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 Australian Dairy Products Federation is the peak policy body representing the interests of commercial or non-farm members of the Australian dairy industry who are engaged in the manufacture, marketing or trading of dairy products and/or dairy related products. It was incorporated on 23 April 1987.

This union had its origins in the Bread Carters' Industrial Federal Union of Australia which was established in 1905. In 1916 the bread carters changed the name of their union to the Bread Carters' Industrial Federation of Australia when a federation of Victorian and South Australian Branches was formed. By 1934 there was a New South Wales Branch. In 1979 following an influx of members from the soon-to-be deregistered Baking Trade Employees' Federation of Australia, the union registered as the Bakery Employees' and Salesmen's Federation of Australia.

The Association was known as the Motor Vehicle Importers Association of NSW until 6 July 1923 when it became the Chamber of Automotive Industries of NSW Inc. It was affiliated with the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and organised the annual Sydney Motor Show before winding up in December 1997.

The Building Trades' Federation of Victoria was formed from the United Building Trades Council in 1914. It was a peak body which represented various unions connected with the building trade including: boiler makers (building section), bricklayers, builders' laborers, carpenters, masons, painters, plumbers, slaters and tilers, timber workers, tile layers, ironworkers and brick, tile and pottery workers.

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 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 Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia dates back to local engine drivers' unions on Australian goldfields but was not registered federally until 1908. Predecessors include the Newcastle Colliery Engine Drivers' Union (1889-1921), the Newcastle Crane Employees' Union (1893-1915), the Shore Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Union of New South Wales (1901-1908), the Steam Crane Engine Drivers' Society of New South Wales (1901-1910), the New England Engine Drivers' Association (amalgamated in 1908), the Amalgamated Engine Drivers' Association of Tasmania and the United Certificated Engine Drivers' Association of Victoria. It was deregistered in 1949 but formed again in 1950 under the same name. It was amalgamated with the Construction Forestry and Mining Employees' Union and the Operative Plasterers' and Plaster Workers' Federation of Australia in 1992 to form the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union. The union represented engine drivers and firemen, crane drivers, dynamo and boiler attendants, forklift drivers and plant operators in hospitals, abattoirs, dockyards, brickworks, mines, power stations and factories.

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.

Reflecting its status as a branch of its English parent union, this society was originally registered as the Australian District of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in 1911 though it had existed as an affiliate of the British union since the 1850s. By the end of 1922 the name had been amended to become the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia. It operated until the end of the Second World War when its name was changed to the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia in 1945. The Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia functioned for just three more years until it was deregistered in 1948. The name Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was taken over by a rival, anti-Communist breakaway group and federally registered in 1950, then was itself deregistered in 1951. Reforming in 1952, it eventually amalgamated with a number of unions in 1992 to form the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees.

The society was in existence from at least 1890 and in 1892 led moves to form the Federated Building Trades Union with carpenters, plasterers and plumbers. In 1906 this union formally changed its name to the Painters and Decorators' Society of South Australia, and then became the South Australian branch of the Federated House and Ship Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators Association of Australasia in 1910.

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 Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia initially consisted of an amalgamation of the New South Wales and Tasmanian plasterers' unions. It changed its name to the Operative Plasterers' and Plaster Workers' Federation of Australia in 1960. In 1963 the South Australian, Western Australian and Queensland plastering unions joined the Federation but the two Victorian plasterers' unions remained separate. The union amalgamated with other construction and mining unions in 1992 to eventually become part of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

The Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia formed from the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia in 1945 but was deregistered in 1948. An anti-communist faction of the union established a new Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in 1950 which eventually became part of the Australian Workers' Union. The Building Workers' Industrial Union formally reconstituted in 1962. Members of the Federated Bricklayers' Association of Australia (deregistered 1950) and the Slaters Tilers Shinglers and Roof Fixers Union of Australia (deregistered 1976) also joined. In 1991 the BWIU amalgamated with the timber unions to become the Australian Timber and Allied Industries Union and Building Workers' Industrial Union (ATAIU & BWIU) Amalgamated Union and to eventually be part of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

The Amalgamated Glass Bottle Makers' Trade Protective Society of Australia was established in Sydney in 1894. In 1895 the words Glass Workers were substituted for Glass Bottle Makers. At this time the association was amalgamated with the Melbourne glass workers' union. By 1900 the amalgamation had broken up and the union was then called the Glass Workers Union of New South Wales. It joined the Amalgamated Glass Bottle Makers Union of Australia (1909 - 1918) which became the Australian Glass Workers' Union.

Formed in 1911, the Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation's predecessors include the United Labourers' Friendly Society (1850s), the Melbourne United Labourers' Protection Society (1882), the Builders' Labourers' Union of Victoria (1898), the United Labourers' Protective Society of New South Wales (1883), the Builders' Labourers' Union of New South Wales (1901), the Adelaide Builders' Labourers' Society, and the Brisbane Builders' Labourers' Union. The Western Australian union joined the Federation in 1966. In 1972 it became the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation until it was deregistered in 1974. It was registered again in 1976, but following a joint Federal and Victorian government Royal Commission was deregistered in 1986. Many members transferred to the Building Workers' Industrial Union and the Western Australian, Queensland, South Australian and Tasmanian branches merged with the BWIU. Branches in New South Wales and Victoria continued to operate into the 1990s and in the Australian Capital Territory till 1989.

The Society existed from at least 1856 and had branches in Sydney, Newtown, Newcastle, Lithgow, North Sydney, Goulburn, Granville, Burwood and Canberra (from 1924 coinciding with the construction of Parliament House). It was part of the Federated Bricklayers' Association of Australia and its members joined the Building Workers' Industrial Union when it formed in 1945.

The Slaters, Tiles and Shinglers Union of Australia was registered in 1928. It changed its name to include roof fixers in 1944. It formally amalgamated with the Building Workers' Industrial Union in 1976, though the Victorian Branch had already done so in 1964.

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 Australian Society of Progressive Carpenters and Joiners formed as a separate union to the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia in opposition to that union's affiliation with the British society. When the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners became independent in 1917, the two Australian unions then amalgamated.

The Queensland Shearers' Union was formed in January 1887 to help combat pastoralists' attempts to reduce the shearing rate. By the time the union had registered under the Queensland Trade Union Act in August 1888 it had well over nine hundred members, and a year later close to three thousand. Constantly at odds with the larger Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia, the QSU rejected amalgamation attempts from that union only to accept by plebiscite an amalgamation with the Queensland Labourers' Union in October 1891 to form the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland, which it did in April 1892. In an ironic twist, however, the Amalgamated Workers Union of Queensland ultimately merged with the newly formed Australian Workers' Union, a creation of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia, in 1904.

The impetus to form the General Labourers' Union of Australasia arose out of difficulties the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia faced in overcoming the effect non-unionised, unskilled labourers had in negating any strike action the shearers were resolved to undertake. This was particularly evident in the 1891 shearers' strike in Queensland. At the inaugural annual conference held in Adelaide on 9 February 1891 it was overwhelmingly voted by the ASU delegates present that this new General Labourers' Union be formed to provide union coverage for shedhands, so as 'to unite to a man and so present an unbreakable square in time of need'. The administrative and governmental structures of the GLU virtually mirrored those of the ASU. Shortlived, the GLU ultimately merged with the ASU again in 1894 to create the Australian Workers' Union.

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.

The People's Printing and Publishing Company of Western Australia published the union newspaper 'The Westralian Worker'. John Curtin, a future prime minister, was editor of the newspaper from 1917 to 1928. By 1958, the company was known as the Westland Broadcasting Company.

The Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees was formed in 1991 as an amalgamation of the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. In September 1992 the Australian Glass Workers' Union also amalgamated and in November 1992 the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia, the Australian Rope and Cordage Workers' Union and the Australian Brushmakers' Union. In 1993 the union then amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union with the official title the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union, commonly referred to as the Australian Workers' Union.

The association was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act of 1881 on 6 September 1909. The Association was formed to cover woolclassers in country sheds, as shearers and most other shed hands were covered by the Australian Workers' Union, and classers working in woolstores by the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union. In the early years an award was negotiated with the various New South Wales pastoral associations and then registered in the Industrial Court. The Association applied for federal registration, which it obtained in 1933, and changed its name to the Woolclassers' Association of Australia and acted as its New South Wales Branch.

The Woolclassers' Association of Australia was formed originally from the Woolclassers' Association of New South Wales which covered woolclassers in country sheds, as shearers and most other shed hands were covered by the Australian Workers' Union, and classers working in woolstores by the Federated Storemen & Packers' Union. The Association applied for federal registration, which it obtained in 1933, and changed its name to the Woolclassers' Association of Australia. A Victorian Branch (from 1945 the Victorian/Tasmanian Branch) affiliated late in 1934 and a South Australian Branch affiliated in 1949. The Woolclassers' and Experts' Association of Western Australia which had existed since 1919 affiliated in 1950. A Queensland Branch was formed in 1962, and the Riverina sub-branch in 1963.

The Federated Coopers of Australia was formed in 1910 and registered in 1913 as an amalgamation of state unions such as the Journeymen Coopers' Society of New South Wales and the Victorian Society of Coopers. It was deregistered in 1977.

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.

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 Queensland Journeymen Coopers' Society was a forerunner to the Queensland Branch of the Federated Coopers of Australia.

The organisation's predecessor, the Australian Association of Dietitians, was registered in the Australian Capital Territory on 5 January 1976. Branches operated in each state and territory encompassing offices that had existed before the formation of the national body. The organisation's name was changed to the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) on 7 May 1983. In September 1994 the DAA passed a by-law to provide for the credential, Accredited Practising Dietitian - available to those dietitians who meet the required criteria. Since 1987, the DAA has published an official peer-reviewed journal, Nutrition and Dietetics. This includes the Journal of Dietitians New Zealand. Prior to this, the Commonwealth Department of Health published the Journal of Food and Nutrition (originally as Food and Nutrition Notes and Reviews in 1944).

The Chullora Railway Workshops was the site for construction and maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock of the New South Wales rail system from the late 1920s, and was the major electric car workshop in NSW. Employees of the Chullora Railway Workshops were represented by trade union committes including the Electric Car Workshops Shop Committee, Boiler Shop Committee, Combined Union Stewards Committee (Erecting and Tender Shops), Area Union Stewards and Rolling Stock Shop Committee.

The Clerk of Works Institute of Australia was formed in 1958 and incorporated in September 1959. The Institute was formed for professional support of Clerks of Works employed to supervise and inspect major building projects as the representative of the building owner, working directly to the architect. Members of the Institute were also representatives on advisory committees for Building Foreman and Clerk of Works courses at technical colleges. The institute had over 300 members in 1970 and chapters in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. It was deregistered on 20 December 1984.

The Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation of Australia first met in October 1917, initially being an amalgamation of the New South Wales and Victorian Branches of the Small Arms Factory Employees' and Munition Workers' Association (1912-1917). It was federally registered in 1919, and attracted members from the Ammunition, Cordite and Explosives Employees' Industrial Organisation of Australia (1914-1926) and formed branches in Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. It was deregistered following the end of Second World War in 1946 after an amalgamation with the Federated Ironworkers' Association to form the proposed Metal and Munition Workers' Union did not eventuate.

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.

Jack Roberts was a member of the Clerks of Works Institute of Australia (CWIA) from 1959 and served as its President in 1966. He was instrumental in the formation of chapters in South Australia, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia. He was employed as the Clerk of Works on the Sydney Opera House 1959-1966 and for other building projects such as the Ampol and the Colonial Mutual Life buildings in North Sydney and in Martin Place, Sydney. He was elected as a Fellow in 1966 and an Honorary Fellow in 1985.

The Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia was formed in Sydney on 25 September 1908 by delegates from New South Wales and Victoria. By 1909 it had branches in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. The Federation was registered on 20 May 1911. In October and November 1942 the Federation met with the Arms Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation regarding amalgamation and a National Executive Council was set up in 1943 representing the Federal Committees of Management of both Unions. The name of the organisation was to be the Metal & Munition Workers' Union but it was never registered as such. In 1975 the FIA amalgamated again with the Federated Artificial Fertilizer and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia. Although reregistering, the Union remained known as the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. A further amalgamation with the Australasian Society of Engineers in 1991 created the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees. A year later the Australian Glass Workers' Union joined and by 1993, the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees merged with the Australian Workers' Union to form the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union.

The Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales was formed on 2 November 1901 and on registration in 1902 changed its name to the Wire Netting Workers' Union of New South Wales. In 1928 it was registered again as the Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales, a branch of the Wireworkers, Wire Fence and Tubular Gate Workers' Union of Australia. The NSW Union amalgamated with the NSW Branch of the Federation Ironworkers' Association of Australia in November 1944, though the federal union did not amalgamate until 1966.

The Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants' Society of South Australia existed from at least 1908. It amalgamated with the Cast Iron, Pipe Moulders' and Ironworkers' Society of Adelaide in 1914 as the South Australian Branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association.

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 union was formed in 1911 and became the Hotel, Club, Restaurant, Caterers, Tea Rooms and Boarding House Employees' Union of New South Wales in 1940. It was deregistered in 1970, with the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia gaining coverage of its members.

The union was formed in 1915 and registered in 1916 originally bringing together three State unions: the Passenger and Goods Lift Attendants' Union of New South Wales (1909), the Watchmen, Caretakers and Cleaners' Union of New South Wales (1910), and the Watchmen, Caretakers and Male Office Cleaners' Union of Victoria (1913). It amalgamated with over 50 unions in its long history including unions representing billiard markers, undertakers' assistants, hairdressers, watchmakers, dental technicians, photographic employees, ambulance employees, and sailmakers. Its final amalgamation was with the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia to form the Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1992.

The Australasian Airline Flight Engineers' Association was registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 4 December 1961. It had members from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. By 1982, the Association changed names slightly to become the Australian Airline Flight Engineers' Association.

In 1910 the Victorian Liquor Trades Union met with other interstate brewery unions to form a federated union, the Federated Liquor Trade Employees' Union of Australasia. The union expanded its membership into allied industries to cover hotel workers, restaurants, clubs, caterers, boarding houses, yeast and vinegar factories and canteens. In 1918, in order to reflect this expansion the union was renamed the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australasia. In 1958 it changed name again to the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia. In 1992 it amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union to form the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union.

The South Australian Liquor Trades Employees' Union was formed on 2 February 1907. It became the South Australian Branch of the Federated Liquor Trade Employees' Union of Australasia on 22 December 1910 but left the Federation on 3 November 1920 and became the Liquor Trade Employees' Union of South Australia. It rejoined the Federation in 1924.

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.

The union amalgamated with the Australian Saddlery and Leather Workers Trades Employees' Federation before eventually becoming part of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia in 1972.

Further research is needed to establish the dates for this union. The Milling, Baking, Cooking and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Queensland was succeeded by the Amalgamated Foodstuffs and Allied Industries Union of Queensland which amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1968.

The Federated Jewellers, Watchmakers and Allied Trades Union of Australia was formed in 1912 following a change of name from the Federated Jewellers' Union of Australia. In 1975 the Union was deregistered. Many of its members, however, went on to join the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.

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 Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation began as the federally-registered union, the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation in 1908. The original union changed its name several times to incorporate tanners, curriers, sailmakers and tentmakers. The union amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1967 and was deregistered in 1972.

The Professional Divers' Association of Australasia (PDAA) was established in May 1969 at a meeting of several divers, dissatisfied over the lack of job security in the diving industry, workplace health and safety issues, and the significantly lower wages received by Australian divers compared to their overseas counterparts. Despite starting from a low membership base, the union achieved registration in 1971 and operated until 1991 when it amalgamated with the Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA). In 1993 the SUA merged with the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (WWF) to form the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).

The North Australian Workers' Union was formed in 1927 when two previous unions were deregistered: the Northern Territory Workers' Union which had formed c. 1913 and the North Australian Industrial Union which dated from 1923. The union amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia in 1971 and was deregistered in 1972.

The Association represented theatrical and cinematic employees, outdoor sports ground staff and many in the television industry. It was originally known as the Australian Federated Stage Employees' Association in 1910, and underwent name changes to become the Australian Federated Theatrical Employees' Association in 1912, the Federated Theatrical & Amusement Employees' Association in 1914, and finally the Australian Theatrical & Amusement Employees' Association in 1915. In 1992 it amalgamated with the Australian Journalists' Association and the Actors' and Announcers' Equity Association to form the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

The Guild was registered in 1923 and was dissolved in October 1925. It belonged to the Building Trades Federation of Victoria.

The National Tertiary Education Industry Union [NTEU] was formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of five tertiary education unions: the Federated Australian University Staff Association [FAUSA], which represented mainly academic staff in the traditional university sector; the Union of Australian College Academics [UACA], which represented mainly academic staff in the Colleges of Advanced Education, following that membership base into the university sector as institutions amalgamated or changed their status; the Australian Colleges and Universities Staff Association [ACUSA], which represented general staff in higher education, TAFE, Adult Education and student unions, mainly in Victoria; the University of Adelaide General Staff Association [UAGSA], which represented general staff at the University of Adelaide; and the Australian National University Administrative and Allied Officers' Association [ANUAAOA] which represented middle-level and senior administrative staff at the ANU.

These organisations all saw benefits in forming a single, stronger union for the whole tertiary education industry. The NTEU provided a united voice for tertiary education workers, without the old, arbitrary divisions between different parts of the industry or different categories of workers. The amalgamation was endorsed by an overwhelming majority of members of each of the five unions.

The Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) was first proposed at the Commonwealth Trade Union Conference in June 1979. A special working party was set up and their proposals were agreed by the Commonwealth Unions in November 1979 with the CTUC formally established in March 1980. The CTUC aimed to strengthen links between trade unions in the Commonwealth and to provide practical assistance to trade unions in developing countries. Dennis McDermott, President of the Canadian Labour Congress was elected President and Carl Wright was appointed Director. Patrick Quinn took over as Director of the CTUC, August 1988 and Arthur Johnstone became Director in 1994. The executive body of the CTUC was its Steering Subcommittee, which included trade union leaders from the United Kingdom and Mediterranean, Canada, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Australasia and the Pacific. On 31 December 2004 the CTUC wound up and a new association, the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG) was formed.

The Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation was registered federally in 1930 and operated until 1979 when it amalgamated with Australian Vegetable Growers' Association, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' 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. The amalgamation formed a new peak body, the National Farmers Federation.

The Employers' Federation of NSW was founded in 1903 as an employers group. It later became a national organisation and renamed Employers First, changing again to the Australian Federation of Employers and Industries (AFEI) in 2008.

The Eveleigh Railway Workshops manufactured the first steam locomotives made in Australia and were one of the largest employers in Sydney. In 1926 the Labor Council of New South Wales drafted the original Constitution for Shop Committees in railway workshops and shop Committees were formed in Eveleigh, Chullora and Enfield. The delegates to the Eveleigh Loco Workshop Shop Committee were elected by each Section of the Workshop. The Eveleigh Loco Central Shop Committee was formed in this period while the Eveleigh carriage shop started with a committee at a slightly later period. The shop committees in Eveleigh Workshops produced their own publications including Eveleigh News. The Eveleigh Railway Workshops were closed in 1989.

The Factory Employees' Union of Australasia was formed in Sydney in about 1908. It covered employees in laundries, fat extraction and bone mills, and factories manufacturing jam, soap, candles, paper, card board boxes, biscuits, cakes, glue and paint. In 1922 the Union became the Factory Branch of the Australian Workers Union, New South Wales Branch (AWU).

Professor Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in 1915 in Breslau, Germany. His family left in 1933 and Heinz moved to Oxford where he entered Lincoln College until 1938 after which he studied at the London School of Economics. He took up an appointment at the University of Sydney in 1946. In 1950 Arndt moved to Canberra where he took up the chair in economics at Canberra University College and from 1960 the Australian National University (ANU). In 1960-61 he took leave from ANU to work on economic development at the United Nations Commission for Europe in Geneva. On 1 December 1963, Arndt was appointed Head of the Department of Economics at the Research School of Pacific Studies. From 1964 he established the Indonesian Project at the ANU and was a founding editor of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES). He established another journal, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature (APEL) in 1986. Arndt was also a prolific writer and contributor to Quadrant. Professor Arndt died on 6 May 2002 on the day he was to give a eulogy at the funeral of close friend, Sir Leslie Melville.

Alfred Walter Carter was Union Secretary of the Factory Employees' Association of Australasia from 1909 until his death on 27 September 1935. He came to Australia in the early 1890s and was involved in the formation of the Meat Employees Union in north Queensland before moving to New South Wales where he was involved with the Ferry and Tug Board Employees Union and the Newcastle Branch of the Seamen's Union and then the Factory Employees' Association.

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.

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.

This Union was registered in Victoria in 1912 and operated until 1975.

The Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia traces its history to the Municipal Employees' Association formed in 1910. In 1914, after attempting to form a federation with Tasmanian and New South Wales municipal unions and with the aim of achieving an industry wide award, the Federated Municipal Employees' Association of Australia was registered in the Arbitration Commission. The union changed its name to the Federal Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia in 1917. It merged with the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union in 1993 to form the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union.

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 formation of the Health Inspectors' Association of Australia was resolved at a conference in Sydney on 12 July 1920 by representatives of the South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland Health Officers' Associations. It was registered under the Commonwealth Court of Arbitration on 20 September 1920 and operated until 1972.

The Health and Research Association of Australia (HAREA) was registered in 1969 and united unions which had previously functioned only at state level. In 1969 the Australian National University General Staff Association transferred its industrial functions to HAREA which established a Federal Sub-Branch at the Australian National University. HAREA already had coverage of general staff at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of New England. Two other Federal Sub-Branches of HAREA were formed at the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the University of Tasmania. An autonomous Branch of HAREA was formed in the Australian Capital Territory on 1 October 1988. The ANU and CCAE Sub-Branches became sub-Branches of the ACT Branch. In January 1991 HAREA amalgamated with the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia to form the Health Services Union of Australia. Following formation of the Health Services Union of Australia, the ACT Branch of HAREA became the Health Services Union of Australia, ACT No.2 Higher Education Branch. The Sub-Branches at the ANU and the University of Canberra continued to operate under the auspices of the ACT No.2 Branch.

The Health Services Union of Australia was formed in January 1991 by the amalgamation of the Health and Research Employees Association and the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. On 1 October 2003 the union changed its name to the Health Services Union.

The Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia traces its history back to 1911 when it operated under the name of the Hospital and Asylum Attendants & Employees' Union. In 1914 the name was changed to the Hospital Dispensary and Asylum Employees' Union of Australia and again in 1930 to the Hospital, Dispensary and Asylum Employees' and Allied Government Officers' Federation of Australia. In 1946 the name was changed to the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australasia which became the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia in 1959. In January 1991, the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia amalgamated with the Health and Research Employees' Association to form the Health Services Union of Australia. Following formation of the HSUA, the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia became the ACT No.1 Branch of the HSUA.

The Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation was officially formed on 13 April 1939 as a federally structured body to represent Australia's woolgrowers. It was originally called the Australian Wool Producers' Federation until June 1943 when it was changed to the AWMPF. It maintained the largest membership of federal woolgrowing organisations, consisting of small graziers and sheep farmers. Its two commodity interests, wool and sheep meat, were administered by separate sub-committees. The AWMPF was amalgamated into the National Farmers Federation in 1979.

The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) is the peak national body representing farmers and, more broadly, agriculture across Australia. It was formed in 1979 from the amalgamation of the Australian National Cattlemen's Council, the Australian Farmers' Federation, the Cattlemen's Union of Australia, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Vegetable Growers' Association and the Australian Seed Producers' Federation. Its first conference took place on Friday 20 July 1979, where Sir Donald Eckersley was elected inaugural President. Its current membership includes both State-based farmers' associations and national commodity councils, with agricultural companies as associate members.

Formed in 1969 as a result of a merger between the Australian Primary Producers' Union and the National Farmers' Union of Australia, the Australian Farmers' Federation amalgamated ten years later, in 1979, with the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Vegetable Growers' Association, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, the Australian Seed Producers' Federation, the Cattlemens' Union of Australia and the Australian National Cattlemens' Council to form the National Farmers' Federation.

The Australian Primary Producers' Union was formed in 1944 with divisions in each State and worked towards unifying with the National Farmers' Union of Australia to form the Australian Farmers' Federation in 1969.

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.

Formed in 1949 as a result of a name change from the Primary Producers' Council of Australia which had been operating since 1943, the National Farmers' Union of Australia merged with the Australian Primary Producers' Union to form the Australian Farmers' Federation in 1969.

Formed in 1968, the Australian Seed Producers' Federation operated until 1979 when it amalgamated with the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Vegetable Growers' Association, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, the Australian Farmers' Federation, the Cattlemens' Union of Australia and the Australian National Cattlemens' Council to form the National Farmers' Federation.

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 Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council was formed in July 1960 following a merger between the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia (which had previously been the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia). In 1979 the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council merged 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 Vegetable Growers' Association and the Australian Farmers' Federation to form the National Farmers' Federation.

Formed in 1919 and registered under the Federal Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the Australian Woolgrowers' Council operated until it merged with the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia to form the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council in 1960.

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.

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.

Registered federally in 1972, the Australian National Cattlemen's Council became known, after 1979, as the Cattle Council of Australia, a commodity council of the National Farmers' Federation.

The NSW Farmers' Association dates from 1 January 1987 when the Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales changed its name. It is a constituent member of the National Farmers' Federation.

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 United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales was formed in 1962 from a merger of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association (c. 1893) and the Wool and Wheat Growers' Association which had split from the Farmers' and Settlers' Association in 1930. In 1968 it amalgamated with the Australian Primary Producers' Union (NSW Division) and the Apple and Pear Growers' Association, and with the Vegetable Growers' Association in 1969. It was registered as the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Industrial Association of New South Wales in 1969. On 1 January 1978 the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales merged with the Graziers' Association of New South Wales to form the Livestock and Grain Producers Association of New South Wales. The Dairy Section then split off to merge with the NSW Milk Producers' Association and the Primary Producers' Union to form the NSW Dairy Farmers' Association.

The Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales was formed on 1 January 1978 when the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales merged. It was renamed the NSW Farmers' Association on 1 January 1987.

The Australian Nursing Federation is the union for registered nurses, enrolled nurses, midwives, and assistants in nursing doing nursing work throughout Australia. In 1953 the Australian Nursing Federation/Employees Section was formed from the amalgamation of the Australian United Nurses' Assocation and the Royal Victorian College of Nurses Employees' Association. Around 1971 the organisation began to go by the name of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and by the name of the Australian Nursing Federation from 1988. Nurses join the ANF branch in the state or territory where they work: ANF Australian Capital Territory Branch; NSW Nurses' Association (ANF NSW Branch); ANF Northern Territory Branch; Queensland Nurses' Union (ANF QLD Branch); ANMF South Australian Branch; ANF Tasmanian Branch; ANF Victorian Branch; ANF Western Australian Branch.

Indian seamen in Australia formed a union in October 1945 during a strike and boycott of Dutch shipping in support of the Indonesian declaration of independence in August 1945. The strike was a result of Dutch shipowners threatening to transfer Indian seamen in Dutch registered ships to other Dutch ships boycotted by Indonesian crew. The Indian seamen supported the boycott which held for nine months from 1945-1946 and intermittently over four years. They received support for some weeks from the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council in the form of rations and strike pay. Due to his work in the Indian Seamen's Club in Sydney and close relationship with the strikers, CH (Clarrie) Campbell was elected Treasurer and was the sole European office bearer. After 1947, many of the Union's functions were taken over by the Indian Seamen's Union.

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.