According the The Guardian:
Knights and dames are “not appropriate” in a modern Australian honours system and will be scrapped…the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced.
Turnbull said earlier that the Queen had agreed to the government’s recommendation to remove knights and dames.
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, wrote to Turnbull…urging him to scrap the titles.
“Labor believes the concepts of knights and dames are anachronistic and unfitting of our proud, modern nation in the 21st century,” he wrote. “Labor’s platform has opposed the inclusion of imperial honours in the Australian honours system for more than a century.”
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