Relationship dossier
Australia
Malta
Relationship assessment
Australia and Malta cooperate through bilateral social security and taxation arrangements.
Australia toward Malta
+20The Australian government cooperates with Malta through bilateral social security and tax arrangements, including an agreement coordinating social security matters and a tax treaty.
Malta toward Australia
+20The Maltese government cooperates with Australia through bilateral social security and tax arrangements, including an agreement coordinating social security matters and a tax treaty.
Overall relationship
+20Bilateral agreements on social security and taxation provide a practical, durable basis for cooperation. The known relationship is cooperative, though its wider scope and intensity 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 Malta maintain practical bilateral cooperation through agreements covering social security and taxation. These arrangements support coordination on benefits and tax matters, but the breadth of cooperation and the extent of other sustained bilateral initiatives are unclear.
Key developments
Australia and Malta concluded a bilateral social security agreement.
Australia and Malta concluded a bilateral tax treaty.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral social security and tax arrangements are unclear.
- Details of broader government cooperation and any significant bilateral disagreements are limited.