The Coolbaroo League (also Coolbaroo Club) was a Western Australian Aboriginal social club.
[1][2] Newspaper reports in the 1950s frequently provided the translation of the name as Magpie.
[3] The club was founded in 1946[4] by returned Aboriginal soldiers, and ceased in the early 1960s.
[12] The film's summary stated, "Coolbaroo was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practised unofficial apartheid, submitting Aboriginal people to harassment, identity cards, fraternisation bans and curfews.
"[13] Despite the success of lessening restrictions in the 1954 Native Welfare Act, conditions in Perth were still problematic for the majority of Aboriginals living in the metropolitan area.