The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) is an organisation of people interested in the promotion and protection of breastfeeding. Amongst these are breastfeeding women and their partners and health professionals such as doctors, lactation consultants and midwives. ABA was founded in Melbourne, Victoria in 1964 (as the Nursing Mothers' Association), with the primary aim of giving mother-to-mother support to breastfeeding women.

The Association is supported by health authorities and specialists in infant and child health and nutrition, including a panel of distinguished honorary advisers. ABA is recognised internationally as a source of accurate information about breastfeeding management and research.

With the support of the Lactation Resource Centre (LRC), ABA provides information to its counsellors and educates the wider community, from preschools to universities and professional organisations. ABA's voluntary breastfeeding counsellors are experienced mothers who have completed an intensive training programme and have successfully breastfed their own children. They are bound by a code of ethics and offer their support over the telephone, in person and through a wide range of literature.

Since its inception over 200,000 people have been members of ABA and thousands more have used the telephone counselling services, literature and community education opportunities. ABA is one of the largest non-profit self-help groups in Australia. As at 31st March 2009, the Australian Breastfeeding Association has 1097 trained volunteers, 472 volunteers undertaking training, 270 groups and 17384 members.

A survey of ABA counsellors was conducted in May 1998, to evaluate their role within ABA and the wider community. Results indicated that ABA's counsellors received approximately 261,589 counselling contacts during 1998. Counsellors also spent 634,780 hours performing ABA activities and ABA groups conducted approximately 13,300 community education activities during 1998.