Convincing Canberra: How foreign states seek to achieve their foreign policy objectives with the Australian Government

This thesis shows how United States, Israel and Indonesia seek to influence Australian foreign policy by various forms of lobbying. The research indicates this is achieved in large measure through encouraging sympathetic identification, status and financial inducements directed to an Australian power clique. These processes are assisted by indicators of 'deep state' activity and a degree of inattention to politics by segments of Australian society. The study proposes different models of deep states depending on the degree of global power.