The Australian Women's Register

The great bulk of MS 5574 is correspondence files with various subject headings. There are also minutes, financial records, maps, plans, photographs, news cuttings, printed material. All aspects of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) are represented, including history, the Aerial Medical Service, hospitals and hostels, United Church in Northern Australia, National and State Councils, publicity material, Far North Children’s Health Scheme, Federal Methodist Inland Mission, patrol padres, Reverend John Flynn and Reverend Fred McKay. There are also several artefacts and pieces of AIM equipment (509 boxes, 14 fol. Boxes). The Acc12.048 instalment comprises correspondence, articles, notes and biographies of key leaders, newsletters, brochures, committee notes, statistics, reconstruction and construction specifications and designs, legal files relating to bequests and labour disputes, minute books, annual reports, business plans, patrol reports, property negotiation papers, agreements and project plans all documenting the history of the Uniting Church in Australia with particular focus on the AIM and Frontier Services. The instalment also contains plaques, photographs, and substantial sets of maps, building designs and diagrams, and promotional and reporting audio visual kits about the operations of the church in remote areas of outback Australia. Of interest are records pertaining to various hospitals, hostels, aged care facilities, kindergartens as well as relationships between the church and indigenous Australians and links with mining companies (12 boxes, 12 map folios).