Blanchett’s gong all wrong as luvvie grabs Oz’s top honour

While in Europe, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May go in opposite directions.

Women miss out in the Queen’s Birthday honours and only one gal gets the top gong. The Australian’s David Crowe on Twitter, yesterday:

Big problem with the honours system. Only 206 of 673 are women.

So who was the lucky woman honoured with the AC? Was it Australia’s first female bishop? The Australian, yesterday:

The Anglican Church’s Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy has received the AO for her service to religion and “as a pioneer and role model for women”.

Oh OK, not her … was it the heroic nurse who helped lead the response to one of South Australia’s worst bushfires? The Australian, yesterday:

Royal Adelaide Hospital nurse Sheila Kavanagh, one of the leaders of the medical response to the 2015 Pinery bushfires, was made an officer for her work in burns treatment.

Nope, it was Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett. The Australian, yesterday:

Blanchett, made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), is noted for eminent service to the performing arts as an actress and artistic director, as a role model to women and young people, and for her support of human­itarian and environmental causes.

She doesn’t even live here. Britain’s The Sunday Times, January 17 last year:

It has been home to the Doctor Who actor Tom Baker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but the East Sussex town of Crowborough is about to welcome its most glamorous resident yet.

Cate Blanchett, the Hollywood actress, is moving into a £3m Victorian country house close to the town with her husband and their four children.

We could have given our biggest honour to an inspiring Aboriginal educator. The Australian, yesterday:

Tasmanian Aboriginal educator Patricia Cameron was ­appointed an officer “for distinguished service to the indigenous community of Tasmania through the promotion of educational participation and achievement, and to the preservation of culture, custodianship and traditional knowledge”.

Instead it went to the main villain in the next Thor movie … Buzzfeed, April 11:

The new Thor: Ragnarok trailer is out and the queen of everything (Cate Blanchett) makes her appearance as Hela, the goddess of death.

Britain’s moving to overhaul its honours system. Maybe we should start thinking about ours. London’s The Sun, May 21:

Theresa May has vowed that anybody who falls below expected “standards of integrity” will automatically lose their gong … she will also instruct officials to carry out a review to ensure that local heroes gain the recognition they deserve.

Talking of Theresa, she must really hate Emmanuel Macron. The Wall Street Journal, yesterday:

Emmanuel Macron’s upstart centrist party has won the first round of parliamentary elections, positioning the new French President to wield a commanding majority at home …

Boris Johnson is on her side still. The Foreign Secretary’s WhatsApp message to angry Tory MPs, Sunday:

Folks we need to calm down and get behind the prime minister.

Former chancellor George Osborne isn’t. The editor of London’s Evening Standardon the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, Sunday:

May is a dead woman walking.