Ethnic communities adapt diverse strategies to mobilise in distinct geopolitical settings. The scholarship has done much to unpack how large, marginalised ethnic communities intermediate between themselves and the state. Nonetheless, these analyses have largely neglected smaller, more prosperous ethnic communities. This article seeks to broaden the scholarship on ethnic intermediation by presenting a case study of contemporary Australian Armenians in New South Wales. Although quite small in demographic concentration, this community has intermediated successfully in the passage of a broad range of legislation and reallocated important, symbolic state resources. The analysis thus demonstrates how Armenian Australians have devised context-specific strategies to intermediate on behalf of their ethnic community’s interests. More specifically, Australian Armenians have intermediated and influenced legislation by (1) forming strategic coalitions and (2) challenging Australian national narratives. The findings of this research begin to unpack how ‘elite’ populations actually bargain with state officials to achieve their personal and organisational interests.