Relationship dossier
Australia
Christmas Island
Relationship assessment
Christmas Island is an Australian external territory under Australian government administration.
Australia toward Christmas Island
+25The Australian government administers Christmas Island as an external territory under Australian law.
Christmas Island toward Australia
Not assessedOverall relationship
Not assessedHow 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
Christmas Island is an Australian external territory administered by the Australian government, rather than a sovereign state with an independent foreign policy. Australian government administration provides the concrete basis for describing the relationship; Christmas Island does not conduct an independent state-to-state relationship with Australia.
Major uncertainties
- The extent of Christmas Island-specific federal programs and their implementation is unclear.