Relationship dossier
Australia
Brazil
Relationship assessment
Australia and Brazil maintain a cooperative partnership, including agreements on strategic and scientific cooperation.
Australia toward Brazil
+25Australia has engaged Brazil through a bilateral strategic partnership and an agreement supporting scientific and technological cooperation.
Brazil toward Australia
+25Brazil has engaged Australia through the bilateral strategic partnership and an agreement supporting scientific and technological cooperation.
Overall relationship
+25The relationship has a cooperative bilateral framework, including a strategic partnership and an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation. These arrangements indicate sustained engagement, although their practical scope and implementation are 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 Brazil have built a cooperative bilateral relationship through a strategic partnership and agreements supporting scientific and technological cooperation. Their engagement also takes place through broader international forums, though those alone do not establish the strength of bilateral ties. The scope and implementation of bilateral cooperation are not fully clear.
Key developments
Australia and Brazil established a bilateral strategic partnership.
Australia and Brazil concluded an agreement supporting scientific and technological cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of cooperation under the strategic partnership are unclear.
- The extent of ongoing scientific and technological collaboration is unclear.