Formed in 1956 by Pearl Gibbs and Faith Bandler. The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship functioned as a partnership between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people campaigning for Indigenous rights. After their first public meeting in April 1957 in Sydney, a range of organisations became affiliates, including trade unions and the Union of Australian Women. AAF became affiliated with the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. It disbanded in 1969 as it was superseded by organisations that were founded and run by Aboriginal peoples.