 This eliminated the need to use their former name, The Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific Ltd.The idea for the organization was born in the 1960s when Stanley Hosie, an Australian Marist priest, began doing missionary work in the South Pacific, specifically Melanesia and Polynesia.His close friends, Australian actress Elizabeth Betty" Bryant-Silverstein and her husband, a director, Maurice "Red" Silverstein, were inspired and decided to found the organization in 1968.