* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

In 2001, Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE – then the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane – was controversially appointed Governor-General of Australia.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

* 1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia ( b. 1860 )

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal / national level of the Australian monarch ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ).

" The Constitution grants the Governor-General a wide range of powers, but in practice he or she follows the conventions of the Westminster system and ( with rare exceptions ) acts only on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia or other ministers.

A temporary vacancy occurs when the Governor-General is overseas on official business representing Australia.

Flag of the Governor-General of Australia, since 1936

Sir John Robert Kerr was at the time Governor-General of Australia.

In Australia, however, the powers are explicitly given to the Governor-General in the Constitution ; it is their use that is the subject of convention.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

The office of Governor-General was previously used during colonial times in Australia.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

The office of Governor-General for the Commonwealth of Australia was conceived during the debates and conventions leading up to federation.

In 1931, the transformation was concluded with the appointment of the first Australian Governor-General, Isaacs, and the first British Representative in Australia, Ernest Crutchley.

Historically the Governor-General has also served as Chief Scout of Australia.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level.

Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister after dismissing Gough Whitlam.

* 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.

* 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.

The Australian Government maintains authority on the island through an Administrator ( currently Owen Walsh ) who is appointed by the Governor-General of Australia.

The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and head of government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia.

Above all read in Jens Bjerre's The Last Cannibal Show the old man of the Wailbri tribe ( not cannibals ) in central Australia gave to the white man his choicest possession, while the tears streamed down his face.

Children's librarians hold a special event known as National Simultaneous Storytime, where public and school libraries read the same book, at EST, to children around Australia.

* (" read the bloody manual ") ( In some countries, e. g., the UK and Australia, this is a fractionally more polite alternative with identical meaning )

As might have been expected from a man brought up by cultivated German-Jewish parents who had arrived in Australia barely two years before John's birth, Monash spoke, read and wrote splendid German.

In those countries that share with Britain the same person as their respective sovereign, the Speech From the Throne will generally be read on the monarch's behalf by his or her viceroy, the governor-general, though the monarch can give the address in person: Queen Elizabeth II read the Throne Speech in the Parliament of New Zealand in 1954, the Parliament of Australia in 1954 and 1974, and the Parliament of Canada in 1957 and 1977.

It was read by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and led to the choice of South Australia for the new settlement then in contemplation.

Prodrive specifically developed the engine in Australia to FPV's own standards ( read below ).

Gleeson was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1963, where he read with Laurence Street and Anthony Mason-his future predecessors as Chief Justice of New South Wales and Chief Justice of Australia respectively.

His work has been published in more than 90 anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

To read about the background to these events, see History of Australia.

In Australia this editorial was read by Michael Dennis Rohan who decided to act upon this same information and cause the destruction of the Al Aqsa mosque which he believed was preventing the Temple from being rebuilt.

in 1884 ; and visited England in 1885, when, with the " view of extending a knowledge of the resources of what was at that time a little known colony, he read a paper on " Western Australia " before the Colonial Institute, H. R. H.

The MS Readathon is an annual sponsored read held by the MS Societies in Australia, Ireland, the United States and Canada.

AQIS ultimately sets the rules concerning the imports, not Biosecurity Australia ( read the Quarantine Act 1908 ).

In 2001, during an otherwise non-sequiter meeting, Doug Mitchell impulsively presented Warner Bros., studio president Alan Horn with an early rough draft of the film's screenplay, and asked them to read it while he and Miller flew back to Australia.

But that is because in 1920 the Constitution was read in a new light, a light reflected from events that had, over twenty years, led to a growing realization that Australians were now one people and Australia one country and that national laws might meet national needs.

Meanwhile the successful English classical music composer and conductor Sir Eugene Goossens ( 1893 – 1962 ), who was then in Australia and who had an interest in the occult, read a copy of The Art of Rosaleen Norton and decided to write to the artist herself.

In Australia and in the United States, the courts have consistently stated that the text of the statute is used first, and it is read as it is written, using the ordinary meaning of the words of the statute.

Finnigan returned to Australia after the war, but opted to settle in England, working his passage back home as a seaman in 1927, the ship was called the Sir William Mitchel and was the last sailing to sail from Australia to England, Alfred was one of the only crew who were working their passage who could read and therefore wrote the ships log, this log can be found in the Greenwich maritme museum in London.

She has read her poetry in Liege, Belgium ; Cambridge, England ; Sydney, Australia ; Berlin, Germany ; São Paulo, Brazil ; Glasgow, Scotland ; Yunnan Province, China ; and St. Petersburg, Russia, and Prague, Czech Republic.

Flintoff was smashed to all corners, and his figures read for 84 runs in nineteen overs, but England fought back late in the day-in the frantic last ten overs, started by an inside-edge from Clarke off Hoggard, Australia lost four wickets for 24 runs.

In listing her books for adults and senior students to read, Shapiro wrote that Masters " has been called one of the best writers of fiction in Australia.