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Australian passport

Australian passport
The front cover of a current Australian
biometric passport
The polycarbonate photo page of a current R series Australian passport
TypePassport
Issued by Australian Passport Office (DFAT)
Australia Post
First issued
  • 1901 (first version following federation)
  • 1984 (machine-readable passport)
  • 24 October 2005 (biometric passport)
  • September 2022 (current version)
In circulation14.2 million (2023)[1]
PurposeIdentification & travel
Valid inAll countries
EligibilityAustralian citizenship
Expiration
  • 10 years for adults 16+
  • 10 or 5 years for adults aged 75+
  • 5 years for children under 16
Cost
  • Adult (16+):
    10-year passport: A$412
  • Adult 75+ (optional)
    5-year passport: A$208
  • Child (Under 16):
    5-year passport: A$208[2]

An Australian passport is a travel document issued by the Commonwealth of Australia to individuals holding any form of Australian nationality. The document facilitates access to consular assistance from Australian embassies around the world, and are issued by the Australian Passport Office, an agency of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Australia Post. As of July 2024, Australian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 188 countries and territories, ranking the passport eighth in the world for travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.[3]

Since 24 October 2005, Australia has issued only biometric passports, called ePassports, which have an embedded microchip that contains the same personal information that is on the colour photo page of the passport, including a digitised photograph. As all previous passports have now expired, all Australian passports are now biometric. SmartGates have been installed in Australian airports to allow Australian ePassport holders and ePassport holders of several other countries to clear immigration controls more rapidly, and facial recognition technology has been installed at immigration gates.[4]

An Australian passport application is the most expensive in the world, costing A$412 as of 1 January 2025.[5] Since 1988 over a million Australian passports have been issued annually, and it reached 1.4 million in 2007, and increasing towards a projected 3 million annually by 2021.[6][7][8] As of late-2023, approximately 14.2 million Australian citizens (or just over 53% of the population) possessed a valid Australian passport.[9]

  1. ^ "Passport Facts 2022-23". Australian Passport Office. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Passport Fees". 1 January 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  3. ^ "The Official Passport Index Ranking". Henley & Partners. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  4. ^ "SmartGate Frequently Asked Questions – What is an Australian ePassport?". Australian Customs Service.
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ "Muehlbauer | www.muehlbauer.de" (PDF). www.muehlbauer.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  7. ^ Whelan, Chloe (17 May 2023). "Australian passport is most expensive in the world to update". news.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  8. ^ Wilson-Beevers, Helen (17 May 2023). "The world's most expensive passports revealed". The Independent. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Passport facts 2022-23". Australian Passport Office. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.

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