Mike Fogarty
Mike Fogarty, a former naval officer, served as a diplomat in the Australian Embassy Hanoi, Vietnam in 1980-1981. In 2016 he graduated MA (Military History) from UNSW at ADFA. His views are his own and need no official endorsement. See also Richard Broinowski, Vietnam: the advantages of a flexible foreign policy, Australian Outlook, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 27 January, 2023.
Recent articles by Mike Fogarty
2 December 2023
Frederick Rawdon Dalrymple, AO
Rawdon Dalrymple was a senior diplomat and career officer in the Australian foreign service, from 1957-1994. The iterations of his departments morphed from: External Affairs, Foreign Affairs to Foreign Affairs and Trade. He had a distinguished record of high achievement and he was posted overseas to many capitals, initially including: Bonn, London, Manila and Jakarta. His other postings, as head of mission, were to; Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Washington and Tokyo. He was promoted to Deputy Secretary in 1985 and retired in 1994. An AO was awarded to him earlier.
30 November 2023
The Sheraton incident and John Ryan: ASIS Cold War Warrior
John Edmund Ryan, OBE was a former soldier, career diplomat and acting director of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). He entered Australian folklore on 30 November 1983 when an ASIS team raided Melbournes Sheraton Hotel, during a training exercise. The subsequent political controversy engulfed the federal labor government and it claimed Ryans career, with his early retirement. This is an extracted related obituary, forty years after the raid.
23 June 2023
Remembering Vietnam and Australia at 50
This is a story of five decades, from 1973 to 2023. Diplomatic relations between Australia and the then North Vietnam were established on 26 February, 1973. It has history. Early this year marked its fiftieth anniversary, otherwise mostly ignored.