Order of Australia


Crikey Says: Richard Pratt’s OA is MIA

Sorry John Howard, but Richard Pratt does not deserve the posthumous return of his Order of Australia.

Crikey Says: Crikey Says

Richard Pratt has acted commendably in handing back his various Aussie honours … and provoking that sort of generous sentiment is presumably the intention of the gesture.

Crikey Says: Crikey Says

Today Richard Pratt, Companion of the Order of Australia, was the subject of deliberations in the Federal Court this morning that ended in a $36 million fine for admitted breaches of the Trade Practices Act. Which hardly seems becoming for a man who signs himself AC.

Paddy McGuinness and ASIO’s APEC exclusion list

As Sydney prepares for the most repressive policing operation in Australia’s history, there’s a class of people who should be defending the APEC protesters — those ex-radicals from the seventies who have personal experience of ASIO harassment.