Community based lobbying groups

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Community based lobbying groups

Name	Description
ACROD	SA peak body for the disabled.
ACWA	Peak NSW body for children's welfare
Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse	Member organisation of MHCA
Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation
Alzheimer's Australia
Animals Australia	Animal rights group
Animal Welfare League of SA Inc
Australian Council of Social Service	Peak body representing welfare groups
Australian Arabic Council
Australian Consumers Association
Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women
Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association
Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations
Australian Local Government Association	Also six state and NT associations
Australian Monarchist League
Australian Neuroscience Society
Australians for a Free West Papua	Wants separation of West Papua from Indonesia
Australian Privacy Foundation
Australians for Tax Justice
Australian Republican Movement
Australian Shareholders Association
Australian West Papua Association
Blue Mountains Conservation Society	NSW local conservation group
Bluevoices	Member organisation of MHCA
Cambodian Association	Welfare group
CanDo4Kids	SA group assisting disabled children
Carers Australia	National body representing carers.
Central West Environment Council	NSW regional conservation body
Citizens Electoral Council	Australian arm of LaRouche movement.
Colong Foundation for Wilderness	NSW Blue Mountains group
Committee for Adelaide Roads
COTA-NS Federal office
Council for Civil Liberties
Council on the Ageing
depressioNet
Drug and Alcohol Services Council of SA
Drugbeat SA	Advocates zero tolerance
Elder Abuse Prevention Association
Electronic Frontiers Australia	Protecting on-line civil liberties
Federation of Catholic School Parent Communities
Federation for a Democratic China
Friends of Elliston	Environmental group is SA's south east.
Geelong Community for Good Life	Environmental group
Greenpeace
GROW - Self Help / Mutual Help Groups
Independent Schools Association of SA
International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Lifeline Australia Inc
Life Without Barriers	Aims to improve lives of children
Lone Fathers Association
Marine Stewardship Council	US body certifies sustainable fisheries
Mental Healthcare Tasmania
Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT
Mental Health Co-ordinating Council	NSW peak body
Mental Health Council of Australia
Mental Health Foundation of Australia
Mental Illness Education Australia
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
Multicultural Mental Health Australia
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
National Council of Single Mothers and their Children
National Network of Private Psychiatirc Sector Consumers and Carers
National Parks Association of NSW
National Rural Health Alliance
National Seniors Association
National Welfare Rights Network
Nature Conservation Council of NSW
Network of Australian Community Advisory Groups
Northern Territory Mental Health Coalition	NT peak body
Opal Alliance	Advocating unsniffable petrol.
Ostara Australia	Groups finding employment for mentally ill
Parkinson's Society
Pedestrian Council of Australia
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Psychiatric Disabilty Services of Victoria (VICSERV)	Peak Victorian body
Queensland Alliance of Mental Illness & Psychiatric Disability Groups	Peak Queensland body
RACV	Motoring body
Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre
Resistance	Student based socialist group
SA Asbestos Victims Association
SANE Australia	Charity helping people affected by mental illness
Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW
Sole Parents Union
South Australian Council of Social Services
Surfrider Foundation	A coastal lobby group
Suicide Prevention Australia
Tasmanians for a Better Future	A business front organisation
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Tenants Union of Victoria
The Humane Society International
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
Total Environment Centre	NSW based
Transparency International Australia
Turkey Bore Community	SA Aboriginal community
Victorian Association of Health and Extended Care
Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture
Western Australian Association for Mental Health	WA peak body
Western Conservation Alliance	NSW community group
Wilderness Society	Environmental activists

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Community based lobbying groups

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