| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Claire Patricia Airey | For service to the community and nursing | [1] [2] |
| Roger Quilter Allen | For service to disabled children |
| Raphael Apuatimi | For service to the Aboriginal art culture and arts |
| Cuthbert Milne Ayling | For service to the community |
| Agnes Cecilia Bailey | For service to the community |
| Ronald Keith Baker | For service to the community and local government |
| Royston William Baldwin | For service to sport in the fields of cricket and Australian Rules football |
| Irene Mary Therese Barry | For service to the community and music |
| Edith Emma Beasley | For service to disabled children |
| Harry John Beauchamp | For service to the community |
| Dawn Bennett | For service to the disabled |
| Charles Findlay Bentley | For service to adult education |
| William Frank Bird | For service to Aboriginal welfare |
| Bernard Abraham Boas | For service to the community |
| Douglas Gordon Bowd | For service to the community |
| Marie Antoinette Boyers | For service to education in the field of speech and drama |
| Sister Mary Alexius Boyle | For service to education |
| Alexander William Boyne | For service to the community |
| Emily Susan Brimfield | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Susanne Janet Douglas Broad | For service to the community |
| Harold John Brown | For service to life saving |
| Janet Mary Browning | For service to the community |
| Helen Ruth Burmester | For service to the community |
| James Henry Butler | For service to the community and local government |
| Eric Charles Butler | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Geoffrey Harold Cambridge | For service to commerce |
| John Emile Ferdinand Cannot | For service to the community and to surf life saving |
| Albert John Carlisle | For service to the community |
| John William Chamberlain | For services to the Public Service |
| John Parker Bua Chapman | For service to the timber industry |
| Royl Francis Chardon | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Robert Donald Christsen | For public service and service to the community |
| Sydney Ernest Churchill | For service to the fruit and vegetable industry |
| Frank John Clark | For service to the community |
| David Michael Cockburn | For service to optometry |
| Muriel Frances Cohen | For service to music |
| Arthur Edward Cole | For service to the community |
| Arthur James Collins | For service to band music |
| Peter Gordon Cooper | For service to the sport of badminton |
| Basil Creedy | For service to the community and local government |
| Malcolm Carlyle Crosbie | For service to the community |
| Brian Cross | For service to youth welfare |
| Eileen Daniel | For service to the sport of softball |
| Lionel Ray Daniel | For service to the community and local government |
| Inspector Robert William Davis | For service to the public |
| Eva Edna Dennis | For service to the disabled |
| Muriel Alice Dickinson | For service to the community |
| John Bernard Dillon | For service to the community and trade unionism |
| Robert Arthur Donald | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Colin George Duke | For service to the community and to local government |
| Clive Watson Elliott | For service to education |
| Elsie Agnes Erwen | For service to the community |
| Louis Nicholas Fleyfel | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Douglas James Fullston | For service to local government and to the community |
| Ivan Thomas James Gates | For service to the community |
| George Geddes | For service to the community |
| Albert William James Giddings | For service to the community |
| Ernest William (Joseph) Glascott | For service to journalism |
| Kevin Francis Gould | For service to the community |
| Herman Gutman | For service to the community |
| Councillor Robert George Halliday | For service to local government and community |
| Guy Ronald Hamlyn-Harris | For service to the community |
| Bernhard Hammerman | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Lieutenant Commander John George Hampson | For service to youth welfare |
| John Joseph Hanley | For service to the cattle industry |
| Evelyn Pauline Harding (Queenie Paul) | For service to the theatre |
| George Walter Harman | For service to local government and community |
| Ronald Francis Harrison | For service to the community |
| Hilda Florence Heinrich | For service to the community |
| William Hickey | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| The Reverend Monsignor Barry James Hickey | For service to the community |
| Senior Sergeant Colin Robert Hodder, QPM | For public service |
| Ralph Frederick Holden | For service to the community |
| Eleanor Phoebe Holmes | For service to the community |
| Edward William Robert Howard | For service to the community |
| Ruth Hilda Harrison Hurn | For service to nursing |
| Albert Charles Jackson | For service to local government |
| Edward John (Ted) Jackson | For service to the community |
| Clarence Roy James | For service as hospital administrator |
| Francis Edwin Johnson | For service to the sport of Rugby League Football |
| Neville Raymond Johnson | For service to the sport of squash |
| George Johnstone | For service to the sport of horse racing |
| Muriel Valerie Ryan (Mrs Johnstone-Need) | For service to medicine |
| Lorna Marjorie Jolly | For service to the sport of women's hockey |
| David Penry Jones | For service to the community |
| Richard Oscar Jones | For service to the community |
| Eileen Margaret Kane | For service to ballroom dancing |
| Milan Karamarko | For service to the Croation community |
| Henry O'Connor Kennedy | For service to local government and community |
| Marie Helene Kentwell | For service to child welfare |
| Elizabeth Caroline Killinger | For service to the community and religion |
| William Geoffrey Kinsman | For service to the community |
| Michael Kiprioti | For public service |
| Frederick John Kittle | For service to the community |
| Barbara Alison Knezevic | For public service |
| Assistant Commissioner Richard Carlile Knight | For public service |
| Djoli Laiwonga | For service to Aboriginal culture and arts |
| Raymond Stanley Lambert | For service to the community |
| Joseph Arthur Langton | For service to the community |
| Harold Francis Lashwood | For service to the entertainment industry |
| Brian Layland | For service to optometry |
| Kenneth James Leal | For service to the printing industry |
| Enid Bosworth Lorimer | For service to the performing arts |
| Mary Vera Loveday | For service to the community |
| James William Mackey | For service to the community |
| Liyapidiny Marika | For service in the field of Aboriginal health and welfare |
| Patricia June Martin | For service to youth welfare |
| Frederick Percy McCallum | For service to the sport of Australian rules football |
| Phyllis Emily McDonald | For service to the community |
| Betty Jean McDonald | For service to the community |
| Rawdon Townshend McDouall | For service to local government and community |
| Ian Stuart McKenzie | For service to the community |
| William Harold Mitchell | For public service |
| Domenico Morizzi | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Mabel Joyce Mossemenear | For service to the disabled |
| Henry Eric Mullen | For public and community welfare |
| Kenneth Claude Murchison | For service to equestrian sport and community |
| Robert Frank Neander | For service to the welfare of members of the Defence Force |
| Colin Odgers | For service to the community |
| Madge Blackmore (Lesley) Oldershaw | For service to the community |
| Olive Nell Oxlee | For public service |
| Peter Pan Quee | For public service |
| Norma McNeel Paterson | For service to the community and music |
| Lawrence Alfred Payne | For service to local government and community |
| Albert Edward Pearce | For service to the community |
| Barry Thomas Pengelly | For service to the community |
| George Harnett Phillips | For service to the community |
| Agostino Domenico Pietracatella | For service to the community |
| Nicholas Polites | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Clarence Donald Pretty | For service to the community |
| William John Puregger | For service to the community |
| Alexander Daniel Rice | For service to the community |
| Thomas Alexander Roberts | For service to equestrian sport |
| John James Robertson | For public service |
| Bruce Arnold Robson | For service to the community |
| Karel Rodny | For service to the sport of soccer |
| Thelma May Rowatt | For public and community service |
| John Patrick Savage | For service to trade unionism |
| Otto Rex Schroeter | For service to sport in the fields of bowls and Australian rules football |
| Wladyslaw Kazimierz Sikorski | For public service |
| Sergeant John Smith | For community service |
| Cyril Thomas Stafford | For service to the community |
| Leonard John Stone | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Kevin John Sullivan | For service to the community |
| Kenneth John Summerhill | For service to the community, particularly with pony clubs |
| Dr Jack Sunderman | For service to medicine |
| James William Fletcher Sweet | For service to the sport of rifle shooting |
| John Kenneth Thistlethwaite | For service to education |
| Albert Leslie Thomas | For public service |
| James Andrew Thompson | For service to the sport of gymnastics |
| Dorothy May Thorne | For service to Aboriginal welfare |
| Roy Leo Patrick Turner | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Reverend Johannes Frederick Hermanus Vanderbom | For service to religion and community |
| Dr Demetrios George Varvaressos | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Wilfred Douglas Verco | For service to the community |
| Pearl Voller | For service to the community |
| Margaret Evelyn Walker | For service to the performing arts |
| Herbert Edgar Ward | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Edward Charles Wesley | For service to education |
| Leslie Sydney Wickham | For service to the community |
| Laurel Jean Willis | For service to the community |
| Margaret Hannah Wilson | For service to the community |
| David Worobin | For service to music |
| Edward Athelstan Wrightson | For service to the community |
| Victor George Yaxley | For service to local government |
| Zuzanna Zarebska | For service to ethnic welfare |