Still it's only a suggestion made by the governor
Major-General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC


On the 22nd of June 2003, the Prime Minister, the Honourable John Howard MP, announced that Her Majesty The Queen had accepted his recommendation to appoint Major-General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC as Australia's next Governor-General.

General Jeffery was sworn in as Australia's 24th Governor-General on the 11th of August 2003 in Canberra.


Biography of Major-General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC

Major General Philip Michael Jeffery was born in Wiluna, Western Australia, in 1937 and was educated at Cannington and East Victoria Park State Schools and Kent Street High School.

At age 16, General Jeffery left Perth to attend the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

After graduation in 1958, he served in a number of junior regimental appointments with 17 National Service Training Company and the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) in Perth.

He was posted to Malaya in 1962 for operational service with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment.

In 1964 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of the General Staff, after which he was seconded to the British SASR for an operational tour of duty in Borneo.

He returned to Australia as Adjutant of the SASR in Perth.

From 1966-69 he served in Papua New Guinea with 1st Battalion, The Pacific Islands Regiment and was married during this posting to Marlena Kerr, of Manly, Sydney.

This was followed by a tour of Vietnam as an infantry company commander with the 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. It was during this tour that he was awarded the Military Cross and the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

In 1972 he was selected to attend the British Army Staff College at Camberley, and was then promoted Lieutenant Colonel to command the 2nd Battalion, The Pacific Island Regiment.

In 1975, he assumed command of the SASR in Perth and was then promoted to Colonel as the first Director of the Army's Special Action Forces, for services to which he became a Member of the Order of Australia.

From 1981-83 he headed Australia's national counter-terrorist co-ordination authority in the rank of Brigadier, after which he was posted as Commander of the 1st Mechanised and Airborne Brigade in Holsworthy, Sydney.

He was selected to attend the Royal College of Defence Studies in London in 1985.

He was then promoted to Major General and from 1986 commanded the Army's 15,000-person 1st Division.

In June 1988, he became an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the Army and in 1989 he was appointed as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff - Logistics.

In January 1990 he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff, responsible for the day-to-day running of a 65,000-person Army.

In February 1991 he was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff for Materiel, which involved the development and management of some 600 Army equipment procurement and building construction projects valued at $3 billion.

On 1 November 1993, he was sworn in as the 27th Governor of Western Australia, and in June 1996 became a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to the State of Western Australia He was Governor until 2000.

General Jeffery is currently Chairman of the not-for-profit public policy think-tank, Future Directions International.


See he was one of those aussie sas guys in vietnam.
If i was John Howard. I'd be listening
He's a true Governor General.
He WAS a general
an S.A.S. one
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