Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, who resigned over his handling of child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church, has died.
Dr Hollingworth, who devoted much of his life to fighting poverty, served as the Anglican archbishop of Brisbane for 11 years from 1990.
He died on Tuesday, aged 91.
Appointed governor-general in 2001 by former Liberal prime minister John Howard, Dr Hollingworth used his position to advocate for Indigenous rights and disadvantaged people.
But he spent less than two years in the role before being forced to resign.
In 2003, a board of inquiry into the handling of complaints of sexual abuse in the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane found that Dr Hollingworth, as archbishop, failed to act on knowledge of abuse.
