{"id":38177,"date":"2026-03-30T05:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38177"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:47:41","slug":"appointment-of-consuls-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/appointment-of-consuls-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Consuls-General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I announce the appointments of three experienced career officials to lead Australia\u2019s diplomatic posts in Ho Chi Minh, Kolkata and Guangzhou.<\/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>Ms Kate Wallace as Australia\u2019s next\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-guangzhou-1\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-ho-chi-minh-city\">Consul-General in Ho Chi Minh City<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr Bernard Lynch as Australia\u2019s next\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-kolkata-0\">Consul-General in Kolkata<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms Maree Ringland as Australia\u2019s next\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/media-release\/consul-general-guangzhou-1\">Consul-General in Guangzhou<\/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 Consuls-General for their important contributions to advancing Australia\u2019s interests across their respective tenures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I announce the appointments of three experienced career officials to lead Australia\u2019s diplomatic posts in Ho Chi Minh, Kolkata and Guangzhou. 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. As we work to shape a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/appointment-of-consuls-general\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointment of Consuls-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-38177","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\/38177","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=38177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38178,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177\/revisions\/38178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}