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The UNE Law School’s “First Peoples Rights and Law” (FPRL) has been established to highlight the importance of the Aboriginal and Indigenous issues throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific. It's members include prominent and emerging scholars who are dedicated to indigenous studies, the Asia Pacific studies and human rights.

The centre's goal is to ensure that appropriate prominence and critical analysis is given to indigenous rights and law in Australia and the Asia Pacific. The centre seeks to extend knowledge of customary legal regimes and the recognition of Indigenous rights as human rights within state legal systems by encouraging academic exchanges and research. The specific objectives of the FPRL centre are as follows:

to facilitate scholarship relating to Aboriginal and Indigenous rights and law
to facilitate and critically evaluate constitutional proposals to advance Aboriginal and Indigenous rights across the Asia Pacific
to host or participate in conferences and seminars on issues of Aboriginal, Indigenous and human rights and policy
to establish links with Aboriginal communities, to assist in their governance and policy activities
To establish links with local organisations and businesses involved in NSW to improve legal and policy outcomes
to establish academic links with domestic and overseas institutions interested in Aboriginal and Indigenous rights, law and policy as well as human rights more generally
to teach indigenous rights and law courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including interdisciplinary courses, and
to publish a Journal of Indigenous Rights and Law in conjunction with a partner university

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.