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Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system / Karen Fox.

Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system / Karen Fox.
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ISBN 9781760465001
Author Fox, Karen (author)
Title Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system / Karen Fox.
Portion of title History of Australia's honours system
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2022]
©2022.
Description xiv, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282)
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subjects Awards -- Australia
Medals -- Australia -- History
Decorations of honor -- Australia
Titles of honour and nobility
Other Corporate Bodies Australian National University Press
Call number 2022.168
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