List of Australian Ambassadors to Croatia

Ambassador of Australia to Croatia
Incumbent Elizabeth Petrovic since 2017
Style	Her Excellency
Residence	Zagreb
Nominator	Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer	Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder	Michael Wilson
Formation	13 February 1992
Website	Australian Embassy in Zagreb

The Ambassador of Australia to Croatia 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 Republic of Croatia in Zagreb. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is currently held by Elizabeth Petrovic.

Croatia and Australia have enjoyed official diplomatic relations since 1967, when Australia opened an Embassy to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (which included the Socialist Republic of Croatia) in Belgrade. However, with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Prime Minister Bob Hawke acted quickly to recognise the newly independent former Yugoslav Republics of Slovenia and Croatia. Australia became one of the first countries to recognise Croatia's independence, on 16 January 1992, and diplomatic relations were established on 13 February 1992, with the Australian Ambassador in Vienna receiving non-resident accreditation as the first Australian Ambassador to Croatia. The first Ambassador, Michael Wilson, presented his credentials to President Franjo Tudjman in March 1992. A resident embassy was not established until October 1999, when the Australian Government appointed Neil Francis as the first Ambassador resident in Zagreb.

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