Do your job

The Australian honours system consists of a number of orders, decorations, and medals through which the country’s sovereign, the Queen of England, awards its citizens and the odd non-citizen, for actions or deeds that benefit the nation (Australia that is).

So when the vaguely insane PM of Australia suggests to the partially senile Queen of England (and she agrees) that she awards her mostly disliked husband, the Greek-English Prince, a knighthood for largely undefinable services to Australia, and said award is announced on Australia Day to the confusion of just about all Australians (most of whom are partially inebriated anyway), some Australians think there is a problem.

I don’t think that the problem is the Australian-England thing, although that might represent a problem of its own.

No, the real problem is that we give awards to people that (a) want them, and (b) who also get them for just doing their jobs.

PS here’s me not doing my job but getting some rewards anyway 🙂