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	Hollingworth Says G-g Was Wrong Job for Him By Selma Milovanovic The Age October 4, 2007 http://www.theage.com.au/national/hollingworth-says-gg-was-wrong-job-for-him-20081003-4tkd.html FIVE years after he resigned over a child sexual abuse scandal, former governor-general Peter Hollingworth says he should never have accepted the vice-regal job. In a rare interview since his controversial departure in May 2003, Dr Hollingworth told The Big Issue he had underestimated concerns about the separation between church and state. Asked whether he would have been better off declining the job offer, he said: "With the benefit of hindsight, yes." Dr Hollingworth said he had asked then prime minister John Howard why he was an appropriate choice. "He (Mr Howard) went through a whole lot of things … and I was thinking, 'I can do this job. I do know Australia, I do know the Australian people, I know about government, I know about the constitution and can make reasonable speeches," he said. But he said he had underestimated concerns about the separation between church and state. "I never saw that as an issue," he said. Dr Hollingworth resigned in 2003 after an Anglican Church inquiry found he had allowed a known pedophile to continue as a priest when he was the archbishop of Brisbane and that he acted unfairly in dealing with complaints of sexual abuse.
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