The Australian prime minister breaks with Tony Abbott era by ruling that ‘knights and dames are not appropriate in our modern honours system’Knights and dames are “not appropriate” in a modern Australian honours system and will be scrapped from the Order of Australia,the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull has announced.
Speaking in Sydney on Monday, and Turnbull said that the honours system was “a long way from being the most primary issue in Australia nowadays”.
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Source: theguardian.com