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Encyclopedia > Governor-General of Australia. Governor-General of Australia. The Governor-General is the Representative of the Crown in the Commonwealth of Australia. He or she represents the Queen of Australia and, though not a head of state himself or herself, fulfils many of the functions possessed by heads of state. 1 Selection, Appointment and Role.
The Governor General acts as the Queen's representative in Canada and Canada's de facto head of state. (The Queen is the official head of state.).Before 1926, the Governor General acted as the representative of the British government in Canada.Until the 1950s, the Governor General was always British. Since then, the post has alternated between an English-Canadian and a French-Canadian.hen Byng turned him down, Mackenzie King resigned and the Governor General invited Conservative Arthur Meighen to form a government. Mackenzie King soon returned to power with a majority government, but the  King-Byng Affair  led to reforms of the Governor General's role in Canada and throughout the dominions.