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Hollingworth dies at 91 — the man Howard put in Yarralumla and the church couldn't keep out of it

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, who resigned in 2003 over his handling of child sexual abuse as Anglican archbishop of Brisbane, has died aged 91.

Hollingworth fought poverty for half a century and resigned over abuse he handled like a man filing it. The job he should never have had — governor-general — was Howard's gift to a church that needed the distraction. Two institutions failed the kids in his care. The state honoured him anyway. That's the obituary nobody writes.