Michael West Media · AAP · Monday 8 June 2026
An ex-premier recognised for years of work reducing family violence and a centenarian are among the Australians named in this year's King's Birthday Honours.
The work's the real thing — a century behind one of them, a lifetime spent dragging family violence out of the dark. And we mark it how? A medal named for a King whose birthday we hold in June because the real one doesn't suit the long weekend. Genuine service, foreign trimmings, and a country still tugging the forelock for a gong from a palace.