Official Secretary of State Visits
| Secretary of State | Cities Visited | Activity | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| John F. Dulles | Canberra | Attended Third Meeting of SEATO Council of Ministers. Left Washington March 6; returned March 17. | March 9-14, 1957 |
| Dean Rusk | Canberra | Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. | May 8-9, 1962 |
| Dean Rusk | Canberra | Attended SEATO and ANZUS Council Meetings. | June 25-July 2, 1966 |
| William P. Rogers | Canberra | Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. | August 7-9, 1969 |
| William P. Rogers | Canberra | Attended SEATO and ANZUS Perth Council Meetings. | June 24-29, 1972 |
| Cyrus Vance | Canberra | Attended ANZUS Council Meeting. | July 3-5, 1979 |
| George P. Shultz | Canberra | Met with Prime Minister Hawke. and Foreign Minister Hayden. | July 14-15, 1984 |
| George P. Shultz | Perth, Canberra | Attended ANZUS Ministerial Meeting. | July 13-16, 1985 |
| George P. Shultz | Sydney | Met with Prime Minister Hawke and Foreign Minister Hayden. | June 20-22, 1987 |
| James A. Baker, III | Sydney, Canberra | Attended U.S.-Australian Bilateral Ministerial Meeting and Conference on Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. | November 1-8, 1989 |
| Madeleine K. Albright | Sydney | Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial meeting. | July 29-August 1, 1998 |
| Colin L. Powell | Canberra | Attended Australia-U.S. Ministerial meeting. | July 29-30, 2001 |
| Condoleeza Rice | Sydney, Melbourne | Met with Foreign Minister Downer and held Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with Australia and Japan. | March 15-18, 2006 |
| Condoleeza Rice | Sydney | Accompanied President Bush to the APEC leaders’ meeting. | September 4-7, 2007 |
| Condoleeza Rice | Perth | Visited as guest of then-Australian Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith. | July 24-25, 2008 |
| Hillary Clinton | Melbourne | Attended AUSMIN consultations. | November 5-7, 2010 |
| Hillary Clinton | Perth, Adelaide | Attended AUSMIN consultations in Perth, and opened the Perth USAsia Centre; she was the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Adelaide. | November 13-15, 2012 |
| John Kerry | Sydney | Attended AUSMIN consultations. | August 11-13, 2014 |
| Rex Tillerson | Sydney | Attended AUSMIN consultations. | June 5-7, 2017 |