memos
• Women & men. Equal partners in unions
  Background statistical data on women and trade unions
• Brochures

Office of the Status of Women

• From the Office of the Status of Women: "Questions frequently
  asked about affirmative action"
• Affirmative Action and the Trade Union Movement.
  Briefing for the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
  Melbourne, 21/8/84.
• News Release from: Status of Women. Minister Assisting the Prime Minister.
  Re: New National Women’s Consultative Council dated 4/8/86.
• Special Notice re: women and work newsletter.
  With attached Women and work newsletter,
  Vol. 5, no. 2, September 1983.

Women and Equal Opportunity Committee of TLC (1983-1988)

• Women and Equal Opportunity Committee of TLC,
  known membership as at 15/6/87
• Correspondence
• Notices: Feminist Weekend on Fraser Island
  Friday Evening 4 April - Sunday Evening 6 April
• Fourth ALP National Labor Women’s Conference 27/1/86
  Resolutions with letter to members of Labor Women’s Organisation,
  Qld Branch ALP

File B:

ACTU Policies - Women in the workforce
Papers, booklets, pamphlets (1975-1986)

• ACTU Congress 1981. Policy Decision : Working Women
• Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations.
  International Women’s Year, 1975. Submission by the ACSPA.
  in respect of activities to be initiated in 1975.
• ACTU Flexible working hours scheme
• ACTU Child Care : ACTU Submission to National Women’s
  Advisory Council. May 1982
• ACTU - ACSPA. Submission on the Child Care Act. January 1979.
• ACTU. Integration of Women into Trade Unions in Australia.
  Report to ICFTU. May 1980
• ACTU. Maternity Leave Funding. ACTU submission to the
  Minister for Social Security. May 1980
• Proceedings and recommendations of the Special Unions Conference
  on Affirmative Action, October 19, 1984. ACTU
• Action Program for Women Workers. ACTU, September 1984
  (2 copies)
• Decisions of the Australian Congress of Trade Unions held at Sydney Town Hall, 12 September - 16 September, 1977. ACTU. Industrial Print, Richmond
• ACTU Child Care Kit
• Work and the dangers of heat stress. ACTU
• Superannuation and women. July 1986
• Australian Trade Unions and overseas born workers in Australia
  Facts and Figures.
• Action program for women workers progress report no. 4.
  November 1986
• Minority Group Policies: Aboriginal Affairs, Immigration Policy,
  Refugee policy. August 1986
• The two-tiered wage system: implications for women
  Action Program for women workers. December 1986
• ACTU Executive decisions Hobart, November 24-27,
  1986 Matters for information of ACTU State Branches and affiliated unions, December 1986
• ACTU Executive decisions Melbourne, August 16-20, 1982.
• Matters for information of ACTU Branches and affiliated unions, August 1982
• ACTU Agenda Items ACTU Congress September 1985, dated July 1985
• Paper: Tax deductible child care issues for consideration, May 1985

Box 2

File A: ACTU Women’s Committee (1975-1986)

Correspondence

• Papers: "Women & men.unions Equal partners in unions"
• Minutes of ACTU Women’s Committee meetings
• ACTU Circulars
• Notices
• Speeches
• ACTU Conference papers 1981
• Women in Unions conference papers
• Meeting resolutions
• Working Women’s Policy, p5 & 6 only
• Submissions
• Memos

File B: Children by Choice Association (1981-1995)

(Children by Choice Association abbreviated to CBCA)

• CBCA Annual Reports
• CBCA Newsletters
• Correspondence
• CBCA Annual General meeting agendas
• Meeting notices

Women’s Abortion Campaign

Women’s Abortion Campaign Newsletters, February 1993, April 1994

File C: Abortion Rights Campaigns - Qld (1980-1995)

• Queensland Women’s Liberation Newsletter No. 4 Nov/Dec 1978
• Brisbane Women’s Health Centre "News Update", June 1986
• Women’s songs
• Stickers
• Posters
• Brochures
• Ryan, Dr Lyndall, Ripper, Dr Margie, Buttfield, Dr Barbara.
  We women decide. Women’s experience of seeking abortion in 
  Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. 1985- 1992
  Women’s Studies Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University. November 1994.
• Abortion Rights Coalition (NSW). Fact Sheet, May 1989
• Pamphlets
• Extract from minutes of the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland. Meeting held 26/9/79
• Pregnancy Termination Control Bill. 1980
• The Abortion Situation. An update
• Motion to go to Trades and Labour Council Meeting of 5/12 (handwritten)
• Women’s Weekly Survey May 1980. "Should abortion be available"
• Books (concerning Abortion) (list)
• Paper: "Which way now for the abortion campaign".
• "Five reasons why trade unionists should march against Corrie’s anti-abortion bill". (handwritten note)
• Trade Unionists for Abortion News. No. 1. June 1980
• Abortion. A woman’s right to choose. Compiled by: AUS Women’s department. Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (Sydney), Women’s Abortion Action Coalition (Melbourne), Published by the Australian Union of Students.

Press clippings (photocopies):

• "Heart and mind issue", date stamped 26 May 1985, Sunday Mail
• "New human life deserves protection of the law", date stamped 24/5/85
• "Privacy the issue", Courier Mail, date stamped 24/5/8?
• "The abortion issue: your views", Sunday Mail, date stamped 26/5/85
• Paper: Executive summary and recommendations (re: Abortion in Australia)
• WAC newsletter No. 3 October 1993
• Abortion rights network of Australia 2nd National meeting 21 November 1993 Brisbane - Notes, Agenda
• Abortion rights network of Australia (ARNA) Financial Report for the period
  1st December 1992 to 18th November 1993
• Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (Sydney). Discussion papers
• Role of state ARNA Representative 1994. A proposal
• Petition: to Honourable Speaker and members of the Legislative Assembly in Parliament Assembled: re: criminal code giving equity for women before the law

File D: Labor Women’s Organisations (LWO) (ALP) (1977-1989)

• Correspondence
• Booklets
• Minutes of Lilley FDE. meeting 28/3/77.
• Invitation by Petrie and Lilley, Federal Divisional Executives of the ALP "The Debate on Uranium Mining in Australia", 23/4/77.
• Leaflets
• LWO, Qld Branch ALP Notices
• Daily Bulletin: Women, work, wealth, 4th ALP National Women’s Conference, 26/1/86
• Photocopy: Political Aims of the Federation (Labor Bulletin, Barcaldine, 28/2/189, Mitchell Library.)

Stapled together:

• Australian Labor Party - Queensland. Organisational and Administrative structure
• "A voice in party affairs"
• "Making the rules and forming new policies"
• "State Council"
• "Union delegates to State Council - 1985"
• ALP Sandgate Branch, February 1987 News
• Labour Women’s Newsletter, January 1982

Papers relating to the National Labor Women’s Conference
(NLWC), Canberra 29 Jan - 1 Feb 1982

• NLWC - programme
• Ryan, Susan. Abstract: Winning women’s votes - campaign strategies.
• Henderson, Yvonne. Abstract: New Directions in Education.
• Crowley, Rosemary. Notes for discussion. Health.
• Mayer, Helen. Abstract: Training and education for ALP women.
• Appleby, June. Abstract: Training and education of ALP women.
• Willcox, Annette. Abstract: Women’s health.
• Arena, Franca Abstract: The participation of women of non-English
  speaking background in the ALP.
• Levey, Anne. Abstract: Socialism and feminism.
• Giles, Penny. Abstract: Women as earners.
• Darling, Elaine, Member for Lilley. So you want to be an MP.
  Notes for discussion.
• Ryan, Julia. Abstract: Capitalism and patriarchy - deciding the priorities.
• Abstract, Ruth Coleman, Senator for WA. The international impact of
  ALP Uranium policy. Batt, Beth. Abstract: Factions and Feminism.
• Kingshott, Maureen. Abstract: The Family Law Act - Labor’s love lost?
• Callister, Valerie & Marples, Carol Abstract: Electioneering.
• Labor Women’s Organisation, Qld Branch ALP. Special State Conference 25/4/82. Motions
• Reports
• NLWC Number 1. 31/1/82. Various talks, reports, workshops.
• NLWC Number 2. 1/2/82. Various talks, reports, workshops
• Resolutions carried by the NLWC, Canberra, 29/1 - 1/2.
• Reports from the State LWO (ALP) branches, affirmative action reports
  and Abortion reports
• The Australian Financial System - proposals for change
• Papers re: ALP. and Uranium policy, women workers
• Hawke, R.J. Quality of life - the continuing challenge : the impact of 
  technology with special reference to women. Keynote address by
  R.J.Hawke AC, MP Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations
  and Employment and Youth Affairs.
  Australian Federation of University Women.
  Diamond Jubilee Conference. Canberra, 25 January, 1982.

Box 3

File A: Working Women’s Charter Committee (1978-1986)

• Correspondence
• Notices
• Minutes of Working Women’s Charter Committee meetings
• 1982 - New Policy Adopted: Working Women
• Minutes of meetings of QTLC WWCC
• International Women’s Day notices
• Handwritten notes
• Submission by the TLC of Q on behalf of the Queensland WWCC for the
  establishment of a Working Women’s Centre to be located in Brisbane,
  dated 10/11/83.
• ACTU Circulars
• List of names and addresses of delegates to the TLC WWCC
  dated 15/4/86
• Booklet: The working women’s’ charter campaign written by Megan Martin
• Working women’s charter implementation manual no. 2 : equal pay,
  February 1985
• Newspaper: Working Women’s Charter. ACTU. (in different languages)
  (5 copies)
• Press releases
• Paper: The WWCC
• Paper: One struggle many fronts
• Paper: Stop the legislation
• Working Women’s charter: Current Charter, Suggested Charter left blank
• Policy Decision: Working Women: Current Policy and Suggested Policy
• Journal article on Charter Committee
• Women at work. Vol no. 2 issue no. 3 - February/March 198-,
  Vol 5, No. 2, D38, June- August 1985.
• Booklets
• Reports
• ACTU Action program for women workers
• TLC Affirmative action Conference statement, 15/11/85 (2 copies)
• Pamphlets

File B:
International Women’s Day (IWD) - Brisbane (1979-1995)

• Correspondence
• Programmes
• Draft speakers’ list
• Leaflets
• Posters
• Songsheets
• Newspaper: Women Unite - and fight!
• Newspaper: IWD 1979. Rally and March
• Special IWD supplement : the Socialist "Socialist Party greets women on IWD
• Newspaper: Tribune Magazine. Special IWD issue
• Submission to union journals: What is IWD
• Minutes of meeting of the IWD Organising Committee 1980-1984
• Handwritten notes
• IWD Collective name lists

File C: Union of Australian Women (UAW) (1980-1989)

• Union of Australian Women 30th Anniversary publication.
• Women and wages in the war years 1940-1945. Sheetmetal Workers’
  Union. A publication for the UAW. 1982
  Union. A publication for the UAW. 1982
• Women and apartheid. A Union of Australian Women contribution to the United Nations Decade for Women. July 1980
• UAW News. 1982-1986
• UAW News. & dates for your diary, 1988-1989
• National Bulletin. UAW October 1989

File D: Socialist Feminist Forum

• Yarrow, Sue "Socialist feminists fact the 90s". 29/5/87
• Correspondence
• Leaflets
• Notes
• Socialist Feminist Forum Newsletter No. 2 dated 22/1/87

File E: Speeches & talks - Marie McFarlane

• Handwritten notes
• Miller, Emma, Young, Pam "Women need hat pins" - handwritten notes
• Report of Women in Mining in Queensland in 1988
• Bibliography
• Little talk given to Latin America Centre 3/7/87
• 4QR 4/7/88
• Talk at Qld Uni on 3/4/87. Socialist Action Forum. Anti-strike legislation

Box 4

File A: Trades and Labor Council of Queensland (1982 - 1993)

• Draft proposals
• TLC structure
• Decisions of meetings of the TLC of Qld 1982 - 1990
• Executive recommendations to be ratified by the meetings of the TLC
  of Qld, 1985 - 1986 
• Correspondence: TLC of Qld to all Unions headed Anti-union legislationcampaign, dated 22/4/85, 17/6/85 & 21/10/85
• Restructure of the TLC of Qld Executive and Council Function, March 1986.
• TLC of Qld Annual Financial Statement of receipts and expenditure and statement
  of assets, for the years ended June 1985 and June 1986 
• Minutes of meeting of the TLC Working Women’s Charter Committee held 7/4/87 
• "The Third Wave - Asian Capitalism and Australia." Address by Abe David,
  Co-Author, TLC meeting 18/4/90 
• TLC of Qld - ACTU State Branch 1992-1993 Annual Report
• Document 1 - ACTU Queensland Branch - Special Council Meeting
• Document 2 - ACTU Queensland Branch - Special Council Meeting
• Document 3 - ACTU Queensland Branch - Special Council Meeting - advice to delegates on meeting arrangements
• Invitation to Official launch of the Alex MacDonald Memorial Library
• Paper: "Strategy - young people and tomorrows workplace"
• ACTU Queensland Branch Special Council Meeting - Arts and Community Cultural Development
  ACTU Queensland Branch, Special Council Meeting - Recruitment and
  Public Relations Policy working group
• Report to ACTUQ Special Unions Conference - Industrial Legislation
• Report to ACTUQ Special Unions Conference - Employment Initiatives

File B: Queensland Coalition for Democratic Rights (1985)

• Heresy : a newsletter. Vol 1 No. 6, 5 Sept 1985 to Vol 1 No. 12,30 Nov 1985 (duplicate copies of Vol 4 no. 10 & Vol 3 no. 12) 
• Minutes of QCDR Steering Committee: 27/10/85
• Paper: "Trade Unions and the State."
• Paper: "Industrial democracy - Warren Bowden." A paper delivered to a Fightback seminar, 15th March, 1987 
• QCDR Seminar Papers

Box 5

File A: Women in Labour Conference - Brisbane 1984

• Correspondence, 1982
• Budget estimates, 1983
• Pamphlets, leaflets
• Policy drafts, 1982 - 1984
• Minutes of Organising Committee for Women and Labour Conference,
  1982 - 1984
• Handwritten notes
• Talk Back No. 15, Jan - No. 17, June 1984
• Folder of 4th Women and Labour Conference material, July 1984
• Fourth Women & Labour Conference Papers. Brisbane. 1984

File B: Labour Women’s Conference - 1987

• Motion list
• Leaflet for International Women’s Day
• Correspondence, 1987
• Agenda for conference

File C: Broad Left Conference - Sydney, March 1986

• The Broad Left Conference Bulletin Easter Weekend 1986,
  NSW Institute of Technology, No. 3, June 1986
• Pamphlets
• Biographies of participants
• Leaflet: Broad left meeting "The Miners’ fight is our fight"
• Paper: A plea for "Common Ground"
• Circular re: seminar

File D: National Fightback Conference - Canberra, July 1986

• Conference programme
• Conference booklet
• Fightback declaration draft
• Conference bulletin
• Leaflets, pamphlets, meeting notices
• Rank and File Committee notices

File E: National Left Fightback Conference - Melbourne, April 1987

• Pamphlets, 1986
• Newsletters, 1986 - 1987
• Correspondence, general letters
• Notices
• Papers delivered to fightback seminar, 1987
• Conference agenda
• Draft Statements
• Proposals, suggestions, motions, resolutions
• Policy statements
• Reports
• Defend Trade Unions A resource kit in support of Trade Union Resistance to attacks from the right. Produced by the WA Left Action Coalition
• Minutes of meetings (Qld Solidarity)
• Hard facts for hard times Newsletter No. 14, February 1987

File F: Miscellaneous Socialist, Feminist Union Conferences

• Communists and the Labour movement conference, August 23 and 24,
  Melbourne State College. Programme 
• Pamphlets
• Posters

Women’s Employment and Trade and Industry Policy Seminar, November 1986

• Report of women’s employment and trade and industry policy seminar.
  Melbourne, 5/11/86 
• Booth, Anna. "Trade Policy: The TCF industry as a case study."
• Background to paper delivered to ACTU TDCS Women's employment and trade and industry policy seminar, Melbourne 5/11/86, Sydney 11/11/86.
  (Attachment 1) 
• Jones, Suzie. Industrial Officer, ACTU. ACTU women’s employment and trade and industry policy seminar, 5/11/86, 11/11/86. Strategies for integration (Attachment 2.)
• Women’s employment and trade and industry policy seminar. Affirmative action and industry policy. (Attachment 3.)
• George, Jennie "The relationship between women’s employment issues and the priorities of the ACTU’s action program for women workers." (Attachment 4.)
• Folder of material: Women’s employment and trade and industry policy seminar
• Feminism Now Sit-in Conference 9-10 August 1980 - Programmes, pamphlets
• Booklet: Vacant situations : women and unemployment conference papers. Women’s Department. Australian Union of Students

Box 6

File A: Miscellaneous Queensland Left & Union Ephemera

• Builders Labourers Federation pamphlets
• Press clippings (photocopies), papers, flyers re: strikes, strike laws and industrial disputes in Queensland, 1982 - 1987
• Correspondence 1987 - 1984
• Newsletters, 1985 - 1990
• Pamphlets re: enterprise bargaining, racism, Human Rights Commission,
  HECS, Apartheid in South Africa
• Submissions
• Journals

Box 7

File A:  Australian Postal & Telecommunications Union (APTU) (1978-1994)

• Official Rules & Constitution of APTU
• Correspondence
• Minutes
• APTU State Conference papers
• Reports to APTU General Meetings
• APTU Women’s’ Committee correspondence
• Meeting notices
• Annual Reports

Box 8

File A: APTU (1978-1986)

• APTU Telecom Award Handbooks (1984)
• Agreements with Telecom Management 1986
• Industrial Gazettes 1978
• Draft Agreements between ATEA/ATPOE & Telecom Management

File B: APTU (1981-1993)

• Newspost Newsletter 1981-1987
• The Communication Worker 1984-1987
• The Telecommunications Worker 1993
• Telephone Echo 1988-1991
• Technology Preliminary Report. Gentec. May 1984

File C: APTU - Union elections

• Women’s Committee (1987)
• Consultant rep (1994)
• Vice President (1994)

File D: APTU - Miscellaneous union ephemera

• Material concerning APTU (Qld branch) Holiday Units
• Pamphlets
• Handwritten notes (photocopied) re: E.B.As
• Cartoon

File E: Socialist Action (Political organisation - 1985-1990)

• Socialist Action 1987-1990
• Pamphlets & leaflets

Box 9

File A: Socialist Action (Political organisation - 1985-1990)

• Documents and papers re: SEQEB dispute
• Reports from state branches to Socialist Action Conferences
• Discussion draft: Industrial and Political Trends, Conference 1988, by Tom O’Lincoln
• Catalyst Internal Bulletin of Socialist Action, July 1987 - February 1990

File B: International Socialist Organisation (1980-1994)

Newspapers and Journals:

• The battler March 1980
• Socialist Worker April - May 1994
• Socialist Organiser April - May 1994
• The Socialist May/June 93
• International Socialist 9 - 1981
• Booklet: A History of the Socialist Workers’ Action Group by Phil Ilton
• Leaflets, posters

File C: International Socialist Organisation (1981; 1991-1994)

Newsletters:

• ISO Internal Bulletin 1992-1993
• ISO News
• Socialist Worker progress reports
• Statements, papers
• National & branch reports
• Discussion bulletins
• Petitions

File D: Socialist Workers Party (Great Britain)

Booklets:

• Gibbons, Alan Russia: how the revolution was lost Socialists Unlimited, 1980
• Harman, Chris Why labour fails Socialists Unlimited, 1979
• Harman, Chris The Revolutionary Paper Socialists Workers Party, 1991

Journals:

• Socialist Review Feb, 94
• Socialist Worker Review 1986
• Marxism Conference material. 1983, 1993-94

Boxes 10 and 11

File A: Various socialist & feminist newspapers & publications - Australia & overseas

Workers’ Liberty. 1985

• Refractory Girl 1976, 1989, 1990
• Labor’s Social Contract 1982
• Direct Action 1979
• Youth Voice 1986
• Vanguard 1987
• Her-etical 1993, 1995
• Women in Action 1994, 1995
• The Socialist - South Africa 1991
• Socialist Worker 1977
• Troll [n.d.]
• Women & Revolution 1980, 1986-87
• The Modern Unionist 1980
• Solidarity 1987
• Freedom Socialist Bulletin 1990
• The Anarchist [n.d.]
• News & Letters 1994-95

Box 12

File A:

Women & Trade Unions

• "A changing base: strategies for organising women union members"
  Photographic exhibition brochure 1981
• Equality of rights, opportunities & treatment for women workers." (manual)
• "Women & Unions: a pilot study by the Community Research Action Centre,
  Monash University Union".
• Women at work 1980
• Reports

Anti-discrimination policies & laws - EEO & Affirmative Action

• Papers, pamphlets, booklets and newsletters (1973 - 1983)
• Correspondence

Papers:

• "Facts on women at work in Australia." Feb, 1977 Women’s Bureau,
  Department of Employment and Industrial Relations.
• "Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women" 1983
• "Social justice policy and implementation strategy for the Vocational
  Education, Training and Employment System", Oct 1983
• Affirmative Action Agency folder of booklets, articles, pamphlets.
• Lobby for equal opportunity : information kit for achieving equal
  opportunity legislation in Queensland
• Sex discrimination Bill ,1981
• National Committee on Discrimination in Employment & Occupation. Annual Report, 1981-82
• Folder of brochures : information about sex discrimination
• ACTU Submission to the Working Party on Affirmative Action legislation. August 1985
• Affirmative Action : policy discussion papers, manuals
• "Industry planning : work for women." 1985 (booklet)
• "The 51% Minority. A summary of Government programs and policies for women" (booklet)
• Heagney, Muriel "Are women taking men’s jobs" Melbourne, 1935
• Women & Work June 1994
• Women’s World March 1995

Box 13

File A: Occupational Health & Safety

• Policy Document on Occupational Stress
• Correspondence : Trades & Labour Council to M. McFarlane, 1986
• Occupational Health & Safety Courses and training brochures
• "Women Workers and job health hazards." 1975
• Division of Workplace Health & Safety Information Kit
• Hazards Bulletin of the Queensland Workers’ Health Centre. No. 15., Feb 1983
• Pamphlets and reports on RSI
• Occupation Health and Safety Bulletin re: Computer Terminals and Electromagnetic Radiation. August 1993
• Women’s Health Centre Annual Report to the Trades and Labour Council. 1982
• Occupational Health and Safety Statement. ACTU Queensland Branch
• Report from ACTU Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee
• Folder: Information and booklets: Occupation and Health Safety Course, and Stress in the Workplace

File B: Communist Party of Australia

         Booklets:

• Hughes, J.R. & Campbell, E.W. Australia on the eve of crisis Melbourne : Current Book Distributors, 1955
• McPhillip, Jack Penal powers cost unionists one million pounds! Sydney : Current Book Distributors, 1963
• The Proletarian revolution & Khrushchov’s revisionism - comment on the open letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU (viii) by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribas (People’s Daily) and Jongqi (Red Flag) ; Peking : Foreign Languages Press, 1964
• Hill, E.F. Conspiracy against the Australian people Sydney : Current Book Distributor, 1953
• Menzies’ Secret Police : Threat to democracy Newtown, NSW : R.S. Thompson
• Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist republics London : Soviet News, 1950
• Constitution of the Trade Unions of the USSR Moscow : Foreign Language Publishing House, 1949

Newspapers:

• Tribune 1966, 1986
• Impact 1983
• Booklet: Thomas, P. No! No! To Joh. The battle for Queensland Civil Rights ; Brisbane : Hugh R. Hamilton, 1979
• Here come the uglies : the new right ..." Praxis, 1983
• Pamphlet: Australia uprooted

Papers:

• "Communists and the labour movement." 1980
• "Work among women in the communist party 1920 - 1940."

File C: Miscellaneous live music & arts productions, ephemera, Brisbane

• Pamphlets and flyers for live music from Cuba.
• Theatrical drama and dance groups theatre programmes
• Posters
• Brochures and ephemera for Maleny Folk Festival. 1991 - 1994
• American Dance Theatre programme
• Folder: Plays, live entertainment we have seen Containing leaflets, tickets, programmes and other ephemera
• Folder: "Popular Front" posters by Errol O’Neill

Folk Music Magazines 1990 - 1995

• Folklines - monthly publication of the Queensland Folk Federation,
  March - July and September 1995
• Queensland Folk 1990-1995

Miscellaneous items in Box 14:

• The counter-revolutionary forces in the October events in Hungary ; Published by the Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People’s Republic
• Bucar, Annabelle The truth about American Diplomats Moscow : Literaturnaya Gazeta, 1951
• [Russian Book] in Russian. Warsazawa Listopad

Box 15

File A: Peace movements (1951 - 1980s)

Newspapers & Bulletins:

• Peace Victoria, June/July 1951
• Revolution June-July 1970
• Pen and Sword April-May 1970

Anti-Vietnam war leaflets and booklets

• Anti nuclear press clippings, leaflets
• Peace movement booklets, rally leaflets and other ephemera

File B:

The National Catholic Reporter April 1969 - August 1971

File C:

Herder correspondence : a monthly review of the Christian World (September 1969 - December 1970)

Box 16

File A:

Catholic Worker (March 1967 - January 1972)

File B:

The Peacemaker

File C: Latin America

Newspapers/Journals:

• Mujer/fempress 1986 - 1995
• Venceremos September-October 1985
• Quehaceres 19994 - 1995
• Intercontinental Press 1983 - 1986

• Brochures, pamphlets
• Folders:"Australia Cuba Friendship Society"

Newspapers/Journals:

• Gramma 1985 - 1986
• Cuba International 1985, 1986
• Cuba Today 1986

Letters to members 1985 - 1986

• Letters and brochures re: 1986 Work Brigade to Cuba
• Correspondence 1985

Miscellaneous items in box 16

• Journals/newspapers:
• ICSDW Bulletin May/June 1978, no. 3/78
• The Catholic Leader October 4, 1962
• Voice of Fatima International January 1970

Box 17

File A: Brisbane Labour History Association

• "A guide to the papers of Kath Thomas". Compiled by Margaret Reid November 1983

• Fred Paterson : A Personal History. South Brisbane : Brisbane Labour History Association, 1994
• Bailey, D. Holes in the ground : Qld coalminers in struggle, 1840-1980 Brisbane : D.J. Bailey, 1983

Journals:

• Recorder September 1985
• Women’s Archive Newsletter May 1986

Folder: Labour History Conference 6-8th June, 1987, Townsville

Brisbane Labour History Association. Minutes of Meetings, 1991-1992

• Newsletter of the Brisbane Labour History Association, 1991
• Proposed Constitution
• Meeting notices, pamphlets, leaflets

File B: Local History - Brisbane, Sandgate

Folder:  Brisbane History Group

• By the seaside  Sandgate : Sandgate & District Historical Society & Museum, 1988
• Brochures/leaflets for the Brisbane History Group publications, tours and events - Brisbane 1988 Heritage Tour  Brisbane History Group, 1988
• The Brisbane Courier : Newsletter of the Brisbane History Group Feb & June
• Brisbane at war Brisbane History Group Papers No. 4, 1986
• Correspondence 1986
• Queensland Historical Review Volume 6, No. 1 Brisbane 1988 Heritage Tour Brisbane History Group
• Ferguson, Lorna; Sandgate : from the beginning, Queensland : Keep Sandgate Beautiful Association, 1980
• Mornbrook,  Mrs "Sandgate : a watering place of Southern Queensland" in Centennial Magazine (photocopy)
• The Brisbane Courier: Newsletter of Brisbane History Group Volume 2, no. 24, December, 1990

Papers:

•  "Sites and place names in Southeast Queensland"
•  "Southeast Queensland Aboriginal Seasons"
• Blake, T.W. Cunnamulla : a brief history of the Parvo Shire Cunnamulla, Queensland, Paroo  Shire Council, 1979 (photocopy)
• Full steam : history of Sandgate Railway Sandgate & District Historical Society and Museum inc.
• Sandgate : a peep into the Past Sandgate & District Historical Society and Museum inc.
• Zenith. Nashville State High School 81. (Yearbook)
• Brisbane History Group leaflets, brochures, notices re: papers, tours, seminars.

Newspapers/Bulletins:

• Kuranda Commentato, Volume 1, No. 2
• The Brisbane Courier, Newsletter of the Brisbane History Group, 1989 - 1990
• By the SeasideSandgate & District Historical Society & Museum Inc. 1994-1995

Publications/Booklets:

• A time to remember : Sandgate World War II; Sandgate & District Historical Society & Museum Inc.
• State Library of Queensland Oral History Seminar Information Kit
• Brisbane Aboriginal Alien Ethnic  Brisbane History Group Papers no. 5, 1987
• Brisbane History Group: "A note regarding the draft rules for the proposed incorporated  Brisbane History Group

Booklet:

• The Sandgate/Shorncliffe Heritage Tour.  Brisbane History Group, 1990
• RAAF Sandgate. At the mouth of the pine.  50th Anniversary. Sandgate & District Historical Society and Museum inc.

Folder:  Brisbane History Groups containing correspondence, leaflets, notices.

Box 18

File A: Miscellaneous Qld Union Ephemera

• Official Trade Union Directory Trades and Labour Council of Queensland.
• State Branch of the Australian Council of trade Unions 1983, Issue No. 13
• Official 1993/94 Directory Australian Council of Trade Unions Queensland Branch. Issue No. 22, 1993
• James, Selma Sex, race & class Bristol, England : Falling Wall Press & Pace Today Publications, 1975
• James, Selma Women, the unions and work or ... what is not to be done and the perspective of winning Falling Wall Press, 1967
• The Vehicle Builder Brisbane, June 1978, June 1980
• Pamphlets, booklets, invitations, reports
• Folder of information on public speaking, and Australian Trade Union
• Training Authority Women’s Course.

POSTERS - Shelved separately from boxes - (see ms. temp guide)

• Black Australian Writers’
• Child Care, A Union Issue"
• Deep Bell, Ring : The Life and; Songs of Paul Robeson"
• Fraser Must Go"
• Herb Wharton"
• Industrial Democracy - ACOA
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1983
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1987
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1988
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1989
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1990
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1994
• International Women’s Day - Brisbane 1885 (?)
• It’s Not in Your Head - It’s in Your Arms" - RSI
• The longer I live the less I worry about what other people think..."
• The Most creative Force in the World is the Menopausal Woman with Zest"
• One Mob One Voice One Land - Demonstrate Exp 88"
• Proud to be a Rebel" - Emma Miller
• Sexual Harassment - series of 3 - ACOA
• Sexual Harassment is Never Flattering" - ACOA
• Single Mums Don’t Need Pity..."
• Stop Strip Searches in Armagh"
• Stress - It’s More Than a Six Letter Word" - ACOA
• Who Says Women Can’t Operate Cranes" - ACOA EEO
• Women Can Do Anything"
• Women in Unions Used to Lack Role Models..." - ACOA affirmative action
• Women’s Equality Now"
• Young Australians need Child Care" - ACOA