[4] It had an office in Townsville as well, and was associated with the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (QCAATSI) based in Brisbane, which was also part of the FCAA.
Because of this connection, CATSIAL became active in the federal movement, initiating campaigns such as that against the Queensland legislation relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
[2] The Cairns Trades and Labour Council, the Union of Australian Women and the Waterside Workers' Federation all supported the League both morally and financially.
[4] The Queensland group kept close ties with the CAR activists such as Shirley Andrews, Stan Davey, Pauline Pickford, and Barry Christophers, in particular during and after their involvement with the case concerning the Cape Bedford Mission at Hope Vale in 1961.
[2] Some of the targets of the League's campaigns apart from Hope Vale were: Queensland legislation which still discriminated against Indigenous people (the Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act 1965 and its 1971 successors), police brutality (especially in Mareeba and Mossman[4]), the 1967 referendum, educational opportunities, employment matters (including equal wages), and benefits for Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen.