Media releases

2025

March

New safety push to protect young Australians overseas
24 March 2025

February

A new game plan for Australian sports diplomacy
28 February 2025

2024

December

Visit to Egypt, Mauritius, UAE, and Bahrain
1 December 2024

November

Additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan
27 November 2024
Consular State of Play Data 2023-24
20 November 2024
Inaugural meeting of the Sports Diplomacy Consultative Group
15 November 2024

October

Bolstering Food Security in Africa
24 October 2024
New Colombo Plan External Advisory Group appointments
4 October 2024

September

Africa Down Under 2024
4 September 2024

August

Inaugural Australia-India Strategic and Technology Policy Initiative grants round
20 August 2024

June

Humanitarian Assistance to the Horn of Africa Region
22 June 2024
Review of the Foreign Arrangements Scheme
21 June 2024

May

Visit to Austria for the International Conference on Nuclear Security
19 May 2024

April

Visit to Brussels for NATO Foreign Ministers meeting
3 April 2024

March

Visit to the Republic of Korea
17 March 2024
Negotiations commence for an Australia-Lithuania Social Security Agreement
9 March 2024
Grants to support the Australia-ASEAN relationship
6 March 2024
Additional targeted sanctions following Alexei Navalny's death in prison
1 March 2024

February

Negotiations underway for an Australian-Uruguay Social Security Agreement
28 February 2024
Targeted sanctions in response to Alexei Navalny's mistreatment in prison
26 February 2024
Two years on, Australia stands with Ukraine
24 February 2024
Visit to Belgium for EU Indo-Pacific Forum
1 February 2024

2023

December

Visit to Qatar, Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
7 December 2023

November

Supporting Australians when trouble strikes overseas
30 November 2023
2023-2030 Cyber Security Strategy: Resilient Region and Global Leadership
22 November 2023
Visit to France
8 November 2023

October

Humanitarian Assistance in response to Afghanistan earthquake
11 October 2023
Visit to Sri Lanka
10 October 2023
Levelling up Australia’s video game sector engagement with Southeast Asia
6 October 2023

September

Humanitarian assistance to Libya floods
16 September 2023
Humanitarian assistance in response to Morocco earthquake
13 September 2023
Africa Down Under
8 September 2023

August

Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership grants: Round 3
31 August 2023
Deepening economic ties with our ASEAN partners
21 August 2023
Advancing Australia’s trade interests in the Indo-Pacific Region
21 August 2023

July

Further sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
20 July 2023

June

Additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan
20 June 2023
Visit to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
4 June 2023

May

Humanitarian assistance to Middle East and Africa
29 May 2023
Visit to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and India
11 May 2023
Humanitarian assistance in response to the conflict in Sudan
6 May 2023

April

Statement on Sudan conflict
27 April 2023

March

Make Smartraveller your first destination
22 March 2023
Passport wait times back to pre-COVID normal
19 March 2023

February

Visit to Geneva
28 February 2023
Conference on Disarmament
28 February 2023
Human Rights Council – 52nd Session High Level Panel on the Death Penalty
28 February 2023
Visit to Ethiopia and Kenya
16 February 2023
Humanitarian Assistance to fight Global Hunger
11 February 2023
Ethiopia peace process
2 February 2023
Targeted sanctions in response to human rights violations in Myanmar and Iran
1 February 2023

January

Visit to Vienna
25 January 2023

2022

December

25th Anniversary of key nuclear non-proliferation agreement
12 December 2022
Targeted sanctions in response to Iranian and Russian human rights violations and invasion of Ukraine
10 December 2022
Visit to Morocco, Ghana and South Africa
4 December 2022

November

Visit to Bangladesh
23 November 2022
Australia - Thailand Strategic Economic Cooperation Arrangement (SECA)
21 November 2022
Visit to India and Thailand
15 November 2022
Launch of the Consular State of Play 2021-22
3 November 2022

October

Quad Counter-Terrorism Tabletop Exercise
29 October 2022
Chemical Weapons Convention Partnerships
19 October 2022
Singapore International Cyber Week 2022
16 October 2022
20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings
12 October 2022
Visit to Chile and Peru
2 October 2022

September

Humanitarian assistance in Horn of Africa and Yemen
23 September 2022

August

Visit to Indonesia
31 August 2022
Australia-Africa Week 2022
29 August 2022
Jobs and Skills Summit 2022: Lifting Australia’s Asian Literacy and Skills
22 August 2022

June

Urgent increase in resources to address passport delays
8 June 2022

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