Australian passport

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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 February 2026, Australian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 182 countries and territories, ranking the passport seventh in the world for travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index. 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. All Australian passport variants are biometric. SmartGates have been installed in Australian airports to allow Australian ePassport holders and ePassport holders...

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