An honour with a great big crown on top for Malcolm

Lord Malcolm of Point Piper has finally received an official honour, the Companion in the Order of Australia, the AC. It comes with lovely lapel pin and other bits and bobs.

In prior times, this would have been a knighthood, but the times they have a changed.

This is an image of the nice medal he receives.- See the big royal crown on the top? A nice touch for one Australia’s leading republicans (Pirate Pete already has an AM, by the way).

Turnbull will say he’s only following convention by accepting the medal that traditionally goes to former prime ministers, but such a fan of innovation and disruption could have innovated and disrupted and made a real republican statement by turning it down.

And Turnbull aside, I do…