The first public meeting of The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship was held in Sydney Town Hall on 29 April 1957. At this meeting it launched a petition calling on the federal government to change the Constitution to alter certain clauses in it which discriminated against Aboriginal people.

The organisation was founded in 1956 by a group of Aboriginal […] and non-Aboriginal […] social activists, with the intention of creating a partnership between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to achieve social justice for Aboriginal people. They saw the need to educate non-Indigenous people about some of the injustices and discrimination suffered by Aboriginal people.

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