List of ambassadors of Australia to the United States

Ambassador of Australia to the United States

Incumbent Joe Hockey since 29 January 2016
Style	His Excellency
Nominator	Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer	Governor-General of Australia
Inaugural holder	Richard Casey
Formation	1 March 1940
Website	Embassy of Australia

The Australian Embassy on 1601 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

The Ambassador of Australia to the United States is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States of America. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is one of Australia's most important diplomatic postings.

The Ambassador is currently Joe Hockey,.^[1] The United States and Australia have enjoyed official diplomatic relations since 1 March 1940, when Australia established a Legation in Washington as one of its first independent postings. First established as a Legation headed by an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, on 19 July 1946 it was upgraded to Embassy status and the Australian Minister, Frederic Eggleston became the first Ambassador. Several distinguished Australians have served as Ambassador: one Governor-General of Australia (Lord Casey), one Chief Justice of Australia (Sir Owen Dixon), one Governor of Tasmania (Sir James Plimsoll) and former federal leaders of the opposition Andrew Peacock from the Liberal Party of Australia, Kim Beazley of the Australian Labor Party, and former federal Treasurer Joe Hockey of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Office-holders

Australian Ministers

Name	Start of term	End of term
Richard Casey	1 March 1940	June 1942
Owen Dixon	3 June 1942	October 1944
Frederic Eggleston	1 November 1944	19 July 1946

Ambassadors

Name	Start of term	End of term
Frederic Eggleston	19 July 1946	September 1946
Norman Makin	5 September 1946	1951
Percy Spender	31 May 1951	1957
Howard Beale	20 March 1958	April 1964
Keith Waller	20 April 1964	June 1970
James Plimsoll	8 June 1970	1973
Sir Patrick Shaw	21 February 1974	December 1975
Gordon Noel Upton	27 December 1975	March 1976
Nick Parkinson (1)	8 March 1976	February 1976
Alan Renouf	9 February 1977	20 May 1979
Robert B. Birch (Chargé d'Affaires)	20 May 1979	13 November 1979
Nick Parkinson (2)	13 November 1979	15 July 1982
Geoffrey J. Price (Chargé d'Affaires)	15 July 1982	16 August 1982
Sir Robert Cotton	16 August 1982	June 1985
Rawdon Dalrymple	26 June 1985	April 1989
Michael Cook	20 April 1989	August 1993
Dr Don Russell	22 August 1993	December 1995
John McCarthy	5 December 1995	February 1997
Andrew Peacock	2 February 1997	February 1999
Michael Thawley	2 February 2000	June 2005
Dennis Richardson	20 June 2005	February 2010
Kim Beazley	17 February 2010	22 January 2016
Joe Hockey	29 January 2016	present

References

↑ http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/01/29/17/01/joe-hockey-sworn-in-as-us-ambassador-by-barack-obama.

External links

Embassy of Australia United States of America

Lists of heads of diplomatic missions of Australia

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