News, speeches and media
This page links to media releases from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Media releases from our portfolio ministers are available on other websites.
2025
- AANZFTA Upgrade enters into force, 21 April 2025
- Joint Statement by Quad Partners on Myanmar Earthquake Response, 4 April 2025
- Statement on Australia’s response to recent PLA exercises around Taiwan, 3 April 2025
- Bosnia and Herzegovina destabilisation of national institutions, 16 March 2025
- Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) Steering Committee Inaugural Meeting Joint Statement, 21 February 2025
- One year since Alexei Navalny’s death, 17 February 2025
- Modernising Australia’s Southeast Asian free trade agreements for the future, 11 February 2025
- Joint Statement on Myanmar, 1 February 2025
- Australian statement of support – EU Sanction, 29 January 2025
- Joint Statement on Belarus Presidential Election, 28 January 2025
- Statement on Venezuelan presidential inauguration, 11 January 2025
- Joint Press Statement on the Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Myanmar, 6 January 2025
2024
- Australia – Papua New Guinea Bilateral Security Agreement: Entry into Force, 12 December 2024
- Joint Statement from Australia and New Zealand, 28 November 2024
- Trading Nation: How Trade and Investment Contribute to Australian Prosperity, 13 November 2024
- Georgia’s parliamentary elections, 1 November, 2024
- Australia supports UK, EU efforts to call out Russian disinformation and malicious activity, 29 October, 2024
- Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Legislation Against UNRWA Under Consideration by the Israeli Knesset, 27 October 2024
- First Nations International Fellowships and Partnerships Grants Program – round opening, 8 October 2024
- Launch of an initiative on accountability for Afghanistan’s violations of CEDAW Declaration, 26 September 2024
- Ten years since MH17: the continued fight for truth and justice, 25 September 2024
- Joint press release on the Friends of FMCT, 23 September 2024
- Statement on Australian Embassy Washington Public Diplomacy, 12 September 2024
- Media Freedom Coalition statement on Stand News in Hong Kong, 9 September 2024
- Statement on a pattern of deeply concerning and dangerous actions in the South China Sea, 2 September 2024
- Joint Statement on Venezuela Election, 30 August 2024
- Statement to mark the seventh anniversary of the Myanmar military’s attack against Rohingya, 25 August 2024
- Statement on the dissolution of Move Forward Party, 7 August 2024
- Joint Media Release on the 19th Australia-Viet Nam Human Rights Dialogue, 5 August 2024
- Statement of support for Germany’s Attribution of malicious cyber activity, 1 August 2024
- Statement on Venezuelan elections, 30 July 2024
- Statement on the EU’s inclusion of The Base on its terrorist list, 26 July 2024
- New trade rules for the digital economy, 26 July 2024
- Marking the 8th Anniversary of the South China Sea Arbitral Award, 12 July 2024
- Media Freedom Coalition statement on Evan Gershkovich’s Trial, 8 July 2024
- Statement on EU sanctions against cyber criminals for malicious activities against the EU Ukraine, 25 June 2024
- Statement regarding recent incidents in the South China Sea, 18 June 2024
- Joint statement on the detention of UN, diplomatic and NGO staff by the Houthis in Yemen, 13 June 2024
- Joint Statement on escalating violence in Myanmar, 24 May 2004
- Joint Statement on the 1718 Committee Panel of Experts, 1 May 2024
- Joint Statement on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Attack on the State of Israel, 18 April 2024
- Statement concerning recent actions in the South China Sea, 27 March 2024
- Russia presidential elections, 19 March 2024
- Statement on proposed laws under Article 23 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, 1 March 2024
- Joint Statement Endorsing Principles for 6G: Secure, Open, and Resilient by Design, 27 February 2024
- Pakistan elections, 10 February 2024
- Taiwan elections, 14 January 2024
- Bangladesh parliamentary elections, 10 January 2024
2023
- Statement by the Media Freedom Coalition on Hong Kong, 29 December 2023
- Establishment of the Office for First Nations International Engagement, 21 December 2023
- Co-Convenors of the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on E-Commerce announce substantial conclusion of negotiations on a number of global digital trade rules, 20 December 2023
- Joint Statement on Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea, 19 December 2023
- Joint statement on settler violence in the West Bank, 15 December 2023
- UN General Assembly Tenth Emergency Special Session: Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations - Explanation of vote, 13 December 2023
- Australian Government concerns about recent actions in the South China Sea, 12 December 2023
- Departmental statement on the departure of Canadian diplomats from India, 22 October 2023
- Joint Statement on the Australia-United Kingdom Strategic Dialogue on Gender Equality, 4 October 2023
- U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Statement on Reaffirming U.S.-Pacific Partnership, 25 September 2023
- Joint Statement on Partners in the Blue Pacific Foreign Ministers Meeting, 22 September 2023
- Global declaration on information integrity online, 20 September 2023
- Sixth Anniversary of the Myanmar Military’s Attack against Rohingya, 25 August 2023
- Statement on the release of ALPS treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 23 August 2023
- Australia-China Consular Consultations, 21 August 2023
- Joint Statement on the new Australia-California Memorandum of Understanding, 16 August 2023
- Joint Statement on the Australia-U.S. Strategic Dialogue on Gender Equality, 28 July 2023
- Final IAEA report on Fukushima treated water release, 14July 2023
- 30th anniversary of the FRANZ trilateral cooperation arrangement, 10 July 2023
- Work to start on East Micronesia Cable following contract signing, 6 June 2023
- Australian National Statement on the 18th Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, 26 April 2023
- Australia-China Senior Officials’ Talks, 12 April 2023
- Statement on Sentencing of Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, 11 April 2023
- Code of Conduct for Enhancing Export Controls of Goods and Technology that Could be Misused and Lead to Serious Violations or Abuses of Human Rights, 30 March 2023
- Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware, 30 March 2023
- Declaration on Principles to Combat Transnational Repression (Freedom House), 30 March 2023
- Guiding Principles on Government Use of Surveillance Technologies (Freedom Online Coalition), 30 March 2023
- Summit for Democracy Commitment on Beneficial Ownership and Misuse of Legal Persons, 29 March 2023
- Joint Statement on the Strategic Dialogue on Cybersecurity of Civil Society Under Threat of Transnational Repression, 29 March 2023
- Advancing delivery of the East Micronesia Cable project, 8 March 2023
- Myanmar: Joint Statement on the two year anniversary of the military coup, 1 February 2023
- Strengthening Shared Understanding Among the Partners in the Blue Pacific and Pacific Islands: Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) and Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), 28 January 2023
2022
- Joint Statement by the United States, Japan, and Australia on the Renewal of the Trilateral Infrastructure Partnership, 17 October 2022
- Commemorative services to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings, 30 September 2022
- Joint Statement on Partners in the Blue Pacific Foreign Ministers Meeting, 22 September 2022
- Recent comments by the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China relating to AUKUS, 21 September 2022
- Passports printing issue, 17 September 2022
- Cyber attacks against Albania, 16 September 2022
- Australia-ROK Indo-Pacific Dialogue, 25 August 2022
- Joint Ministerial Statement Marking the 5th Anniversary of the Myanmar Military’s Attack against Rohingya and Ensuing Crisis, 25 August 2022
- Passports data transfer issue, 25 August 2022
- Memorandum of Understanding for the East Micronesia Cable project, 28 July 2022
- Joint Statement on Execution of Pro-Democracy and Opposition Leaders in Myanmar, 26 July 2022
- Joint Statement on the Announcement of the Partners in the Blue Pacific Initiative, 25 June 2022
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 20 June 2022
- Launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) – joint Statement, 23 May 2022
- Joint media release of Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and the United States on the occasion of the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting, 23 May 2022
- Australian and Chinese officials discuss the Pacific, 6 May 2022
- Joint Press Release of the 13th meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, 5 May 2022
- Joint Press Release: Australia and Denmark lead new global tech network, 24 March 2022
- Emergency humanitarian assistance to Tonga - Joint Statement from FRANZ, 1 February 2022
- 7th Australia-Lao PDR Human Rights Dialogue, 28 January 2022
- 17th Annual Australia-Viet Nam Human Rights Dialogue, 13 January 2022
- Joint Statement on Russian Court Decisions to Liquidate Memorial, 1 January 2022
2021
- Joint Statement on detentions in Ethiopia, 07 December 2021
- Recent incidents in the South China Sea, 22 November 2021
- Joint Statement on the release of the OHCHR-EHRC joint investigation, 6 November 2021
- Joint Statement of Support for the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar, 15 October 2021
- Australia’s steadfast commitment to ASEAN centrality, 20 September 2021
- Joint Statement on the Seventh Indonesia-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministers 2+2 Meeting, 9 September 2021
- Joint Statement on Afghanistan Evacuation Travel Assurances, 30 August 2021
- Joint Statement on Afghanistan, 15 August 2021
- Seventh Australia-ROK Joint Economic Committee, 21 July 2021
- Call with Myanmar Deputy Commander-in-Chief, 16 June 2021
- United Nations Security Council open debate on The Middle East including The Palestinian question, 16 May 2021
- Joint Statement on the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative, 27 April 2021
- Joint Statement on the WHO-Convened COVID-19 Origins Study, 30 March 2021
- Australia-Bangladesh Senior Officials’ Talks, 11 March 2021
- Australia-ROK senior officials policy dialogue on our support for Southeast Asia and ASEAN, 25 February 2021
- Australia-India-France Trilateral Senior Officials’ Meeting, 25 February 2021
- G7 Joint Statement - WHO Executive Board, 19 January 2021