Australia-Zimbabwe Relations (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Australian-Zimbabwean relations are foreign relations between Australia and Zimbabwe. Both countries have full embassy level diplomatic relations. Australia currently manintains an embassy in Harare, and Zimbabwe maintains an embassy in Canberra.The nations of Australia and Zimbabwe both have their origins in British colonies established as a part of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, while Australia experienced much white settlement from Britain and Ireland, eventually becoming a settler-dominated colony, the lands which made up Zimbabwe (known then as Rhodesia) experienced less white settlement, retaining a native Bantu majority. Despite this majority, the colony of Rhodesia broke away from the United Kingdom in 1965, with the minority white government of Ian Smith issuing a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, while Australia became established as a stable parliamentary democracy.