One was briefly made famous by Rita Ora. Another is married to Margaret Court. A third inadvertently became tangled up in the affairs of the New South Wales state MP Daryl Maguire, who was later found to be corrupt.
What links them and about 260 other Australians is that they are honorary consuls – a network of volunteer diplomats representing nations from Albania to Uruguay, some as large as the UK and others as tiny as San Marino.
