runner,

I'm not obsessed with it - I'm amused by it....it's "funny".

His fellow ministers and backbenches are the one's obsessed - so much so, they're plotting his removal.

Just saying....

What are you suggesting, runner?

"...I doubt whether a four year old would get so obsessed with such a trivial matter as handing out a gong."

That our Prime Minister who consulted about his decision to award a knighthood with the Governor-General and the Chairman of the Order of Australia Council before requesting The Queen give her husband one on the occasion of the Australia Day Honors List was being trivial?

Or that they all were?

One thing that people seem to have avoided asking is: why now?

Could it be that he knows he's going to have to dump Peta Credlin soon, so he wants to accomplish the really unpopular stuff first while he still has some blame shifting opportunity?

This was stale bread before the OP was posted.

The only remaining interest is in why the ABC alone is still kicking the can.

Let me get this right. These Knighthoods are an anochronism and nonsense? So why all the excitement?
The fact is that when offered a "Sir" or a Dame or some OAM they all opt for the old British award lol.
Same with Queens Council or Senior Council it is always the old snobby British award. You guys make me laugh you are so funny.

There isn't a newspaper outlet both local and
global - who's not
covering Prince Philip's Aussie Award.
From the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, The Guardian,
to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and locally -
to The Age, The Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, The Mercury,
The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald. To name
just a few. And the news outlets on TV, and social media,
have all joined in and are thoroughly enjoying to this fiasco.