1981 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)

The 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 13 June 1981 in Australia. ^{[1] [2]}

The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.

Order of Australia

Knight of the Order of Australia (AK)

General Division

Recipient	Citation	Notes
The Right Honourable Sir Garfield (Edward John) Barwick, GCMG	For service to the Australian Parliament, government and the law	[1] [2]

Companion (AC)

General Division

Recipient	Citation	Notes
Sir John (Laurence) Knott, CBE	For service to industry and the community	[1] [2]
Keith William Steel, OBE	For service to industry

Officer (AO)

General Division

Recipient	Citation	Notes
John Hamilton Andrews	For service to the architecture	[1] [2]
Dr Percy Raymond Begg	For service to dentistry, particularly in the field of orthodontics
Hugh Reskymer Bonython, DFC AFC	For service to the arts
Murray Goulburn Madden Bourchier	For service to the diplomatic corps
Mac Brunckhorst	For service to banking
Edward John Connellan, CBE OBE	For service to the community and aviation
Jack Napier Davenport, DSO DFC GM	For service to industry
Laurence Desmond Draper, QPM	For service to the South Australian Police Force, particularly as Commissioner
Sydney Stephen Dunn	For services to education
John Keith Edwards	For service to industry and education
Dr Alexander MacDonald Fraser	For service to education
Robert Donald Hill-Ling	For service to industry
Herman Diederik Huyer	For service to industry and to the community
Kenneth Thomas Jenkins	For service to the disabled
Charles Wooller Marshall	For service to the mining industry
Professor Donald William McElwain, ED	For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychology
William Norman Morrison	For service to industry and to the community
The Honourable Justice John Flood Nagle	For service to the community and to education
Ivan Edgar Newnham, MBE	For public service to industry
Francis John Owen Ryan, ISO	For public service in the field of corporate affairs
Gilbert Frederick Seaman, CMG	For public service
Professor Julius Stone, OBE	For service to law, particularly in the field of international law
Dr Margaret Ada Sutherland, OBE	For service to music
Maurice Carmel Timbs	For public service

Military Division

Branch	Recipient	Citation	Notes
Navy	Rear-Admiral David Willoughby Leach, CBE MVO	For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Flag Officer commanding H M Australia Fleet and as Chief of Naval Personnel	[1] [2]
Army	Major-General Phillip Harvey Bennett, DSO KBE	For service to the Australian Defence Force, particularly as Chief of the Defence Force
Air Force	Air Vice-Marshal Henry Alfred Hughes, DFC	For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief of Air Force Material

Member (AM)

General Division

Recipient	Citation	Notes
Neville Francis Amadio, MBE	For service to music	[1] [2]
Louis Athol-Shmith	For service to photography
Emeritus Professor Mervyn Neville Austin	For service to education
Bertram Charles Ballard	For service to the public service as a diplomatic representative
Kevin Charles Bartlett	For service to the sport of Australian football
Luciano Bini	For service to migrant welfare
Norman Joseph Campbell	For service to industrial relations
Ralph Gordon Conley	For service to the aviation industry
Helen Craven Crisp	For service to education
Sydney Page Crosland	For service to journalism
Margaret Isabel Day	For service to the performing arts
The Honourable Renfrey Curgenven De Garis	For service to the community and to parliament and government
Rosalind Janet Denny	For service to nursing
John Stuart Dowie	For service to the arts as a sculptor and painter
James Heward Earle	For service to architecture
William John Eason	For service to education
Brother Ethelred Alan Nestor Ferguson	For service to education
Richard Batten Gall	For service to industry
George Andrew Gray, DFC	For service to education, particularly in the field of psychology
James Patrick Hagan	For service in the fiend of Aboriginal welfare
Harry Oswald Hall	For service to the building industry
Dr Donald Graham Hamilton	For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics
Major Colin Alistair Harper, MBE	For service to the community
Lorna Ruby Hausler	For service to the community
James Charles Houghton	For service to industry
David Neil Ireland	For service to literature
Donald Isaacs	For service to industry and to the community
Freda Elizabeth Jacob	For service to the disabled
Colin Frederick Jacobsen	For service to the entertainment industry
Charles Thomas Kearney	For service to the community
Rabbi John Simon Levi	For service to religion
Walter John Lewer	For public service
Marie Lenore Lowndes	For service to nursing
Wallace Vivian McKensey	For service to engineering
Hilarie Clare Moore, MBE	For service to disabled children
Howard Charles Morton	For service to the prevention and control of tuberculosis
Francis Joseph Murphy	For service to the sport of diving
Dr Stephen Murray-Smith	For service to education and to literature
Robyn Anne Nevin	For service to the performing arts
Harold Charles Ogilvie	For service to the community
John Galloway Painter	For service to music
Peter Allen Powditch	For service as a painter and sculptor
Dr Peggy Elizabeth Roberta Read	For service in the field of animal welfare
Dr Joan Margaret Redshaw	For service to the community
George Leslie Clarence Rees	For service to literature
Edward Francis Sandbach	For public service
Dr Eric Baldwin Sims	For services to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics
Ronald Nathan Stone	For service to local government and to the community
The Honourable Joe Slater Thompson	For service to trade unionism
Geoffrey Alan Vincent	For service to the accounting profession
Donald Percival Williams, KStJ	For service to the community
James Hardy Wilton	For service to banking
Joan Merle Woodberry	For service to literature and to education
Dr Robin George Woods	For service to dentistry
Charles Arthur Noel Young	For service to primary industry

Military Division

Branch	Recipient	Citation	Notes
Navy	Commander Anne Lorraine Briggs	For service to the Royal Australian Navy	[1] [2]
	Captain Thomas Alfred Dadswell	For service to the Naval Material Division, particularly as Aircraft Carrier Project Director
Army	Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Maxwell Bond	For service to the Army Reserve
	Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey David Carter	For service to the Australian Army in the field of air defence
	Lieutenant Colonel Michael Francis Ekman	For service to the Australian Army in Field Force planning and organisation
	Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell Martin Flohr	For service to the Army Reserve
	Colonel Philip Michael Jeffery, MC	For service to the Australian Army in the formation of the Special Action Force
	Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Hepworth Taylor, MC	For service to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps
Air Force	Chaplain Mervyn Steve Box	For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Senior Chaplain, Laverton
	Wing Commander Eric John Kluukeri	For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Central Photographic Establishment
	Group Captain Norman Robin Wade, MBE	For services to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as the commanding Officer of No 478 Squadron.
	Wing Commander Lynton Thomas Winn	For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of No 11 Squadron

Medal (OAM)

General Division

Recipient	Citation	Notes
Lawrence James Anderson	For service to the public service	[1] [2]
Betty Maureen Anderson	For service to the nursing
Tomas Andrews	For service to the sport of orienteering
Ronald Naish Bailey	For service to the community and local government
Albert Abraham Baker	For service to the community
Amy Storey Baldwin	For service to the community
William John Barker	For service to the community and local government
David John Barratt	For service to primary industry
Louis John Benaud	For service to the Public Service
Margaret Mercer Blackburn	For service to commercial education
Enid Ross Bowman	For service to conservation
Arthur James Brissett	For service to local government
Hector George Brooks	For service to primary industry
Douglas Haig Bruce	For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Francis Joseph Bryant	For service to the sport of cricket
Richard John Bryant	For service to the sport of cricket
Valma Burrows	For service to child welfare
Ian Alexander Cameron	For service to the Public Service
Henry Francis Cayley	For services to bridge
Dr Archibald Frederick George Cornelius Christie	For service to community medical welfare
Charles James Clifford	For service to the Public Service and the community
Nola Edith Colefax	For service to the Theatre of the Deaf
Ruth Emily Gwendoline Cooper	For service to nursing
Clifford Douglas Cordon	For service to the community
Frederick Sperry Coventry	For service to the wool industry
Sybil Mary Frances Craig	For service as an artist
Heather Bembrick Crosby	For service to the community
Leslie Howard Cross	For service to the sport of billiards and snooker
Frederick Francis De Saxe	For service to the legal profession as a barrister's clerk
Jacqueline Mary Theresa Deveril	For service to children's welfare
Robert William Doyle Devlin	For service to local government
Isabel Helen Dillon	For service to the Public Service
John Fletcher Elliott	For service to medicine, particularly in the field of optometry
Owen Rowland Evans	For service to conservation
Lolita Farmer	For service to migrant welfare
Florence Roma Field	For service to the community
Sydney John Fisher, QPM	For service to the community
Sam Fiszman	For service to the community
Dr James Aloysius Flaherty	For service to the community and to local government
Rosetta Flynn	For service to the community
Lloyd George Foord	For service to the community
Doris Orr Ford	For service to the community
Graeme Lindsay Gaul	For service to the community in the field of youth welfare
Annibale Gaetano Giuffre	For service in the field of migrant welfare
Margaret Ipsa Gleeson	For service to local government and to the community
Sister Mary Ursula Grachan	For service to education
John Joseph Grumley	For service to the community and to band music
Brian Patrick Harford	For public service
Charles Artlett Harris	For service to the sport of cricket
Shirley Kathleen Anne Haslem	For service to welfare, particularly through the New South Wales Council for the Mentally Handicapped
Thelma Anne Hatfield	For service to the community
Nancye Lee Hayes	For service to the performing arts
Donald Southwell Herborn	For public and community service in Papua New Guinea
Captain Charles Nelson Hill	For service to the aviation industry
Francis Vincent Holden	For service to the community and to local government
Winifred Gladys Hooper	For service to the community
Lorna Ellen Hosking	For service to the community
Colin Richard James	For service to the community
Kenneth Eric Johnson	For service to special education, particularly in the field of specific learning difficulties
Vivian Thomas Judd	For service to local government and to the community
Colin Charles James Kelly	For service to Public Service
Albert Leonard Kuipers	For service to the community
Pastor Frederick Kummerow	For service to religion and to the community
Reginald Clive Lane	For service to the sport of rugby football
James (Yami) Lester	For service in the field of Aboriginal welfare
Barry Graham Lindner	For service in the field of Aboriginal welfare
Jack Wilson Littler	For service to the community
Keith Kenneth Lowe	For service to the community
James Fraser Macdonald	For service to primary industry and to the community
Marie Therese Maidment	For service to the disabled
Barbara Berrima Manning	For service to the theatre
Reverend Keith Henderson Marr	For service to religion
John Curtis Marsh	For service to the community
Horace Hayden Martin	For service to the community of Swan Hill
Linda Mary Elizabeth McBurney	For service to the community
Roy Edward McDonnell	For service to medicine through the invention and design of technical equipment
Malcolm Paterson McPherson	For service to local government and to the community
Arthur Forrest McRobbie	For service to the sport of basketball
Roy William Mills	For service to the community
Bonifacius Casimirus Minius	For public service in the field of plant propagation
Barbara Jessie Misson	For service to the community
Keith Raymond Morris	For service in the field of Aboriginal welfare
Alison Moss	For service to nursing
John William Moyses	For service to local government and to the community
Frederick Walter Napier	For service to athletics
Rita Grace Nassar	For service to handicapped children
Brian Arthur Newton	For service to the disabled
Dulcie Laura Noonan	For service to the community
Francesco Oliveri	For service to local government and to the community
Robert John Padula	For service to short wave radio
Albert Alexander Lyle Pattison	For service to the community
Robert Wilson Payen	For service to the sport of greyhound racing
Derek Van Halen Pendleton	For service in the field of health administration
James Edward Percey	For service to local government and to the community
Thomas James Peters	For service to the motor trading industry
Dr Sydney James William Player	For service to medicine
Robert Norman Prior	For service to the field of health insurance
Lionel Norman Rackley, DFC AE	For service to the disabled
Clytie Louise Rannard	For public service
Edwin Charles Renton	For service to medicine, particularly as a chiropodist
John Reynolds	For service as a writer and historian
Elizabeth Mary Robb	For service to the disabled
Raymond Errol Roberts	For service in the field of youth welfare
William James Robertson	For service to local government and to the community
Sylvester Robert Robinson	For service to local government and to the community
Ellen Alma Clarice Robinson	For service to the disabled
Eric Joseph Roughana	For service to the timber industry and to the community
Frederick Joseph Royal	For service to band music
William Denis Ryan	For service to trade unionism
Allen Edward Schafer	For service to the sport of tennis
MacGregor Schulz	For service to primary industry
Colin Purdom Scott	For service to local government
Patrick Edward Shelly	For service to local government and to the community
Joshua Shilkin, ED	For service to industry
Hector Allan Skidmore	For service to local government and to the community
David Douglas Smith	For service to the community
William David Smith	For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Harold Albert Leonard Stark	For service to local government and to the community
Julian Ferdinand Stefani	For service to the community
Walter William Stone	For service to literature
Raymond Wilton Theodor Suess	For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Jack Sweet	For public service and for service to the community
Major Alan Delpah Taylor	For service to the community of Ballarat
Hazel Joyce Tinley	For public service and for service to the community
Thomas Harris Arthur Titley, MC	For service to local government and to the community
Samuel Leonard Lancelot Trenwith	For service to band music
Ruth Edith Tuck (SMITH)	For service as an art teacher and as an artist
Margaret June Tucker	For public service
Clifford Taylor Turnbull	For service in the field of youth welfare
Alan Skelton Ward	For service to the sport of cricket
Maurice Adrian Webb	For service to the sport of surf life saving
Edward Louis Weidner	For service to the sport of rugby football
Daniel George White, OBE	For service to the sport of surf life saving
Eudora Mary Wilkshire	For public service
Percy Williams	For service to local government
Althea Mary Williams	For service to the disabled, particularly through the development of Riding for the Disabled
David Wiskar	For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Walter Allan Wood	For service to the community

Military Division

Branch	Recipient	Citation	Notes
Navy	Warrant Officer John Richard Aaron	For service to the Royal Australian Navy School of Training Technology and Naval training in general	[1] [2]
	Warrant Officer Peter Lloyd Frost	For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Wardroom Mess Manager, HMAS Harman
	Warrant Officer Gary Neville Jackson	For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as an instructor at Great Lakes Training Centre
	Warrant Officer Christopher Nicholas Nicolaides	For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Stores Officer of HMAS Stirling
Army	Warrant Officer Class Two Evalds Erglis	For service to the Army Reserve
	Warrant Officer Class One Keith Kevin Hunter	For service to the Australian Army in the Stores Procurement field
	Warrant Officer Class Two Robert Leslie Rowley	For service to the Royal Australian Survey Corps
	Warrant Officer Class One Stephen Alan Smith	For meritorious service with the Australian Army, in the field of personnel management
	Warrant Officer Class Two James Edward Smithers	For service to Army Reserve Recruiting
	Warrant Officer Class Two Douglas Alexander Thoresen	For service to the Australian Army in the field of military music
Air Force	Warrant Officer Murray Dennis Johnson	For service as a Warrant Officer Engineer at no 2 squadron, Royal Australian Air Force

References

1. "The Queen's Birthday Honours Lists – Commonwealth". The Canberra Times . 55 (16, 696). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 13 June 1981. p. 11. Retrieved 4 December 2020– via National Library of Australia.
2. "Government Gazette Notices". Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette. Special (S114). Australia. 13 June 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2020– via National Library of Australia.