Fed: New GG to be sworn in on Monday
Australia's new Governor-General MICHAEL JEFFERY will be sworn in on Monday as Parliamentresumes after its winter break.
Major-General JEFFERY will break with tradition and plans to make a brief three-minuteaddress after he is sworn in by High Court Chief Justice MURRAY GLEESON.
He will then take up residence at the official Governor-General's residence Yarralumla,on the shores of Canberra's lake Burley Griffin.
Major-General JEFFERY, a former Governor of Western Australia, becomes the first Australian-bornGovernor-General to have had a full time military career.
He replaces PETER HOLLINGWORTH, who resigned early due to controversy over his handlingof child sex abuse cases when he was Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
The man who filled in after Dr HOLLINGWORTH'S resignation, Tasmanian Governor Sir GUYGREEN, has left Yarralumla.
He'll remain Australia's administrator until Major-General JEFFERY is sworn in.
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KEYWORD: GG (CANBERRA)
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