But the governor-general affair has highlighted Mr Howard's flawed judgment as much as Mr Hollingworth's.
The outgoing governor-general, Adrienne Clarkson, had arrived as a child immigrant from wartime Hong Kong.
Yet on Monday the three leaders wrote to the governor-general offering to form a Liberal-NDP coalition government.
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In practice, the prime minister chooses the governor-general without consulting even his cabinet, let alone the public.
Mr Windschuttle also blasts Sir William Deane, a former High Court judge who served a term as governor-general.
Mr Harper was expected to ask the governor-general either to suspend Parliament or to call a fresh election.
There is no mechanism for dismissing a governor-general, other than the prime minister asking the queen to do so.
The change has also been endorsed by a number of celebrities, including an Olympian, a former governor-general and a supermodel.
Under the constitution, it is the governor-general's prerogative to invite a party leader to form a government, with or without an election.
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The Queen's cousin and former Viceroy and Governor-General of India was killed in a bomb blast on his boat off County Sligo.
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Yet the impasse over the governor-general has exposed the dangers of stubborn resistance to the constitutional evolution that many Australians would support.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement in the capital, Ottawa, after asking Governor-General David Johnston, Queen Elizabeth's II representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.
The commander of the Iraqi army's 5th Corps and the governor-general are expected to surrender to U.S. special operations troops in the Mosul area, U.S. military sources told CNN on Thursday.
But wait, Mr Day, the concept of Commonwealth is good it's been our title for more than a century and, as with other dominions, our de facto head of state is honourably called the governor-general.
After visiting the governor-general's residence in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters that voters had a choice between his party forming a stable majority government in uncertain times, or a what he called a "reckless" opposition coalition.
One of the biggest tests of Australian loyalty to the queen came in 1975, when the governor-general dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government in a row over the budget, a move that left a scar on the nation's consciousness.
Officials argue, somewhat disingenuously, that this is not a constitutional measure since the governor-general, who as the representative of Queen Elizabeth in Canada acts as the head of state, will still technically appoint those whom the prime minister says have been elected.
The agreement left intact the British monarch as the head of state, giving the queen's representative, known as the governor-general, the right to appoint a prime minister in the event of a hung parliament, and to dismiss one that had lost the confidence of lawmakers.
But some First Nations leaders boycotted that meeting because it did not include the Queen's representative in Canada, the governor general - they argue the nations signed treaties with the Crown, not the Canadian government.
Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.
In both Hollingsworth and Windsor, the executive branch of the government--California's governor and attorney general in the former case, the Obama administration in the latter--has declined to defend the law under challenge.
The Lieutenant-Governor, His Excellency General Sir John McColl, will also become a Commander of the Order of St John.
Then Jerry Brown, California's liberal former governor and now its crafty attorney-general, rewrote the summary of the ballot measure.
Predictably, many of the people responsible for those earlier rules, notably Eliot Spitzer, a former New York attorney-general (and disgraced governor), have expressed outrage.
Late last year he sacked Ekamol Kiriwat as SEC secretary-general and Bank of Thailand deputy governor for alleged insider trading.
One of the loudest voices against privatization belonged to Azwar Anas, a retired general, past two-time governor of West Sumatra and ex-CEO of Padang.
Names in the wind include Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, and Elena Kagan, the solicitor-general.
Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor support the personhood measure, as does the attorney-general.
Reagan was a popular actor-turned-governor who made his money as a spokesman for General Electric.
But did New York's wily attorney-general (now the state's governor) miss a trick?
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