The Role of the Governor-General:

"The highest office in the land. The Apex of
Australian Society."

"In Australia, all the powers and functions associated
with a "Head of State" lie with the Governor-General.
He performs all the duties which the constitution assigns
to him in that role and does so in his own right, not as
a delegate of the Queen."

( Sir David Smith, Former Official Secretary to 5 Governors-
General).

The functions of the role can be divided generally into
Executive, Community, and Ceremonial functions.

There's more at the following:

http://ourconstitution.org/governor_gen_role.php

It's a safe bet that Samantha Joy Mostyn as our nation's
new vice regal will not settle for being a stuffed-shirt
cutting ribbons and hosting open days at Yarralumba.

The GG in waiting has fashioned a highly paid career out of woke causes like reconciliation and climate change.

She refers to Australia Day as “invasion day”.

She argued for the date to be changed.

She reckons the founding of our nation was a “bloody invasion” and that “Black Lives Matter is teaching us about what it means to have privilege”.

She said this country’s land was “never ceded but … taken by the occupiers”.

She campaigned for the Voice.

She has apparently deleted all of her social media accounts so you can’t see what else she’s been saying.

A few quotes on Mostyn from various public commentators:

The Mostyn appointment is a “triumph of affirmative action over talent and accomplishment”

“As far as we can tell from her public profile, she was appointed because she is a woke woman”.

“ She has no has no track record of running an actual business” (despite being referred to as a “business woman” by all the gushing Leftist who don't know what a business is).

“Her main skills appear to be gender advocacy, networking and being a quote queen…”.

“Her CV reads like a Disney movie about Ms Woke, winning climate awards, popping up in university diversity programs, deputy chair of Diversity Australia, presiding over the CEW, chairing the Women’s Equality Taskforce and sitting on multiple corporate boards and commissions…”.

“An insult to mainstream Australians and confirms he (Albanese) cares more about the activists and elites than the people working hard to make this nation great…”.

“The Prime Minister’s recent appointment of a political activist as the new Governor-General surely makes one deeply sceptical as to the current political system’s ability to promote accountability.”

I watched an interview with Samantha Mostyn last night
on the "One On One," TV program.

A very impressive executive who's been appointed as
Australia's 28th Governor-General. This position is
the latest for her in a long line of public service roles.
From prolific company director, to policy adviser, to AFL
commissioner, this South Australian has worked tirelessly
across most areas of Australia's economic and social life.

She's been one of Australia's most influential company
directors for many years shaping policies.

There's more at the "Chief Executive Women" website:

http://cew.org.au/about-us/former-cew-presidents/sammostyn/

Terry Barnes (“The concerning appointment of Australia's new governor-general”) sees the appointment of Mostyn as just another one of Albanese’s “assaults on the standing of the monarchy in Australia”.

Thankfully I didn't hear Mostyn's address at the announcement, but Barnes reports it as “more like a presidential candidate launching her campaign than someone who, in the Westminster constitutional tradition, is required to be impartial and apolitical.”

Her record of advocacy for Leftist fads is the “most troubling” aspect of the appointment. And, she said, her time in the position of GG would be shaped by her values. And she can't wash off her association with the maniac, Paul Keating.

Big trouble ahead, unless she is brought to heel; but who's going to do that in the ultra-Left, republic-loving government we are saddled with because voters didn't use the preference system intelligently.

Given the slide in support for Albanese, and the possibility of minority government after the next election, Barnes expresses concern about who the new GG would take advice from if the Liberals turn out to be the largest party.

With a possible of a rickety minority government next year, and all the problems that will prevail, Terry Barnes muses on the possibility that Albanese has appointed a GG with a Leftist outlook to the Crown “at a time when the governor-general may become crucial to who forms the next government”.

I wonder though, if everyone has forgotten the Laborite, John Kerr, who's personal leanings didn't stop him from giving Whitlam the chop.