{"id":36301,"date":"2025-11-30T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36301"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:21:04","slug":"appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioners-and-consul-general-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioners-and-consul-general-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Consul-General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of nine highly qualified individuals to lead Australia&#8217;s posts in Tallinn, Lima, Noumea, Alofi, Kathmandu, Buenos Aries, Honiara, Nicosia and our interests in the global health system.<\/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-estonia-0\">Mr Edmund Mortimer as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to Estonia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-peru\">Mr James Yeomans as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to Peru<\/a>. The Ambassador to Peru is also accredited to Bolivia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-noumea-0\">Ms Megan Bainbridge as Australia&#8217;s next Consul-General in Noumea<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-cyprus\">Ms Emily Pugin as Australia&#8217;s next High Commissioner to Cyprus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-nepal-0\">Mr Simon Ernst as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to Nepal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-argentina-0\">Ms Sarah Roberts as Australia&#8217;s next Ambassador to Argentina<\/a>. The Ambassador to Argentina is also accredited to Paraguay and Uruguay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-solomon-islands-0\">Mr Jeff Roach OAM as Australia&#8217;s next High Commissioner to Solomon Islands<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/high-commissioner-niue-1\">Mr Paul Harrington as Australia&#8217;s next High Commissioner to Niue<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-global-health\">Mr Chris Cannan as Australia&#8217;s Ambassador for Global Health<\/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>As we work to shape a future for the better, our diplomatic corps are fundamental to strengthening relationships and building resilience in an ever less stable world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Consul-General for their important contributions to Australian diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of nine highly qualified individuals to lead Australia&#8217;s posts in Tallinn, Lima, Noumea, Alofi, Kathmandu, Buenos Aries, Honiara, Nicosia and our interests in the global health system. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioners-and-consul-general-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Consul-General&#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-36301","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\/36301","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=36301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36302,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36301\/revisions\/36302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}