| Post: | Ambassador of Australia to Venezuela |
| Insignia: | Coat of Arms of Australia.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Department: | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Reports To: | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Incumbent: | Todd Mercer |
| Residence: | Santiago, Chile |
| Nominator: | Prime Minister of Australia |
| Style: | His Excellency |
| Appointer: | Governor General of Australia |
| Formation: | 1973 |
| Inaugural: | Frederick Homer |
The Ambassador of Australia to Venezuela 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 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The ambassador resides in Santiago, Chile. The current ambassador, since February 2020, is Todd Mercer.
The Australian Government established an embassy in Caracas in 1979 and appointed its first resident ambassador, A. D. Brown. Previously, responsibility for Australian diplomatic representation in Venezuela was held in Brazil (1973–1974) and then Peru (1974–1979). The Australian Embassy in Caracas was closed in 2002.[1]
| Ordinal | Officeholder | Residency | Term start date | Term end date | Time in office | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Homer | Brasilia, Brazil | years | ||||||
| Lima, Peru | years | |||||||
| years | ||||||||
| Alan Brown | Caracas, Venezuela | years | ||||||
| years | [2] | |||||||
| Richard Starr | years | [3] | ||||||
| Anthony Dingle | years | [4] | ||||||
| Dominique De Stoop | years | |||||||
| Roger Frankel | years | [5] | ||||||
| John Woods | years | [6] | ||||||
| years | [7] [8] | |||||||
| Tim Kane | years | [9] | ||||||
| Robert Fergusson | years | [10] | ||||||
| Todd Mercer | align=center | incumbent | align=right | [11] |