Former Australian prime minister John Howard, who served in office from 1996 to 2007, has also been appointed a member of the Order of Merit.
The honour is a special award presented to individuals of great achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature, science and other areas like public service.
Australia's greatest PM has been honoured by HM the Queen, with other people of merit.
Well deserved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/01/david-hockney-order-of-merit
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Have spoken to a lot of fearful people over the hols, that wish he would come back. While he's been away the teenagers in Canberra have gotten hold of the national credit card, they're working on maxing it out, at a record rate.Australia's greatest PM has been honoured by HM the Queen, with other people of merit.
Well deserved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/01/david-hockney-order-of-merit
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Presumably the Queen doesn't choose who is to get that honour, so I assume that our Julia made the recommendation?
No, this is one of the very few that the Queen makes on her own.
I think it was well deserved.
(Wikipedia)From the outset, prime ministers attempted to propose candidates or lobbied to influence the monarch's decision on appointments, but the Royal Household adamantly guarded information about potential names. After 1931, when the Statute of Westminster came into being and the Dominions of the British Empire became independent states, equal in status to the UK, the Order of Merit remained an honour open to all the King's realms; thus, as with the monarch who conferred it, the order ceased to be purely British.
From its inception, the order has been open to women, Florence Nightingale being the first woman to receive the honour, in 1907. Several individuals have refused admission into the Order of Merit, such as Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, and George Bernard Shaw. To date, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, remains the youngest person ever inducted into the Order of Merit, having been admitted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1968, when he was 47 years of age
Have spoken to a lot of fearful people over the hols, that wish he would come back. While he's been away the teenagers in Canberra have gotten hold of the national credit card, they're working on maxing it out, at a record rate.
Is there an Honour for not knowing its time to step aside and for the greatest political blunder in modern Aust politics. :dunno:
Which was?
You don't know?
Why did the Coalition lose the 07 election? you really don't know.
You don't know?
Why did the Coalition lose the 07 election? you really don't know.
Surely you can express a view without being so gratuitously offensive.He deserves to be hanged.
Surely you can express a view without being so gratuitously offensive.
Greatest? Nothing but a piece of !@#$ crony who oversaw the creation of the biggest housing bubble in Australia's history, and in doing so destroyed our economy.
He deserves to be hanged.
Greatest? Nothing but a piece of !@#$ crony who oversaw the creation of the biggest housing bubble in Australia's history, and in doing so destroyed our economy.
He deserves to be hanged.
Where the hell are you living, housing hasn’t crashed and the economy is chugging along taking hits from labor.
Seriously....
+1
Did Australia crash like the USA? NO!
You do not think it is appropriate to hang someone who causes trillions of dollars of malinvestment and bankrupts millions of people, most of whom are young families?
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