{"id":37300,"date":"2026-02-08T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37300"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:36:43","slug":"appointment-of-high-commissioner-and-ambassadors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/appointment-of-high-commissioner-and-ambassadors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of High Commissioner and Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of four experienced career officials to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Singapore, Ukraine, Lebanon and Israel.<\/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-singapore-0\">Ms Robyn Mudie as Australia\u2019s next High Commissioner to Singapore<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-ukraine-0\">Mr Geoff Bowan as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-israel-0\">Mr Neil Hawkins as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to Israel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/ambassador-lebanon\">Mr Tom Wilson as Australia\u2019s next Ambassador to Lebanon<\/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\u2019s relationships with our partners will be deepened through these appointments, building our connections abroad and increasing our ability to influence where it matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank the outgoing High Commissioner and Ambassadors for their important contributions to Australian diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of four experienced career officials to lead Australia\u2019s posts in Singapore, Ukraine, Lebanon and Israel. 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\u2019s relationships with our partners will be deepened &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/appointment-of-high-commissioner-and-ambassadors-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of High Commissioner 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-37300","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\/37300","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=37300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37301,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions\/37301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}