| John Foster Dulles |
Canberra |
Attended Third Meeting of SEATO Council of Ministers. Left Washington March 6;
returned March 17. |
March 9–14, 1957 |
| David Dean Rusk |
Canberra |
Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. |
May 8–9, 1962 |
| David Dean Rusk |
Canberra |
Attended SEATO and ANZUS Council Meetings. |
June 25–July 2, 1966 |
| William Pierce Rogers |
Canberra |
Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. |
August 7–9, 1969 |
| William Pierce Rogers |
Canberra, Perth |
Attended SEATO and ANZUS Council Meetings. |
June 24–29, 1972 |
| Cyrus Roberts Vance |
Canberra |
Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. |
July 3–5, 1979 |
| George Pratt Shultz |
Canberra |
Met with Prime Minister Hawke and Foreign Minister Hayden. |
July 14–15, 1984 |
| George Pratt Shultz |
Perth, Canberra |
Attended ANZUS Ministerial Meeting. |
July 13–16, 1985 |
| George Pratt Shultz |
Sydney |
Met with Prime Minister Hawke and Foreign Minister Hayden. |
June 20–22, 1987 |
| James Addison Baker |
Sydney, Canberra |
Attended U.S.-Australian Bilateral Ministerial Meeting and Conference on Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation. |
November 1–8, 1989 |
| Warren Minor Christopher |
Canberra |
Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial Meeting. |
March 7–9, 1994 |
| Warren Minor Christopher |
Sydney |
Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial talks. |
July 25–27, 1996 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright |
Sydney |
Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial Meeting. |
July 29–August 1, 1998 |
| Colin Luther Powell |
Canberra |
Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial Meeting. |
July 29–30, 2001 |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Sydney, Melbourne |
Met with Foreign Minister Downer and held Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with
Australia and Japan. |
March 15–18, 2006 |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Sydney |
Accompanied President Bush to the APEC leaders’ meeting. |
September 4–7, 2007 |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Perth |
Met with Foreign Minister Smith. |
July 24–25, 2008 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Melbourne |
Attended the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation. Met with the Prime
Minister Gillard and Foreign Minister Rudd. |
November 5–7, 2010 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Perth, Adelaide |
Met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Robert Carr, and Defense
Minister Stephen Smith. Opened the Perth USAsia Center. Attended the Australia-United
States Ministerial Consultations. |
November 13–15, 2012 |
| John Forbes Kerry |
Sydney |
Attended the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations. |
August 11–13, 2014 |
| Rex W. Tillerson |
Sydney |
Attended the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations. |
June 5–6, 2017 |
| Michael R. Pompeo |
Sydney |
Led the U.S. delegation to the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations
and met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. |
August 4–5, 2019 |
| Antony Blinken |
Melbourne |
Met with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and attended the fourth Quad
Foreign Ministers Ministerial Meeting, hosted by Australian Foreign Minister Marise
Payne and including Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa and Indian
Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. |
February 9–12, 2022 |
| Antony Blinken |
Brisbane |
Attended the Australia – U.S. Ministerial Consultations and held bilateral
meetings. |
July 28–29, 2023 |
