Relationship dossier
Australia
Austria
Relationship assessment
Practical cooperation through bilateral social security and tax arrangements
Australia toward Austria
+20Australia cooperates with Austria through bilateral arrangements on social security and taxation, providing frameworks for coordination affecting people and tax matters across the two countries.
Austria toward Australia
+20Austria cooperates with Australia through bilateral arrangements on social security and taxation, providing frameworks for coordination affecting people and tax matters across the two countries.
Overall relationship
+20Bilateral social security and tax arrangements give the relationship a practical, sustained cooperative foundation. The known relationship is not characterized by a major bilateral confrontation, while the breadth of cooperation beyond these arrangements is unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Australia and Austria maintain a cooperative bilateral relationship supported by practical agreements, including arrangements on social security and taxation. These provide an enduring basis for government cooperation, though the scope of wider bilateral initiatives and their implementation is unclear.
Key developments
Bilateral social security arrangements established a framework for coordination between Australia and Austria.
A bilateral tax arrangement established a framework for addressing taxation matters between the two countries.
Major uncertainties
- The current scope and implementation of the bilateral social security and tax arrangements are unclear.
- Details of broader government-to-government cooperation are limited.