{"id":26260,"date":"2024-04-23T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=26260"},"modified":"2024-04-23T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:09:32","slug":"appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-and-consuls-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-and-consuls-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioner and Consuls-General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce diplomatic appointments to lead Australian posts in Chengdu, Guangzhou, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Tonga, Phuket and the Republic of Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These appointments strengthen Australia&#8217;s diplomatic capability and its prosecution of our national interests around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to announce the following appointments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ms Meaghan Shaw as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4705\">Consul-General in Chengdu<\/a>.<\/li><li>Dr Timothy Kendall as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4704\">Consul-General in Guangzhou<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Ian McConville as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4703\">Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Rosemary Morris-Castico as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4702\">Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Brek Batley as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4701\">High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Tonga<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Kirsten Fletcher as Australia\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4700\">Consul-General in Phuket<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Andrew Martin as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4699\">Ambassador to the Republic of Chile<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing ambassadors, high commissioner and consuls-general for their contributions to advancing Australia&#8217;s interests in these countries during their respective tenures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce diplomatic appointments to lead Australian posts in Chengdu, Guangzhou, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Tonga, Phuket and the Republic of Chile. These appointments strengthen Australia&#8217;s diplomatic capability and its prosecution of our national interests around the globe. I am pleased to announce the following appointments: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-and-consuls-general\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioner and Consuls-General&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26261,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26260\/revisions\/26261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}