The Fraser Island Defence Committee was formed by voluntary conservationists in January 1971 in response to applications for sand mining leases on the island. The name was soon changed to Fraser Island Defence Organisation, giving the acronym and motto "FIDO, the watchdog of Fraser Island". The organization ran successful campaigns to stop sand mining and logging on the island, and expanded to focus on the conservation of the Great Sandy Region as a whole. Fraser Island Defence Organization (FIDO) (1976-). Formerly Fraser Island Defence Committee (1971) and Fraser Island Defence Organization (1971-1976). Objectives - To promote the wisest use, in the long term, of the natural resources of Fraser Island by activism and lobbying, by education, by sponsoring research on Fraser Island and by combining revenue raising with the increase of people's appreciation of Fraser Island. Publicists - John Sinclair. Notes: FIDO is a member organization of the Queensland Conservation Council.

From 1976 [?] the organisation has been known as Fraser Island Defenders Organisation. Now their motto is "FIDO, 'The Watchdog of K’gari'”.

The Brisbane Bach Society

Established by the Commonwealth Parliament, with unanimous cross-party support. Statutory body under the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991.

John Simpson Associates Pty Limited (1983-1995), also known as JSA, formed in 1983 until it was taken over by Spowers in 1996. Architects that formed part of JSA included: John Simpson, Ian Mitchell, and Dereck Wheeler.

In 1975 the University of Queensland Union was granted a radio license to broadcast on the FM frequency range. 4ZZ began transmitting from its studio in the Union Complex on 8 December 1975. It was the first FM broadcaster in Brisbane and the first new radio station in the Queensland capital in over 30 years. On 1 February 1976 the station was remaned 4ZZZ because of a change in the law governing broadcasters using the FM frequency. For its first three months the station broadcast on 1.0 kilowatt Effective Radiated Power (ERP) through an antennae mounted on the roof of the Schonell Theatre, near the studio. 4ZZZ's signal range increased significantly in April 1976 after it began broadcasting on 10.0 kilowatts ERP through a new antennae located on Mt Coot-Tha.

4ZZZ became renowned for its critical journalism, support for independent music and programs which gave a voice to oppressed and marginalised groups. Its newsroom provided a training ground for such notable journalists as Marian Wilkinson, Alan Knight and Stefan Armbruster.

On 14 December 1988, 4ZZZ was forcibly evicted from its St Lucia campus studios by the UQ Union executive led by conservative president Victoria Brazil. Broadcasts continued from a caravan hidden in the forests of Mt Coot-Tha. Although station staff, volunteers and supporters re-occupied the studios and saved the station, the university, it was decided, no longer provided an hospitable environment. On 11 July 1989 the station commenced operating from leased offices in 621 Coronation Drive in Toowong. This, however, was not a viable longterm option. In 1992 the station purchased the former Communist Party of Australia building in Barry Parade in Fortitude Valley and it became 4ZZZ's new home.

Australian Labor Party Queensland Branch (1918-).
Previously the Queensland Labour Party.
Objectives - Democratic socialisation of industry, distribution and exchange to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields. To achieve this the A.L.P. stands for: greater equality of wealth, opportunity and economic and political power; establishment of public enterprises; Australian democratic control and ownership of resources; a competitive non-monopolistic Australian awned private sector within social guidelines; the right to own private property; industrial democracy; equal access and rights to employment, education, information, communications, technology, housing, health, welfare, cultural and leisure activities and the law; security of the family; abolition of poverty; diversity in culture and lifestyles and elimination of discrimination; Aboriginal land rights; civil liberties; environmental and resources management; constitutional reform and peace, disarmament and national self-determination.
Publicists -See Appendices in Murphy, D. et al (eds) Prelude to Power: The Rise of the Labour Party in Queensland 1885-1915 Jacaranda, Brisbane, 1970 and in Murphy, D. et al (eds) Labor in Power: the Labor Party and Governments in Queensland 1915-1957 University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1980.
For 1957 to 1968 see Labor-in-Politics Convention Official Records and Decisions.
For current publicists see post-conference issue of Labor Review, or Official Trades Union Directory (Trades and Labor Council of Queensland).

The Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service began in Brisbane in 1972, working out of premise in Red Hill and under the direction of an elected council of representatives from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in Brisbane as well as members of the medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, audiology and social work professions. The formation of this medical centre was discussed at the Action Conference on Racism and Education held at the University of Queensland in January 1972. The name of the organisation was formally changed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS) in 2008.

Uniting Church in Australia formed in 1977; comprises the former Methodist Church of Australasia, and part of the former Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia