{"id":15444,"date":"2021-01-29T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.broadagenda.com.au\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2021-01-29T04:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:22:15","slug":"broadagenda-wraps-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/29\/broadagenda-wraps-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BroadAgenda Wraps the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
Another year. Another brouhaha over the Aussie day lamb ad<\/a> (are they becoming too political?) and the Australia Day honours list. Honestly, after last year\u2019s national convulsion over the awarding of an AM to men\u2019s rights activist Bettina Arndt, you would have thought that the committee who decides these things would have been a bit more thoughtful about a repeat performance. But no. They chose to throw another grenade into the national conversation by upgrading Margaret Court to an AC. You\u2019d have to have been living in a wombat hole in the Warrumbungles not to be cognisant of Court\u2019s anti-homophobic and anti-transgender rhetoric \u2013 which has rubbed a good number of very vocal people up the wrong way.<\/p>\n It\u2019s got a lot of people asking what the relevance of the Australia Honour Awards are. As Jacqueline Maley and Nigel Gladstone so compellingly point out<\/a>, over their 45 year history, the awards have been heavily weighted towards wealthy, male, pale and stale recipients.<\/p>\n