Australia's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Richard Woolcott, and ASEAN representatives from the Philippines, Acting Secretary-General, Rosario G. Manalo, and Rudolfo Sanchez, at the first meeting between ASEAN Secretaries-General and Australian officials in Canberra, 16–17 April 1974.
© National Archives of Australia 2023. NAA: A6180, 17/4/74/12.
The Australia-ASEAN Council has supported the production of a photo exhibition and photobook to celebrate the 50th anniversary ASEAN-Australia Dialogue Relations. This photobook and exhibition tells the story of the evolving ASEAN-Australia relationship since 1974, showcasing people-to-people connections, development cooperation, business, trade and investment, and government and diplomacy.
The photo exhibition was displayed at the 2024 Special Summit and a digital version will be used in embassies and at events across Southeast Asia during the 2024 commemorative year. The accompanying photobook profiles an array of significant milestones and events, and showcases the various initiatives and programs throughout our 50 year dialogue partnership with ASEAN.
1974: First meeting between ASEAN Secretaries-General and Australian officials in Canberra
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1978: Poster for the first ASEAN Trade Fair in Sydney, Australia
1980: ASEAN group examines food handling systems in Indonesia
1983: ASEAN TV trainees make a film at Fairbairn Air Base, Canberra
1984: Delegates at the Eighth ASEAN-Australia Forum in Canberra
1986: Singaporean conservator attends conservation course in Canberra
1987: ASEAN journalists visit World Expo ‘88 site
1994: Gareth Evans attends the opening of the Eyes on ASEAN exhibition in Melbourne
1995: ASEAN film and sound archivists on a one-month course at the Australian Film and Sound Archives in Canberra
1995: Indonesian hydrographers on an Australian study tour
2005: Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs signs Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia
2005: Australian PM, John Howard, joins fellow leaders at the signing ceremony of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the East Asia Summit
2010: Australian PM, Julia Gillard, attends the Fifth East Asia Summit in Vietnam
2013: ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Maritime Security Field Training Exercise in Sydney
2018: Inaugural ASEAN–Australia Education Dialogue held in Penang, Malaysia
2018: ASEAN Leaders and Australian PM, Malcom Turnbull, at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit
2018: Young Matildas player, Susan Phonsongkham, in a friendly match with Thailand ASEAN Champions
2018: First Nations Peoples’ performance at the opening of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Sydney
2019: Inaugural ASEAN-Australia Young Leaders Forum held in Jakarta
2020: ASEAN-Australia Woman, Peace & security Dialogue in Hanoi
2020: smallholder farmers in South Cotabato, Mindanao, harvest crops for Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
2021: ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking Program at the first bilateral meeting between the Royal Thai and Malaysia Police
2021: Frontline responders during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
2021: Leaders attend the First Annual ASEAN-Australia Summit
2022: Australian Ambassador Nankervis at an information session with migrant workers in Prey Veng, Cambodia
2023: Opening of the Aus4ASEAN Futures Initiative Office at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta
2023: Australian Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tim Watts, and Aus4ASEAN Scholarships recipients at the official launch
2023: Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, participated in an ‘ASEAN Way’ handshake at the ASEAN-Australia Summit in Jakarta
