Talk:Australian honours and awards system

Requested move 4 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: Not moved per consensus. (non-admin closure) – Ammarpad (talk) 17:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Australian honours system → Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia – Per WP:CONSISTENCY with all equivalent articles in Category:Orders, decorations, and medals by country. PPEMES (talk) 11:13, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Current title is recognisable, natural, precise, concise and consistent (Irish honours system, Papua New Guinea honours system, Fijian honours system, New Zealand royal honours system, South African honours system). Celia Homeford (talk) 12:14, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Uh? What is the argument for change?  Wikiain (talk) 13:14, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose, as per editors' counter-arguments up to now. Wikiain (talk) 23:47, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose as per Celia Homeford's statement. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 04:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Except all equivalent articles in the category tree do not have this structure. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:59, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Title is clear and recognizable. Barca (talk) 15:45, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Battle honours
Hello fellow Australian honours and awards enthusiasts. It is proposed merging the content on battle honours in this article to existing articles Battle and theatre honours of the Australian Army and Battle honours of the Royal Australian Navy or creating a general "Australian battle and theatre honours” article to put them in, given they are not formally part of the Australian honours and award system (which only recognises individuals and groups of individuals - not organisations, even the odd balls, the UCG & MUC are primarily focused on those individuals who earned that unit award).

A battle honour is granted through the Royal Prerogative of the monarch, but exercised by each branch of the Australian Defence Force (the Army also has theatre honours). Policies for battle honours for each service are different and there is no joint or tri-service policy. Battle honours are seen as important aspects of tradition by some, and poorly understood by the majority. They are not seen as the primary means of recognising teams and groups for gallant or meritorious service in the way UCG, MUC or Commendations for Service are.

If no objections raised before 24 June 2020, I’ll merge it off this article. In the meantime, all interested are welcome to discuss.  Kangaresearch  10:22, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:New Zealand royal honours system which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:31, 13 October 2023 (UTC)