Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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hi i am writing to make you worry. I am of Congolese nationality from Brazzaville. I try since fill out my visa application online on your required page and when filling, as soon as I put all the first information on my nationality and I want to go on the next page, I receive information that the applicant passport nationality is not eligible to use this online service. so please like to know how to finally make my request because here is the site i use (online.immi.gov.au). I would like you to tell me what to do. thank you and my best wishes 2020.

It's cold. Maybe their Air con/heater is busted, made to last 'just long enough'. Foreign Affairs & Trade huh? Import goods on longevity/quality not "international Relations" or it ends up as 'land Fill'. Wastes $$$$ wastes time

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (/ˌdiːˌfæ̃ˈt/) (DFAT) is the department of the Australian federal government responsible for foreign policy and relations, international aid (using the branding Australian Aid), consular services and trade and investment (through Austrade).

The head of the department is its secretary, presently Frances Adamson, who reports to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, presently Marise Payne.

The department finds its origins in two of the seven original Commonwealth Departments established following Federation in 1901: the Department of Trade and Customs and the Department of External Affairs (DEA), headed by Harry Wollaston and Atlee Hunt respectively.[8]

The first DEA was abolished on 14 November 1916 and its responsibilities were undertaken by the Prime Minister's Department and the Department of Home and Territories. It was re-established under the same name on 21 December 1921.

Until the Second World War, Australia's status as a dominion of the British Empire in the then British Commonwealth meant its foreign relations were mostly defined by the United Kingdom. During this time, Australia's overseas activities were predominantly related to trade and commercial interests, while its external affairs were concerned mostly with immigration, exploration and publicity.[8] The political and economic changes wrought by the Great Depression and Second World War, and the adoption of the 1931 Statute of Westminster (ratified by Australia in 1942), necessitated the establishment and expansion of Australian representation overseas, independent of the British Foreign Office. Australia began to establish its first overseas missions (outside London) in 1940, beginning with Washington, D.C., and now has a network of over 80 diplomatic (and 22 trade) posts.

The DEA was renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970. On 24 July 1987, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Trade were amalgamated by the Hawke Government to form the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

In 1994 the Australian Overseas Information Service (AOIS, formerly Australian Information Service) became a branch in DFAT known as the International Public Affairs Branch. In 1996 the branch was dissolved.

In 2005, DFAT became embroiled in the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal after it was revealed it had approved the Australian Wheat Board's (AWB) request allowing it to pay 'trucking charges' to Alia, a Jordanian trucking company with no actual involvement in the trucking of Australian wheat within Iraq. The Cole Inquiry into the AWB was established, however its terms of reference excluded any investigation of the role of DFAT.

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