Anne Twomey gets to grips with the nature of the PM’s new honours bestowed by only himself and the Queen of Australia in the Sydney Morning Herald. She says, “…. once honours fall within the gift of politicians, history has shown that they can become burdens on the recipients and a millstone around the neck of the donor…..It is a short step between a grace note and a disgrace.” Read more about this history below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
