Archbishop (Peter Hollingworth) named Governor General (of Australia).Brisbane Australian prime minister John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. in April appointed Anglican Archbishop Peter Hollingworth The Rt Revd. Dr. Peter John Hollingworth AC OBE (born 10 April 1935), is anAustralian Anglican bishop and was the 23rd Governor-General of Australia. On 28 May 2003, he resigned as Governor-General as a result of criticism of his actions in an Anglican Church report. of Brisbane to the post of Governor General of Australia. The appointment was criticized as a blurring of the line between church and state. Addressing this issue, Archbishop Hollingworth, 66, said he does not plan to practice ministry in a public way during his five-year term. He will take office on June 29. Archbishop Hollingworth served for 25 years with the Melbourne-based welfare agency, the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, becoming its head in the 1980s. He became Archbishop of Brisbane in 1990 and was named Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960. From nominations received, Australia Day Committees in each state and territory select several finalists and recipients for their respective state and territory Australian of the Year Awards. in 1992. However, he seems to have become quieter on social-welfare issues in recent years, wrote columnist Peter Charlton in the Courier-Mail, who also said Archbishop Hollingworth possesses "a facile (language) Facile - A concurrent extension of ML from ECRC. http://ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html. ["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog 18(2):121-160, Apr 1989]. style with which he can tailor his message to his audience." |
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