{"id":27627,"date":"2024-07-03T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27627"},"modified":"2024-07-03T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:03:19","slug":"appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-consul-general-and-special-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-consul-general-and-special-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioner, Consul-General and Special Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I am pleased to announce the appointment of five highly qualified individuals to lead Australia&#8217;s posts in Cambodia, Honolulu, Morocco, Nepal and Vanuatu. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Amanda McGregor as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/special-representative-afghanistan\">Special Representative on Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Qatar, Ms McGregor will work with like-minded countries to call out the Taliban on its abuse of human rights and support the people of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our diplomats are the driver of Australia&#8217;s engagement with the world. They build influence and prosecute Australia&#8217;s national interests abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These individuals will take up the following positions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mr Derek Yip as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-cambodia-0\">Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Greg Wilcock as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-honolulu\">Consul-General in Honolulu<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Damien Donavan as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-morocco\">Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Leann Johnston as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-nepal\">Ambassador to Nepal<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr Max Willis as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-vanuatu\">High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing heads of mission, consul-general and the former Special Representative on Afghanistan for their contributions to advancing Australia&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am pleased to announce the appointment of five highly qualified individuals to lead Australia&#8217;s posts in Cambodia, Honolulu, Morocco, Nepal and Vanuatu. &nbsp; I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Amanda McGregor as Australia\u2019s next&nbsp;Special Representative on Afghanistan. Based in Qatar, Ms McGregor will work with like-minded countries to call &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioner-consul-general-and-special-representative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioner, Consul-General and Special Representative&#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-27627","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\/27627","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=27627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27628,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627\/revisions\/27628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}