23 November 2020
大家下午好，谢谢您们今天来参加这次开馆招待会。My team and I welcome everybody here today. Thank you all for coming and for supporting our consulate as we have established it over the past year and a half. We still have some way to go, partly due to the impact of this year’s epidemic on movement between countries.
Most of you know Deputy Consul-General Eu-Niz Chan, Consul Luke Coates and our Austrade team Fiona Yu and Ellie Han. We were pleased to welcome the DFAT Secretary to unveil a foundation plaque here in April last year and today we welcome Ambassador Fletcher to open the Consulate, although we won’t be providing the full suite of normal consular services until next year.
我很荣幸担任首任澳大利亚驻沈阳总领事。我、副总领事陈女士、白领事三位，自去年三月建馆以来到最近，一直在原来的澳大利亚贸易投资委员会办公室临时办公，辛苦澳贸委的两位同事，于女士和韩女士，和我们三位一起挤在一间小小的办公室里。
现在我们很高兴可以搬到装修一新的总领馆。不过很遗憾我们还要等到明年才能提供全面的领事服务。去年四月我很荣幸接待澳大利亚外交和贸易部常务副部长来这里为总领事馆奠基牌揭幕，当时这个位置很空白，跟我中文名字一样，一穷二白。
同样的，我今天很荣幸接待澳大利亚驻华大使傅关汉阁下为我们开馆。我来东北之前在澳洲工作了三年多，那时大使是我的老板；来这里以后他还是我老板！
自上世纪八十年代以来，傅大使就曾在澳驻华使馆工作过三次，这是第四次；在澳洲他算是最了解澳中关系的政府官员之一。I’ll now hand over to Mr Graham Fletcher。