Category: honours

Sunak Urged to Cap Number of Peers and End Resignation Honours

July 17, 2023
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The Speaker of the House of Lords has urged the prime minister to cap the size of the upper house and bring an end to resignation honours. Peers in 2017 recommended the Lords be capped at 600 to make it smaller than the Houe of Commons. But it has continued to balloon, with the latest…

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Australians Honoured for Kabul Evacuations in Queens Birthday List

June 12, 2022
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When Afghanistan’s capital city fell back under the control of the Taliban in 2021, Australian forces were among those called on to urgently evacuate its citizens and approve the departure of foreign nationals from the Kabul airport. Airlifts needed to be coordinated in what was now a hostile territory, and bus convoys were required to…

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Choosing Mediocrity Promotes Neither Inclusion nor Equity

June 18, 2021
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Commentary The Vancouver School Board (VSB) strives for excellence in educating students. At least that’s what its vision statement says. However, the VSB’s recent decision to cancel all of its math and science honours programs calls this commitment into question. Instead of getting advanced instruction in math and science, gifted students will have to make…

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