• Minutes of meetings (general, executive, council, sub-committee etc. often at federal, state and district levels)
  
• Conference papers
  
• Executive and branch correspondence
  
• Internal circulars
  
• File systems (often subject or issue-based and including correspondence series)
  
• Industrial files
  
• Financial records
  
• Membership records
  
• Newspaper clippings
  
• Reports
  
• Publications
  
• Pictorial and ephemeral material
  

Parties to the Award illuminates where the records of federally registered industrial organisations and their peak councils are held in 22 archival institutions around Australia. Of these institutions, 11 are based in universities, four are in state libraries, three are state archives, two are regional libraries, one is a regional branch of Australian Archives and the other is in the National Library. Three are located in Adelaide; two each in Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney; and one each in Armidale, Broken Hill, Darwin, Perth, Townsville, Wagga Wagga and Wollongong.

Parties to the Award documents only federally registered industrial organisations and their peak councils. The location of archives of a state-registered organisation eg. the Furnishing Trades Society of NSW is only recorded if it is also the state branch of a federally registered organisation, in this case the Federated Furnishing Trades Society of Australasia, NSW Branch. Even then it is only recorded under the federal name. The directory records the location of archives at the federal level and then down to the state or territory level. It does not identify strict provenance.

Consequently the archives of suburban Granville and regional Broken Hill Branches of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (held at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University and the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library respectively) are recorded only as NSW.

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