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The 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list boasts the highest proportion of female recipients in the history of Order of Australia honours, says Governor-General David Hurley.
But women’s advocacy groups say that for women to comprise 44 per cent of the 947 honourees in the order’s general division is not good enough.
Governor-General David Hurley.
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The groups called for mandating of equal numbers honours going to males and females, but General Hurley stopped short of supporting such a move.
There are few politicians and celebrities among those honoured this year, and the community category has the most recipients (396) in the order’s general division, followed by medicine (108) and sport (93).
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With the release of the first-world-war film “Gallipoli” in 1981, director Peter Weir could finally shrug off the nickname he had laboured under since making his first films: “Peter Weird”.
Idiosyncratic work like “Homesdale” (1971), “The Cars That Ate Paris” (1974), and the deeply atmospheric, metaphysical dramas “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) and “The Last Wave” (1977) had earned Weir a reputation for making quirky, mysterious, genre-bending films. His gift for creating mood and atmosphere at times overwhelmed his concern with linear narrative.
This tendency seemed to change quite consciously with “Gallipoli”. Weir has said the inspiration for the story came from a trip to Anzac Cove in 1976. Flying back to Australia from London, he took a detour to Turkey. At the Gallipoli Peninsula, walking in still-extant trenches, Weir found not just shrapnel and bullet-casings, but also the personal effects of young soldiers. These tiny mementos poking out of the