The other Australians awarded the AC today are:
former Victorian premier Joan Kirner
former Queensland premier Peter Beattie
former foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans
medical researcher Ian Frazer
former federal frontbencher Robert Hill
biologist Stephen Hopper
Western Australian Chief Justice Wayne Martin
The ABC report I heard on this made clear it was for his services to the international community following his departure from politics.Gareth Evans ????? for being a complete waste of space at taxpayers expense his entire political life.
The ABC report I heard on this made clear it was for his services to the international community following his departure from politics.
I'd agree that those services have been extensive and useful.
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WikipediaAppointed as Attorney-General, Evans undertook a large agenda for law reform on a range of issues. He immediately ran into controversy, arranging for the Royal Australian Air Force to take surveillance photos of the Franklin Dam project in Tasmania. The Hawke government was pledged to (and ultimately did) stop the project, over the objections of the Tasmanian Liberal government, on the ground that it endangered a World Heritage listed area. The Hawke government was accused of misusing the RAAF for domestic political purposes, and Evans's use of RAAF planes led to his earning the nickname "Biggles", after Captain W. E. Johns's fictional aviation hero ¬– a self-inflicted wound, following his remark to journalists at the time ‘whatever you do, don’t call me Biggles’. This incident also led to Evans coining the expression ‘streaker’s defence’ (i.e. ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time), which has entered the Australian vocabulary
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Joan Kirner also has done a lot of charity work apparently.
After leaving politics, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009. On returning to Australia he was appointed in 2009 honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has served on a number of major international commissions and panels, including as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01) and International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10). Evans has written extensively on international relations and legal, constitutional and political affairs, and has been internationally recognised for his contributions to the theory and practice of mass atrocity and conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament.
Since 2010, he has been the Chancellor of the Australian National University.
After leaving politics, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009. On returning to Australia he was appointed in 2009 honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has served on a number of major international commissions and panels, including as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01) and International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10). Evans has written extensively on international relations and legal, constitutional and political affairs, and has been internationally recognised for his contributions to the theory and practice of mass atrocity and conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament.
Since 2010, he has been the Chancellor of the Australian National University.
I heard that she was given it for services to women but I don't know what service she has done for women. Certainly in the interviews I heard she focussed on her political career.
Like Rudd, Evans had aspirations towards becoming UN Scretary-General in the early 90s, such that a joke went around about him wishing to be S-G so much that he should be called 'Gareth Gareth Evans' after Boutros-Boutros Ghali, S-G at the time (lol)
Yes, good idea.In fact it would be better to separate (time wise) the awards for ex-pollies, entertainers etc. from those for the unsung heroes because the media tend to focus on the well known people and the quiet achievers don't get the recognition that these awards are designed to give them and we are none the wiser about their fantastic contributions to the community.
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