Editor David Moase in The Daily Examiner, 27 March 2013, Page 11:
If there was one headline I didn't expect to see this week, it was the news Australia will soon have knights and dames in our Order of Australia honours.
It is a staggering decision by the Prime Minister - not a jump to the left or a step to the right but he's definitely doing the time warp.
Was there something particularly wrong with the Order of Australia that needed this extra level of honours using titles we ditched 20 years ago?
Are governors-general or other members of society really in need of an old-fashioned title in front of their name?
But who am I to argue with the PM, so without further ado I'd like to release the first round of honours in the Order of the Opinion Page*.
Firstly, for his long-running and unstinting support of conservative politics, enthusiastic mocking of anything on the political left and battling against the chainsaw-stopping efforts of Greenies and global warming advocates ... arise Sir Fred Perring, of Halfway Creek.
In the interests of bipartisanship, the second honour goes to a man who has been a longstanding foot soldier in the class warfare of the Valley, whose efforts in support of Labor are undiminished and is a champion of the battlers around Maclean ... arise Sir Bruce Apps, of Townsend.
And finally, for hours spent reading Hansard, commitment to fully attributing references in her letters and for holding the council and the conservatives' feet to the fire ... arise Dame Judith M Melville, of Yamba.
*Due to budgetary constraints, all awards of the Order are strictly honorary.
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