 Also from the early 1970s, aboriginal communities began running their own health services, legal services, and housing cooperatives.During this period, the Whitlam Government changed Australian Indigenous policy significantly by moving away from cultural assimilation and towards self-determination.The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) was founded in 1957 as a non-governmental organization to advance Aboriginal rights, composed of various member organisations.