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The records of the Constitutional Convention include lists of candidates, how to vote information and publications of the Australian Electoral Commission, and other material relating to the electoral process. In the main, however, the collection comprises material collected from delegates to the Constitutional Convention by staff of the National Library, or issued by the Convention Media Centre. A full set of public submissions to the Constitutional Convention are held. In addition a significant quantity of website material, representing delegates and their agents and the product of a variety of media servers is also of interest. An extensive collection of news cuttings covering the period of the Convention is also included.

Sketchbook and letters 1863-64 of Capt. Hugo S. Light referring to the Maori War.

This collection documents various aspects of recovery after the Black Summer bushfires. The collection focus on 3 distinct areas affected by the fires. The first documents recovery, temporary housing, and residents affected by the Badja Forest Rd fire in and around the Bega Valley Shire which experienced some of the most destructive blazes. The second documents 'Possum' activists from GECO [Goongerah Environment Centre] in Victoria protesting against the logging of an unburned section of old growth forest in the Errinundra National Park. The third focuses on wildlife conservation efforts on Kangaroo Island and documents two conservators looking to measure the effects of the bushfires on the micro-trapdoor spider and the dunnart.

The collection comprises two boxes of files relating to the ABC Radio National Program Poetica, which ran for 18 years and reached weekly audience of 90,000 listeners. Poetica was first broadcasted in February 1997 and continued until February 2015. Program covered Australian and international poetry. The files contain complete list of programs and subjects, program briefs, publicity flyers, press clippings and correspondence with Australian authors and publishers, and letters from listeners.

Diary 1843 of David Cargill on a voyage to Van Diemen's Land and Tonga.

This collection contains background information gathered in the preparation of Abjorensen's biography of Liberal Party leader, John Hewson, together with typescripts of the work. Additional papers include transcripts of interviews with Margaret and Carolyn Hewson, material relating to leadership challenges by Andrew Peacock, correspondence and contract with Lothian Books, research files, press releases, speeches by Hewson, photocopies of newspaper cuttings and photographs used in the book.

This collection comprises unpublished and semi-published reports collected from the Northern Territory offices of ATSIC.MS Acc01.045 comprises speeches by various Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs, budget papers, government submissions, conference papers, reports and notes from visits to communities. The material discusses issues such as the impact of alcohol, together with land rights, health, housing and employment.

Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.

The papers in MS 9152 include correspondence (mostly with G.A. Bishop), research material, notes, cuttings, ephemera, printed material and other papers relating to the Federal Pacifist Council, conscientious objectors, War Resisters International, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Pacifist Movement of Victoria, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace Pledge Union, Religious Society of Friends, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peacemaker and other pacifist and peace movements.

The collection comprises the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) business records, including administrative files, administrative and business correspondence, submission drafts and reports, committee meeting minutes and correspondence relating to affiliated local and international associations, research programs and projects, training and workshops.