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Australian High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands

Australian High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands

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The high commissioner of Australia to the Solomon Islands is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the High Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Solomon Islands. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and is based with the High Commission on the corner of Hibiscus Avenue and Mud Alley, Honiara.

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The high commissioner since January 2023 has been Rod Hilton, whose appointment was announced in November 2022.[1] The Solomon Islands and Australia have had diplomatic relations since 1982, following the independence of Solomon Islands on 7 July 1978.

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^[note 1] : On 12 September 2006 the Australian High Commissioner was declared persona non grata by the Solomon Islands Government alleging that he was "talking too much to the opposition," and had been expressing his opposition to a government-appointed commission of inquiry into recent civil unrest.[16]

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    "Australia not to accept high commissioner's expulsion from Solomons: PM". People's Daily Online. 13 September 2006. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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