History of APC and its Affiliated Organisations
The following is taken from the "APC Early History" published in July 2000. The extract records the development of State parent organisations in the 1950s and early 1960s.
The author is Margaret Slattery, AM, MBE, who was the Honorary Secretary of the APC from 1996 to 1990 and its first Executive Director.
Copies of the "APC Early History" may be obtained from the APC Secretariat.
Parents Associations in Australia
The early activities of State Parents and Friends Associations which came into being prior to 1962 laid the foundations for the formation of the APC.