Waiting 'Round the Bend: Recollections of childhood and a life in Australia?s Foreign Service and a life in Australia?s Foreign Service

Howard Debenham was raised in Queanbeyan and Canberra. Joining the still fledgling Department of External Affairs in 1961, his career in Australia’s Foreign Service took him through eleven overseas postings in nine countries – India twice, South Korea, Japan twice, Israel, Italy, Yugoslavia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the USA.