The collection comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings, press releases, photocopies, ephemera and printed material. The subjects includes indigenous and race relations issues (the largest series), reproductive rights, women and the Order of Australia, immigration, uranium mining, defence, Drug Law Reform, peace movement and the Gulf War. The correspondents include fellow ministers, various organisations (such as Amnesty International, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission and Women's Electoral Lobby), and Lois O'Donoghue, Father Frank Brennan, Noel Pearson, Pat Dodson and Kennedy Graham.