The Latest Breaking News from Peter Hollingworth

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…

The US says it is ‘ready to vote’ on a UN security resolution aimed at increasing aid into Gaza

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth says he has given up his permission to officiate as an Anglican priest, after a church investigation last month found he committed misconduct by knowingly allowing paedophiles to remain in the church.

The former governor general was last month reprimanded over his failure to remove paedophiles from the church’s ranks while Brisbane archbishop

Archbishop Geoffrey Smith says former governor general should ‘step back and resign his orders’ despite not being defrocked by church

Beth Heinrich has become the public face of a battle to see the Anglican church admit its failings in its handling of historical child sexual abuse claims, holding onto a battered, brown suitcase of "love letters", photographs and trinkets.

Coverage a scaled back affair after criticism of reverential tone for Queen’s funeral. Plus: Bell Shakespeare complains about ‘cruel and unfair’ review

Church named survivor Beth Heinrich as ‘Beth Shearman’, wrongly giving her the surname of her abuser, Donald Shearman

A second Anglican Church investigation probing former governor-general Peter Hollingworth's handling of child abuse during his tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane in the 1990s, has been held in secret.