Australia–Zimbabwe relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Australia–Zimbabwe relations', '<entity_1>': 'Australia', '<entity_2>': 'Zimbabwe'}
[['Australia–Zimbabwe relations', 'country', 'Australia'], ['Australia–Zimbabwe relations', 'country', 'Zimbabwe']]
<entity_0> are foreign relations between <entity_1> and <entity_2>. <entity_1> currently maintains an embassy in Harare, and <entity_2> maintains an embassy in Canberra. The nations of <entity_1> and <entity_2> both have their origins in British colonies established as a part of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, while <entity_1> experienced much white settlement from Britain and Ireland, eventually becoming a settler-dominated self-governing territory, the lands which made up <entity_2> only became settled by Europeans from 1890, retaining a native Bantu majority. <entity_1> established a High Commission in Salisbury on independence in 1980, with Jeremy Hearder as the first High Commissioner and <entity_2> established a High Commission in Canberra in 1988, with Dr. Eubert Mashaire as the first High Commissioner. In December 2013 the Zimbabwean Ambassador to <entity_1>, Jacqueline Zwambila, resigned and sought asylum in <entity_1> due to fears of arrest should she return to <entity_2> due to her links with official opposition there. On 22 November 2017, following Mugabe's resignation as President following a coup d'état, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop noted that <entity_1> "welcomes the resignation of <entity_2>’s Leader Robert Mugabe after 37 years of increasingly authoritarian and oppressive rule. By far the most valuable export from <entity_2> to <entity_1> was unprocessed tobacco, but construction materials and passenger motor vehicles were also exported. Despite the variety of goods being traded, neither country was a principal trading partner of the other, with <entity_1> being ranked 34th in terms of merchandise exported by <entity_2>, accounting for only 0.2% of total exports. In 2002, the Howard government in <entity_1> imposed targeted sanctions against members of the Zimbabwean government in protest against the deteriorating political situation in <entity_2>. The 2011 Census recorded 30,252 <entity_2>-born people in <entity_1>, an increase of 50.1% from 2006, with the largest populations in Western <entity_1> (9817), Queensland (8341), and New South Wales (5639).
['bilateral relation']