Australian honours system support, but Australian Labor Party (ALP) governments, both national and state, ceased making recommendations for Imperial awards – in particular, appointments to the Order of the British Empire mainly after 1972. During the Second World War, the Governor-General, on the advice of wartime Labor governments, made recommendations for gallantry awards, including eleven for the Victoria Cross. Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were for officers and men engaged in operational areas. In 1975, the ALP (which had been out of power federally from 1949 until 1972) created the Australian Honours System. Recommendations were processed centrally, but State Governors
Names of the Irish state by the use of that word "Éire" in Article 4. By a misuse by malicious people of that word, "Éire", they have identified it with the Twenty-Six Counties and not with the State that was set up under this Constitution of 1937." Despite these criticisms, de Valera initially called for the proposed Irish description of the state, "Poblacht na h-Éireann" to also be inserted into the English text of the Act in the same way both the Irish and English names of the state are used in Article 4. However, de Valera subsequently retreated from this position and in what