Imperial honours

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dumped knights and dames from the honours system, saying they are 鈥渁nachronistic and out of date鈥. The imperial honours were reintroduced by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2014 to ongoing ridicule and controversy. Turnbull, a well-known republican, said Cabinet agreed the titles are no longer appropriate in a modern Australia and revealed the Queen has approved his request to scrap them. 鈥淜nights and dames are titles that are really anachronistic. They're out of date, not appropriate in 2015 in Australia,鈥 he said.