Ambassador Sarah Louise Roberts

Ms. Roberts is a senior career official with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), where her most recent position was Director General for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation. Her previous overseas assignments include: Counsellor (Political/Economic) at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok (2011–2016); Acting Ambassador to Fiji (following a 12-month tenure as Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Suva, 2008–2010); Third Secretary, and subsequently Second Secretary, at the Australian Embassy in Brasilia (1998–2001); and Acting Consul General in Mumbai (September 2020–January 2021). In Canberra, she served as Deputy Director of the National Security College (on secondment, January–September 2021); Director of Strategic Analysis and Pacific Communications within the Office of the Pacific at DFAT (March–September 2020); Director of Human Rights and Treaties at DFAT (2018–2020); Director of the UN Human Rights Council Campaign Unit at DFAT (2016–2018); and Director of the Policy Task Force for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth (2010–2011). Ms. Roberts holds a Master’s degree in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University (2000), as well as a Bachelor of Laws (cum laude, 1995) and a Bachelor of Jurisprudence (1993) from the University of Adelaide. Ms. Roberts speaks Spanish.

 

 

 

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Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Villanueva 1400, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Phone: (+54 11) 4779 3500 Public service hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

 

Honorary Consulate in Paraguay	Honorary Consulate in Uruguay
Honorary Consul: Sr. Yan Speranza Address: Av. Blessed Sacrament (4th floor - Moses Bertoni Foundation), Corner Rock Centurion (Ether Building), Asuncion Phone +595985191000 (Hours of 8:00 to 17:00 hrs) Email: [email protected]	Honorary Consul: Dr. Alfredo Taullard Address: 25 de Mayo 455, 2nd Floor Montevideo, Uruguay Phone +598 98451451 Email: [email protected]

 

PUBIC HOLIDAYS In 2026, the Embassy will be closed on the following dates:

Thursday, January 1 – New Year’s Day Monday

February 16 – Carnival Tuesday

February 17 – Carnival Tuesday

March 24 – National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice Thursday

April 2 – Day of the Veterans and the Fallen of the Malvinas War

Friday, April 3 – Good Friday Friday

May 1 – Labor Day Monday

May 25 – May Revolution Day Monday

June 15 – Commemoration of the Passing into Immortality of General Don Martín Miguel de Güemes

July 9 – Independence Day Monday

August 17 – Commemoration of the Passing into Immortality of General Don José de San Martín Monday

October 12 – Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity Friday

November 23 – National Sovereignty Day

December 8 – Feast of the Immaculate Conception Friday

December 25 – Christmas Day