{"id":37057,"date":"2026-01-27T04:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37057"},"modified":"2026-01-27T04:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:27:45","slug":"appointment-of-australias-ambassador-to-the-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/appointment-of-australias-ambassador-to-the-united-states-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Opposition welcomes the appointment of Greg Moriarty AO to take on the role of Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberal Party has always stood for a strong alliance with the United States and Mr Moriarty has a proven track record of advancing Australia\u2019s national interest under both Labor and Liberal governments. He has served Australia in a distinguished career spanning diplomatic appointments and key roles in Australia\u2019s defence and intelligence communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this period of global uncertainty a strong alliance with the United States of America is more important than ever. Mr Moriarty is a safe pair of hands to advance Australia\u2019s interest, build this relationship and ensure AUKUS reaches its full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Opposition welcomes the appointment of Greg Moriarty AO to take on the role of Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the United States.&nbsp; The Liberal Party has always stood for a strong alliance with the United States and Mr Moriarty has a proven track record of advancing Australia\u2019s national interest under both Labor and Liberal governments. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/appointment-of-australias-ambassador-to-the-united-states-of-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Australia\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America&#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-37057","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\/37057","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=37057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37058,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057\/revisions\/37058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}