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Australian Bravery Decorations.
Announcing and presenting awards

Australian Bravery Decorations

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with leaders of Lao PDR, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Timor-Leste in Melbourne at the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit.
Summits

Partners for peace and prosperity - 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit

2024 Status of Women Report Card
National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality

Status of Women Report Card – 2024 released

Working for women, a strategy for gender equality.
National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality

Australian Government launches national gender equality strategy

BETA
Domestic policy

Census participation strategies tested

Australian floral emblem
Honoured Australians

Australia Day 2023 Honours List

Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Marape shake hands after the fourth Papua New Guinea-Australia Leaders’ Dialogue
International policy and national security

Prime Ministerial visit to Papua New Guinea

Graduate Data Network building data capability in our future leaders
Government

Graduate Data Network building data capability in our future leaders

Introducing the 2022 Australians of the Year finalists
Government

Introducing the 2022 Australians of the Year finalists

Launch of the Blueprint and Action Plan for Critical Technologies
Government

Launch of the Blueprint and Action Plan for Critical Technologies

Australian Army Captain Dean Varian, Operations Officer of Australia's Federation Guard places a poppy for his great uncle Theo on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, 1 October 2019.
Honours and symbols

100 years of the Flanders poppy

Professor Edward C. Holmes
Government

2021 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science