This is a list of multilateral treaties entered into by Australia before 1975.

Pre-federation multilateral treaties Treaties prior to federation signed by the British Empire, adopted by Australia, and active on or after federation: 1856 – Declaration respecting Maritime Law (Paris, 16 April 1856) 1868 – Declaration renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles under 400 Grams Weight (St Petersburg, 11 December 1868) 1884 – Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables (Paris, 14 March 1884) 1886 – Convention for the Creation of an International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Additional Article and Final Protocol (Berne, 9 September 1886) 1888 – Convention respecting the Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal (Constantinople, 29 October 1888) 1896 – Additional Act modifying the International Convention for the Creation of an International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and Final Protocol, of 9 September 1886 (Paris, 4 May 1896) 1899 – International Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes [Hague I] (The Hague, 29 July 1899) 1899 – International Convention with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land [Hague II] (The Hague, 29 July 1899) 1899 – International Convention for Adapting to Maritime Warfare the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 22 August 1864 [Hague III] (The Hague, 29 July 1899)

1901–1922 multilateral treaties Federation to after World War I 1902 – International Sanitary Convention [for preventing the introduction and spread of the Plague] 1903 – International Telegraphic Convention 1904 – Universal Postal Convention, Final Protocol and Detailed Regulations 1907 – Additional Act modifying the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20 March 1883 1907 – ATS 1907 No 7 Declaration Prohibiting the Use of Expanding Bullets [dum-dums – Hague Declaration III] 1907 – Declaration Prohibiting the Use of Asphyxiating Gases [Hague Declaration II] 1907 – International Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field [Red Cross Convention] 1909 – International Sanitary Convention [on Cholera and the Plague] 1909 – International Declaration Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons [Hague XIV] 1909 – International Agreement respecting the Creation of an International Office of Public Health 1910 – Convention for the Creation of an International Institute of Agriculture 1910 – International Convention respecting the Limitation of the Employment of Force for the Recovery of Contract Debts [Hague II] 1910 – International Convention relative to the Opening of Hostilities [Hague III] 1910 – International Convention concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land [Hague IV] 1910 – International Convention relative to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities [Hague VI] 1910 – International Convention relative to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into Warships [Hague VII] 1910 – International Convention relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines [Hague VIII] 1910 – International Convention respecting Bombardments by Naval Forces in Time of War [Hague IX] 1910 – International Convention relative to Certain Restrictions on the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War [Hague XI] 1912 – International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1912 – International Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications 1913 – International Radiotelegraphic Convention, Final Protocol and Service Regulations 1913 – Convention respecting Measures for the Preservation and Protection of the Fur Seals in the North Pacific Ocean 1913 – International Radiotelegraph Convention, Final Protocol and Detailed Service Regulations 1914 – Additional Protocol to the International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 13 November 1908, and Protocol of Signature 1915 – Convention respecting the Compilation of International Commercial Statistics, and Protocol 1915 – Protocol respecting the Putting into Force of the International Opium Convention of 23 January 1912 1919 – International Convention respecting the Prohibition of the Use of White (Yellow) Phosphorus in the Manufacture of Matches 1919 – Agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers with regard to the Contributions to the Cost of Liberation of the Territories of the Former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1919 – Agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers with regard to the Italian Reparation Payments 1919 – Declaration modifying [Articles 4 and 5 of] the Agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers with regard to the Contributions to the Cost of Liberation of the Territories of the Former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1919 – Declaration modifying [Article 4 of] the Agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers with regard to the Italian Reparation Payments of 10 September 1919 1920 – Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany 1920 – Mandate for the Administration of the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru 1920 – Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Austria; Protocol, Declaration and Special Declaration 1920 – Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Bulgaria, and Protocol 1920 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Czechoslovakia [Czechoslovak Minorities Treaty] 1920 – Treaty between the Principal Allied Powers and Denmark concerning Slesvig [Schleswig] 1920 – Agreement between Belgium, the British Empire, France and the United States of America, and Germany, with regard to the Military Occupation of the Territories of the Rhine 1920 – Treaty of Peace with Poland [Polish Minorities Treaty] 1920 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Roumania [Romanian Minorities Treaty] 1920 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and the Serb-Croat-Slovene State [Yugoslav Minorities Treaty] 1920 – Agreement [between Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland] relating to Nauru 1920 – Convention revising the General Act of Berlin of 26 February 1885 and the General Act and Declaration of Brussels of 2 July 1890 1920 – Convention relating to the Liquor Traffic in Africa, and Protocol 1920 – Additional Protocol to the International Convention relative to Air Navigation of 13 October 1919 1920 – Treaty relating to the First International Opium Convention 1921 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Poland, Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State and the Czechoslovak State relative to Certain Frontiers of those States 1921 – Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice 1921 – Protocol amending Paragraphs 12 and 19 of Annex II to Part VIII of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany of 28 June 1919 1921 – Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary, Protocol and Declaration 1922 – International Convention relative to Air Navigation 1922 – Declaration on the Application of Article 5 of the International Convention relative to Air Navigation of 13 October 1919 1922 – Convention regarding the Organisation of the Campaign against Locusts 1922 – Declaration recognizing the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea Coast 1922 – International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children

1923–1939 multilateral treaties 1923 – International Sanitary Convention 1923 – International Convention for the Creation at Paris of an International Institute of Refrigeration 1923 – Treaty between the British Empire, France, Japan and the United States of America relating to their Insular Possessions and Insular Dominions in the Pacific Ocean, and Declaration 1923 – Treaty Supplementary to the Treaty relating to Insular Possessions and Insular Dominions in the Pacific Ocean of 13 December 1921 1923 – Treaty between the British Empire, the United States of America, France, Italy and Japan, for the Limitation of Naval Armament 1923 – Protocol [between the British Empire, France and Italy, and Bulgaria] for Arrangements for Reparation Payments by Bulgaria 1923 – Agreement [between Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom] regarding Nauru 1924 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, and Greece, concerning the Protection of Minorities in Greece 1924 – Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, and Greece, concerning Thrace 1924 – Protocol relating to the Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the Principal Allied Powers and Greece on the 10th August 1920, concerning the protection of Minorities in Greece, and to the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same powers relating to Thrace 1924 – Treaty of Peace [with Turkey] 1924 – Convention relating to the Regime of the Straits 1924 – Convention respecting the Thracian Frontiers 1924 – Convention respecting Conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction (Turkey) 1924 – Declaration of Amnesty, and Protocol (Turkey) 1924 – Protocol relating to Certain Concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire, and Declaration by Turkey 1924 – Protocol relating to the Accession of Belgium and Portugal to Certain Provisions of Instruments signed at Lausanne, and Declarations by Belgium and Portugal 1924 – Protocol relating to the Karagatch Territory and the Islands of Imbros and Tenedos 1924 – Protocol relating to Signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State 1924 – Protocol of an Amendment to Article 6 [last paragraph] of the Covenant of the League of Nations of 28 June 1919 1924 – Protocol of an Amendment to Article 12 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of 28 June 1919 1924 – Protocol of an Amendment to Article 13 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of 28 June 1919 1924 – Protocol of an Amendment to Article 13 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of 28 June 1919 1924 – Protocol concerning the Settlement by means of a Lump Sum of the Cost of the Inter-Allied Occupation in Bulgaria 1924 – Agreement between the Allied Governments and the German Government concerning the Agreement between the Reparation Commission and the German Government of 9 August 1924 1924 – Agreement between the Allied Governments and the German Government to carry out the Experts' [Dawes] Plan of 9 April 1924 1924 – Inter-Allied Agreement to carry out the Experts' [Dawes] Plan of 9 April 1924 1924 – Protocol amending Paragraph 13 of Annex II to Part VIII of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany of 28 June 1919 1924 – Agreement between the Governments represented on the Reparation Commission to modify Annex II [new paragraphs 2A and 16A, amended paragraph 17] to Part VIII of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany of 28 June 1919 1925 – Universal Postal Convention, Final Protocol and Final Protocol rectifying Final Protocol; Detailed Regulations, and Final Protocol 1925 – Treaty concerning the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, and Protocol 1925 – ILO Convention (No. 9) for Establishing Facilities for Finding Employment for Seamen 1925 – Treaty relating to the Chinese Customs Tariff 1925 – Treaty relating to the Principles and Policies to be followed in Matters concerning China 1925 – International Convention relating to the Simplification of Customs Formalities, and Protocol of Signature 1925 – International Agreement for the Creation at Paris of an International Office for Dealing with Contagious Diseases of Animals, and Annex 1925 – International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and Final Protocol