Objectives

The objectives of Friends of Australian Rock Art, Inc. are to:

(a) raise public awareness in Australia and internationally of the significance of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage as manifest in rock art and in other material of cultural significance;

(b) plan and conduct campaigns for the protection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage as manifest in rock art and in other material of cultural significance;

(c) support the traditional owners and custodians of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands and waters in their struggles for recognition, retention, and safeguarding of their heritage as expressed in rock art and in other material of cultural significance;

(d) promote, lobby and campaign for conservation and protection of the natural environment;

(e) prepare and make submissions to the Australian and Western Australian parliaments, government departments and agencies, and to international and other bodies, in support of all and any of these Objects;

(f) conduct or support litigation in support of any or all of these Objects;

(g) to seek to have representatives appointed to advisory committees, boards of enquiry, and like fora;

(h) cooperate with other organisations sharing all or any of these Objects; and

(i) to do all things lawful in support of any or all of these Objects.