The Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia was formed through a merger of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria and several other miners' associations including New South Wales unions. The Hunter River District Coalminers' Mutual Protective Association (1860), the Illawarra Miners' Mutual Protective Association (1885), and Lithgow unions became branches of the union. The Barrier Miners' Association (formed in Broken Hill in 1884) became the Barrier Branch of the union in 1886. The union was succeeded by the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation in 1916.

The Professional Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service was registered federally in 1917 and operated until 1975 when it changed its name to the Professional Officers' Association, Australian Public Service. In 1991 the union merged with the Australian Government Lawyers' Association. In 1992 it merged with the Australian Public Sector & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment and became the Australian Public Sector Professional & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment.

The union was formed in 1918 and registered in 1919 with the amalgamation of state-based societies in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. The Society was deregistered in 1991.

The union was initially formed in 1853 as the United Operative Masons and was later known as the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons of New South Wales, before the more common name, the Operative Stonemasons' Society of New South Wales was used. It became the New South Wales branch of the Operative Stonemasons' Society of Australia in 1918.

The CSIRO Staff Association was formed in 1992 when the CSIRO Officers' Association (which had first formed in 1945) and the CSIRO Technical Association (formed in 1952) amalgamated. It was soon after merged into the Public Sector Union then into the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The Merchant Service Radio Telegraphists' Association of Australasia was founded on 2 November 1912. In 1917 it was wound up in favour of the Radio Telegraphists' (Marine) Institute of Australasia. In 1920 the Institute changed its name to the Radio Telegraphists' Institute of of Australasia and in 1934 it became the Professional Radio Employees' Institute of Australasia.

The Professional Radio Employees' Institute of Australasia was a renaming of the earlier Radio-Telegraphists Institute of Australasia which had started as the Radio-Telegraphists (Marine) Institute of Australasia in 1916. In 1975 the name changed to the Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia, and then in 1992 it amalgamated with other public sector unions to eventually form part of the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The forerunner of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New South Wales was the New South Wales Chinese Merchants' Society (1903 - 1912). It became the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New South Wales in 1913. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of NSW maintained close relations with the republican government of China until China declined into civil war in the 1920s.

The New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association formed in 1899 and was affiliated with an international monarchist movement of overseas Chinese, active mostly between 1899 and 1911. Sydney merchant Ping Nam was one of the leaders of the New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association including Thomas Yee Hing, Gilbert Quoy and C Leanfore.

The union was first registered in South Australia as the Operative Bricklayers' Society of South Australia. It reorganised in 1930 and changed its name to the Operative Bricklayers', Tilers' and Tuckpointers' Society of South Australia.

The union was registered federally for the first time as the Federated House and Ship Painters Paperhangers and Decorators Employees' Association of Australasia in 1910, and by 1915 had changed its name to become the Operative Painters and Decorators of Australasia.

The United Plasterers' Society formed in Sydney in 1875 and was also referred to as the Sydney Plasterers' Association. By 1887 it was known as the Australasian Association of Operative Plasterers, New South Wales Section and this was the name used when its rules were registered in 1897. On registration under the New South Wales Trade Union Act in 1903 the name changed to the New South Wales Association of Operative Plasterers. In 1925 it amalgamated with the Plasterers' Union in Hobart to become the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia.

The Bridge and Wharf Carpenters Union of New South Wales was active in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong from 1911. It was known as the Bridge and Wharf Carpenters Union of Australia from 1945 to 1950, and amalgamated with the Building Workers' Industrial Union in 1970.

The Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland was formed through the merging of the powerful Queensland Shearers' Union and the Queensland Workers' Union in April 1892. The three branches of the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland, at Longreach, Hughenden and Charleville, amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union in 1904 and became the Queensland branches of that Union. By 1908, however, the Hughenden Branch had closed down, leaving just the two other branches to represent Queensland in the AWU.

The Queensland Labourers' Union was established at Saltern Creek in 1888 as the Central Queensland Labourers' Union. In 1892 the Queensland Labourers' Union, as it was then known, amalgamated with the Queensland Shearers' Union to form the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland.

The Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australia was formed in 1887 by the amalgamation of the Australian Shearers' Union, the Bourke Shearers' Union and the Wagga Shearers' Union. It quickly grew to represent shearers across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. By the early 1890s, the Amalgamated Shearers' Union was fighting a battle of survival in strikes that spread across the colonies. Economic depression and severe drought savaged the wool industry and further impeded the effectiveness of the ASU. By 1894 the ASU, in order to maintain a strong union front in the rural sector, was forced to merge with other rural-based unions to form the Australian Workers' Union.

Labor Papers Limited published the Australian Workers' Union newspaper, The Australian Worker. It formed in 1910 with John Christian Watson, former prime minister, as its initial chairman of directors and from 1914 its Managing Director. He resigned in 1916 over his support for conscription. The company was deregistered in 1965 as Labor Newspapers Limited.

Originally known as the Coopers United Protective and Philanthropic Society of New South Wales, by 1886 this union had been renamed the Journeymen Coopers' Society of Sydney and Vicinity. On 21 October 1892 the union was renamed again, this time as the Journeymen Coopers' Society of New South Wales. The Society was registered under the New South Wales industrial relations legislation on 23 September 1909. In 1910 it helped form the Federated Coopers' of Australia and subsequently became its New South Wales branch.

The Victorian Society of Coopers was originally established on 18 November 1880 as the Journeymen Coopers of Melbourne and Suburbs Society. In 1910 it became the Victorian Branch of the Federated Coopers of Australia.

The Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales was registered in June 1890 and then as the Ironworkers' Assistants Union of New South Wales on 25 July 1900. It joined the Federated Ironworkers' Association as the New South Wales Branch and on 13 March 1913 registered as the NSW Division, Sydney Branch of that union. It was also known as the Sydney 'A' branch or No.1 Branch and later as the Sydney Metropolitan Branch which incorporated the Sydney No.1, No. 2 and Balmain Branches.

The South Australian union is identified as one of the federating unions on the registration of the Federated Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union of Australia on 7 August 1912. Arthur Beresford of Adelaide was the first Federal President. The SA union retained an independent identity until it formally amalgamated with the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union on 2 October 1957, continuing to operate into 1958.

This union had its origins in the Bread Carters' Industrial Federal Union of Australia which was established in 1905 and was renamed the Bread Carters' Industrial Federation of Australia in 1916. In 1979 following an influx of members from the soon-to-be deregistered Baking Trade Employees' Federation of Australia (which had existed since 1914), the union was registered as the Bakery Employees' and Salesmen's Federation of Australia. It amalgamated with the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1995.

The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) is the result of the merger between the Association of Professional Engineers Australia (founded 1946, registered 1948), the Association of Professional Scientists Australia (registered 1962) and the Local Government Engineers Association of New South Wales in 1991. The following organisations merged subsequently: Senior Managers (Telstra & Australia Post) Association (1994), ABC Senior Executives Association (1994), Association of Architects of Australia (1995), Salaried Pharmacists Association (1997), Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1997), Australian Collieries' Staff Association (2001), Managers and Professionals Association (2004), Professional Officers' Association (Victoria) (2006) and the Ambulance Managers and Professionals (Victoria) (2010). The organisation was renamed in 2013 as Professionals Australia.

An Actors' Association existed in Australia during the early 1910s. Although this Association was registered in July 1919 as the Actors' Federation of Australasia, members quickly lost confidence in it, leading to it deregistering just two months later, in September 1919. On 6 March 1920 a new union, again named the Actors' Federation of Australasia was registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was renamed Actors' Equity of Australia on 25 February 1936.

The Australian Vegetable Growers' Association was formed in 1946. It changed its name to the Australian Vegetable Growers' Federation in 1962 and operated until 1979 when it amalgamated with the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian National Cattlemen's Council, the Cattlemen's Union of Australia, the Australian Seed Producers' Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, and the Australian Farmers' Federation to form the National Farmers' Federation.

The Australian National University General Staff Association was founded in 1953 to cover all non-academic staff members at the ANU. It was registered in Canberra under the Companies Act but not registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. In 1968 the association reasoned that other unions could represent the interests of non-academic staff at the University so changed its focus to become a welfare organisation. In 1973 the association changed its name to the Staff and Welfare Association and focused on staff policy and promotions, parking, and amenities among other issues.

The association representing barrier clearance and cargo transport service providers in New South Wales was formed from the Customs Agents and Transport Association of New South Wales in 1904. Representation of the industry extended to the National level in 1954 with the formation of the Customs Agents' Federation of Australia and the Customs Agents Institute of Australia in 1960. In 1991 the Customs Agents' Federation of Australia and the Customs Agents Institute of Australia merged to form the then Customs Brokers Council of Australia Inc.

The Association was formerly known as the Australian National University General Staff Association and was concerned with improving industrial conditions and the general welfare of staff on the ANU campus. In 1973 it became the Staff Amenities and Welfare Association (Australian National University) Incorporated and became solely concerned with the development of staff amenities including child care facilities and established an amenities store and canteen in 1973. It was liquidated in 1976.

Dr Emily Sadka studied at Oxford University graduating with first class honours in Modern History in 1941. She then taught at the University of Western Australia and the University of Malaya. She completed her PhD in 1960 at the Australian National University; her thesis was entitled 'The residential system in the protected Malay States, 1874-1895'.

The Federated Clerks' Union of Australia was formed in 1911 by clerical workers in Melbourne. The union changed its name to the Australian Clerical Association in 1917 and in 1924 reverted back to the name Federated Clerks' Union of Australia. A federal union was formed by registering the FCU with the Commonwealth Arbitration Court and by 1920 there were branches of the union in all states. In 1993 both the FCU's national and state branches amalgamated with unions covering local government to become part of the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union, otherwise known as the Australian Services Union.

Employees engaged in the manufacture of confectionery in New South Wales were represented by the NSW Confectioners' Society from 1889. The Society was formed by a committe of two delegates, each from JG Nicholls & Company, Dillon, Burrows & Company, Ennever & Appleton, Biddell Brothers and James Stedman and the following office bearers elected - President: Mr George King, Secretary: Mr I Phelan, Treasurer: Mr E Evans. From 1902 to 1926 journeymen confectioners in New South Wales were represented by the NSW Journeymen Confectioners' Union.

The Federated Millers' and Mill Employees' Association of Australasia was first registered federally in 1911 and representing employees of the flour milling industry. By 1988 it had amalgamated with the Manufacturing Grocers Employees' Federation of Australia to form the Federated Millers' & Manufacturing Grocers' Association of Australasia.

The Automotive Products Manufacturers Association of Australia was formed in Melbourne by S Earle and the foundation meeting was held on 24 January 1938 and by May 1939 a Sydney branch had formed. In 1946 the Federal (Executive) Council held its inaugural meeting and by this time there were branches in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. When the Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers was formed in 1958, the APMA was affiliated with it and continued to operate and control marketing policy, while the FAPM acted on all other matters and included members from Queensland and Tasmania. THe APMA was deregistered on 29 September 1965.

The Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers was formed in 1958 and was first registered in the Australian Capital Territory on 12 August 1959. It is now registered in Victoria.

The Primary Producers' Council of Australia was registered federally in 1943. It changed its name in 1949 to become the National Farmers' Union of Australia and merged with the Australian Primary Producers' Union to form the Australian Farmers' Federation in 1969.

Originally known as the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia which had formed in 1891, the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia operated from1919 until 1960 when it amalgamated with the Australian Woolgrowers' Council to form the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council.

Formed in 1891, the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia was renamed as the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia in 1919. The Graziers' Federal Council operated until 1960 when it amalgamated with the Australian Woolgrowers' Council to form the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council.

In October 1916, the Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales changed its name to the Graziers' Association of New South Wales. On 1 January 1978 it merged with the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association to form the Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales, which in 1987 became the NSW Farmers' Association.

The Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales was formed at a meeting attended by representatives from most districts of the State on 9 July 1890. This followed an attempt two years earlier to form a sheepowners' association. Branches were set up in 1890 and district committees were appointed in 1891. The name of the organisation was changed in October 1916 to the Graziers' Association of New South Wales.

The Grains Council of Australia was the peak body of the Australian grains industry until it closed in 2010. It supported research and development and was committed to promoting the uptake of technologies and practices to enhance environmental sustainability, benefit the economic interests of Australian Grain Growers and lead to the enrichment of Regional Australia.

The Grains Council was officially wound up on 30 June 2010. Grain Producers Australia (GPA) now represents Australia's broadacre, grain, pulse and oilseed producers at the national level.

The Institute of Inspectors of Schools of New South Wales was formed in 1918 and its members were inspectors of the New South Wales Education Department. It was affiliated with the Australasian Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools, which held biennial conferences for Institutes from Commonwealth states of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. By 1983 it became known as the Institute of Inspectors of Schools and Senior Educational Administrators of New South Wales.

The organisation first began as the Lithgow and District Eight Hours and Labor Day Committee and was formed by unionists in 1900 and began a tradition of marches to celebrate shorter hours. It later became the Lithgow and District Six Hours and Labor Day Committee. The last Six Hours and Labor Day demonstrations were held in Lithgow in 1963.

The first steps toward forming a labour council in Queensland was a meeting of interested union Secretaries held on 18 August with the formation of the new Brisbane Trades and Labor Council occurring on 1 September 1885. Within four years the Labor Council had disbanded to make way for the Australian Labor Federation The Brisbane District Council of Australasian Labor Federation was formed on the eve of a range of industrial disputes, amongst them the printers industry wide strike of 1889, and the shearers and maritime workers strikes of the 1890s. By 1914, it found itself completely devoid of affiliates and was consequently dissolved. By mid-1914 the Brisbane Industrial Council was formed. By March 1917 attempts were being explored to develop a closer unity between the Industrial Council and other bodies such as the Eight Hours Union and the Trades Hall Board. It took over twelve months, but in September 1918 a conference of 42 metropolitan unions adopted the Trades Hall amalgamation scheme. The Trades and Labor Council of Queensland was eventually established on 12 April 1922 with 46 unions at the inaugural meeting. This body continued in name until 1993 when it became the Australian Council of Trade Unions Queensland Branch and then was renamed the Queensland Council of Unions in 1999.

The Milk and Ice Carters' and Dairymen's Employees' Union of NSW was formed in February 1903. By 1971 milk and ice carters and dairy transport workers were represented by the Transport Workers Union of Australia.

Newcastle District Deputies and Shotfirers Protective Association was formed in 1908 and represented colliery deputies and under-officials in the coal industry in the Newcastle district. On 3 November 1988, the association joined with others to form the Colliery Officials' Association of New South Wales, Northern District.

The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union originally formed in 1973 from the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia, and the Federated Jewellers. In 1976 the union amalgamated with the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union. In 1983 it joined the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union. It reverted to the name Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1985 and operated until 1991 when it amalgamated with the Association of Draughting Supervisory & Technical Employees to become the Metals & Engineering Workers' Union.

The Electrical Trades Union of Australia was first formed in 1919 with many of its founding members from the deregistered Federated Electrical Trades Union of Australia. In 1993 the union amalgamated with the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia and became the Electrical Electronic Plumbing and Allied Workers Union of Australia.

Formed in Sydney in 1901 as the Firemen and Deckhands’ Association of New South Wales, by 1950 the name was changed to the Firemen and Deckhands’ Union of New South Wales. Throughout its history the Firemen and Deckhands’ Union underwent a number of amalgamations with other unions covering the maritime industry, including the incorporation of members of the Ferry and Tugboat Employees' Union (circa 1913) and the Marine Motor Drivers and Coxswains' Union in 1967. Gradually the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales was absorbed into the New South Wales Branch of the Seamen's Union of Australia, beginning in 1976 with the establishment of a single national tugboat award and ending, in 1993, when the Seamen's Union of Australia amalgamated with the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

The first waterside workers' unions in Australia were formed in Port Adelaide, Sydney, and Sandridge (Port Melbourne) in 1872. By 1889 there were notable waterfront unions in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Although the various unions federated in March 1890 the Waterside Workers' Federation was not established until 7 February 1902 with Mr William Morris Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-1923) elected its first President. The Waterside Workers' Federation was registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 1 July 1907 and the first comprehensive Commonwealth award for waterside workers dates from 13 December 1915. In January 1914 an office of the Waterside Workers’ Federation was established in Melbourne. After 1939 the Federation was located in Sydney. In order to manage the Waterside Workers' Federation Branches the Federal Executive, in 1902, established a Committee of Management (COM). The COM comprised delegates from the Executive of each Branch, and each Branch was entitled to one member for every 500 financial members. Furthermore, any of the COM’s resolutions that were approved by less than a 3/5 majority had to be submitted to at least 500 financial members of the rank and file for endorsement. Although designed to ease interstate rivalries this method of decision-making often exacerbated tension. The structure of the Waterside Workers' Federation remained largely unchanged until 1950 when it absorbed the Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union of Australia. In 1991 the Waterside Workers' Federation amalgamated with the Australian Foremen Stevedore Association but retained the name Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. In 1993 the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia joined with the Seamen's Union of Australia to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

The Australian International Cabin Crew Association was registered in 1984, being previously known as the Flight Stewards' Association. When Qantas, the only international airline operating in Australia at the time, replaced 'Hostesses' with 'Female Flight Service Attendants' the Association changed its rules and name to cover the new classification and to be a less male-oriented organisation. In 1992 it amalgamated with the Australian Flight Attendants' Association (previously known as the Airline Hostesses' Association) to form the Flight Attendants' Association of Australia.

The Co-op Society was affiliated with the Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Fathers' Association of Australia. The Sailors and Soldiers Fathers' Association was established in the First World War and had branches in most states. The group actively involved themselves with hospital visits, repatriation issues, employment of returned servicemen and the establishment of returned servicemen's rights relating to principles such as pensions and housing.

The Victorian Plasterers' Society was established in 1906, but did not register federally until 1940. The Union amalgamated with the Victorian Plaster Industry Workers Union and the Victorian Operative Brick Layers to form the Victorian State Building Trades Union in 1988.

The Federation of Family Planning Associations was established in 1974 and incorporated in 1975 as a federation of State-based associations to advocate for legislation and social reforms and to develop education, training and research at a national level. The Federal Council had representatives from each State and from five National Advisory Committees: Medical, Training, Ethics and Legislation, Communications and Biological Sciences, which were later replaced by goal-oriented task forces. From 1984 the Federation acted as a agent of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau in the South Pacific, developing information kits and recordings relating to family planning and sexually-transmitted diseases targeted at Pacific Island cultures. It changed its name to the Family Planning Federation of Australia in 1985 and to Family Planning Australia in 1993.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations was formed at the first AIDS Conference in Melbourne on 17 November 1985 by the state-based AIDS Councils. Other members of the federation are the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA), the Australian IV League, the Anwernekenhe National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV/AIDS Alliance (ANA), and Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association. The federation provides leadership, coordination and support to Australia's policy, advocacy and health promotion response to HIV/AIDS. It is also active in the Asia Pacific region.

In 1888, John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic bicycle tyre, forming the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company in Dublin in 1889. In 1893, the Company opened a branch office and factory in Melbourne's Chinatown district. In 1899, a Canadian syndicate purchased the Australasian rights from the UK Company and floated the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Limited in Victoria on 30 August 1899. In 1905 the Company purchased its main rival Barnet Glass & Sons Proprietary Limited. In 1908, Barnet Glass created another public company, Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited which also merged with Dunlop in 1929, being fully absorbed in 1937. On 16 August 1920 the company changed its name to the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Limited and became a listed public company on the Melbourne Stock Exchange, and since then has remained the parent company of the group. After merging with the Perdriau Rubber Company in 1929, the company adopted the name Dunlop Perdriau Limited, which changed to Dunlop Australia Limited in 1967. In 1980, the company acquired Olympic Consolidated Industries and a half-share in Olex Cables (which became a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1981). To reflect this merger, the name of the company was changed to Dunlop Olympic Limited.

The first meeting of the ACT AIDS Action Committee was held in 1983. This group then established itself as the AIDS Action Council of the ACT in March 1985 and incorporated in 1986. The Council worked closely with affected communities with specific projects established for gay men, injecting drug users, sex workers and people with haemophilia. Support, information and counselling were provided to people with HIV/AIDS, their partners and families, and more general community awareness and advocacy work was undertaken. When other support services were founded in the Australian Capital Territory for intravenous drug users, sex workers and people with haemophilia, the Council focused its prevention services towards gay and bisexual men and broadened its education and health promotion progams to people with HIV/AIDS.

Founded by Melbourne-born swimming champion and businessman (Sir) Frank Beaurepaire (1891-1956), the Olympic brand was one of the most successful Australian-made tyre products. After establishing a tyre retreading business, Advanx Tyre Repair Company in William Street, Sydney during 1920, Beaurepaire returned to Melbourne in late 1922 and opened a new business in Latrobe St, Beaurepaire Tyre Service, specialising in retreads. Beaurepaire established a tyre manufacturing plant in Cross Street, West Footscray in 1933. To capitalise on Beaurepaire's public image as an Olympic swimming hero, the firm was named the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Company. Production began in 1934 and the new firm survived despite fierce discounting by Dunlop and Goodyear as Olympic tyres soon gained a good reputation with motorists. Beaurepaire Tyre Service branches continued as a separate arm of the business. During the Second World War, manufacture of insulated electrical cables began and Olympic Cables Limited was formed in 1946 as another branch of the business. By the 1950s the name of the parent firm was Olympic Consolidated Industries. Increased competition and changes to tariff protection eventually led to the merger of Olympic and Dunlop in 1980, with the new company named Dunlop Olympic Tyres Proprietary Limited.

Barnet Glass (1849-1918), was a rubber importer and manufacturer of rubber garments and accessories with a factory in Melbourne. In 1894, an office was opened in London and a branch factory, the Pioneer Rubber Company in Adelaide. In 1899, the Pioneer Rubber Factory of Australia was opened at Kensington, Melbourne. In October 1900, Glass converted his business into a company, Barnet Glass & Sons Proprietary Limited. In 1905, the company was bought by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Limited.

Barnet Glass then built a factory and plant in Footscray, and began work as Glass & Co. In 1908 the firm was converted into a public company, Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited. As well as manufacturing rubber, the company were agents for Michelin tyres. By 1918 Glass had branches in every Australian State and in New Zealand. In 1929 Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited also merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company. Barnet Glass Co. manufactured and traded as a separate organization until 1937, when its manufacturing activities at Footscray were transferred to the Dunlop factories.

The Australian Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health was formed in 1968 and added New Zealand to its name in c. 1978. For the period 1981 up to the formation of the Public Health Association in 1986, a joint title was used: Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health/Australian Public Health Association.

The Boilermakers' Society originated directly from the Federated Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of Australia which was registered federally in 1911, and became the Federated Society of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders & Structural Iron & Steel Workers of Australia in 1929. By 1937 the union had become the Boilermakers' Society of Australia. In 1965 the members of the deregistered Blacksmiths' Society of Australia joined the union and it became the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia.

The Automotive Metals & Engineering Union came about through the amalgamation of the Metals & Engineering Workers' Union and the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation of Australia in 1993. In 1994 it merged with the Confectionery Workers' & Food Preservers' Union of Australia to form the Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union.

The Sydney Stock Exchange was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in New South Wales. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth and Hobart called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX)

The Union formed in 1994 when the Automotive Metals & Engineering Union and the Confectionery Workers' & Food Preservers' Union of Australia amalgamated. In 1995 it merged with the Printing & Kindred Industries Union to form the Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union, otherwise known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

The Printing & Kindred Industries Union was formed on 6 July 1966 after the amalgamation of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees' Union of Australia. In 1986 the PKIU amalgamated with the Federated Photo Engravers Photo-Lithographers & Photogravure Employees' Association of Australia, and in 1992 with the Victorian Printers Operatives' Union. It was re-registered and retained its name until 1995 when the PKIU amalgamated with the Automotive Food Metals and Engineering Union to form the Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union, otherwise known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.

The Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions was founded as an advisory body at a Melbourne Conference of Commonwealth registered unions held in February 1923. Its functions were limited to dealing with issues that arose from the administration of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act and other federal legislation involving wages, hours of labour and employment conditions for members of federal organisations. It was not to interfere with the affairs of the States Trades and Labor Councils and individual unions. It was based largely in Victoria with C A Crofts (Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union) as Secretary and H G Gibson (Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australia) as the first President. The main issues of concern to organise opposition to attempts by employer organisations to have the Basic Wage reduced, to conduct a campaign for the restoration of the 44-hour week where it had been withdrawn, and to establish the principle as a standard in all industries. By 1926 it had about 60 affiliates that represented 300 000 unionists. However, as a result of its inefficient handling of the Basic Wage review case, and due to its rejection of the State Labor Councils' proposals to be agents of the Federal structure, it was superseded by a new Australasian body the Council of Trade Unions in 1927.

An informal council of Commonwealth staff associations was formed in Melbourne in 1915, adopting a constitution in 1919. On 26 October 1921 a revised constitution was adopted forming the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations. It dropped the High from its name in 1969 and amended its name to the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations at its 1975 Biennial Conference. The 1981 Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions endorsed the proposal that CAGEO merge with the ACTU as one of its industry groups and it formally merged on 23 September 1981 becoming the Australian Government Employment Section of the ACTU.

The Council of Professional and Commercial Employees' Associations was in operation from 1948. In 1953 several meetings of kindred organisations were held to try and establish a permanent advisory council of non-manual worker organisations, and in 1954 a draft constitution of a new association was drawn up and the title was changed to the Council of White Collar Associations.

The Steam Engine Makers' Society was founded in Liverpool on 2 November 1824. The original members of the Union included fitters, turners and steam engine erectors but the Union broadened its scope in 1847 to include millwrights, steam-engine patternmakers and the makers of tools used in the manufacture of steam engines. The society finally amalgamated with the Amalgamated Society of Engineers to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1920.

The New South Wales Typographical Association was formed after a series of meetings held in early 1880 and registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act, 1881, on the 15 June 1882. It had been known as the Sydney Typographical Association until changing its name on 1 January 1882. Prior to its formation in 1880 there had been several similar societies in Sydney, such as the Compositors' Society, the Sydney Typographical Society, and a different N.S.W. Typographical Association. In 1917-1918 the NSW Typographical Association was converted to the New South Wales branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

In 1885, the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW was founded to lobby on behalf of its members, primarily for a better deal on tariff policies. It adopted a new constitution in 1895, maintaining a non-political stance to champion the broader interests of NSW businesses. In 1912, the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW set up the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company (MMI). The insurance company arm was established primarily to indemnify employers against claims that might be made by their employees who were injured at work, and was in direct response to the new Workmen's Compensation Act of 1910. The Chamber continued to expand in NSW over the following years, opening offices in Newcastle, Lismore, Wollongong and Ballina. In 1995, the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW broke its tie with MMI, selling its shares of the company and changing its name to Australian Business Limited. In 2006, Australian Business Limited merged with the State Chamber of Commerce (NSW) to become Australian Business Limited (incorporating the State Chamber of Commerce) then later ABL/State Chamber. In January 2007, ABL/State Chamber changed its name to the NSW Business Chamber.

The Central Council of Employers was formed in 1904 and changed its name to the Australian Council of Employers' Federations in 1922. In 1977 it amalgamated with the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia to form the Confederation of Australian Industry which then amalgamated with the Australian Chamber of Commerce to form the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1992.

John (Jack) Garland was born on 8 April 1922 and joined the Daceyville Branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union as an Apprentice Toolmaker in 1941. In December 1948 he transferred to the Bondi Junction Branch of the AEU. From June 1957 he was the AEU Federal General Secretary, and upon amalgamation with the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society became Joint National Secretary in January 1972. He resigned from the union on 23 October 1981 to take up a position as an Australian Labor Party MLC in the New South Wales parliament.

The Confectionery Workers and Food Preservers Union of Australia was formed in 1992 through an amalgamation of the Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia and the Food Preservers' Union of Australia. In 1994 the CW&FPU amalgamated with the Automotive Metals and Engineering Union to form the Automotive Food Metals and Engineering Union.

An association of New South Wales colliery proprietors was formed in October 1905 but it was not until June 1942 that it was registered as an industrial union under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act as the New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association. Its members were four separate and autonomous organisations: the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association which dated from 1866 and operated in Sydney and Newcastle, Northern Collieries Limited representing other northern colliery proprietors, the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association which dated from 1889 in the Burragorang Valley and the Southern Tablelands, and the Western Coal Association which was operating by 1929 in Lithgow and other western areas. The Northern, Southern and Western associations merged in 1964 under the umbrella body. The New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association was deregistered in 1976 but continued to operate as an industry association. It was incorporated in New South Wales as the New South Wales Colliery Proprietors' Association Limited in June 1982, but was commonly known as the New South Wales Coal Association. It merged with the New South Wales Chamber of Mines in 1995 to form the NSW Minerals Council.

The Australasian Typographical Union was established in 1880 as a federation of the typographical association in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales. It was dissolved in 1915 and was succeeded by the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

The union was first registered under the Queensland Trade Unions Act of 1886 as the Brisbane Shipwrights Provident Union. By early 1907 it was reconstituted as the Port Brisbane Shipwrights Union until 15 January 1918 when it became the Brisbane Branch of the Federated Shipwrights, Ship Constructors, Naval Architects, Ship Draughtsmen and Boat Builders' Association of Australia, a predecessor of the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors' Association of Australia, Queensland Branch.

The Australian Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Officers' Association was formed in 1912, and changed its name to the Australian Postal Assistants' Union in 1917. In 1926 it was renamed the Fourth Division Postmasters', Postal Clerks' and Telegraphists' Union, the term 'Fourth Division' referring to the lowest-paid division of the Commonwealth Public Service. It remained an autonomous body until amalgamating with the Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' Union, effective from 19 February 1967, to form the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists.

The Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' Union reregistered as the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists in 1966 with the Fourth Division Postmasters, Postal Workers and Telegraphists' Union merging with it, effective from 19 February 1967. The Third and Fourth Divisions refer to the clerical and lowest-paid divisions of the Commonwealth Public Service respectively. By 1990 the Union had merged into the Australian Postal and Telecommunications' Union.

Originally formed in 1913 as the Commonwealth Postmasters' Association, it was known as the Australian Postmasters' Association from 1966. It merged into the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union in 1991.

The union was originally named the General Division Telephone Traffic Officers' Association in 1914, then the Commonwealth General Division Telephone Officers' Association in 1915, the Commonwealth Telephone Officers' Association in 1924, the Commonwealth Telephone and Phonogram Officers' Association in 1950 and then the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers' Association in 1975. It merged with the Australian Telecommunications Employees' Association in 1988 and this merged union then amalgamated with the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union to become the Communication Workers' Union of Australia in 1992.

Originally formed in 1912 as the Australian Postal Electricians' Union, this union became known in 1943, as the Postal Telecommunication Technicians' Association. The union consisted of telephone engineers and maintenance workers. In 1976 the union changed its name to the Australian Telecommunications Employees' Association and, on merging with the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers' Association in 1988 assumed a shared title. In 1992 the union became known as the Communication Workers' Union of Australia after it amalgamated with the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union.

The Western Australian Typographical Industrial Union of Workers was originally formed as the Western Australian Typographical Society in 1888. It was reorganised in 1889 and the name changed to the Western Australian Typographical Industrial Union of Workers. In 1916, the union became a branch of the federated Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, though retaining its former name until June 1921 when it merged with the Goldfields Typographical Union, the Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Union and the Metropolitan Female Printing Employees' Union of Workers, Western Australia. On 26 October 1930 the Western Australian branch left the federal body and became the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Western Australia until it re-affiliated in September 1935.

The Newspaper Industry Union of Workers was formed in September 1931 by a section of newspaper employees in Perth. This union amalgamated with the Western Australian branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia on 28 November 1938.

The New South Wales association was established in Sydney in 1887 as the Sydney Master Printers Association. It was allied to the national body of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association which formed as an amalgam around 1924. In 1971 the various state associations came together as a federation forming a branch or region of the Printing and Allied Trades Employer’s Federation of Australia (PATEFA).

The Ballarat Typographical Society was formed in 1857. On 10 December 1867, the society merged with the Melbourne and Geelong typographical societies into the Victorian Typographical Union and operated as a district of this union until the separation of the districts on 30 September 1871. The Ballarat Typographical Society eventually merged with the Victorian Typographical Society and the Australian Bookbinders & Paper Rulers' Association to become the Ballarat Sub-Branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia in 1921.

The New South Wales Lithographic Association was originally called the Lithographic and Copperplate Printers' Society and then the Sydney Lithographic Society which was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act (1881) on 30 July 1887. In 1920 it amalgamated with the Australian Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Federated Association, the Letterpress Printers' and Machinists' Industrial Union of Employees' of NSW to become the Amalgamated Printing Trade Employees Union of NSW.

The External Plant Officers' Association was previously the Line Inspectors' Association which changed name in February 1980 to define the membership more clearly: employees engaged by the Australian Telecommunications Commission as senior line officers, principal line officers, external plant managers, and technical officers. In August 1991 the EPOA amalgamated with the Telecommunications Technical Officers' Association to form the Telecommunications Officers' Association which then amalgamated with the Communication Workers' Union of Australia in November 1992, eventually becoming the Communication Electrical Electronic Energy Information Postal Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) in August 1994.

The Queensland Teachers Union was formed in 1889 when seven teachers' unions met for a conference at the School of Art in Brisbane. In 1917 the QTU was granted industrial registration, giving it exclusive coverage of the state school system. Later that year, the first teachers’ award in Australia was registered in Queensland. The QTU celebrated its 12oth anniversary in 2009.

The Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was registered federally in 1908 following the earlier registration of the Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian state-based unions. The Union existed independently until the 1980s when imports began to affect the footwear and clothing industries. In 1987 it amalgamated with the Australian Textile Workers' Union to become the Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers' Union of Australia, and in 1992, a further amalgamation with the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union created the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia.

The Technical Service Guild was formerly the National Service Guild, an in-house state-registered staff organisation within the company NCR. Registration of a union to represent employees in the business equipment, electronics and newly developing computer industry came about in 1970 as a result of the deterioration of conditions in the industry in the late 1960s. In its early years, the Technical Service Guild worked to establish a Federal Award which it gained in 1971, amid the fiercely anti-union sentiment of large employer groups in the industry. Over the next few years the Guild established branches in most states, and despite its scarce resources continued to organise and protect workers in what has now become the information technology field. The union finally merged with the Municipal Officers' Association of Australia and the Australian Transport Officers' Federation to form the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community and Information Services Union in 1991. After further amalgamations in 1992 and 1993, it became the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical and Services Union, known as the Australian Services Union.

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

The Railway and Tramway Officers' Association was registered in New South Wales in 1913 and amalgamated with the Victorian Railways Administrative Officers' and Clerks' Association to form the Australian Transport Officers' Federation in 1924.

The Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria was formed from the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria which had operated independently from the Victorian Teachers' Union since 1967. Although a breakaway from the Victorian Teachers' Union, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the Victorian Teachers' Union, the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had also amalgamated with them to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

In 1967, technical teachers of the Victorian Teachers' Union left to form the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria and later became known as the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria. Although a breakaway from the VTU, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the VTU, Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had amalgamated with the FTUV to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

The Gas Stokers' Protective Association registered in New South Wales in 1885 with the first branch being formed in Mortlake in Sydney. It changed its name to the Gas Employees' Union in 1902. The Lamplighters' Union which had formed in 1903 became a branch of the union in 1908. In 1910 the Gas Fitters' Assistants' Union also became a branch as did the Australian Gas Light and Meter Readers' Union in 1911. The union became part of the Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union in 1918.

The NSW Master Printers and Connected Trades Association was formed in 1902 out of the Sydney Master Printers Association, and became the Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Association, New South Wales Branch in 1925.

The union was formed by the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia in 1976, and functioned until 1983 when it joined the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union.

The pharmacy was established by E W Watts in 1913 'close to the School of Arts in Epping'. It was operated by Keith Radford Woodlands (1902-1972) from the early 1930s. It is located at 36 Langston Place, Epping, near the railway station.

The union was formed in 1941 by the amalgamation of the Federated Agricultural Implement Machinery & Ironworkers' Association of Australia and the Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers' Association of Australia. In 1945 the union amalgamated with the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia to form the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia.