1981 Australia Day Honours

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The 1981 Australia Day Honours were announced on 26 January 1981 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Zelman Cowen. [1]

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The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, announced on Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours which are announced on the second Monday in June.

Order of Australia

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Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)

RecipientCitationNotes
Emeritus Professor Alec Derwent Hope OBE For service to literature. [1] [2]
Sir William (John) Kilpatrick KBE For community service.
Sir Charles (Gullan) McGrath OBE For service to industry.

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

General Division

RecipientCitationNotes
Dr Neville Coleman DavisFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of melanoma research. [1] [2]
Professor Lance Aubrey EndersbeeFor service to engineering.
Gordon Peter FitzgeraldFor service to the retailing industry and to the community.
John McKenzie HillardFor service to the accounting profession.
Dr Jacques Francis Albert Pierre MillerFor service to medical research.
His Excellency John Russell Rowland For public service as a diplomatic representative.
The Honourable, Justice John Bernard SweeneyFor service to the Law.
Roy WoodallFor service to the mining industry.
Emeritus Professor Hill Wesley WonderFor public service in the field of metallurgy and industrial technology.

Military Division

BranchRecipientCitationNotes
Air Force Air Vice Marshal Selwyn David Evans DSO , AFC For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief of Air Force Operations. [1] [2]
Air Vice Marshal Michael Manifold Helsham DFC , QC For service as Judge-Advocate of the Royal Australian Air Force.

Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

General Division

RecipientCitationNotes
Dr Joan Winifred AllsopFor service to adult education. [1] [2]
Reverend Brother Angelus (Donald Xavier McKinley)For service to education.
Harold John BailyFor service to art.
Dr Maxwell Robert BanksFor service to science and the community.
Graham Gordon BlackwoodFor service to the sport of yachting.
Joyce BlaiklockFor community service.
Nancy Roslyn BundleFor service to nursing.
Dr Arthur William BurnellFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of domiciliary care.
Colonel William Ramsay CairnsFor community service with the Salvation Army.
Robert Elliot ChampionFor service to local government and the community.
John Richard James ClarkFor service to the theatre.
Dr John LLewellyn ColvinFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology.
Alexander Robert ConnelFor service to the community.
Professor Lloyd Woodrow CoxFor service to the community.
Ellen Dymphna Cusack For service to literature.
Beatrice Deloitte Davis
John Noel Whitefoord EllistonFor service to the mining industry.
Dr Samuel Islwyn EvansFor service to education.
Peter Leonard Faiman For service to the media, particularly in the field of television production.
Vincent James FordeFor service to the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia.
Harold Wesley GillardFor community service.
Dewar Wison GoodeFor service to conservation.
Isador Goodman For service to music.
Major General Roy Russell Gordon CBE , DSO , ED For community service.
James Murray Gosper OBE For service to the building industry and to the community.
Guy Edward Grey-Smith For service to art.
Professor Alfred Gordon HammerFor service to education in the field of psychology.
Reginald HarrisFor community service.
Dr Marshall Davidson Hatch For public service in the field of plant metabolism.
Crawford Irving HayesFor service in the field of industrial relations.
Francis Daniel HayesFor service in the field of social welfare.
John William Houston For parliamentary and community service.
Dr Herbert Leslie HughesFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology.
Tom Morven Jeffrey For service to the film and television industry.
Malcolm George KingFor service to industry.
John Frederick LavisFor service to the dental industry.
William Morris Lawry For service to the sport of cricket.
Jack Lindsay For service to literature.
Dr Ian Reay MackayFor service to medical research.
William Allan Marshall OBE For service to literature.
John Joseph McGuireFor service to the dairy industry.
Dr George Rex MeyerFor service to education.
Clive Harlie MonkFor service to engineering.
Dr Max Clifford MooreFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology.
Emeritus Professor Charles Edmund MoorehouseFor service to education.
Nathaniel Albert Alfred MyersFor service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics.
Bruce Waddell Fieldew PrattFor service to the publishing industry.
Dr Albert Tonkin Pugsley For service to agriculture, particularly in the field of wheat research.
Eric Gordon PullenFor service to the fertilizer industry.
Alexander Leslie Rigby ED For service to the building industry and to the community.
Eric Richard RisstromFor service to commerce and to the community.
John Justin RocheFor service to local government and town planning.
Dr Terese Royse-SmithFor service to the dental industry.
John Louis RundleFor service to the community.
George SmithFor community service, particularly in the field of social welfare.
Ivan Francis Southall DFC For service to literature.
Selby Kingston SteeleFor service to hospital administration.
Evonne Rita SullivanFor community service.
Newton Stanley TiverFor service to agriculture, particularly in the field of pasture research.
Colonel Reno VardanegaFor public service.
The Honourable Geoffrey Thomas Virgo For parliamentary and community service.
Jack Hayward Watson ISO , CStJ For public and community service.
The Honourable John Alexander Weir For service to trade unionism.
Garth de Burgh Welch For service to ballet.
John Oswald WickingFor service to the welfare of handicapped persons.
Foster Neil Williams For service to the sport of Australian football.
Brooks Christian WilsonFor community service.
Malcolm Leslie WrightFor service to the accounting profession and to the community.

Military Division

BranchRecipientCitationNotes
NavyCaptain Henry Alfred JosephsFor service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Australian Naval Attache, Jakarta. [1] [2]
Captain Anthony Rockley HortonFor service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Commanding Officer of HMAS Hobart.
Commander Gordon Lewis SheridanFor service as Supply Officer of HMAS Nirimba.
ArmyLieutenant Colonel Edmond Ross Brown ED For service in the Army Reserve.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Peter ConstantineFor service to the Royal Australian Survey Corps.
Colonel Brian George Florence MC For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Commandant of Officer Cadet School, Portsea, Vic.
Colonel David Walter HanlinFor service to the Australian Army in the field of Army construction.
Colonel Paul Desmond LipscombeFor service to the Australian Army Aviation Corps.
Colonel John Nelson SteinFor service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of logistics and organisational development.
Air ForceGroup Captain John Maxwell ChesterfieldFor service as Commandant of the Royal Australian Air Force Staff College.
Group Captain Marcus De Laune Faunce OBE For service as a Medical Officer and consultant physician to the Director-General of Air Force Health Services, Royal Australian Air Force.
Wing Commander Robert George SharpFor service as a staff officer in the Directorate of Air Force Plans, Department of Defence (Air Force).
Wing Commander Allan Jeffrey PappinFor service as Commanding Officer of Number 34 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)

General Division

RecipientCitationNotes
Edna Parker AdkinsFor community service. [1] [2]
Arthur Reginald Lancelot AlteratorFor service to the sport of cricket.
Franca AntonelloFor service in the field of migrant welfare.
Ronald George AppleyardFor service to art.
Ronald Haddington Nichols BadgerFor community service.
Thomas John BastowFor service to the community and to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women.
The Reverend Dennis Rupert BazelyFor community service.
Doris Jane Booth
Lewis Boyd
John Stanislaus BradyFor service to local government.
Laurence BryanFor service in the field of aboriginal welfare.
Billie Jeanette BurkeFor public service.
Mona Dora ByrnesFor service to art.
Sydnor Olive CampbellFor community service.
Alan Alwyn CarlyleFor service to local government and to the community.
Neville Richmond CawthorneFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Louis CenskyFor service to trade unionism and in the field of migrant welfare.
John CharltonFor public service.
Daniel Joseph ClarkeFor service to the tourist industry.
Harry Clifford CleggFor service to local government.
Mervyn Douglas CreswellFor service to the community and to the transport industry.
Audrey Joan DaleyFor public service.
Alice May DaviesFor community service.
Llewella Hope DaviesFor community service.
Alfred James DicksonFor public service and for service to the community.
Java Joseph DixFor community service and for service to local industry.
Gildon Wilson DonnarFor service in the field of industrial relations.
Henry Arthur Douglas DowlingFor service to the tourist industry.
Keith Ralph DoyleFor community service.
Ellen May Dransfield
Edith DubskyFor service to music.
Basil Frederick EastherFor service to junior football.
Douglas Slater ElliceFor public service.
Cedric Raymond Emanuel For service to art.
Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay Keith FarquharFor service to the Scout Association of Australia.
Russell Glen FergusonFor community service.
Giuesppe Fin
Alfred Stephen FinneyFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Gwenyth Joyce FisherFor service to the welfare of handicapped persons.
Amy Ritchie ForwoodFor community service.
Charles Raymond Foskey
Keith GaisfordFor service to the sport of archery.
Lita Marjorie GarrardFor community service.
Cecil Kenneth William GerrityFor service to the community and to trade unionism.
Eric Peter GianakosFor service to the community and to conservation.
Claude Vincent GillardFor service to the sport of parachuting.
Florence Edna GogginsFor community service.
Alice May GoldFor service to the sport of bowls.
Graham Lindsay GordonFor service to the sport of rugby football.
Roy Lanchester GowingFor community service.
(Jessie) Iris GrahamFor service to the community and to the arts.
Thomas Robertson GrimsonFor service to the sport of soccer.
Maxwell Edward HamsFor service to local government.
Ruby Nance HansenFor community service.
James Ross HarbisonFor community service.
Dean Lawrence Harvey
The Reverend Howard Ralph Heaton
Luke William Robert HeffernanFor service to trade unionism.
Lloyd France HeylanFor service to tennis and football.
Jessie Fraser HortonFor community service.
Irene Doris Hoy
Arthur Robert Moore JacksonFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Timothy JacobsFor service to education and to the community.
Donald Goldberg JacquierFor community service.
Stanley KellyFor service to the community and to conservation.
Doris Kate KempFor service to the welfare of handicapped persons.
Desmond Francis KennedyFor service to sport, particularly the promotion of country football.
Harry David KrantzFor service to trade unionism.
Andrew LambrosFor service in the field of migrant welfare.
The Reverend Father John Edward LanderFor service to religion.
Frederick William LeanFor community service.
Raymond Mitchell LentferFor community service.
James Hewitt MainFor community service.
Eric Stanley MarshallFor service in the entertainment industry.
Donald Sidney Stuart MayFor community service.
Duncan John McColl
John Hector McDonaldFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Kevin McDonaldFor service to the welfare of handicapped children.
Lionel Stanley McDonaldFor service to the sport of surf life saving.
Sister Carmel McEwanFor service to education.
Shaun Dudley McIlraithFor service in the field of journalism.
Hazel Joan McKellarFor service to the community and to nursing.
Frank Edward McKenzieFor service to education and to the community.
Robert John McKinneyFor service to sport.
James Archibald McKinnonFor community service.
Beatrice Dorothy McLean
John Maxwell McLean
Robert Alan McLoughlin
William John MenzFor service to education.
Arthur Russell MilwayFor community service.
Henry Frederick MinifieFor service to the welfare of handicapped persons.
Alfred Charles MorrisFor service to the sport of casting.
Millicent May NetheryFor community service.
Louis Albert Norrak
Lieutenant Commander Arthur Frederick Parry VRD For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Olive Kari ParryFor service to the community and to conservation.
Percy Joseph Parry
Theodore Michael PasiczynskyjFor service in the field of migrant welfare.
Dawn Trezise Grayson Paton MBE For community service.
George PerrinFor service in the field of ethnic affairs.
Joan PerrottFor service in the field of social welfare.
Edwin Alexander PoundFor community service.
Susannah Caroline Proctor
Gregory Thomas ProuseFor service to nursing.
Harold Lindsay RalphFor service to the sport of athletics.
The Reverend Father John Christopher RelihanFor service to religion.
Daphne Mabel RoemermannFor service to education, particularly in the field of speech and drama.
Frank Charles RossackFor service to the welfare of mentally handicapped persons.
Dorothy Rose SalesFor service to the community through the administration of credit union facilities.
Elsie May ScholesFor community service.
Reginald Francis ScottFor service to dentistry, particularly in the field of dental prosthetics.
George Ephraim SheumackFor service to sport and to the community.
William Francis SimmFor service to band music.
Richard Baxter Stuart SinclairFor community service.
Elsie Eileen Smith
Lawrence Mervin SmithFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
William Richard SmithFor service to music and to the community.
Yvonne Flora Mackinnon SmithFor service to local government and to the community.
Judith Margaret SorensenFor service in the field of child welfare.
Dorothy Maida StilwellFor community service.
Alan George StormFor service in education and to the community.
Ronald Aubrey SuttonFor service to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Carmel Phyllis TahenyFor public service.
Jeanette Campbell TelfordFor service in the field of choral music.
Mabel Adeline Terry RD For community service.
John William ThompsonFor service to the sport of horse racing.
Harold Thomas Edward TidemannFor service to the arts.
Mary Grace TrippFor community service.
Ella Underwood
Edna Josephine Vincent MBE
Ernest Edward Vine
Arthur William Percival Walker
Alfred Ernest WardFor service to the sport of tennis.
Wallace Ainsworth WardFor service to the community and to the welfare of ex-service personnel.
Jack Andrew WarrenFor public service.
George Ralph WeslakeFor community service.
Mildred May Whitfield
The Reverend Arthur Latimer WilkinsFor service to the welfare of visually handicapped persons.
Cornelius Edward WilsonFor service to the welfare of aged persons.
Mary Helen Campbell Withers For community service.
Alexander Penn WoodFor service in the field of choral music and to the community.
Bevil Edgar Stanley Theodore Bob Philp WoosleyFor community service.
Jean Wright

Military Division

BranchRecipientCitationNotes
NavyWarrant Officer Trevor John GibbsFor service as Air Engineering Officer of HC 723 Squadron. [1] [2]
Warrant Officer William Arthur O'DayFor service to the Marine Engineering School.
Warrant Officer Edward Joseph ShawFor service as officer in charge of the Electronic Warfare School, HMAS Watson.
ArmyWarrant Officer Class Two Maxwell John BeckFor service to the Army Reserve.
Captain John Edward CottonFor service as an Engineer Works Warrant Officer in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
Warrant Officer Class Two Trevor Edward GilliverFor service in the field of Army Reserve training.
Warrant Officer Class One Niels Ole JensenFor service in the maintenance of armoured vehicles.
Warrant Officer Class One Robert John MayFor service as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
Warrant Officer Class One Thomas Emmanuel WebsterFor service to the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police.
Air ForceWarrant Officer Ronald John HarbinsonFor service as a Warrant Officer, Mess Supervisor, Royal Australian Air Force.
Warrant Officer Trevor Alexander McIntoshFor service as a Warrant Officer Armament Fitter at Number 492 Squadron, Edinburgh, South Australia.

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