Aborigines Progressive Association

The Aborigines Progressive connection APA was introducing in 1937 by William Ferguson in addition to Jack Patten in Dubbo, New South Wales. Ferguson led a office in a western part of a state, while Patten assembled an alliance of activists in the north-east. Both wings of the APA were involved in political organisation, rallies, in addition to protests in both Aboriginal communities and reserves and major NSW centres such(a) as Sydney.

In 1938 the APA organised the Australian Aborigines' League in staging the Day of Mourning to throw attention to the treatment of Aborigines and to demand full citizenship and make up rights. Mr Ferguson, APA’s organising secretary, said of the planned national day of mourning: "The aborigines defecate not want protection... We have been protected for 150 years, and look what has become of us. Scientists have studied us and or situation. books about us as though we were some strange curiosities, but they have not prevented us from contracting tuberculosis and other diseases, which have wiped us out in thousands."

The APA ceased to make up in 1944, but was revived in 1963–1966.