Australia Day Awards

BY and large I have no argument with Australia Day honours but these two did attract my atenttion. Public Service Medal (PSM)

Martin Gerard BOWLES, Yarralumla ACT. For outstanding public service in delivering highly successful energy efficiency policies and remediation programs for the Home Insulation and Green Loans programs.

One wonders if he would have been made a saint had the programs actually been successful. Order of Australia – Officer (AO)

Professor Stuart Forbes MACINTYRE, Brunswick West Vic For distinguished service to the social sciences and to the humanities as a leading academic in the areas of 19th and 20th century Australian history, particularly through advancing the understanding of social and political life, and as an author, researcher and mentor.

All from a Communist perspective.