WebThe governors of the Australian states are the representatives of Australia's monarch in each of Australia's six states. ... New South Wales and Tasmania (which was known as Van Diemen's Land until 1855) were founded as penal colonies, and their governors (lieutenant-governors in Tasmania) exercised more or less absolute authority. Tasmania in ...

WebThis is a list of governors of the Bahamas.The first English settlement in the Bahamas was on Eleuthera.In 1670, the king granted the Bahamas to the lords proprietors of the Province of Carolina, but the islands were left to themselves.The local pirates proclaimed a 'Privateers' Republic' with Edward Teach (Blackbeard) as chief magistrate in 1703.In …

WebThe following is a list of the governors and governors general of Canada. Though the present-day office of the Governor General of Canada is legislatively covered under the Constitution Act, 1867 and legally constituted by the Letters Patent, 1947, the institution is, along with the institution of the Crown it represents, the oldest continuous and uniquely …

WebThe governor general of Canada (French: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently King Charles III.The King is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but he resides in his oldest and most populous realm, the United Kingdom.The King, on the advice of his …

WebThis is a list of colonial administrators in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) from the start of English presence in 1621 until Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. In addition to the Gold Coast Colony, the governor of the Gold Coast was for most of the period also responsible for the administration of the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories of …

WebThe states and territories are federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the federal government and local governments.States are self-governing polities with incomplete sovereignty (having ceded some sovereign rights to federation) and have their own …

WebTasmania (/ t æ z ˈ m eɪ n i ə /; Palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait, with the archipelago containing the southernmost point of the country.The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, …

WebThe governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales.In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the Australian states perform constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level. The governor is …

WebEarly life and education. Warner was born Catherine Ann Friend in Hobart, Tasmania, and attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the University of Tasmania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours on 15 April 1970, and with a Master of Laws by research thesis on 7 December 1978. Her master's thesis focused on …

WebThe governor-general of Australia is the head of the executive branch of the federal government, serving as the representative of the Australian monarch (currently Charles III).The position came into being with the adoption of the new national constitution on 1 January 1901, and has been held by 27 people since then. Governors-general have no …