, acknowledging it had been historically biased against women and had not included enough Indigenous Australians.Credit:The comments came amid a furore over leaked news that former tennis champion Margaret Court will be upgraded from an AO to an AC on Australia Day.
“It’s a system that recognises Australians from right across the full spectrum of achievement in this country.” Mr Zimmerman, the member for North Sydney, welcomed the Governor-General’s call for the Australia Day awards to better reflect the broader community. Mr Bowen, Labor’s health spokesman, said the Order of Australia should not be dominated by one particular profession, group of suburbs, gender or ethnicity but rather, reflect Australia in 2021.
jamesmassola Weak bastards !
jamesmassola Is this a good thing? Curious.
MrTVAus jamesmassola To me it would be embarrassing to be awarded this anyway.
jamesmassola Just devise morality ethics barometer. Forget about any achievement, just measure goodness. However a little bit of thought it will tell you that people see goodness in different ways – no consensus.
jamesmassola Awards could reflect those doing great work without being paid. With assistance from taxpayer or corporations staff Awards for doing your JOB is that Pay & superannuation
jamesmassola FO. Come on men, stop achieving so the others can catch up. Olympics quit being biased against couch potatoes. It simply not fair if you guys keep winning everything.
jamesmassola these MPs after some
jamesmassola lets just scrap it altogether
jamesmassola Whitlam scheme has been debased. Time to restructure ,remove any political input.
jamesmassola Good because MargaretCourt doesn’t deserve anything!
jamesmassola It sure is broken at the moment. Devalued and irrelevant.
jamesmassola So all those opposed to her aren't stopped from behaving the same as her!
jamesmassola For a start, no politician no highly paid sportsman/woman should get one.
jamesmassola Is this the new communist state? Change the rules to suit yourself? scum AustraliaDay
jamesmassola You could try asking the Australian people. They may have a different take on this.
jamesmassola Christian beliefs are protected by the constitution of this country. Fark off.
jamesmassola I was taught Satan was a man......not now tho, Satan has 2 faces, 2 bigoted opinions, 2 genders.
jamesmassola From 2022, no one with a twitter account, or a white hood, shall be eligible.
jamesmassola The gay lobby not happy 🤪
jamesmassola Honour our normal people give the awards back to the Australian public or they mean nothing
jamesmassola Mostly the gay lobby 🤪
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