Bill Cutts

{{Short description|Australian diplomat}}

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| birth_name = Trevett Wakeham Cutts

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|05|28|df=y}}

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| death_date = October 2003

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| occupation = Public servant, diplomat

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| alma_mater = {{nowrap begin}}University of Melbourne (LLB){{nowrap end}}

| spouse = Maidie

| nationality = Australian

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Trevett Wakeham "Bill" Cutts (28 May 1914{{snd}}October 2003) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.{{cite book|title=Life and Travels of a Non-Famous Person: Adventures of a Baby Boomer|first=John|last=Brinkley|date=2014|isbn=9781925029673|publisher=Australian eBook Publisher}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103125855 |title=Diplomats arrive in Moscow|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|date=23 July 1959|page=2}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137121254|title=Consul-General Appointment|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|page=1|date=13 August 1960}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131777400|title=New Ambassador To Philippines Named|page=5|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|date=29 August 1962}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105876174|title=Diplomats appointed|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|page=8|date=3 December 1965}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107053907|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|page=3|date=25 May 1968|title=Envoy to S. Africa named}}{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101998915|title=Appointment|date=12 August 1972|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|page=3}}

Educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, Cutts joined the Department of External Affairs in 1946, after serving during World War II in the navy.{{cite press release|url=http://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/original/00001204.pdf|title=Diplomatic appointments to the Netherlands and Pakistan|date=2 December 1965|author=Department of External Affairs|publisher=Australian Government}}

Cutts was Australian Ambassador to the Philippines from 1963 to 1966. During his time at the post, the two countries signed a free trade agreement granting each most-favoured-nation rights to the other.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131828567|title=Trade pact with the Philippines|date=17 June 1965|page=12|newspaper=The Canberra Times}}