List of ambassadors of Australia to Austria
The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and holds non-resident accreditation for Bosnia and Herzegovina (since November 1995), Hungary (since 2013), Kosovo (since 21 May 2008), Slovakia (since 1993), and Slovenia (since 5 February 1992) as a non-resident ambassador.From 1968 to 1974 the ambassador held accreditation for Switzerland until it was transferred to a newly opened embassy in Bern.[1] An embassy existed in Budapest, Hungary, from 1972 till its closure in July 2013.[3] From 1973 to 1978, responsibility for Czechoslovakia was held by the ambassador resident in Vienna, when it was transferred to the Embassy in Warsaw.[5][6] The ambassador also acts as Australia's permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna since its establishment on 1 January 1980, including as the representative and governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission.