List of ambassadors of Australia to Sweden
The Stockholm post would ensure far more effective contact with those countries on trade developments in Europe, which were of vital importance to Australia.[4] On 28 March 1961, the acting Minister for External Affairs, Sir Garfield Barwick, announced that an Australian legation would be established in Sweden, absorbing the existing trade commissioner's office, with Carney assuming office as chargé d'affaires ad interim from 15 June 1961.[15] On 27 August 1991, Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced Australia's decision to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Estonia, with the Ambassador to Sweden, Robert Merrillees, receiving non-resident accreditation as Australia's first Ambassador to Estonia from 21 November 1991.[16][17] Responsibility for relations with Estonia was held until 2018, when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop established a new Embassy in Estonia, which would function on a "pop-up" basis, with the ambassador resident in Tallinn for two months of the year and the embassy having a virtual presence based in Stockholm for the remainder of the year.[18][19] When the new government of Prime Minister John Howard cut the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1996–97, forcing the closure of the Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 1997, accreditation for Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, and Lithuania, was transferred to the embassy in Sweden.
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