Former governor general and Brisbane’s Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth dies at 91

Key points

• governor general Peter Hollingworth, who resigned over his handling of child sexual abuse in the Anglican church, has died.
• Hollingworth, who devoted much of his life to fighting poverty, served as the Anglican archbishop of Brisbane for 11 years from 1990, the first Australian-born person to hold the position.
• He died on Tuesday, aged 91. Appointed governor general in 2001 by former Liberal prime minister John Howard, Hollingworth used his position to advocate for Indigenous rights and disadvantaged people.
• But Australia’s only clerical viceroy spent less than two years in the role before being forced to resign.
• In 2003, a board of inquiry into the handling of complaints of sexual abuse in the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane found that Hollingworth, as archbishop, failed to act on knowledge of abuse.