Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders information
Australian agency
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Logo of the FCAATSI[1]
Abbreviation
FCAATSI
Formation
16 February 1958
Founded at
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Dissolved
1978; 46 years ago (1978)
Focus
Indigenous Rights Activism
Headquarters
Adelaide, South Australia (1958–?) Melbourne, Victoria (pre-1967) Sydney, New South Wales (post-1967)
Formerly called
Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA)
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), founded in Adelaide, South Australia, as the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) on 16 February 1958, was a civil rights organisation which campaigned for the welfare of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, and the first national body representing Aboriginal interests. It was influential in lobbying in favour of the 1967 Referendum on Aboriginal Australians. It was renamed to National Aboriginal and Islander Liberation Movement (NAILM) in the early to mid 1970s, before disbanding in 1978.
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