The vision of the CICP is to enable the development of self-determining Indigenous Cultural Communities through the promotion of cultural rights, revival and survival. The CICP works to achieve its vision through implementing the following aims and objectives:
• Put Culture First and address the underlying issues of Indigenous disadvantage to mend the circle to establish Healthy Cultural Communit
ies.
• To Advocate for Indigenous Land Rights and self-determination; protect and promote the inherent cultural, economic, social and political rights of Indigenous peoples; and combat all acts of oppression, discrimination, aggression and other violation of Indigenous peoples human rights and fundamental freedoms.
• to Develop and promote effective, accountable and appropriate Policy frameworks for community governance, management practices, cultural heritage, land and natural resource matters, community and economic development.
• Acknowledge and protect Indigenous rights to ownership, control and enjoyment of their own manifestations of their culture, to share it with others on their own terms and support actions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to reclaim their primary role and responsibility in accordance with their customs traditions and belief systems in the care and management of their Cultural Heritage including the identification, documentation, research, preservation, protection, promotion, enhancement, display, expression, revitalisation and transmission of all manifestations of their past, present and future tangible and intangible cultural property.
• Help build capacity and support Aboriginal communities on a local and regional level, to become sustainable cultural hubs that have capacity and infrastructure to be self-determining and generating their own economic sustainability through cultural employment and training.
• Establish a State Cultural Heritage Authority linked to and supporting regional cultural authorities and knowledge centres.
• Repatriation. Expedite the unconditional return of indigenous ancestral human remains and cultural property from world museums and collecting institutions to Indigenous communities of origin.
• Recognise respect and protect the primary customary responsibilities and religious belief of indigenous peoples to determine all facets of repatriation of ancestral human remains and cultural property.
• Establish a Centre of Excellence for the repatriation and safe-keeping of indigenous ancestral human remains and cultural property. Develop holistic best-practice policy and legal frame works and acquire and maintain a whole of government commitment and support for the repatriation, burial, protection, care and management of provenanced and unprovenanced ancestral remains and cultural property and coordinate comprehensive national and international repatriation programs for Queensland.
• Ensure all facets of repatriating and safekeeping of Indigenous remains and sacred material is conducted with a maximum of respect and dignity
• Establish the Black archives – Catalogue digitised copies of all Object, Ethnographic material, Photo, Media and Paper Archive collections for the Indigenous Peoples of Queensland
• Employ, train and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to undertake the work of the CICP producing a pool of qualified Indigenous researchers, curators, archivists and IT professionals. and Information System Managers.
• Establishment of a national repository for ancestral remains under the management of an Indigenous controlled entity;
• Establishment of a Centre for showcasing and supporting the rich heritage and ongoing cultural production of the two Indigenous cultures of Queensland;
• Facilitation of the transmission of our culture to our young people through education and training programs that recognize Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and acknowledge that the maintenance of our culture is a genuine occupational qualification;
• Act as a resource centre to communities.
