Both nations are members of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Cairns Group, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, World Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations.

[1] Both countries established relations on March 1, 1963, and have maintained them since.

[2] The ambassador of Peru to Australia was also accredited to New Zealand until an embassy was opened in Wellington, which closed in 2010 but reopened in 2019.

[1] According to a census carried in 2016 by Department of Home Affairs, 9,556 Australians were born in Peru, while 11,139 claimed Peruvian ancestry.

[8] On February 12, 2019, Peru ratified the Free Trade Agreement.