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  Peter Hollingworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peter Hollingworth was born in Adelaide, South Australia before moving to Melbourne as a boy.
Hollingworth apparently often spent his lunch hours in the local Anglican church, and at this point the idea of becoming a priest was first suggested to him.
Hollingworth was however criticised for his lack of expression of compassion towards the victims.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peter_Hollingworth   (1596 words)

  
 Peter Hollingworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hollingworth was ordained a deacon, then the priest in charge of St Mary's, a church in North Melbourne.
Hollingworth was awarded the doctorate in recognition of his research, publication, teaching and achievement in the field of Christian social ethics, social welfare and episcopal leadership.
On 29 June Hollingworth was sworn-in as Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Hollingworth   (1964 words)

  
 Peter Hollingworth
Peter Hollingworth was born in Adelaide in 1935, the elder of two boys.
Peter Hollingworth has spent much of his life caring about people, and helping them to find meaning and values in their lives.
Peter Hollingworth was sworn in as Australia's twenty-third Governor-General on 29 June, 2001.
www.abc.net.au /btn/australians/holling.htm   (620 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Oz governor general denies rape claim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hollingworth, the Queen's representative in Australia, was forced to deny the rape allegations in a televised address hours after it emerged that he had obtained a court order suppressing details of the case.
Hollingworth has been under growing pressure to step down since a church-appointed inquiry last week criticised him for covering up child sex abuse by priests while he was the Anglican archbishop of Brisbane from 1990 to 2001.
Hollingworth did not say how the woman died but press reports said she was a 57-year-old who committed suicide in Melbourne on April 22 and was buried on Monday.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/234880.htm   (692 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Governor-general Peter Hollingworth — who is facing calls to resign for mishandling child sex abuse complaints when he was an Anglican archbishop in the 1990s — said a woman had made the rape claims in a civil case before a Victoria state court.
Hollingworth, 68, made no comment on his future as governor-general, the titular head of state in the former British colony, despite growing calls for him to step down from those who believe he has brought the office into disrepute.
Hollingworth said the plaintiff in the civil suit alleged she was raped at a youth camp he attended in late 1965 or early 1966.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030509/asp/foreign/story_1952709.asp   (562 words)

  
 hollg27   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
PETER HOLLINGWORTH: It's only since the court case and reading some portion of the proceedings, that I've had any real understanding of what happened to, well, the one girl who made her testimony to the court.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH: I watched this program initially with a sense of horror that they could be saying these things about me until I started to analyse the way the whole thing had been pieced together, I would suggest that anybody should do a content analysis of how that whole program was put together.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH: The second complaint came from a young man who was in the choir with whom he and MacCauley had a business arrangement in relation to information technology and computerisation.
www.pip.com.au /~chenderson/lawsnews/hollg27.htm   (4841 words)

  
 the governor general's dilemma - st james ethics centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Today, the challenge facing Peter Hollingworth is to balance the need to defend his personal reputation against an obligation to uphold the conventions of his office and ultimately to ensure that the dignity of the office of Governor General is not debased by public scandal.
So, even if it is true that Peter Hollingworth discharged all of his duties, as Archbishop, with the highest degree of competence and integrity, his ability to tackle his critics is constrained by the requirement that he preserve the decorum of his office.
As a priest, Peter Hollingworth would have been fully conscious of his obligation to minister to the young girl who had been abused and to her family.
www.ethics.org.au /things_to_read/articles_to_read/current_affairs/article_0002.shtm   (1004 words)

  
 Bulletin - Beyond belief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hollingworth’s statutory declaration concerned the case of “FG”, who as a boy was sexually abused over a four-year period by one John Elliot, at the time an Anglican school bursar and leader of a Church of England Boys’ Group.
Alternatively, on the mistaken presumption that Dr Hollingworth knew the identity of his visitor, he may have assumed that Dr Hollingworth was familiar with the factual basis of his case...
And Hollingworth’s reconstruction of the truth was undertaken, not at Bishopsbourne, the Anglican archbishop’s residence in Brisbane, but in the vice-regal study in Yarralumla.
bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/52F4BD734CDC64D1CA256D1D00122C81   (950 words)

  
 AUSTRALIA'S NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Currently the Archbishop of Brisbane and a former Australian of the Year, Peter Hollingworth is an Australian of great distinction, having won wide acclaim for his involvement in the secular life of the nation as well as for his religious work.
Archbishop Hollingworth was born in Adelaide in 1935.
Peter Hollingworth and his wife Ann were married in 1960.
www.pm.gov.au /news/media_releases/2001/media_release952.htm   (246 words)

  
 Gerard Henderson's SMH Column - # Month Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peter Hollingworth's background, on the other hand, was within a privately funded Christian church.
Peter Hollingworth was a non-elected delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention.
Peter Hollingworth is in difficulties today primarily due to his apparent inability to properly manage issues.
www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au /260202.htm   (1033 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- British monarchy's face in Australia steps aside over rape allegations
Peter Hollingworth, 68, already is under severe pressure to resign because of criticism over his handling of cases of sex abuse by clergy while he was Anglican archbishop of Brisbane during the 1990s.
Hollingworth is the official representative of Queen Elizabeth II in the former British colony.
Although Hollingworth's job is mostly ceremonial, his constitutional powers include the ability to dismiss the government and, in doing so, the prime minister.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030511-1136-australia-royalscandal.html   (651 words)

  
 Resources - A man for our times? - 24 April 2001
Peter has shown himself as a man who can work both the big end of town as well as the other side of the tracks.
Peter could now well be reflecting on the words of the old Hymn "God moves in mysterious ways".
Peter Hollingworth may have some useful leadership to offer in clarifying these questions of Australian identity, given his background in dealing with issues of human identity and life's purposes.
www.brisinst.org.au /resources/preston_noel_hollingworth.html   (1102 words)

  
 CNN.com - Howard stands by embattled envoy - February 20, 2002
Howard said that Hollingworth, who met Howard Thursday morning, had not offered him his resignation but said that the Governor-General was having a difficult and stressful time because of the furor.
Hollingworth's statement on Wednesday evening attempts to rebut 13 separate allegations that during 12 years as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, he covered up a series of child sexual abuse scandals involving a bishop, priests, school teachers and officials in the Anglican Church.
Hollingworth backtracked on earlier statements he had made on this particular case which had implied the teenager had been to blame for the sexual relationship occurring.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/02/20/aust.howard.holling   (760 words)

  
 The Brisbane Institute - Forums
Apparently the topic about getting rid of His Excellency Dr Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, also known as the pedofiles' best friend is not something the thinkers from Brisbane are interested in...
Peter Hollingworth has been working with the needy for so many years and yet like so many others trying to help with the 'surface symptoms' (addictions, homelessness and other emotional distresses) of neglect and abuse, Peter has not responded to the needs of those children and adult survivors.
Is it because Peter obviously identified himself as a 'carer', even worse, a powerful and managerial carer, who would not identify blind spots/needs of his own.
forums.brisinst.org.au /read.php?f=27&i=43&t=43   (930 words)

  
 Life After Pastoral Ministry: A Prominent Australian's Experience
Hollingworth has been judged by different standards because he was a priest, and so he should have been, writes Angela Shanahan.
When Peter Hollingworth was appointed Governor-General there was a bit of a flurry over giving a churchman the job.
It obviously didn't worry Peter Hollingworth, so in that respect it seems the fact that Hollingworth was a former bishop didn't affect his tenure as Governor-General at all.
jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/2054.htm   (832 words)

  
 Hollingsworth
The civil rape case against the Governor-General, Peter Hollingworth, was dismissed in the Victorian Supreme Court yesterday after lawyers for his accuser's family conceded it would be virtually impossible to prove the allegation.
Dr Hollingworth ignored her demand to stop the priest, who is now a retired bishop, from preaching, but within weeks of his resignation to become Governor-General the bishop's licence to officiate was revoked.
Dr Hollingworth did not deny claims on Channel 9's Sunday program that he appointed a priest to the church's sexual abuse committee, after hearing claims by a church member, Steve Larcon, that as a choir boy he had been abused by the priest.
gaiaguys.net /Hollingworth.htm   (1857 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Hollingworth denies rape claim
Mr Hollingworth, 68, said he did not know the woman and that the allegations were a case of mistaken identity.
Mr Hollingworth is already under intense pressure to resign from his post for mishandling a series of sex abuse cases while he was the Archbishop of Brisbane in the 1990s.
Mr Hollingworth's written statement, which he was shown reading on a video released to media, included a copy of the Australian Anglican Directory showing that he was never a member of the Bendigo diocese.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/3009609.stm   (646 words)

  
 CNN.com - Millionaires feud over parking - Oct 7, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The two principal antagonists, Beverly Hollingworth and Peter Hutchins, are used to playing for high stakes in the public eye: she as a legislator, he as a trial lawyer.
At issue is whether Hollingworth is entitled to park at the end of a narrow gravel road in front of a house the Hutchinses bought last year on Great Boar's Head Point, a spit of land that juts into the Atlantic Ocean.
Hollingworth said police advised her to install a camera to try to catch vandals who had smashed, scratched and slashed cars parked on the road.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/10/06/feuding.neighbors.ap   (695 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Australian Governor-General Peter Hollingworth is under renewed pressure to resign from his vice-regal post amid allegations he raped a woman in Victoria in the 1960s.
Hollingworth, who is already facing calls to resign for mishandling child sex abuse complaints when he was an Anglican archbishop in the 1990s, said a woman had made the rape claims in a civil case before a Victoria state court.
Hollingworth, 68, made no comment on his future as governor-general, despite growing calls for him to step down from those who believe he has brought the office into disrepute.
onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,188797-1-9,00.html   (524 words)

  
 FROM OUTCAST TO MAINSTREAM : Melbourne Indymedia
Elliot was allowed to stay on because Hollingworth argued that, as Elliot was now close to retirement, "the disruption and upset that would be caused to the whole parish as well as to him and his family would be in nobody's best interests".
Hollingworth's refusal to remove Elliot from Dalby parish in 1993 was also motivated by a desire to protect the church from adverse publicity.
Peter Hollingworth's position has become untenable and he should resign to protect the office of Governor-General, according to some legal and ethics experts.
melbourne.indymedia.org /print.php?id=47079   (3070 words)

  
 PM - What will Dr Peter Hollingworth do now?
TONI HASSAN: A spokesman for Dr Peter Hollingworth says the outgoing Governor-General has enough to think about in the short term — the chemotherapy treatment his wife is to undergo for cancer the next six weeks.
She says there's nothing to stop Dr Hollingworth's return to the church, because he has not been charged with or found guilty of any form of abuse.
Peter Hollingworth could potentially access benefits accrued through the Anglican Superannuation Agency and he will receive a substantial Commonwealth pension, calculated at 60 per cent of the salary of the Chief Justice of the High Court.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s864273.htm   (673 words)

  
 CBC News:Australian GG steps down after sex scandals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peter Hollingworth was accused of protecting a pedophile priest in the 1990s when he was the archbishop of Brisbane.
Hollingworth admitted errors of judgment in his handling of the case of one priest who is now in prison.
Hollingworth called the allegations against him "unwarranted," but said he was quitting because the public controversy "has the potential to undermine and diminish my capacity to uphold the importance, dignity and integrity of this high office."
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/05/25/hollingworth030525   (239 words)

  
 CNN.com - Pressure mounts on Queen's envoy - May. 12, 2003
Hollingworth decided on Sunday to remove himself from the largely ceremonial office until a pending court case over allegations he raped a young woman in the 1960s is completed.
Hollingworth was also found to have put the legal and financial interests of the Anglican church ahead of the welfare of the abuses victims and demonstrated an unsympathetic attitude to their plight.
How long Hollingworth will stand aside for is not known, but Howard said he was taking advice to see if the government was able to intervene to speed up proceeding in the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria, which is where the rape allegations case would be heard.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/05/11/aust.govgen.howard   (604 words)

  
 Gerard Henderson's SMH Column - # Month Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this sense, it made little difference whether Peter Hollingworth was overseas, or at home, in the aftermath of the Bali disaster.
Peter Carnley’s clumsy interventions in the secular debate suggest that he should direct his attentions to the (Christian) faith.
And Peter Hollingworth’s awkward contributions as Governor-General indicate that he should have remained a man of the (religious) cloth.
www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au /221002.htm   (1137 words)

  
 TRINITYToday Summer 2001 - 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Governor-General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, and Mrs Ann Hollingworth were guests of honour at the dinner which celebrated the academic achievements of the undergraduates.
Peter Hollingworth spent five years at Trinity (1955-59), during which he played an active role in College life, especially as a footballer and athlete.
The Governor-General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, congratulates third-year student Harriet Gee, who is studying Medicine and Music, on her outstanding academic results at the Awards dinner in September.
www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au /publications/trinitytoday/summer01/mainevent05.shtml   (430 words)

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