The society created a rationalist library in 1909, and grew its collection though donations.
The society ran the 1910 and 1913 Australian tours of rationalist thinker, Joseph McCabe.
[2] A number of trade unionists and social campaigners sought to advance political causes, including Robert Samuel Ross and Alfred Foster.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics in the national census categorises rationalists under "No Religion".
In the 2016 census, 29.6% of respondents (or 6,933,708 people) selected "no religion"[5] or irreligious, a category that includes rationalists as well as Humanists, agnostics and atheists.