{"id":34623,"date":"2025-08-31T18:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:08:52","slug":"high-commissioner-ambassador-and-consul-general-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/high-commissioner-ambassador-and-consul-general-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"High Commissioner, Ambassador, and Consul-General appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of three career officials to lead Australia&#8217;s diplomatic missions in Islamabad, Lisbon and Papeete.<\/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\/high-commissioner-pakistan-0\">Mr Tim Kane as Australia&#8217;s next High Commissioner to Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-portugal-0\">Dr Helen Cheney as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to Portugal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-papeete-0\">Ms Greta Whyte as Australia&#8217;s next Consul-General in French Polynesia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia&#8217;s diplomatic network enables us to promote our interests in peace, security, trade, investment and other areas of cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia takes the world as it is and seeks to shape it for the better \u2013 these diplomatic appointments will deepen Australia&#8217;s connections abroad and increase our ability to influence where it matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing High Commissioner, Ambassador, and Consul-General for their important contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of three career officials to lead Australia&#8217;s diplomatic missions in Islamabad, Lisbon and Papeete. I am pleased to confirm the following appointments: Australia&#8217;s diplomatic network enables us to promote our interests in peace, security, trade, investment and other areas of cooperation. Australia takes the world as it is and seeks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/high-commissioner-ambassador-and-consul-general-appointments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Commissioner, Ambassador, and Consul-General appointments&#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-34623","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\/34623","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=34623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34624,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions\/34624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}