Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka "For so far I am aware of the Constitution provides that the Governor-General appoints and decommission Ministers, not John Howard!
Seems to me Howard is too busy in being a dictator to care about the life’s of Australians "

And as far as the GG is concerned, just like the Queen (that is after all who he represents), he acts upon the advise of his prime minister – So just as HRH QE II acts on the advise of Tony Blair – GG acts upon the advise of JH.

Suggesting John Howard is a dictator sounds like the piffling stuff of the ineffectual in whining envy of the effective.

As for the rest of this thread – you risk the death penalty by dealing drugs – so live or die with the risk – don’t come whining back here when you are caught trading in other peoples death and misery.
Corby deserves whatever she gets – darn she has fallen off the front pages recently – ignominy awaits
The Bali 9 deserve whatever they get.
Michelle Leslie will deserve whatever she gets – although I reckon she will be dealt with “lightly” because she was not in possession of a commercial quantity

The Governor-General has two different positions, one is to act as Governor-General and the other is to act as Governor-General in council.

When in council it is with the advise of the relevant Minister, but the Governor-General is not bound to follow the advise of the Minister.

With all his faults of former Governor-General Hollingworth, it appears to me that he refused to publish a proclamation of DECLARATION OF WAR, and John Howard may then simply have taken it upon himself (in breach of Section 24AA of the Crimes Act (Cth) to authorize the murderous invasion, without any constitutional standing to do so.

If we tolerate this kind of abuse of law, then we are selling out our rights, freedoms and security!

Only the Minister of Defense was in any position to advise the Governor-General is a DECLARATION OF WAR ought to have been issued against the sovereign nation Iraq, and the Governor-General then was to make a non political decision as to accept this advise or on consideration what is best for the “general public” to reject the advise and to refuse to publish in the Gazette a DECLARATION OF WAR.

You cannot have to argue that people caught for drug smuggling must face the consequences while at the same time you do not apply the lawbreaking conduct of politicians such as a murderous invasion upon another sovereign nation.
The moment we allow anyone to take the law into their own hands, we loose what democracy stands for.

The Queen may have accepted from Tony Blair to authorize British troops to war, but obviously the then Governor-General Hollingworth did not accept this was appropriate for the Commonwealth of Australia and did not publish a DECLARATION OF WAR for this