ABSTRACT
Although many of the Marriage Guidance Councils in Australia were first set up on the pattern of the similar Councils then operating in Britain, they have since developed in very different ways. The initiative in calling the meeting that set up the conference was taken by the National Marriage Guidance Council of Australia, a body which until that time had acted mainly to collate information about the work of all the affiliated marriage guidance agencies. There are also centres of the Queensland Marriage Guidance Council at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, and at Rockhampton and Townsville which are respectively 450 and 850 miles north of Brisbane. This Council started a publication entitled Marriage which has now been taken over by the National Marriage Guidance Council of Australia. This Marriage Guidance Council developed from a standing committee of the South Australian Council of Social Services, which in 1947 was asked to act as a marriage guidance committee.
