![The process to draw up the Australia Day and Queen's Birthday honours lists is cumbersome, onerous and biased.](/web/20170106230728im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/k/6/i/u/image.related.landscape.460x307.gtmk45.png/1483718514859.jpg)
The British nail it, but we're left with 34,533 Johns
Many Australians like to think of the British as stuffy, toffy and class-bound by their centuries of royal and aristocratic hierarchy and privilege. This view was reinforced by the parliamentarians' expenses scandal a few years back, when we chortled over the British MP claiming for the maintenance of his moat.