It promotes uniform national standards through guides and other publications and fosters historical research, writing and education through fellowships and awards.
[1][4][5] It is governed between general meetings by a committee which consists of two delegates from each of its constituent members which are the peak bodies representing historical societies in their respective state or internal self-governing territory.
The committee holds four meetings a year, three times by teleconference, and once in a represented state or territory on a rotating basis.
[7] They began collections whose significance grew over time, they organised regular meetings at which research papers were read and they published journals.
"[7] In 2011, FAHS supported the launch of a campaign for the repatriation of Matthew Flinders' 1804 map, gaining widespread media coverage in Australia[10][11] and England.