The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council was established in 1973. According to Sherriff, the AICC was designed to “provide a unifying centre for all involved in Aboriginal and Islander Ministry and give official recognition to the importance of that work”. The AICC appears to have been wound up in around 1992, when the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference recognised the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) as an advisory body to the bishops.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council was formally established at a meeting in Adelaide in September 1973. The first conference of the Queensland AICC was held at Yeppoon in January 1974.
In the 1970s, the Queensland AICC received funding from Aboriginal Hostels Limited to run Kiah Hostel and St Martin’s Centre. (Later, from around 1992, Kiah Hostel was run by Centacare Brisbane).
From
1973
To
c. 1992
Alternative Names
AICC
Aboriginal and Islander Catholic Council