From the late seventies, touch was played by teams representing various departments of the Queensland Public Service.

Also, the AUSTRALIAN POST-TEL INSTITUTE (API) ran a ladies touch competition. Thanks to Patti Lee, we have some newspaper clippings etc from that era. (The API is a long-standing social organisation for PMG, Telecom, Telstra employees).

This is the Public Trustee team in the public service comp, approximately 1980
Standing L to R, we have
Mark Landgraf, Jeff Holywood, Trevor Dixon, Rod Anthonisz, Kev Hickey,
Garry Newcombe, Gino Strabo, Unknown, Wayne Pickstone,
Greg Young, Louie ?, Mark Loffs