Interest Group Advocacy: An Analysis of Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Minerals Council of Australia's Advocacy Strategies

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Benedict McCarthy

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interest group advocacy, greenpeace, Minerals Council of Australia

Abstract

This article examines the advocacy strategies of two prominent interest groups in the Australian political landscape, one being a highly active environmental group and the other a mining lobby group. Whilst one enjoys a high public profile and is classified by many as an outsider group, the other is considered an insider by virtue of the way in which it strategises influence. It argues that their choice of strategy is what dictates their status as effective insider and outsider groups respectively.

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