Welcome to Good Weekend Talks, a weekly chance for our audience to luxuriate in a long-form story from the magazine, through a conversation between the writer and editor.
In this episode, Sydney Morning Herald senior journalist Jacqueline Maley and Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland discuss Maley and Nigel Gladstone’s cover story – “Want an Order of Australia? It helps to be rich, powerful and male” – in which they delve into the hard data behind our honours system to see who has and hasn’t won in the 45 years since its inception.
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Maley and Strickland discuss how the system skews towards the privileged, in particular wealthy white males, Governor-General David Hurley’s comments on the need for reform, and how the award process could be changed to better reflect the egalitarian spirit of our nation.
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