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Departmental media releases
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.
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
2020
- Australia-India-Japan-United States Quad Senior Officials’ Meeting, 18 December 2020
- 12th meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, 17 December 2020
- Commencement of the Foreign Arrangements Scheme, 10 December 2020
- Seventh Australia-ROK Strategic Dialogue, 11 November 2020
- Joint press release EU-Australia Joint Committee, 19 October 2020
- Statement on Dr Yang Hengjun, 10 October 2020
- Australia-India-Japan-United States Quad Consultations, 25 September 2020
- First Australia-India-France Trilateral Dialogue, 9 September 2020
- Australia-India-Japan Economic Ministers’ Joint Statement on Supply Chain Resilience, 1 September 2020
- European Union Cyber Sanctions Listings, 1 August 2020
- US Department of Justice indictment of cyber actors, 22 July 2020
- Joint Statement by the co-convenors of a meeting of Pacific Women Leaders, Australian Foreign Minister and Minister for Women Marise Payne, and Samoan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Natural Resources and the Environment Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, 4 June 2020
- DFAT Secretary discusses COVID-19 response with Indo-Pacific countries, 13 May 2020
- Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights and promoting gender-responsiveness in the COVID-19 crisis, 6 May 2020
- Joint Ministerial Statement on action plans to facilitate the flow of goods and services as well as the essential movement of people, 1 May 2020
- DFAT Statement on arrangements at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, 9 April 2020
- Statement from the DFAT Secretary, 20 March 2020
- Statement on cost of assisted departures from Wuhan, 2 February 2020
- Shared bilateral and regional priorities feature at Senior Officials Meeting between Timor-Leste and Australia, 27 January 2020
- 6th Australia-China High Level Dialogue, 20 January 2020
- Taiwan elections, 12 January 2020
- Australia-Japan Ministerial Economic Dialogue, 10 January 2020