The Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) are Australia’s principal forum for formal consultations with the United States. The talks are led by the Australian Foreign and Defence Ministers and their counterparts, the US...

Malcolm Turnbull's trip to Washington has been newsworthy precisely because it has been so un-newsworthy. Which is simply to say that given Trump's penchant for unpredictable speech and behaviour, the fact that the...

Washington crawled with Australians for three days, with the visit of the largest and most senior Australian political and business delegation ever to visit. In addition to the Prime Minister and Trade Minister...

Alliance 21 research fellow Dougal Robinson is quoted in The Age on Malcolm Turnbull’s trip to Washington and the possibility he might try to bring the United States back into the fold of...

Thirteen months into the Trump administration Admiral Harry Harris has been formally announced as the US ambassador to Australia.

USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted in this Sydney...

Malcolm Turnbull’s Washington trip will be highest-level visit by an Australian leader in more than a decade, in a signal the United States is eager to keep its key allies such as Australia...

From that tense first phone call with Malcolm Turnbull to the failure to appoint a US ambassador to Australia, SBS News asked chief executive officer of the USSC, Professor Simon Jackman, and executive...

USSC chief executive Professor Simon Jackman is quoted in this report by The Sydney Morning Herald about the failure for nearly 18 months of the United States to appoint an ambassador to Australia.

This article about Australia's Foreign Policy White Paper published in the Australian Financial Review quotes USSC acting director of foreign policy, defence and strategy Ashley Townshend.

As Donald Trump prepares to jet into Asia this weekend, government officials and diplomats around the region are focused on one critical question: Are we witnessing the decline of the mighty United States hegemony in Asia?

David...

This reference guide documents all in-person interactions between Australian prime ministers and US presidents since the beginning of the George W. Bush administration. It details the location of meetings, main topics of discussion...