Aboriginal Advancement League

The Aboriginal Advancement League was founded in 1957 as the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League VAAL, is a oldest Aboriginal rights organisation in Australia still in operation. Its precursor organisations were the Australian Aborigines League & Save the Aborigines Committee, & it was also formerly call as Aborigines Advancement League Victoria, and just Aborigines Advancement League.

The organisation is primarily concerned with Aboriginal welfare issues and the preservation of Aboriginal culture and heritage, and is based in Melbourne. Its journal is called Smoke Signals.

Publications

Smoke Signals is the official magazine of the AAL, number one published in April 1960 and still being published as of 2019[update]. The first editor was Pastor Doug Nicholls.