Amalgamated Metal Workers Union Queensland Branch (1972-1976). Became Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (1976-1983).
Notes: The Sheetmetal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia and the Amalgamated Engineering Union amalgamated in 1972 to produce this union.

Amnesty International Queensland Section (1972? -).
Objectives - To work for the release of people imprisoned anywhere for their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin or religion, provided they have neither used nor advocated violence; to oppose torture and capital punishment and advocate fair and speedy trials for all political prisoners; to seek observance of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
Notes: No A.I. minutes exist before 1972 The organization may have been active at an earlier date. A.I. has consultative status with United Nations bodies and the Council of Europe.

Anarchy Group Objectives - To publicize anarchist ideas.

Hugh Anderson, born in Elmore, Victoria, has had a long teaching and administrative career with the Victorian Education Department and has been one of Australia's most prolific writers. He has published over one hundred titles in Australian history, biography, literary criticism, folklore, folk song and balladry, and bibliography. In 1978 he set up his own publishing firm under the name of Red Rooster Press, specialising in history and folklore.