{"id":29720,"date":"2024-10-23T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29720"},"modified":"2024-10-23T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:08:45","slug":"appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of High Commissioners and Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce appointments of five highly qualified individuals to lead Australian posts in Alofi, Funafuti, Ottawa, Paris and Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s engagement with the world is driven by our diplomats. Their ability to build influence and advocate for Australia is critical to promoting our national interests abroad.<\/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 Olivia Phongkham as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4905\">Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to Niue<\/a>.<\/li><li>Mr David Charlton as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4904\">Australia\u2019s High Commission to Tuvalu<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Kate Logan as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4903\">Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to Canada<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Lynette Wood as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4902\">Australia\u2019s Ambassador to France<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ms Julianne Cowley as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/node\/4901\">Australia\u2019s Ambassador to Italy<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing high commissioners and ambassadors for their contributions to advancing Australia&#8217;s national interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce appointments of five highly qualified individuals to lead Australian posts in Alofi, Funafuti, Ottawa, Paris and Rome. Australia\u2019s engagement with the world is driven by our diplomats. Their ability to build influence and advocate for Australia is critical to promoting our national interests abroad. I am pleased to announce the following appointments: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of High Commissioners and Ambassadors&#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-29720","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\/29720","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=29720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29721,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions\/29721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}