Abstract
Nothing of significance has been published on progress associations (PAs): a long-lived residents' organisation which appears to have been widespread in the past in all Australian cities and towns and which was formed by residents to improve and protect residential life. This paper provides some much needed information on PAs, and it does this by considering the place held by this residents' organisation in the Gold Coast development of 1945-79, the formative period in this tourist city's development. The analysis shows PAs and PA activity to have been concentrated in the earlier part of this 35 year period (1945-64) but then it had virtually disappeared by the late 1970s. Why PAs rose and fell in this way is discussed in the last part of the paper.
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