The first local branch of the WCTU was formed in Sydney in 1882. The movement did not begin to grow in Australia until 1885 when Mary Leavitt, the first world missionary of the American WCTU, toured the colonies and helped found ten new branches, five in Queensland alone. The following year the Queensland branches came together to establish the WCTUQ. Conservative in outlook, the Union’s primary mission was to promote total abstinence from alcohol, but it also campaigned on a range of other issues relating to the social position of women, most notably female suffrage, which it saw as beneficial to the entire community and as a means to further its own agenda through women’s power at the ballot box. The WCTUQ played a significant role in Queensland social reform politics throughout the 1890s and in the leadup to the winning of (white) female suffrage in Queensland in 1905. Although it remained in existence throughout the twentieth century, the era prior to WW1 marked the highpoint of the WCTUQ’s influence in Queensland.

Women's Community Aid Association (1973-).
Objectives - To establish a women's centre in Brisbane to provide education programmes and resources aimed at changing the sexist nature of society and to provide support and help for women with immediate problems including educational, legal, health, information and counselling services.
Publicists - J. Abbs, Gill Calvert, Jane Calvert, Jennie Harvie, Ruth Matchett, Barbara Wertheim.
Notes: The Association was responsible for the establishment of Women's House in 1973. The Women's Community Aid Association was a Brisbane-based feminist organisation founded in 1974 to advocate and agitate for women's rights, and provide health, counselling and other services to women in Brisbane.

Women's Electoral Lobby (Brisbane) (WEL) (1972-).
Objectives - Founded as a pressure group to lobby for women's rights and reforms which will primarily benefit women. Especially active in the surveying of election candidates. Non-party.
Publicists - Judith Attwood, Bette Behne, Sharon Boyle, Caroline Brand, Joan Darr, Pam Gorring, Anne McNeill, Bernie McWilliams, Win Metcalfe, Mary Wilcox.
Notes: In recess 1981 to mid-1982. The Women's Electoral Lobby was founded in 1972 as a women's political lobby group.

Women's Equal Opportunities Office was part of the University of Queensland Student Union. The Women's Equal Opportunities Office collaborated with the Office of Equal Opportunity, also part of the University of Queensland Student Union, to present the 1993 Seminar Series For and About Women, held at the University of Queensland.

The Women's Health Centre, Brisbane, ran for approximately four years in Highgate Hill, Brisbane, in the early 1990s, in service of women who wanted to be treated by other women for health matters. During this time they received funding for the Women's Health Development Programme from the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health. They wished to make information known to women about many aspects of their own health and treatment options, monitor the development of policies and programmes affecting the health of women, and provide a place where women could be treated by health professionals of their own gender. They closed in 1994, due to lack of funding.

Women's House (Brisbane, Qld) (1973-).
Objectives - To provide a viable alternative for women by offering information and support in areas including housing, the law, health, supporting mothers, battered wives, employment, rape.
Publicists - Jackie Ashton, Marie Crisp, Rae Kempis, Carole Lowe, Judy McVey, Diane Mangan, Carolyn Mason, Joan Ross, Lou Rozensteins, Pam Woodward.
Notes: Formed by The Women's Community Aid Association (itself formed in 1973). Incorporated or associated with Women's Health Centre, Women's Shelta, Rape Crisis Centre, Women's Library, Women's Media Group Such connections have varied Women's House was originally located at Red Hill. It moved to Roma Street In 1976 the withdrawal of Commonwealth funding (received through the State Government) led to the relocation of Women's House from Roma Street to Spring Hill. It is now in West End.