List of wars involving Australia

This is a chronological list of wars involving Australia since federation in 1901.

Dates indicate the years in which Australia was involved in the war.

List

War or conflict's name(s)	Opponent(s)	Date	Conclusion(s)
Australian Frontier Wars	Australian Aboriginals British Empire	1788-1934	Theoretical Genocide of the Aboriginal peoples
Castle Hill Convict Rebellion	Irish Convicts British Empire	1804	crushing of the Irish Rebellion
Second Boer War	Orange Free State South African Republic	1899–1902	British Empire victory Treaty of Vereeniging
Boxer Rebellion	Righteous Harmony Society	1900–1901	Alliance victory
First World War	Central Powers: German Empire Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	1914–1918	Allied victory Treaty of Versailles-Treaty of Saint Germain-Treaty of Lausanne- Treaty of Neully
Armenian-Azerbaijani War	Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	1918–1920	Indecisive
Russian Civil War	Pro-Communist forces: Bolshevik Party Soviet Union (from 30 December 1922) Russian SFSR (from 7 November 1917) Far Eastern Republic Ukrainian SSR Byelorussian SSR Red Guards and later Red Army (from 28 January 1918) Finnish Red Guards Mongolian communists Black Army (1917–1920) Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus Kuomintang	1917–1923	Communist victory
Second World War	Axis forces: Nazi Germany Empire of Japan Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46) Kingdom of Romania Kingdom of Bulgaria Thailand	1939–1945	Allied victory
Korean War	Communist forces: North Korea People's Republic of China Supported by: Soviet Union	1950–1953	Indecisive (Cease-fire)
Malayan Emergency	Communist forces: MCP MNLA	1950–1960	Commonwealth victory
Indonesian Confrontation	Indonesia	1963–1966	Commonwealth victory
Vietnam War	Communist forces: North Vietnam NLF Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao North Korea Supported by: People's Republic of China Soviet Union Cuba	1962–1975	Free World Military Forces defeat
First Gulf War	Iraq	1990–1991	Coalition victory
Iraq War	Iraq (2003) Insurgent groups: (post-invasion) Iraqi Ba'ath Party Loyalists Islamic State of Iraq al-Qaeda in Iraq Mahdi Army Special Groups Islamic Army of Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah	2003–2009	Coalition victory
Afghanistan War	Insurgent groups: Taliban Al-Qaeda IMU HI-Gulbuddin HI-Khalis Haqqani network Lashkar-e-Taiba JeM ETIM TTP IEW TNSM IJU	2001–present	Ongoing

See also

• Military history of Australia
• Australian military involvement in peacekeeping