The Prime Minister says that the next Governor-General should not be a serving or former politician. So who should it be?

I have two nominations:

Justice Michael Kirby
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/kirbyj.htm

Lowitja O'Donoghue
http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/odonoghue/index.html

I second your motion of Justice Michael Kirby and Lowitja O'Donoghue.
Both excellent choices. And I would like to add one of my own:

Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC.
Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster...
Born Sept. 30th 1946 in Sydney, NSW. He holds dual Australian and British Citizenship. Rhodes Scholar. It would be very fitting to have him as our last Governor-General.

Sir Les Paterson gets my vote.

He represents all that Australians purport to be.

Sophisticated, learned and cultured.

Check out Sir Les here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhfXIa1mkg

I've got two more suggestions.

1) Professor Michael James "Mick" Dodson AM
He was Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1993 - 1998).
He's a Renaissance man, one of a group of sophisticated
Aboriginal activists who understand more about white
society than it understands itself.

2) Professor Hugh R. Taylor AC
Managing Director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia.
He has been the Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of the
Department at the University of Melbourne since 1990.
Working in research for the cure of blindness. Has written
many books and won many awards.

Bindi Irwin.

sorry, you twits haven't been paying attention, have you?

the pm "nominates" the gg. the gg is supposed to be master of the nation (read the constitution, why don't you) but since kerr's big day out (he did read it), the gg has had a bomb taped to his spine, preventing any further 'accidents'.

seriously, people, don't you realize your role in the oz polity is to turn grass into fleece and mutton? these childish day-dreams of political relevance just stir up feelings unsuited to your station.

straighten yourselves out by repeating: "four legs good, two legs bad!" whenever inappropriate thoughts intrude.