ABOUT US

Objectives
The Association is an incorporated Association under the Aboriginal Corporations Act and shall have the following objectives;

(a) to provide a network for Indigenous postgraduate students;

(b) to act as advocate for and to represent the interests of Indigenous postgraduate students at a national level;

(c) to promote reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples of Australia;

(d) to promote research into Indigenous issues and the training of Indigenous researchers;

(e) to educate researchers on appropriate protocols when dealing with issues of cultural and social significance to Indigenous peoples;

(f) to liase with universities, governments, and other national associations with a view promoting these objectives;

(g) to promote the participation by Indigenous people as equals in a national community of postgraduate scholarship; and

(h) to be a constituent organisation of CAPA and adhere to the Constitution of CAPA and resolutions of its Council and Executive.

Membership
Membership is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander postgraduate students.

The members of the Association shall be those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons who qualify for membership and apply to the Executive for admission.

All members shall be entitled to attend, speak and vote at general meetings of the Association and be eligible for appointment as members of the Executive.

There shall be no membership fee.