Welcome to the
DFAT
Annual Report
2016–17
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- Location of Posts (DFAT and Austrade)
- State and Territory Offices
- Torres Strait Treaty Liaison Office
Who We Are
0 Total DFAT Staff
0 Overseas Posts
Including 12 Austrade-managed posts
0 Total Staff in Australia
0 Total Staff Overseas
What We Do
Assist
Travellers
In 2016–17, we issued a record 2,070,038 passports and provided 12,454 Australians with consular assistance
Help In
Crises
Launched major new humanitarian funding packages, including a three-year, $220 million assistance initiative to Syria and a three-year $100 million package for Iraq
Promote Trade
And Investment
$330 billion ↑4.7%
Total value of exports of goods and services (2016)
$3.2 trillion ↑5.0%
Level of total foreign investment in Australia (2016)*
*As at 31 December 2016.
Connect
People
The New Colombo Plan has enabled 30,000 Australians to study, intern and gain experience across the Indo-Pacific in its first 5 years
Our Australia Awards scholarship program supported 3,500 continuing students and offered 3,500 new scholarships, fellowships and short courses in 2016–17
Reduce Poverty
And Promote Growth
$3.5 billion
Official Development Assistance (estimate)
Aid for trade expenditure was 18% of the aid budget in 2016–17—on track to meet the goal of 20% of the aid budget by 2020
Over $2 billion of aid investments included support for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
Promote
Australia
In promoting and protecting Australian interests, our posts delivered more than 1,000 targeted public diplomacy initiatives in 2016–17
Our foundations, councils and institutes managed more than 200 grants for Australian artistic, academic, scientific and technological endeavours and cultural-awareness programs in 2016–17