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List of wars involving Australia

This is a list of wars, armed conflicts and rebellions involving the Commonwealth of Australia (1901–present) and its predecessor colonies, the colonies of New South Wales (1788–1901), Van Diemen's Land (1825–1856), Tasmania (1856–1901), Victoria (1851–1901), Swan River (1829–1832), Western Australia (1832–1901), South Australia (1836–1901), and Queensland (1859–1901). Dates indicate the years in which Australia was involved in the war. Notable militarised interstate disputes are included. For a list of wars that have been fought on the Australian mainland and in Australian waters, see the list of conflicts in Australia.

  Victory
  Defeat
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive)
  Ongoing conflict

Colonial Australia (1788–1901)

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Colonial Australia refers to the Commonwealth of Australia's predecessor colonies, the colonies of New South Wales (1788–1901), Van Diemen's Land (1825–1856), Tasmania (1856–1901), Victoria (1851–1901), Swan River (1829–1832), Western Australia (1832–1901), South Australia (1836–1901), Queensland (1859–1901) and there territories and islands.

List of wars involving Colonial Australia
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Australia and/or its Allies Australian losses
(Killed or missing) 		Notable battles
Military Civilians
Sydney Cove War[1]

(1790–1800)

part Australian frontier wars

  Kingdom of Great Britain (1790–1800)

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1802)

Aboriginal Australians Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
 26[1]
Pemulwuy's War

(1790–1802)

part of Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars and Australian frontier wars

  Kingdom of Great Britain (1790–1800)

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1802)

Burraberongal Tribe (1795–1802)

Indigenous clans: Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Death of Pemulwuy
 0 2[2]
Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars

(1794–1816 )

part of Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars and Australian frontier wars

  Kingdom of Great Britain (1795–1800)

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–16)

Burraberongal Tribe

Indigenous clans:

Irish-convict sympathisers

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Legal disputes until 1992 Mabo decision
 80–300 unknown
Black Wars[1][3][4]

(1799–1805)

part of Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars and Australian frontier wars

  Kingdom of Great Britain (1799–1800)

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1805)

Burraberongal Tribe (1799–1802)

Indigenous clans:

Irish-convict sympathisers

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
 unknown unknown
Tedbury's War

(1802–1810)

part of Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars and Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Indigenous clans: Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Death of Tedbury
 unknown 3
Hawkesbury Nepean War

(1814–1816)

part of Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars and Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Indigenous clans:

Irish-convict sympathisers

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
 unknown 9

[5][6][7][8][9]

Bathurst War

(1824)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Wiradjuri nation Victory ~20[10] 0[10]
Black War

(1828–32)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Aboriginal Tasmanians Victory
  • British control of Tasmania
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 201[11] 18[11]
The Port Phillip District Wars

(1830–1850)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Aboriginal Australians

Gunditjmara People

  • Kilcarer gundidj clan

Dja Dja Wurrung

Taungurung

Gunai Kurnai people

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 0 7–11
The Eumeralla Wars

(1834–1849 or 1860s)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

British colonists

Border Police of New South Wales

Native Police

Aboriginal Australians

Gunditjmara People

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 ~80
Wiradjuri Wars[1]

(1838–1841)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Wiradjuri people Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 Unknown
The MacIntyre River War[12]

(1840–1849)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Bigambul people Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 Unknown
Mandandanji Land War[1]

(1842–1852)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Mandandanji people Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 Unknown
War of Southern Queensland (1843–1855)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Aboriginal Australians

Taribelang Aboriginal tribe

United Tribes

  • Logan District
  • Moreton Bay Islands
  • Burnett River
  • Wide Bay District
  • Bundaberg
  • Mount Perry
  • Gympie
  • Bribie Island
  • Fraser Island
  • Gayndah
  • Mount Brisbane' (D'Aguilar Ranges) (Mountain Tribes)
  • Kilcoy/Esk
  • Brisbane/Enoggera
 Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
 ~174 – 800
Port Augusta War[1] (1844–1845)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Aboriginal Australians

Nukunu people

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous clans
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
Flagstaff War

(1845–1846)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

  Forces of Tamati Waka Nene

  Māori Kupapa

 Ngāpuhi Iwi Inconclusive/Ceasefire
Hutt Valley Campaign(1846)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

 British Settlers

 Te Āti Awa

 Māori Kupapa

 Ngāti Toa Iwi

Ngāti Rangatahi

Ngāti Hāuaterangi

Victory
Whanganui campaign(1847)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

  Māori Kupapa

Ngāti Haua-te-rangi

Ngāti Patutokotoko

Ngāti Ruaka

Treaty
Eureka Rebellion (1851–1854)  Colony of Victoria Anti-Gold Licence Association (Red Ribbon Rebellion)

 Stockade rebels

Victory
  • Miners rebellion defeated by the Victorian authorities
 2 unknown
First Taranaki War

(1860–1861)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire   Taranaki Māori
  Kīngitanga 		Ceasefire 238 0
Waikato Wars

(1863–1864)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire   Kīngitanga

  North Island allies

Victory
Second Taranaki War

(1863–1866)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire   Taranaki Māori Inconclusive
  • Tribes either surrendered or withdrew towards the mountain.
Tauranga Campaign(1864)

Part of the New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

 British Settlers

 Māori Kupapa

  Taranaki Māori Victory
East Cape War

(1865–1866)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

 British Settlers

 Māori Kupapa

Hau-Hauist Māori

Whakatohea Māori Urewera Māori Ngai Tama Māori

Victory
  • Dispossession of land of the indigenous Māori
  • Occupation and settlement of European colonists on conquered land
  • 2013 Crown apology[17]
Titokowaru's War

(1868–1869)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

  Māori Kupapa

  Ngāti Ruanui Iwi

Ngāruahine tribes

Victory
  • Ngāti Ruanui and Ngaruahine withdrawal
Te Kooti's War

(1868–1872)

Part of New Zealand Wars

  British Empire

  Māori Kupapa

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Kahungunu

  Māori Iwis

Ringatū adherents

Pai Mārire adherents

Victory
Kalkadoon Wars 1870–1890

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kalkadoon people Victory 0 5
Arnhem Wars(1880s–1890s)

part of Australian frontier wars

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Yolŋu people
Bininj people
Maung people 		Victory Unknown
Mahdist War(1885)   British Empire

  Ethiopia

  Italy[18]

  Congo Free State

  Mahdist Sudan Victory 0 0
Third Anglo-Burmese war(1886–1887)   British Empire
  •   India
  •   British special-service officers
  •   New South Wales special-service officers
   Burmese Empire Victory 0 0
Jandamarra Guerrilla War

(1894–97)

part of Australian frontier wars

  British Empire Jandamarra
Bunuba people 		Victory
  • Death of Jandamarra
 2 unknown

Commonwealth of Australia (1901–present)

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List of wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Australia and/or its Allies Australian losses
(Killed or missing) 		Notable battles
Military Civilians
Second Boer War
(1899–1902)

Part of the Boer Wars during the Scramble for Africa

List
 Victory 606[19] None[19]
Boxer Rebellion
(1900–1901)
List
 Victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
  • Signing of the Boxer Protocol
  • Provisions for foreign troops stationed in Beijing
 6[20] None[20]
World War I
(1914–1918)
 
Soldiers of a 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres Salient, 1917.
 Victory 62,149[21] None[21]
Russian Civil War
(1918–1920) 		Defeat
  • Allied withdrawal from Russia
  • Bolshevik victory over White Army
  • The Soviet Union becomes the new Russian power
 10[22] Unknown
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)

Part of the Caucasus campaign of World War I, the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War and the Turkish–Armenian War

Defeat
  • Sovietization of Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Disputes over Karabakh and Nakhichevan settled in favor of Soviet Azerbaijan
  • Zangezur gained by Soviet Armenia
 None Unknown
Egyptian Revolution of 1919
(1918–1919) 		  Britain   Wafd Party Victory 1 [24] 31
1927 Malaita Punitive Expedition
(1927) 		Victory
  • Stabilisation of malaita
  • 198 Kwaio arrested and detained[25]
 None[26] None[26]
World War II
(1939–1945)
 
An Australian light machine gun team in action during the Aitape–Wewak campaign, June 1945.
 Victory 39,366[27] 735[27]
Anglo-Iraqi War
(1941)

Part of the Second World War

Allied powers:

Air and naval support:

Axis powers :

Military support :

Victory None None
Korean War
(1950–1953) 		Ceasefire 340[35] None[35]
Malayan Emergency
(1950–1960) 		Victory
  • Communist retreat from Malaya, Chin Peng exiled
 39[36] None[36]
Borneo Confrontation
(1963–1966) 		Victory
  • Indonesia accepts the formation of Malaysia
 23[37] None[37]
Vietnam War
(1965–1973)
 
Members of 5 Platoon 7 RAR waiting for US Army helicopters in August 1967.
 Defeat 521[38] None[38]
Gulf War
(1990–1991) 		Victory None[39] None[39]
Australian-led international intervention into the 1999 East Timorese crisis
(1999–2000)
Supported by:

Supported by:

Victory 2 None
Sierra Leone Civil War (2000–2003)   Sierra Leone

  United Kingdom (2000–2002)

  Guinea

ECOMOG Forces (1998–2000)

Executive Outcomes (1995–1996)

Supported by:

  United States

  Belarus[57]

  UNAMSIL

  RUF

  AFRC (1997–2002)

West Side Boys (1998–2000)

  Liberia (1997–2002)

Supported by:

  Libya

  Burkina Faso

Victory None None
Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)
(2001)

Part of the Afghanistan conflict, the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, and the War on terror

  Russia[citation needed]

  Iran[citation needed]

  Uzbekistan[citation needed]

  India[66]

  Tajikistan[citation needed]

  Turkey[citation needed]

  Turkmenistan[citation needed]

  Kazakhstan[citation needed]

  Kyrgyzstan[citation needed]

From September 2001:

  United States[citation needed]

  United Kingdom[citation needed]

  France[citation needed]

  Canada[citation needed]

  Australia[citation needed]

  Pakistan[67][68]

Supported by:

  Saudi Arabia[68]

  United Arab Emirates

  Qatar

Military stalemate

Continued clashes until the US-led invasion of Afghanistan

None None
War in Afghanistan
(2001–2021)

  Northern Alliance

Defeat 41[69] None[69]
Iraq War
(2003–2009)
Victory 2[39] None[39]
Operation Anode
(2003–2013)
 
Australian soldiers assigned to RAMSI burning guns in October 2003.
 Victory
  • Stabilisation of Solomon Islands
  • Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Papua New Guinean forces withdraw forces
 1 [72][73] None[72]
Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
(2006–2008)

Part of the Iraq War

Sunni factions:
Shi'ite factions: 		Victory None None[39]
Operation Astute
(2006–2013) Part of 2006 East Timorese crisis
 
Australian soldiers supporting the Dili Fire Service in June 2006.
 Victory
  • Stabilisation of East Timor
 3[75] None[75]
Operation Ocean Shield
(2009–2016) 		* Somali pirates Victory
  • Number of pirate attacks dramatically decreased
  • The US Office of Naval Intelligence have officially reported that in 2013, only 9 incidents of piracy were reported and that none of them were successfully hijacked[citation needed]
  • Piracy drops 90%[76]
 None None
Iraqi Civil War (2013–2017)
(2014–2017)

Part of the Iraqi conflict, spillover of the Syrian civil war, international military intervention against the Islamic State and the War on terror

Further Support:
Victory 1[77] 0
American-led intervention in Syrian civil war
(2014–2017)

Part of the Syrian civil war, international military intervention against the Islamic State and the War on terror

Supported by:

  •   Israel (limited involvement; against Hezbollah and government forces only)

Supported by:

Inconclusive, conflict ongoing None None
War on ISIL
(2014–present)

Part of the Second Libyan Civil War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Syrian civil war and spillover of the Syrian civil war, Sinai insurgency, Boko Haram insurgency, insurgency in the North Caucasus, War on terror, and Moro conflict

Ongoing
  • Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda positions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria, and Afghanistan
 None None
Marawi crisis
(2017)

Part of the Moro conflict and the Military intervention against ISIL

  Philippines
Supported by: 		  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Victory None None
Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
(2017–2021)

Part of the Iraqi conflict (2003–present)

  Iraq

  Pro-Government Tribes[98]

  Rojava (cross-border cooperation since May 2018)

  CJTF-OIR (until 2021):

Supported by:

  Iran
  Qatar
  Egypt

  NATO

  Kurdistan Region

Supported by:

  Netherlands

  Islamic State

  White Flags

   Iraqi Baath Party 		Inconclusive, conflict ongoing
  • Airstrikes on ISIL positions
 None None
2019–2022 Persian Gulf crisis (2019–2020)

Part of the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

  United States   CJTF–OIR
Supported by:
   Iran

Popular Mobilization Forces[113][114]

Support:
 Inconclusive/Other Result
None
None
Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-present)   Ukraine

Supported by:   NATO   United States[122]   Australia[123]   Canada[124]   Sweden[122]   Argentina[125]   Azerbaijan[126]   Cambodia[127]   Colombia   Cyprus

  Russian Federation

Supported by:   CSTO   Belarus[128]   Iran[129]   Syria[130]   North Korea[131]   People's Republic of China (disputed)[132]

Inconclusive, conflict ongoing None None

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ HMAS Yarra, representing Australia, participated at sea.[29]
  2. ^ HMNZS Leander, representing New Zealand, participated at sea.[30]
  3. ^ Greek airmen undergoing training at Habbaniya flew sorties against the Iraqis.[31]

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