Who is the Governor General?
From Newspoll … a survey of 1200 people to see if the nation knows the name of its Governor General (aka, the head of state according to some monarchists).
Eighty-one per cent did not know. Five per cent named the wrong person. Fourteen per cent mentioned the word ‘Jeffery’, as in Major General Michael Jeffery.
Interestingly, these results were an improvement on a similar survey in 2003, when eighty-seven per cent did not know. Six per cent named the wrong person. And seven per cent mentioned the word ‘Jeffery’.