Clare Birgin is an Australian diplomat who was the Ambassador to Serbia from May 2007 until June 2010. She had concurrent accreditation to Montenegro, Macedonia and Romania. Birgin was also Ambassador to Hungary from 2004 until 2007.

Damir Dokić Damir Dokić (; 1958 – 16 May 2025) was a Serbian tennis coach. He was the father and first coach of former professional tennis player Jelena Dokic. He gained notoriety for being involved in various violent incidents in which he was verbally an ...

was sentenced to jail time after threatening Birgin with a

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“if she didn't stop negative articles about him from being published in Australia.”Damir Dokic has jail sentence cut
- ABC News, 24 Feb 2010 Birgin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a master's degree in international law from the

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, where she was a Visiting Fellow.

Publications

Ignore the Polish election result at your peril

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian women ambassadors Ambassadors of Australia to Serbia Ambassadors of Australia to Montenegro Ambassadors of Australia to North Macedonia Ambassadors of Australia to Hungary Ambassadors of Australia to Romania Australian National University alumni {{Australia-diplomat-stub