27th February, 2004

DAVID ADAMS

Australia’s Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, has told a meeting of business figures this week that Jesus Christ was the “greatest personification of true leadership the world has ever seen or ever will see”.

With Jesus already capturing headlines across the country thanks to his depiction in the Mel Gibson film, The Passion of the Christ, Major-General Jeffery told a gathering of business in Perth that Jesus continued to inspire people across the world.

“By demonstrating supreme moral and physical courage, he embodied a universal wisdom and creed that has transcended time, place, culture and language, such that his example continues to inspire many, many hundreds of millions of people, indeed billions, around the world today,” he was reported as saying.