List of high commissioners of India to Australia

The high commissioner of India to Australia is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Australia.

History The first high commissioner of India to Australia was R. P. Paranjpye.

K. M. Cariappa was appointed the High Commissioner in 1953. He became known for his opposition to the White Australia policy.

List S. No.NamePhotoEntered officeLeft office1Raghunath P. Paranjpe194519472Daya Singh Bedi194819513M. S. Duleepsinghji195119544K. M. Cariappa195419565K.R. P. Singh195619586Parakat Achutha Menon195819617Samar Sen196119638B.K. Massand196319659D. N. Chatterjee1965196910A. M. Thomas1969197211S. Krishnamurti1972197512S. Sinha1975197713Jagdish Chand Ajmani1977198014Krishan Dayal Sharma1980198215D.S. Kamtekar1982198516Mohammad Hamid Ansari1985198917S. K. Bhutani1989199218A. M. Khaleeli1992199519G. Parthasarathy1995199920C. P. Ravindranathan1999200021R. S. Rathore2000200422R. P. Shukla2004200723Sujatha Singh2007201224Biren Nanda2012201525Navdeep Singh Suri2015201626A.M. Gondane2016201927A. Gitesh Sarma2019202128Manpreet Vohra2021202329Gopal Baglay2024202630Nagesh Singh 2026Present

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