Australian viceroy steps down.Australian governor-general 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. , formerly the Anglican archbishop of Brisbane, resigned May 25 amid criticism surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. a rape claim and his handling of child sex abuse cases when he was archbishop. Although a court dismissed a suit claiming he raped a woman 40 years ago, Mr. Hollingworth, 68, said the controversy was undermining confidence in the governor-general's office. He called the allegations "misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. and unwarranted." However, he had previously admitted "errors in judgment" for allowing a sex abuser to continue functioning as a priest in the 1990s when he was archbishop. "In public life in living memory, no person has paid a higher price for that error of judgment," 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. told the Australian parliament. |
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