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Secretary Travels to Australia

Name Locale Remarks Date
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