TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox,Karen
ED  - Australian National University Press,
TI  - Honouring a nation: a history of Australia's honours system 
SN  - 9781760465018
AV  - CR4332 .F69 2022
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Canberra, ACT, Australia
PB  - Australian National University Press
KW  - Awards
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Medals
KW  - Decorations of honor
KW  - Titles of honor and nobility
KW  - Décorations (Insignes)
KW  - Australie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Titres honorifiques et nobiliaires
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282); 1. Spirit of democracy, 1788-1900 -- 2. Nation and state, 1901-1914 -- 3. New empire order, 1914-1918 -- 4. Repugnant to the people? 1919-1939 -- 5. In war and peace, 1939-1967 -- 6. It's time, 1967-1975 -- 7. A system divided, 1975-1990 -- 8. Barbeque stopper, 1990-2015
N2  - The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system's transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution. From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century, through to Tony Abbott's revival of knighthoods in the twenty-first, this book explains how the system has worked, traces the arguments of its supporters and critics, and looks both at those who received awards and those who declined them. Honouring a Nation brings to life a long history of debate over honours, including wrangles over State rights, gender imbalances in honours lists, and the emergence and hardening of the Labor/Liberal divide over British awards, illuminating issues that are still part of Australian life--and of the honours system--today. The history of the honours system is equally the history of the nation, revealing who Australians were, what they have become, what they value, and the things that have unified and divided them
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv28x2bb1
ER  -