The Australian Economic Association was founded in 1887 and held its inaugural meeting on 15 April 1887. Arthur Duckworth was the Association's first secretary and editor of its journal, The Australian Economist.

The Australian Population Association was formed in 1980 and is located at the Australian National University. It is governed by a National Council which plans national activities and co-ordinates Regional Groups. The APA sponsors the WD Borrie Prize to promote the study of population-related issues.

The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History was formed in 1961. It was inaugurated at a meeting held at the University of Queensland in May 1961 during a congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Its foundation members included Asa Briggs, Bob Gollan, Eric Fry, Daphne Gollan, Don Rawson, John Merritt, Sam Merrifield, Joe Harris and others. The Society's journal Labour History has been published regularly since its first beginnings as a bulletin in 1961. The Society has branches in Canberra, Brisbane, Hunter Valley, Sydney, Illawarra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania, and Perth. Branches are involved in labour history and research, and heritage preservation. In 1999 the ASSHL and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) initiated the MUA Dispute Archive Project in an effort to collect and preserve documents relating to the 1998 dispute between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Stevedores.

Kong Chew Society was founded in Melbourne in the 1850s when Chinese first arrived in significant numbers during the 1850s gold rushes. It was founded as a welfare and mutual aid organisation for people mosts from Guangdong province. The Society was based in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne and still exists as a registered organisation.

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 Australian in Spain Memorial Committee was established at the urging of Amirah Inglis, a Canberra academic who in the 1980s wrote the book Australians in the Spanish Civil War. The Committee lobbied Government for the establishment of a suitable memorial in Canberra to those Australians who had served in the war. Following fund-raising and a competition to design the memorial, it was unveiled in Lennox Gardens in Canberra on 11 December 1993.

The Industrial Relations Society of Australia, now called the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association, was originally formed in May 1965. It is the parent body of industrial relations societies in all States and Territories of Australia. The association seeks to organise and foster discussion, research, education and publication within the field of industrial relations, and administers the Journal of Industrial Relations.

Australians for Racial Equality was formed in Sydney in 1984 and incorporated in New South Wales in 1985. It was concerned in particular about racism directed at migrants and produced a Community Relations Register, published by the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs in 1986.

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 Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA) was established in October 2003 as an independent association of facilities managers operating in the tertiary education sector of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. TEFMA was formed from the Australasian chapter the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (AAPPA).

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.

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 AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action group formed in New York in March 1987 for people with AIDS advocating for medical research and treatment and against discrimination. Its motto is Silence = Death. The Melbourne Chapter was formed in May 1990 and organised demonstrations, campaigns and events including the 1991 D-Day campaign, the Save Fairfield Hospital campaign, and the Mapping Our Enemy conference in 1993.

The Churches AIDS Pastoral Care and Education Program (CAPE) formed after discussions between the National Advisory Committee on AIDS's National Churches AIDS Working Group, the Victorian AIDS Council and the Haemophilia Society of Victoria about providing education programs for church people and volunteers. The churches involved were the Anglican, Catholic, Uniting, Baptist and Lutheran churches, the Salvation Army, the Churches of Christ, the New Wave Christian Fellowship and the Metropolitan Community Church. A co-ordinator was appointed in January 1989 working from the Interfaith Health Education Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. From 1994 to 1996, Churches AIDS Pastoral Care and Education Incorporated operated from the Cape Centre in South Yarra.

The AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific emerged out of the first International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Canberra in August 1990. It is a non-governmental body consisting of national research and advocacy organisations and is committed to reducing the transmission and impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Asia and the Pacific Region. Its permanent Secretariat was originally in Sydney then moved to Bangkok, Thailand. The first President (1990-1996) was Professor John Dwyer AO, PhD, FRACP who organised the first four conferences in Canberra, New Delhi, Chiang Mai and Manila.

Founded in 1989, the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS has as its members State-based organisations representing people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). It provides advocacy, representation, policy, health promotion and outreach on a national level and contributes to clinical and social research into the incidence, impact and management of HIV. Originally known as the National People Living with AIDS Coalition, it has undergone several changes to its name and is now known as the National Association of People with HIV Australia.

The Association was formed in Sydney in July 1939. Divisions were formed in South Australia and Victoria in 1940, Western Australia in 1941 and Queensland in 1942. The New South Wales Division had a branch in St Mary's and a student branch at the University of Sydney. The first meeting of the Federal Council was in Melbourne in February 1941. In September 1943 a joint committee of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers and the Federated Scientific Employees' Association proposed a new body, the Federation of Scientific and Technical Workers, and this was registered federally as a union in September 1946. The Australian Association of Scientific Workers continued as a separate organisation until a final meeting in Sydney in July 1949 dissolved the Association.

The Public Health Association of Australia aims to encourage research and promote knowledge in the wider community of the economic, social and environmental factors affecting public health. It is a successor to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health /Australian Public Health Association. Its major activities are advocacy for the betterment of public health, holding conferences on epidemiology, immunisation and other public health issues, and producing the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Before 2001 its name was the Public Health Association.

The inaugural meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia occurred on 23 January 1975 following the merger of a number of local professional nutrition groups. The Society comprises a number of regional groups, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle, Wollongong and Tasmania.

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.

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 Australian National University Staff Association was formed in September 1953, with the object to advance the welfare of its members in their capacity as members of staff of the University. Membership was open to staff with university degrees or equivalent professional qualifications, including senior administrative, library and technical officers. In 1993 the National Tertiary Education Industry Union was formed from a merger of several organisations and represented both academic and administrative staff (previously represented by the ANU Administrative and Allied Officers' Association).

The New Guinea Society was set up at a meeting in Canberra on 31 July 1957, following a call for expressions of interest from Ralph Bulmer, Margaret McArthur, Murray Groves and others. The Society was based in Canberra and drew most of its membership from the Australian National University, the Commonwealth Department of Territories and CSIRO. Professor J.W. Davidson, dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, required all PhD students in the Research School of Pacific Studies to belong to the Society.

The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was founded in 1895 as an unincorporated, voluntary organisation of sugar plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands. Its objective was to promote the interests of its members and the development of the sugar industry in the islands. The HSPA conducted scientific studies and gathered records about the industry, campaigned to bring workers to Hawaii, opening offices in Manila, Vigan and Illocos Sur to recruit Filipino workers and provide them free passage to Hawaii. The association also lobbied for legislation, labor and immigration policies beneficial to the sugar industry in Hawaii. It is now known as the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

The Union of Australian Women is a national organisation formed in 1950 to work for the status and well being of women in a peaceful and environmentally safe world. It seeks to improve the lives of women through focusing on issues of equity and social justice. It also highlights the often hidden role of women in Australian society, particularly women's contribution to its economic, social, cultural and political life.

The Institute of Public Affairs was established in October 1942 to promote the concept of free enterprise during postwar social and economic reconstruction as a balance against proponents of the 'new social order' who advocated socialism and the nationalisation of Australian industries. The inaugural Council was drawn from the Melbourne business community and included members G J Coles, Sir Walter Massy-Greene and Sir Keith Murdoch. Charles Kemp was appointed as its Economic Adviser in 1942 and wrote the influential publication Looking Forward: A Post-war Policy for Industry. He subsequently became its Director from 1948 to 1976 and acting Director 1979 to 1982. Branches were formed in Western Australia in 1985 and in the Australian Capital Territory in 1987 and in 1992 it merged with the Perth-based Australian Institute for Public Policy. It operates as an independent, non-profit public policy research and educational institute, with specific research areas such as the environment, deregulation, workplace relations, energy, political governance, intellectual property, telecommunications, technology, housing, education, health and agriculture. It has published the IPA Review since 1947, and also publishes research papers and hosts conferences and lectures.

Aboriginal Affairs was a small Melbourne information group founded in 1957 by BR Beatty, J Claridge, J Weetman, JB Webb, LM Webb and I Spalding. Spalding was the editor of the periodical 'On Aboriginal Affairs' which set out to inform the Australian public on Aboriginal issues and to encourage readers to think in new ways about these issues. It was produced from 1962 to 1967. The group also produced a series of information papers as supplements to the periodical.

The Assembly of Captive European Nations was founded on 20 September 1954 as a coalition of representatives from nine nations (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania) in Central and Eastern Europe under Soviet domination after World War II. Its main office was in New York and its goals were 'to provide liberation from communist dictatorship by peaceful means, to educate public opinion on the actual situation behind the Iron Curtain, and to enlist the cooperation and assistance of governmental and non-governmental institutions'. Funding was provided by the Free Europe Committee and when that organisation suspended financial assistance in January 1972 because of its own budget reductions, the Assembly offices were closed and publication activities ceased.

The Australian Committee of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust was inaugurated at a meeting at Yarralumla convened by HRH the Prince of Wales in March 1983. Sir Mark Oliphant was appointed the first Chairman but resigned after a few months and was followed by Hon. Peter Howson who remained in the position until 1996. The Cambridge Australia Trust, as it became known, encouraged donations particularly from Cambridge graduates to fund scholarships for Australian students who wished to study at Cambridge University in England. Early donors to the trust included Kerry Packer of Australian Consolidated Press and Coles Myer Limited. Its funds are managed through the Australian National University. The association was incorporated in 2010 as Cambridge Australia Scholarships Limited, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.

The proposal to establish a child care centre on campus began in 1967 when ANU staff requested the ANU General Staff Association to investigate child care services. As a result of the University agreeing to provide space, the University Preschool and Child Care Centre was opened in March 1969. The Centre is an association incorporated under the ACT Associations Incorporation Ordinance 1953 and parents whose children are currently enrolled in the Centre are members of the Association with voting rights.

The Eureka Youth League was formed in 1941 with the aim of supporting the war effort while protecting the rights and conditions of women, youth and juveniles in industry.
By October 1942 the State Council of the League had announced its intention to 'draw into its ranks the clearest thinking youth of our generation. We aim to help the labour movement win the youth for the advance to the new socialist order and to train our members to be honest, clear thinking and energetic builders of the new socialist order.'
Post-war the League acted as an educational, social and political organisation, one highlight being the organisation of the Youth Carnival for Peace in 1952.

In August 1900 “the stevedores of [port Sydney] finding that they were working at different hours and paying different wages formed an Association with the object of framing regulations to which all the members agreed to adhere and which were simply designed for the purpose of fixing the hours of labour of their workmen and their rates of pay – objects beneficial alike to the labourers themselves, the shipowners and the stevedores”. (Letter of C L Cowper, Chairman of the S.S. Ass. to the editor Fair Play, 30 April 1901, attached to the minutes of the meeting on 30 April 1901). Some time during 1902 the name was changed to Sydney Stevedores’ Wool-dumping and Lighterage Association, Industrial Union of Employers.

The association was formed to organise the first reunion in April 2000 of foresters who had received their qualifications from the Australian Forestry School in the period 1927 to 1964. It was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory in December 1999 and wound up in July 2000. Ray Margules was the Chair of the association and Dr Kim Wells, Secretary.

The Superannuated Commonwealth Officers Association (SCOA) is an apolitical, not-for-profit national retiree organisation, established in 1923, providing advocacy, assistance and information for current and former federal, state and territory government agency employees and their dependants. It is governed by a Federal Council which has representatives (Federal Councillors) from State Branches.

The Australian Century Farm and Station Awards National Co-ordinator operates this program of the Collector and Districts Historical Society which recognises rural properties that have been managed by the one family for more than 100 years. Applicants submit an application and are encouraged to include family histories and copies of photographs and maps to support their application.

The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) is the peak body of Australian Law Schools. Members of the Council are Deans, Heads or Directors, of Australian law schools.

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA) was established in 1984 as the overseas aid agency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in recognition of the union movement's responsibility to contribute to workers in other countries who are disadvantaged through poverty, lack of human rights and civil conflict. The organisation was co-founded by Helen McCue, APHEDA's first Executive Director and regional adviser in South Africa and the Middle East until early 1994. It supports training projects in many countries with the support of individual union members, trade unions and aid agencies such as the Australian government agency AusAid. It is also known as Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA.

The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum was established in 1985 to promote the interests of the Museum and to encourage interest in antiquity in the wider community. The group organises lectures on the culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and raises funds to support the Classics Museum and its activities. It operates under a constitution and has an elected management committee.

Once Australian Jewry's pre-eminent left-wing organisation, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism was formed in May 1942 by a group of activist (mainly established Eastern European) Jews concerned about increasing anti-Semitism, both local and international. The Council was always influenced by the Communist Party and its sympathisers, but in its early years enjoyed broad communal support. It campaigned in favour of the creation of the State of Israel, and against the immigration of former Nazis to Australia. By 1948 the Council had become the official public relations representative of the Jewish community.
During the Cold War the Council lost community support due to its perceived pro-Soviet bias. Its apparent denial of Soviet anti-Semitism appalled many Jews. Equally, the impact of McCarthyism narrowed the boundaries of acceptable Jewish political behaviour, with communal leaders concerned to avoid any popular identification of Jews with communism.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Council enjoyed a minor revival due to its close association with the Left-dominated Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Council President Sam Cohen was successful in securing ALP preselection for the federal Senate, but subsequently offended many Jews by appearing to defend the Soviet Union's anti-Jewish policies in a parliamentary debate.
Prominent Council activists included Sam Cohen, Norman Rothfield, Sam Goldbloom, Ernest Platz and Judah Waten. Due to an ageing membership and declining support, the Council ceased to exist in 1970.

The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) is an international youth organisation, recognised by the United Nations as an international youth non-governmental organisation. WFDY describes itself as an 'anti-imperialist, left-wing' organisation.

It was founded in London in 1945 as a broad international youth movement, organised in the context of the end of World War II with the aim of uniting youth from the Allied nations behind an anti-fascist platform that was broadly pro-peace, anti-nuclear war, expressing friendship between youth of the capitalist and socialist nations.

The WFDY Headquarters are in Budapest, Hungary. It was one of the first organisations granted general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

In May 1960, Australia's first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group was formed in Melbourne. Its young middle-class members espoused civil disobedience and until 1965 held annual Easter marches. With the reintroduction of conscription late in 1964, CND merged into the broader Vietnam Day Committee (VDC).

The Trades Union Congress is a voluntary association of trade unions which was formed in Manchester in 1868. It forms the largest pressure group in the United Kingdom and works to improve the rights and conditions of working people. In achieving its aims the TUC has played a role both in many Government organisations and in the political wing of the Labour movement. Such a history has resulted in its archives being a rich source for the study of the political, economic and social history of the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.

The TUC is governed by an annual Congress at which representatives of affiliated trade unions meet to determine policy and to elect the executive body of the organisation. Between 1869 and 1921, the executive work of the Congress was carried out by the Parliamentary Committee. In 1920, the Committee was composed of sixteen members who dealt with a relatively narrow range of labour affairs. Changes in society during the First World War led to a widening of the TUC's functions and consequently the formation of the General Council in 1921, which was composed of a representative sample of trade unionists. The General Council is assisted by a number of committees, including Finance and General Purposes, Disputes, Education, Organisation, Social Insurance, International, Economic and Production. These in turn are served by departments, the number and nature of which varies according to the needs and priorities of the time. The responsibility for the everyday work of the General Council lies with the General Secretary who is assisted by a Deputy General Secretary and one or two Assistant General Secretaries.

In the regions, the TUC is organised into Regional Councils which cover England and Wales. Trade union activity in Scotland and Northern Ireland is co-ordinated by the Scottish TUC and the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, both of which are separate organisations with close working relationships with the TUC. At a local level branches of affiliated trade unions unite to form trades councils.

Founded October 1945 during the International Trade Union Congress in Paris; the delegates, including representatives of the American Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Soviet trade unions, agreed to set up a new world federation replacing the old International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) and the Red International of Labour Unions (PROFINTERN, 1920-1934), as result of the desire for unity, peace and progress after the Second World War.

The development of the cold war and the increasing communist influence in the Executive Committee of the WFTU resulted from 1948 in the departure of the noncommunist organizations, in order to found their own organization in 1949, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).

The World Federation of Trade Unions' headquarters were in Paris 1945 - 1951, Vienna 1951 - 1956, Prague 1956 - 2006, and in Athens since 2006.

Founded 6 June 1954 and until 1957 known as the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom. An affiliated member of the International Association for Cultural Freedom (Founded 1950 and until 1967 known as the Congress for Cultural Freedom), an American anti-communist organisation established in 1950. Founding secretary of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom was Richard Krygier, who founded Quadrant magazine.

Established in the 1930s, the National Union of Australian University Students became the Australian Union of Students (AUS) in 1971. It was a representative body and lobby group for Australian University and College of Advanced Education students. The group were concerned about issues of specific interest to students and also in areas of broad community concern. By 1970 the group were a dominant presence on nineteen Australian campuses and fought to abolish student fees and organise student travel. Two years later the AUS were powerful opponents of conscription and by 1975 they campaigned for womens' rights and established AUS Women. The Australian Union of Students collapsed in 1984 and was succeeded by the National Union of Students in 1987.

On 14 September 1883, twenty one merchants attended the inaugural meeting of the Timber Merchants Association of Melbourne. The objects of the association were to represent the firms interested in the timber trade of the Port of Melbourne “with the view of united action in all matters bearing upon the welfare and satisfactory working of such trade, and to obtain an approved and decided opinion upon any points of policy or alteration in trade arrangements that may present themselves”.
The co-founders of the Association were John Sharp of John Sharp & Sons in South Melbourne and James Wright of J Wright & Co, also in South Melbourne. They established offices at 38 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne and invited annual subscriptions at a price of 3 guineas. The Association’s initial activities focused on cartage rates, prices and credit.
December 1888 saw the beginning of the Association’s involvement in union negotiations, with the majority of members opposing the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners’ request for a reduction of working hours from 48 to 44 hours per week. Throughout the 1900s, the Association would regularly oppose moves to legislate for a 5 day week and a 40 hour week.
In 1905 the Association changed its name to the Melbourne & Suburban Timber Merchants Association. Shortly after, in 1910, a Bendigo & District Timber Merchants Association was formed.
Throughout the early 1900s the Association moved premises several times before finally finding a more permanent home at 51 William Street, Melbourne in 1925.
In 1940 Fred O’Connell of Junction Joinery was appointed Manager of the Association, holding this position for 18 years. In 1941, he and President Eric Aitken held talks with the Prices Commission in Canberra regarding price control and the difficult position the industry was in, successfully negotiating a set price for timber. Also in 1941, the Association organised a Timber Trade Advisory Committee to oversee petrol rationing.
In 1959 a Geelong Branch of the Melbourne & Suburban Timber Merchants Association was formed, however it wasn’t long before the idea of merging the country and city associations emerged and in 1965 the branches merged to form the Timber Merchants Association (Victoria).
In 1971 the William Street building that housed the Association was sold and the Association built new offices in Whitehorse Road, Blackburn.
In 2017 the TMA was absorbed by the Master Grocers Association of Victoria (MGAV). The TMA is now known as MGA Timber Merchants Australia (MGA TMA).

Changed names from New South Wales Aid to Russia Committee to Friendship with Russia League in 1942. With other Russian organisations, merged into the Australian-Russian Society in 1945.

The inaugural meeting of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia (now ALERA) was held in Sydney on 14 May 1958. It was the culmination of several years of activity by Kingsley Laffer from the University of Sydney who established the first course of study in industrial relations in the Department of Economics in 1956. Kingsley was interested in establishing a national body which would bring together academics, employers, trade unions, government and legal practitioners with a common interest in promoting the field of industrial relations. One of the first initiatives of the fledging Society was the creation of the Journal of Industrial Relations, the first issue of which was published in April 1959.

ALERA was formed as an independent, non-partisan association which encourages research, discussion and debate on a wide range of issues affecting employee relationships and was the first organisation of its type to be formed in Australia. ALERA's objective is to organise and foster discussion, research, education and publication within the field of workplace relations. ALERA is affiliated with the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA).

Founded in London in 1949 by unions opposing growing communist control of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) in the initial phase of the cold war. The breakaway was triggered by the WFTU's aim to absorb the hitherto autonomous International Trade Secretariats and its rejection of the Marshall Plan. With this background and the American Federation of Labor as an affiliate, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in the first two decades of its existence strongly identified with Western democratic values and strictly refused contacts with communist and Eastern European state controlled unions.

Shortly after its founding the ICFTU established a network of regional organizations: the European Regional Organisation in 1950, the Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores, the Asian Regional Organisation in 1951, and finally the African Regional Organisation in 1960. Increasing bilateral Eastern European contacts of member unions and a dispute concerning affiliation of the United Automobile Workers caused the walk out of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1969, reentering in 1982.

Following the changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries some trade unions in these countries left the WFTU to affiliate with the ICFTU. Membership as a rule was open to trade unions independent from external control but, from the Third World in particular, members with limited freedom from government, political parties and employers, were also accepted.

In 2006 the International Trade Union Confederation was founded from the merger of the former International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour.

Coal mining industry lobby group. Subsumed into the Minerals Council of Australia in 2013.

The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre is an association incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. It was established in October 1997 and operates independently from the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University. Its objectives are to help preserve and extend the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, to foster among members and other interested parties a sense of involvement with and understanding of the collections, objectives and operations of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, and to publicise the resources and facilities of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre to stimulate greater awareness within the community of its role. The Friends support an annual lecture and a conservation fund to repair and make more accessible material in the collection of high research value.

Forestry Australia was previously known as The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers. The Institute of Foresters of Australia was created in 1935 as the professional membership body for people trained in forest science. Australian Forest Growers was previously known as the Australian Forest Development Institute when it was founded in 1969.

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) was established in 1946 by Dr. Herbert Schlink (later Sir Herbert) as the Australian Hospital Association (AHA). The AHA joined the International Hospital Federation in 1949, and changed their name to the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association in 2006.

The Gowrie Foundation established in 1943 to maintain research scholarships in perpetual memory of those Australian men and women who gave their lives for their country in the Second World War. Established in the name of Australia's 10th Governor-General, the scholarship was "for graduates who were members of the forces during WWII or are descendants of such persons. Special consideration given to lineal descendants of a member of the forces who died as a result of any occurrence which happened during his period of enlistment". The first trustees were Sir John Latham, Sir Robert Garran and Sir Claude Reading.

The scholarship was awarded for 1 or 2 years to graduates of Australian universities to support study at universities or other research institutions, either in Australia or overseas.

The trust was dissolved in with ANU managing the scholarship from 2011. It is now known as the Gowrie Bursary.