page_title: List of ambassadors of Australia to China
section_title: Office-holders
hierarchical_section_title: List of ambassadors of Australia to China / Office-holders
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of Australia legation
context_page_description: The Australian Ambassador to China is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the People's Republic of China. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and has lived in Beijing since 1973.
  The incumbent ambassador is Graham Fletcher who took up the appointment in August 2019.
caption: Building of the former Australian Legation in Chongqing, 1941–1946.
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