Australia appoints first high
commissioner to India.
India appoints first high
commissioner to Australia.
India’s first prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru articulates
policy of non-alignment.
India gains independence
from Great Britain.
An Australian among first
military officers to be
trained at India’s Defence
Services Staff College.
Sino–Indian border
dispute erupts into
the 1962 border war.
Australia, India, the
United States, and
the United Kingdom
take part in joint
air force exercises
(‘shiksha’).
Whitlam government legislation
dismantles final remnants of
White Australia Policy.
India conducts first nuclear
test, ‘Peaceful Nuclear
Explosion’, Pokhran-I.
Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi visits Australia,
the last prime ministerial
visit for 28 years.
Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer delivers ‘New
Horizons’ speech outlining
economic prospects of
bilateral relationship.
India conducts Pokhran-II
nuclear tests.
May: Australia–India
defence talks.
July: Prime Minister
John Howard visits
India, the first prime
ministerial visit since
1989.
August: Inaugural
India–Australia
Strategic Dialogue.
Australia–India military
cooperation on humanitarian
assistance and relief
operations following the
Indian Ocean tsunami.
March: Australia–India
Memorandum of Understanding
on Defence Cooperation signed.
First Quad dialogue involving
Australia, India, the United
States, and Japan.
September: Australia
participates in Malabar
naval exercise in Bay of
Bengal with the United
States, India, Japan,
and Singapore.
Australia suspends
participation in the Quad.
May: Indian students
in Melbourne protest
against racially-motivated
attacks.
November: Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd visits India.
Australia and India commence
negotiations for a Comprehensive
Economic Cooperation Agreement.
December: Gillard government
reverses former policy
and agrees to export
uranium to India.
A K Antony makes first ever
official visit to Australia
by an Indian defence minister.
India–China border dispute
results in military
stand-offs (and again
in 2014, 2017, & 2020).
May: Narendra Modi
elected prime minister
of India.
November: Framework for
Security Cooperation signed
between Australia & India.
Indian PM Narendra Modi
visits Australia — first
Indian PM to visit in 28
years.
September: First major
Australia–India bilateral
naval exercise, AUSINDEX,
Bay of Bengal.
AUSTRA HIND Special
Forces Australia–India
bilateral military exercise.
November: First meeting
of revived Quad, Manila.
July: Indian Air
Force’s first involvement
as a full participant in
Pitch Black exercise
in Darwin.
Release of India Economic
Strategy 2035 by former
DFAT Secretary Peter
Varghese.
June: Prime Ministers
Morrison and Modi meet
at G20 Summit in Osaka.
June: Prime Ministers
Morrison and Modi announce
Comprehensive Strategic
Partnership on maritime
cooperation and cyber
technology, Mutual Logistics
Support Agreement for protection
of classified information, and
establishment of ministerial
2+2 dialogue.