on 28 march 1946 the northern (n.s.w.) bushmen's carnival association was founded at maitland, new south wales. the name was again changed in 1960 to the australian bushmen's carnival association. on 17 july 1985 the association became a company limited by guarantee, and had yet another name change, to the australian bushmen's campdraft & rodeo association (abcra). the arra had more good roughriders though, and in 1957 in a sydney royal show competition between the top 25 roughriders from each association the arra riders won all of the events.