Objectives of the Association
(a) To represent and promote the views and interests of Australian independent distributors.
(b) To encourage, promote and develop the Australian cinema, film industry and film trade and to facilitate and improve by every available means relationships between independent film distributors and all other sectors of the film industry and trade.
(c) To originate, promote, monitor and consider reform and improvements in the law relating to the distribution and exhibition of films in all media and to support or oppose the same and for that purpose to establish and maintain contact with legislatures of Australia, its States and Territories, and with the government departments, government statutory organisations, committees and government accredited representatives.
(d) To assist in the promulgation of, and to support, a code of practice establishing recommended standards of commercial conduct and the principles and practices to be observed by those engaged in the distribution and exhibition of films and to redress inequitable conduct and practices.
(e) To collect and disseminate among Association members and the general public information in regard to all matters concerning the distribution and exhibition of films and the film industry and trade through the circulation of publications of all kinds, by arranging conventions and conferences and by affording and maintaining facilities of every description for those purposes.
(f) To provide, develop and extend technical and educations services and information to the film industry and trade and in all matters pertaining to human resources and in pursuance of such object to undertake such research as is necessary including liaison, active co-operation and consultation with other film organisations.
(g) To encourage improved standards of productions, distribution, exhibition and service and to advance by every means the skills and efficiency of all involved in the film industry and trade and their employees and the standards and quality of goods and services provided by them.
(h) To encourage and provide for the amicable settlement or adjustment of disputes between film distributors and producers, between film distributors and exhibitors and between independent film distributors and members of the general public and to consider and deal with all matters affecting the interests of members of the Association.
