Vicki Treadell will set out a case that the UK has made progress to shake off its colonial history in speech to Press Club in Canberra
Last modified on Tue 7 Mar 2023 14.01 GMT
Treadell will talk about the UK’s “journey beyond colonialism” on Wednesday, saying she is proud that in modern Britain “the daughter of immigrants can start at the lowest level of the civil service and become the British high commissioner to Australia”.caused a stir with a speech in LondonWong said both nations should not stay “sheltered in narrower versions of our countries’ histories”, because that would make it more difficult to find common ground with Indo-Pacific partners.
“In ethnic terms I am Eurasian, the daughter of Chinese and Dutch Burgher parents who migrated to Britain with me in tow, aged eight. Ten million Britons, like me, are foreign born.” Treadell will recount her experience as a 19-year-old on the first day in an entry level role as a clerk in the Foreign Office in London. She says she “had the common experience of many migrants at that time, the inevitable ‘Yes, but where are you“My first boss on greeting me was bemused [and] he said: ‘I don’t understand how you hope to be a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service.’
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