The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the department of the Australian Government responsible for foreign policy and international relations, development aid, consular services, overseas trad
R.G. Casey Building in Canberra, ACT
The minister for foreign affairs, also known as the foreign minister, is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing the creation and implementation of international
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
…national income (GNI). The department is led by a permanent secretary, currently Jan Adams. She reports to Penny Wong, who has held the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2022. The department finds its origins in two of the seven original Commonwealth Departments established following Federation in 1901: the…
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R. G. Casey House, the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.