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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

Statement
Independent Review of Commonwealth funding for strategic policy work

Media Statement - Independent Review of Commonwealth funding for strategic policy work

Statement
Government

Statement – Independent review into the transfer of 2003 Cabinet records to the National Archives of Australia

decorative
Honoured Australians

Australia Day 2024 Honours

Statement from the Secretary
Secretary

Statement on the resignation of the Auditor-General for Australia, Mr Grant Hehir

A juvenile Tasmanian devil looks directly at the camera, standing in a soft field of native grass.
Government

Australia’s gift to the new King and Queen of Denmark

Media Release
Accountability and reporting

Transfer of 2003 Cabinet records to the National Archives of Australia

In the foreground a group of six people stand smiling and posing for a photo on top of a rocky cliff. In the background is a valley filled with mountains and trees and a slightly cloudy blue sky.
Careers

Taking a 'Walk on Country'

Prime Minister Albanese welcomes the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, His Excellency Shri Narendra Modi
International policy

Stronger ties and friendship between Australia and India