Honours Lists
This is not about Natasha Stott Despoja. She seems like a perfectly reasonable person who worked hard while in politics. It doesn’t make her someone who deserves a medal.
While we are at it, the same can be said for Ralph Willis, John Anderson and Bob Debus.
We have to stop handing to medals to politicians as some kind of little extra reward for long service. Why are they getting medals for doing the job we are paying them to do anyway?
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Professor David Flint – the convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) – is on the march again and as usual he’s on his way back to yesterday.
He’s worked himself into right royal frenzy over the fact that the government New Zealand has restored titles – “sir” and “dame” – to its honours list and seems peeved that Kevin Rudd won’t follow suit.
Flint would know titles were expunged from the Australian honours system in 1986 – with the approval of the Queen.
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Andrew Lewis says:
The belief that the PM of Australia can be browbeaten by leaders of other countries to do something does not constitute the lack of entrenched legal independence from other countries. While most republicans like to talk in terms of written, interpretable (if that is a word, if not I just… Read more »
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John A Neve says:
Andrew Lewis @ 0903hrs, Good to see you are still alive Andrew. Do you really believe the GG is appointed by our PM? Most legal opinion would disgree with you, but Ah, well. In case you don’t know it the Queen/King could reject our PM’s nominations. I note you dodged… Read more »
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