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M/ 31 9 February 1973
APPOINTMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER TO FIJI,
TONGA AND WESTERN SAMOA
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam, announced
today the appointment of Mr H. W. Bullock as Australian High
Commissioner to Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. Mr Bullock
will succeed Mr R. F. Osborn who will return to take up a senior
position in the Department in Canberra.
Mr Bullock was born in 1916 and joined the Department
of Foreign Affairs in 1945. Since 1970 Mr Bullock has been
Australian Ambassador to Argentina and has also been dually
Saccredited to Peru and Uruguay. He has served previously in
Washington, on the Australian Delegation to UNKURK in Korea,
Manila, Tel Aviv ( where he was Charge d'Affaires), Karachi,
The Hague and Buenos Aires ( where on his first posting to
Argentina he was Charge d'Affaires). From 1966 to 1970
Mr Bullock was High Commissioner to Tanzania. Mr Bullock
is married.
Whitlam, Gough
Period of Service: 05/12/1972 - 11/11/1975
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