{"id":31407,"date":"2025-02-17T02:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:06:06","slug":"appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of High Commissioners and Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of eight highly qualified individuals to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Rarotonga, Suva, the Holy See, Wellington, Koror, Port Moresby, as well as Australia\u2019s engagement with the UN in Geneva and our international work on counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to confirm 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\/high-commissioner-cook-islands-0\">Ms Susannah Hodson as Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to the Cook Islands<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-republic-fiji\">Mr Peter Roberts OAM as Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to the Republic of Fiji<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-holy-see\">The Hon Keith Pitt as Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the Holy See<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-new-zealand\">Mr Daniel Sloper PSM as Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to New Zealand<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-palau\">Mr Toby Sharpe as Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Palau<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-papua-new-guinea-0\">Mr Ewen McDonald as Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-united-nations-geneva\">Ms Clare Walsh as Australia\u2019s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-counter-terrorism-0\">Ms Gemma Huggins as Australia\u2019s Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia is investing in all arms of national power to advance Australian interests and values in our region and the world \u2013 to keep Australians safe, to ensure our economic strength \u2013 and today\u2019s appointments will bolster these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing ambassadors and high commissioners for their important contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of eight highly qualified individuals to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Rarotonga, Suva, the Holy See, Wellington, Koror, Port Moresby, as well as Australia\u2019s engagement with the UN in Geneva and our international work on counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism. I am pleased to confirm the following appointments: Ms Susannah Hodson &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/appointment-of-high-commissioners-and-ambassadors-3\/\" 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-31407","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\/31407","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=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31408,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions\/31408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}