Further information about the VHPBA can be found at its website vhpba.com.au After nearly seventy years of Highland musical contests in Australia in 1924, there were moves towards coordinating Victorian pipe band affairs.
[1][2] In a meeting at Geelong on 12 April that year, the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association was formed.
Toward the end of this period, it was realised that a national identity to oversee the organisations and coordination of a standardized ruling system was needed.
Though only representatives from New South Wales and Victoria attended the meeting that formed the Australian Federation of Pipe Band Associations, all six states joined shortly after its founding.
Though the national body was responsible for communicating between the organizations, each individual member, including the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association, retained control over its own state.