OBJECTIVES

4. The aims of the Bangladesh Association of New South Wales Inc. are:

(a) to foster and promote unity and harmony amongst Bangladeshis residing in Australia and those coming to Australia;

(b) to create goodwill and fellow feeling between Bangladeshi and Australian nationals and communities;

(c) to acquaint the people of Australia with the cultural, social, and economic conditions of Bangladesh;

(d) to hold functions and ceremonies of national importance with respect to Bangladesh;

(e) to organize the teaching of ethnic languages and cultures, especially for children and young people, and also for any interested persons;

(f) to promote social and cultural events and also to organize periodic symposia, debates, social gatherings, excursions, sporting events and other related activities;

(g) to keep in close contact with all other Australian Societies and Ethnic Groups with similar objectives;

(h) to manage, print and publish newspapers, journals, periodicals, books, booklets, tracts and/or leaflets which the Association may think desirable to further its aims and objectives;

(i) to help new migrants from Bangladesh to settle in Australia;

(j) to provide as far as possible social, legal, financial and moral support to the members of the Association;

(k) to act as the representative body of the Bangladesh Community in New South Wales in particular and Australia in general.

5. The Association will endeavor:

(a) to acquire any property real or personal by purchase, exchange, gift, devise, lease, or by any other means subject or not subject to the general object or purpose of the Association and to sell all or any of the real or property of the Association, or let, mortgage, exchange, or otherwise dispose of and execute conveyances, transfers, mortgages and assurances thereof;

(b) to build, construct or establish, alter, rebuild, renovate, construct and maintain buildings, homes, premises, rooms, and grounds and other things and places generally for the purpose of carrying out the said general object or purpose of the Association or any part thereof;

(c) to invest all or any of the funds of the Association on any security for the time being authorized by law in the investment of trust funds and from time to time to vary such investments;

(d) to make bye-laws, rules or regulations and other proceedings for the due maintenance of the Association for regulating the duties, control and conduct of persons in the employment or under the care of the Association;

(e) to collect subscriptions, donations, grants, etc. in order to achieve the aims and objectives of the Association;

(f) to create or appoint members of the Executive Council and or members from the General Body to head, or administer sub-committees for the purposes of marketing, commercial development, education, collections and providing of any other benefit to the Association, and to do all such other lawful things as may be incidental to or be deemed to be conducive to the attainment or execution of the foregoing objectives or any of them generally for the purpose of carrying out the general objectives of the Association.