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In honouring those who are prejudiced, the Australia Day awards perpetuate bigotry – The Guardian
The government has valorised Margaret Court’s opinions at the nation’s expense because her sporting and political lives can’t be separated
The leaking of the news that Margaret Court is receiving a Companion of the Order of Australia has generated the controversy the leak aimed to provoke. Courts reported laudatory pronouncements about apartheid South Africa and her views about sexuality have made her a darling of the far right of Australian politics.
As such, having already received the Officer of the Order of Australia award in recognition of her unquestionable achievement in tennis, and given that it follows on the heels of the…
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