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
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