Dennis Walter Argall (7 July 1943 – 13 June 2023) was an Australian diplomat and senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
He was a career diplomat, a former Ambassador to China, and he wrote the first speech in the Australian Parliament that talked about human rights.
He attended Newington College (1955–1959)[3] on a scholarship[4] and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in anthropology at the University of Sydney.
In pursuit of rehabilitation he for a time secured organic registration of a very small fruit farm near Bodalla New South Wales with the National Association for Sustainable Agriculture Australia (NASAA) and a permaculture designer's certificate, to personal and but not financial advantage.
[8] These include writing on the 1980 Cabinet decision that gave direction to Australia's modern relationship with China and the complex of issues at the end of 1975, during turbulent last days of the Whitlam Government concerning the 'Korean Question' at the United Nations and the sudden departure of all of the staff of the embassy of the DPRK from Canberra.