The collection contains symposium planning and administrative material; speeches, personal notes, and resolutions from the symposium; and post-symposium material including action group minutes, correspondence, and a report by Valerie Richards for Agmanz journal.

The collection consists of 28 60-minute cassette tapes capturing most of the sessions presented over the course of the weekend.

The tapes include: the pōwhiri and speeches at the Waititi Marae, and at the University of Auckland venue; formal keynote speeches; commentators’ responses; open forums; and the reports on open group sessions. The open group sessions themselves were not recorded.

Keynote speeches include: Paki Harrison