Margaret Twomey | |
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Australian Ambassador to Italy | |
Assumed office July 2020 | |
Preceded by | Greg French |
Personal details | |
Born | [ citation needed ] Shepparton,Victoria,Australia[ citation needed ] | 21 February 1963
Relatives | Patrick Twomey (grandfather) |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA) |
Margaret Eileen Twomey AM (born 21 February 1963) is Ambassador of Australia to Italy (since July 2020). [1] She is former High Commissioner of Australia to Fiji,from November 2014 to November 2017. [2] [3] Twomey has an honours degree in arts (Russian and French) from the University of Melbourne. Her grandfather Patrick Twomey started the PJ Twomey Hospital for Lepers in Fiji. [4] [5]
From 1916 to 1975,Tuvalu was part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony of the United Kingdom. A referendum was held in 1974 to determine whether the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands should each have their own administration. As a consequence of the referendum,the separate British colonies of Kiribati and Tuvalu were formed. Tuvalu became fully independent as a sovereign state within the Commonwealth on 1 October 1978. On 5 September 2000,Tuvalu became the 189th member of the United Nations.