Australian government

The Australian government on June 24 said it would contribute A$930 million ($718.9 million) over five years to the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), making it the  institution's sixth largest shareholder. 

Australia on June 15 told Indonesia to better secure its borders in a stinging rebuke after Jakarta demanded answers to allegations Canberra paid to turn back a boat of asylum-seekers.

A Sydney mother has abandoned her two children and fled to Syria for a new life under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), media reported May 26, becoming one of more than 100 Australians who have joined the jihadists.
 
The Australian government said it was deeply disturbed by the report and that it was monitoring the situation closely.
 

Thousands of Australians, New Zealanders and Turks gathered on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula on April 23 ahead of the 100th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
   
Security was especially tight as the former adversaries now face a common threat from Islamist militant violence.
   

The Minister of National Defence Panos Kammenos met with the Ambassador of Australia to Greece John Griffin on Friday.

National Defence Minister P. Kammenos stated the following:

The Australian government July 30 rejected a report from church leaders describing its treatment of child asylum-seekers as “state-sanctioned abuse,” saying such claims were “offensive.”

The report by a coalition of leaders from Christian churches criticizes how unaccompanied asylum-seeker children are kept in immigration detention.