AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times

November 9, 2015

John Thistleton
Reporter for The Canberra Times.

A long-time religion writer does not have far to look for enough sex scandals to fill a book.
Retired Canberra Times journalist Graham Downie was not after scandal in his latest book, Servants and Leaders – Eminent Christians in their Own Words, but could hardly miss the extraordinary public utterances of people like Cardinal George Pell and former governor-general and previously Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Peter Hollingworth.

Hollingworth’s fall from grace began while commenting on ABC television on an affair between a priest and woman that began when she was about 14 at an Anglican hostel in Forbes. As more scandal emerged, his position as the Governor-General became more untenable.

“What I wrote for the Canberra Times, and have put it in the book, when Hollingworth went to Brisbane there was a time-bombing…