{"id":30744,"date":"2024-12-23T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30744"},"modified":"2024-12-23T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:44:30","slug":"appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-2\/","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 Addis Ababa, Brunei, Dhaka, Jakarta and Nauru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our diplomats are the driver of Australia&#8217;s engagement with the world and 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-ethiopia\">Dr Peter Hunter as Australia&#8217;s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-brunei\">Mr Michael Hoy as Australia&#8217;s High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-bangladesh\">Ms Susan Ryle as Australia&#8217;s High Commissioner to Bangladesh.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-indonesia\">Mr Rod Brazier as Australia&#8217;s Ambassador to Indonesia.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-nauru-0\">Mr Matthew Barclay as Australia&#8217;s High Commissioner to the Republic of Nauru.<\/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 Addis Ababa, Brunei, Dhaka, Jakarta and Nauru. Our diplomats are the driver of Australia&#8217;s engagement with the world and these appointments strengthen Australia&#8217;s diplomatic capability and its prosecution of our national interests around the globe. I am pleased to announce the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-2\/\" 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-30744","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\/30744","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=30744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30745,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions\/30745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}