This ephemera collection contains reports, promotional material, submissions, circulars, publicity leaflets, correspondence and information for members of the council

On 9 August 1965, following reports from the press and Charles Perkins that several Aboriginal Australians were arrested in Walgett for attempting to gain admittance to the lounge of the Luxury Theatre, a meeting was co-ordinated by Ray Peckham of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement. The meeting was held at the Perkins' home on the same day and was attended by members of the Student Action For Aborigines, New Settler League, Aborigines' Progressive Association, Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and the Union of Australian Women. One of the outcomes of this meeting was to have a delegation proceed to Walgett. This report is from the delegation.

This typescript report has some corrections. It was written by Joe McGinness, President of FCAATSI at the time, reporting of his four week trip visiting the Northern Territory including Darwin and Wattie Creek

Typescript pages of activities of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement relating to aspects of their constitution. Each 'Commission' has a policy and associated action programme. The commissions are one page long and are: Commission on wages and employment; Commission on legislative reform; Commission on fringe settlements; and Commission on education. The last page concerns reserves, missions and settlements; tribal reserves; and community development.

In October 1970, the FCAATSI decided if the Commonwealth Banking Corporation did not dissociate itself from the Trust Fund system in Queensland they would transfer their business to another bank and called for others to do the same by filling in their details on the leaflet and / or making a donation. In Queensland an assisted Australian Aboriginal may have all or part of their wages be paid into a "trust fund" and was only available upon request to a district officer of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs.

Draft typescript with handwritten corrections written after the eighth Annual Conference on Aboriginal Affairs held in Camberra, Easter 1965) outlines the discriminatory sections of the Australian constitution (Section 127 and Section 51, sub-section xxvi).

This conference was called by the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement and was held in Sydney from 26 to 38 February 1960.

Copy of the constitution of the FCAATSI as amended by the annual general meeting in Canberra in April 1964.

Report from the President of the FCAATSI, Joe McGinness to the Annual Conference in April 1966. Typescript with handwritten annotations.

Report by R. Anderson on the Conference of the FCAATSI, held at Canberra during Easter 1967.