Sam Mostyn readily accepts she didn’t fit the bill when it came to what Australians expect of a vice-regal appointment.
She’s not a retired High Court judge or a politician, not a retired chief of the Australian Defence Force and she’s a woman. Businesswomen and gender equality campaigners, after all, don’t typically rise to the office of governor-general.
Mostyn likes to say Australia’s history has three parts: 65,000 years of Indigenous culture; the British who brought institutions such as the Westminster system, democracy and law, an independent electoral commission and peaceful transitions of power; and a vibrant multicultural society from migration and refugees.
Governor-General Sam Mostyn and husband Simeon Beckett lay a wreath to honour Australia’s war dead at Villers-Bretonneux, northern France. When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on her earlier this year to accept the position, he nominated three goals – modernity, optimism and visibility. She says they will remain the watchwords for her five-year term.
“That’s actually a pathway through a world that’s full of conflict, where we’re sort of forgetting how to debate with civility, where people are feeling left out and don’t belong,” she says.
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