AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Anglican Archbishop John Hepworth says he has advised Peter Slipper he should stand aside as the church’s senior legal officer.
Archbishop Hepworth, the primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a breakaway conservative Anglican movement, said Mr Slipper remained an ordained priest as well the church’s chancellor, the senior legal adviser.
“I have said to Peter that I think it is not appropriate to stand aside from the speakership and not stand aside from an importance office in a church position,” he told ABC Radio.
“We are having an exchange of texts. I am meeting him later in the week in Brisbane and his wife. They both actually have flu at the moment.”
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