{"id":33615,"date":"2025-07-07T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=33615"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:29:15","slug":"appointment-of-ambassadors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/appointment-of-ambassadors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of five career diplomats to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Copenhagen, Manila, Riyadh, Colombo and Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to confirm the following appointments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-denmark\">Mr Dave Vosen as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to Denmark<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-philippines-0\">Mr Marc Innes-Brown PSM as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to the Philippines<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-saudi-arabia\">Mr Miles Armitage as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-sri-lanka-0\">Mr Matthew Duckworth as Australia\u2019s next High Commissioner to Sri Lanka<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-turkiye\">Ms Sally-Anne Vincent PSM as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s diplomats drive our engagement with the world, building influence, creating opportunities for business and supporting Australians overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these uncertain times, Australia\u2019s relationships with our partners and participation on the world stage are more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish these senior appointees all the best as they work to advance Australia\u2019s interests and I thank the outgoing ambassadors for their important contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of five career diplomats to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Copenhagen, Manila, Riyadh, Colombo and Ankara. I am pleased to confirm the following appointments: Australia\u2019s diplomats drive our engagement with the world, building influence, creating opportunities for business and supporting Australians overseas. In these uncertain times, Australia\u2019s relationships with our partners &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/appointment-of-ambassadors-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of 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-33615","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\/33615","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=33615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33616,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions\/33616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}