We are proud to support 🇹🇱’s progress towards the elimination of cervical cancer and malaria. This week, 🇦🇺’s Australia’s Ambassador for Global Health held productive discussions with 🇹🇱’s Minister of Health to reaffirm Australia’s commitment to strong partnerships for a healthy region.

ASEAN is central to a peaceful, stable & prosperous region, with ASEAN Ambassadors across the Indo-Pacific playing a key role. Excellent discussion in Dili 🇹🇱 with Ambassadors from #ASEAN about #ASEAN-🇦🇺 cooperation fostering dialogue, trust & peace in our shared region.

Building people-to-people connections between 🇹🇱 & 🇦🇺 & across ASEAN promotes mutual understanding & knowledge sharing. Great to see this in action with 🇹🇱 Australian Awards & Future for ASEAN Leaders program recipients to share experiences & discuss ambitions for 🇹🇱 in ASEAN.

Farewell Dili! Thanks for such a productive visit. Australia is pleased to be working with Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 as it moves towards full #ASEAN membership 🤝

Congratulations to AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw, who received the Insignia of the Order of Timor-Leste from 🇹🇱 National Police Commander General da Costa for his contributions to 🇹🇱. We’ll continue our close collaboration as 🇹🇱 prepares to join ASEAN this year.

Pleased to join the 🌈 Pride Walk 🌈in Dili today, standing in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community and reaffirming our commitment to diversity, inclusion and human rights for all.

Pleased to celebrate National Olympic Day today in Timor-Leste. Great to see such enthusiastic participation from the community. Australia is proud to support this event, which reflects our shared love of sport and commitment to community development and investing in youth.

In Dili this week, we are proud to celebrate NAIDOC week with a fantastic exhibition to mark 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture and resilience. Don’t miss it Dili friends!

Pleasure to host ANU Professor John Blaxland SFHEA FRSN FAIIA for an insightful discussion in Dili, over 25 years after he first came to Timor-Leste as part of INTERFET. John has since authored several works on the topic, including East Timor Intervention: a retrospective on INTERFET.

This #NAIDOCWeek, we celebrate the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In Dili, we launched the Yuendumu Doors exhibition, a graphic panel display of artworks from the Warlpiri community of Yuendumu in Central Australia.

Welcome to our new Australian Volunteers and thank you to those of you who are continuing! It was fantastic to host AVIs and host organisations - your work is critical and continues to build important people-to-people connections.

ASEAN & 🇦🇺 are working together to address shared challenges & realise our vision for a peaceful, stable and prosperous region. FM Senator Penny Wong & ASEAN Foreign Ministers discussed 🇦🇺’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with ASEAN & support for #ASEAN Community Vision 2045.

Australia is Timor-Leste’s largest development partner, and we are proud to support Timor-Leste’s ASEAN accession. At the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Malaysia, I told my counterpart Bendito Freitas that we’ll continue to support Timor-Leste’s economic resilience.

We are proud to support the 6th Timor-Leste-Australia Friendship Cities Conference in Dili on 10-11 July. The Conference celebrated 25 years of friendship, partnership and solidarity with municipalities across Timor-Leste and explored opportunities for future collaborations.

Southeast Asia and 🇦🇺 are made stronger by what we do together. Senator Penny Wong, Australia's Foreign Minister, reaffirmed Australia's commitment to the region during her keynote address at the ISIS Malaysia Forum last week. Read the full speech here: foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

Australia and Timor-Leste are working together to address shared challenges. We’re partnering on prosperity and security, economic resilience, and diversification.

Gender equality is a stronger predictor of peace than a nation’s wealth or political system. The 2025 Southeast Asian Women Ambassadors’ Forum on Peace in 🇲🇾 underscored women’s vital role in building a peaceful, inclusive & resilient region, aligned with ASEAN #WPS priorities.

Exploitation has no place in our region or anywhere. On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Australia reaffirms its zero-tolerance stance on modern slavery and continues working globally to disrupt trafficking and support victims and survivors.

Fantastic to have The Hon Dr. Anne Aly MP, Minister for International Development, in Timor-Leste this week. Bem-vinda, Minister Aly! ministers.dfat.gov.au/minister/anne-…

This #ASEANDay, Australia celebrates more than 50 years of working together towards a peaceful, stable and prosperous region as ASEAN’s first Dialogue Partner. Hear from our Southeast Asian Ambassadors about the importance of this vital organisation and our shared interests.