sentences:  Different lobby groups focused on different aspects of Aboriginal welfare or rights and members varied in composition, but they all desired to effect change.It was hard to measure success, but all contributed to changing public opinion to an acceptance that Aboriginal people deserved rights.It was a significant milestone to bring together the disparate groups under an umbrella organisation; however, AALSA sought to disaffiliate from about 1959, achieving this in 1966, because it thought the federal organisation too focused on the state of Victoria.