AUSTRALIA
The Australian
AAP
November 21, 2012
ARCHBISHOP George Pell will be given the power to appoint fellows to the governing council of Sydney University’s beleaguered St John’s College, after a mass resignation in the wake of a scandal over student behaviour.
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell on Wednesday introduced an amendment bill to the 1857 laws that set up the Catholic residential college, saying the resignation of all but one of 18 governing fellows had left it in “limbo”.
Disgusted by loutish behaviour at the college, and having lost confidence in the governing council, Cardinal Pell earlier this month asked the council’s six priest fellows to resign.
The new bill will render all positions on the council vacant and give Cardinal Pell the power to appoint all 18 fellows for up to three years.
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