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FARA Seeks New Committee Members

Become a member of FARA and share in protecting this world cultural heritage. You can be as active as you choose. The FARA Committee meets monthly and anyone is welcome to attend.

FARA often needs volunteers to assist at promotional events, general administration including fund-raising, grant writing, media relations and records/data management. Any help you can provide is very welcome.

Become a Member

Membership is for 12 months from each AGM (generally held in March):

  • Concession $5
  • Low Wage $10
  • Waged $20
  • Life Membership $200

I would like to join Friends of Australian Rock Art. I support FARA's objectives and agree to abide by its Constitution. (Link at the bottom of this website)

Please fill in all details carefully to avoid errors.

The objectives of the Friends of Australian Rock Art association are:

(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.

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