The
next Governor-General will have to be named quite soon. Dame
Patsy Reddy (appointed 2016) is nearing the end of her
five-year term. At the best of times, being a credible local
stand-in for a head of state that’s based in London cannot
be an easy job. Yet for the next appointee, the usual
republican rumblings will be the least of it. The next G-G
will almost certainly be in office when the Elizabeth II era
finally comes to an end, and when the reign of her deeply
uncharismatic son gets under way. This transition will be a
testing time for the Old Firm. It will require its next
New Zealander gives up knighthood after guilty pleas
NICK PERRY, Associated Press
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Ron Brierley leaves the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney, Australia, April 1, 2021. The well-known New Zealand businessman who was found with hundreds of child sex abuse images gave up his knighthood Tuesday, May 4, 2021, before it was stripped from him. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)Mick Tsikas/AP
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) A well-known New Zealand businessman who was found with hundreds of child sex abuse images gave up his knighthood Tuesday before it was stripped from him.
Ron Brierley last month pleaded guilty to three charges in an Australian court, sparking a rarely invoked procedure to strip him of the honor he received more than 30 years ago.
Wellington: A well-known New Zealand businessman who was found with hundreds of child sex abuse images gave up his knighthood Tuesday before it was stripped from him.
Ron Brierley last month pleaded guilty to three charges in an Australian court, sparking a rarely invoked procedure to strip him of the honour he received more than 30 years ago.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her intention was to remove the title from Brierley if he hadn’t written first to relinquish it. Ardern said Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II had been informed, and that Brierley will no longer be able to use the honorific “Sir.”
Sir Ron Brierley: Three guilty pleas and a fall from Olympus
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He was always a private man , says Georgina Beyer, who once slept in Sir Ron Brierley s bed. Oh not when he was in it, of course, she laughs. Rather, it was a coincidence of a broken marriage and her step-father Colin Beyer flatting with Brierley in early 1970s Wellington.
It illustrates the close proximity Beyer enjoyed to watch the creation of a new royalty. Brierley, her step-father Colin and uncle Trevor Beyer, along with others in their circle, redefined wealth in New Zealand.
Those who founded Brierley Investments Limited have been called titans of business but in Greek mythology, the titans were the old gods who were overthrown. Rather, these men were the new gods who savaged New Zealand s traditional definition of wealth.
New Zealand businessman guilty of having child abuse images
by Nick Perry, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 1, 2021 12:17 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 1, 2021 at 12:28 am EDT
Ron Brierley leaves the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Brierley, one of New Zealand s most well-known businessmen, pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing child sex abuse images, including some of children as young as 2. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand One of New Zealand’s most well-known businessmen pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing child sex abuse images, including some of children as young as 2.
Ron Brierley’s pleas on three charges in an Australian court have sparked a rarely invoked procedure to strip him of the knighthood he received more than 30 years ago.