Order of Australia
Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Keith Rupert Murdoch | For service to the media, particularly the newspaper industry. | [1] |
| George Polites CMG MBE | For service to industrial relations. | |
| Emeritus Professor Eric Aroha Rudd | For service to the mineral and petroleum industries. |
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| David James Asimus | For service to the wool industry. | [1] |
| Ida Isobel Bennett | For service to marine science. | |
| Robert Lindsay Bienvenu DFC | For service to commerce and the community. | |
| The Honourable Reginald Bishop | For service to politics and government. | |
| Professor Ralph Beattie Blacket | For service to medicine. | |
| Alan Bond (rescinded 1997) [2] | For service to yachting, particularly as syndicate chairman and team captain of the successful America's Cup challenge 1983. | |
| Neville Thomas Bonner | For service to politics and government. | |
| The Reverend Professor Rolland Arthur Busch OBE | For service to religion. | |
| The Most Reverend Edward Bede Clancy | For service to religion. | |
| Dr Henry Vernon Crock | For service to medicine, particularly as an orthopaedic surgeon. | |
| Alexander Thomas Dix | For service to industry and the media. | |
| Dr Stephen Arthur FitzGerald | For service in the field of international relations. | |
| Charles Henry Fitzgibbon | For service to trade unionism and the transport industry. | |
| John Bryan Giles BEM QPM | For public service in the South Australian Police Force. | |
| Sydney Broadway Grange OBE MVO | For services to sport. | |
| Cedric Edward Keid Hampson | For service to the legal profession. | |
| Emeritus Professor Arthur Maxwell Horsnell | For service to dentistry. | |
| James Charles Ingram | For public service. | |
| The Honourable Charles Keith Jones | For service to politics and government. | |
| Colin Frederick Madigan | For service to architecture. | |
| Louis Joseph Mangan | For service to industry and to the community. | |
| The Honourable Justin Hilary O'Byrne | For service to politics and government. | |
| Professor William Robert Pitney | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of haematology. | |
| William Beal Pritchett | For public service. | |
| Emeritus Professor Jack Edwin Richardson | For service to the law and for public service. | |
| James Scully | For public service. | |
| Professor Donald Richard Stranks | For service to education and learning. | |
| Albert Lee Tucker | For service to the visual arts. | |
| Raymond Stanmore Turner CBE | For service to the community, particularly as national chairman of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. | |
| Emeritus Professor Frederick John Willett DSC | For service to education and learning. | |
| Lindsay James Yeo | For service to the community. |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral Kaye Vonthethoff | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Flag Officer Naval Support Command. | [1] |
| Army | Major-General David Matheson Butler DSO | For service as General Officer Commanding Training Command. | |
| Major-General David Aloysious Drabsch MBE | For service as Commander First Division. | ||
| Major-General Peter Courtney Gration OBE | For service as Assistant Chief of Defence Force Staff. | ||
| Air Force | Air Vice-Marshal Eric Hay Stephenson OBE | For service as the Director-General of Air Force Health Services. |
Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Marjorie Adamson | For service to early-childhood education. | [1] |
| Gillian May Armstrong | For service to the film industry. | |
| John Edwin Bertrand | For service to yachting, particularly as helmsman of Australia II in the successful America's Cup challenge 1983. | |
| Arthur Ernest Bishop | For service to mechanical engineering, particularly in the field of automobile-steering technology. | |
| Emeritus Professor Albert Laurence Blakers | For service to secondary and tertiary education, particularly in the field of mathematics. | |
| Professor Aubrey Charles Bowring | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatric surgery. | |
| Dr Doreen Miriam Bridges | For service to music education. | |
| Graeme Thomas Briggs | For service to sport, particularly athletics. | |
| Elizabeth Ann Butcher | For service to the performing arts, particularly in the field of administration. | |
| Leslie Caplan | For service to the community. | |
| Dr Desmond William Crowley | For service to adult education. | |
| Betty Cuthbert MBE | For service to sport and the community. | |
| Allen Thomas Deegan | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly in the field of electronics. | |
| Dr Carmine De Pasquale | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| Kathleen Mercy Dickinson | For service to the blind. | |
| Dr Robert Andrew Douglas | For service in the field of clinical medicine. | |
| Mark Gordon Ella | For service to rugby union. | |
| Albert Coulston Evans | For service to industrial relations. | |
| George Joseph Fairfax | For service to the performing arts. | |
| The Reverend Father Jefferies John Foale | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| Michael John Francis Fox | For service to the disabled. | |
| Dr George Taylor Gibson | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. | |
| James Connal Howard Gill MBE | For service to the community. | |
| Stephen Charles Hall | For service to the performing arts, particularly as a producer and administrator. | |
| Frank Charles Beresford Haly | For service to the accountancy profession and the community. | |
| Brian Douglas Hannaford | For service to education. | |
| Norman Jones Hitchins | For public service. | |
| Dr David Clements Jackson DSC | For service to medicine, particularly the welfare of the disabled. | |
| Hilary Alison Downing Johnson | For service to the welfare of handicapped children. | |
| Warren Leslie Jones | For service to yachting, particularly as executive director of the successful Australia II America's Cup challenge 1983 team. | |
| Brian Keating DFC | For service to the community, particularly the public funding of education. | |
| Sister Marie Teresa Kehoe | For service to education. | |
| Ingeborg Victoria King | For service to the visual arts, particularly sculpture. | |
| Dr David Kerry Kirke | For public service in the field of paediatric nutrition. | |
| Gilbert Roche Andrews Langley | For service to sport and the community. | |
| Henry Madren Leggo | For service to the community. | |
| Benjamin Lexcen | For service to yachting, particularly as designer of Australia II in the successful America's Cup challenge 1983. | |
| Brian Edmund Lloyd | For service to engineering, particularly in the field of education. | |
| John Francis Longley | For service to yachting, particularly as project manager and as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America's Cup challenge 1983. | |
| Dr Desmond James Lugg | For public service, particularly in the field of Antarctic biomedical research. | |
| Joan Hartley McClintock | For service to the community in the field of social welfare. | |
| Professor Andrew Dalgarno McCredie | For service to music. | |
| John Streeter Manifold | For service to literature as a poet and musician. | |
| The Right Reverend Kenneth Bruce Mason | For service to religion. | |
| Keith Vaux Mattingley | For service to the media and the community. | |
| Desmond Ronald Miller | For public service in export marketing. | |
| James Mollison | For public service in the field of art, particularly as director of the Australian National Gallery. | |
| Colonel Kenneth George Mosher OBE ED | For service to science and the community. | |
| Cecil Thompson Oliver | For service to trade unionism. | |
| Patricia June O'Shane | For public service in the field of Aboriginal welfare. | |
| William James Bell Pollock | For public service. | |
| Eric Ernest Porter † | For service to the film industry, particularly in the field of animation. | |
| Dr Delmont Puflett (Mrs Purcell) | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. | |
| Joan Innes Reid | For service to the community, particularly in the field of local government, social welfare and culture. | |
| William Ronald John Riddel OBE | For service to the community. | |
| George Arthur Robinson | For service to the legal profession in the field of town planning. | |
| Hugh Thomson Rogers | For service to commerce, education and the community. | |
| Saul Same | For service to the clothing and textile industry. | |
| George Schaffer | For service to the building industry. | |
| Dr Kevin Vincent Sheridan | For public service to science, particularly in the field of radio-physics. | |
| George Slater | For service to trade unionism. | |
| Robert Duncan Somervaille | For service to commerce. | |
| Cecile Eunice Storey | For service to international relations and education. | |
| Dr Kenneth Milton Sullivan | For service to science, particularly in the field of air-pollution control. | |
| Harold Elvin Toft | For service to industry, particularly in the field of mechanical cane harvesting. | |
| Robert William Turner | For service to the community, particularly as chairman, NSW branch of the Australian Kidney Foundation. | |
| Vincent Anthony Warrener | For service to the performing arts. | |
| Marjorie Elvira West | For service to the community, particularly in the Girl Guides Association. | |
| Richard Bruce Wherrett | For service to the theatre as a producer and director. | |
| Francis Kevin Willis | For service to industrial relations. | |
| Eric Paul Willmot | For service to education and in the field of Aboriginal studies. | |
| Stanley James Wilson | For service to the community. |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Commander Raymond George Bragge | For service to the Supply Branch of the Royal Australian Navy. | [1] |
| Captain Peter Grant Verlaine Dechaineux | For service to the Materiel Division of the Royal Australian Navy. | ||
| Lieutenant-Commander Stephen James Dutton | For service as Commanding Officer of HMAS Kimbla. | ||
| Commodore Philip Graham Newman Kennedy ADC | For service as the Commandant, Joint Services Staff College. | ||
| Army | Lieutenant-Colonel Beverley Joan Blanksby ED | For service to the Army Reserve. | |
| Colonel Robert Walter Fisher | For service to Training Command. | ||
| Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas John George | For service to Army Operational Contingency Planning and Development. | ||
| Major Ian Robert Hosie | For service as Training Officer, Headquarters Second Division. | ||
| Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Granville Le Dan | For service to Logistic Branch, Army Office. | ||
| Lieutenant-Colonel William Norman Lunn ED | For service as Military Secretary (Army Reserve), Third Military District. | ||
| Captain Keith Aubry Plummer | For service to the Melbourne and Adelaide Workshop Companies. | ||
| Major Graeme Stanley Quarry | For service as Camp Commandant, Army Office. | ||
| Colonel Barry Anthony Smithurst OStJ ED | For service as Commander, First Division Medical Services. | ||
| Air Force | Squadron Leader Robert Irvine Baird | For service as an Equipment Officer at Base Squadron, Laverton. | |
| Wing Commander William Bruce Byron | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a flying instructor. | ||
| Group Captain William Macdonald Collins | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as an engineer officer. | ||
| Squadron Leader Vincent Paul Gordon | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as resident engineer at New Zealand Aerospace Industries Ltd. | ||
| Wing Commander Bryan Douglas Harris | For service as Commanding Officer of No 37 Squadron. | ||
| Chaplain Clive Collingwood King | For service as a chaplain at RAAF Base, Richmond. |
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Raymond Alexander Aitken | For service to conservation, particularly flora, and in the field of ornithology. | [1] |
| William John Baillieu | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Magda Bardy | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of ethnic aged and infirm persons. | |
| Barry Barker | For service to the community. | |
| Enid Isabel Barnes | For service to the pharmacy profession. | |
| Paul Henry Barnes | For service to conservation. | |
| Reginald Wakeham Bartels OStJ | For service to the community in the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade. | |
| Harold Henry Batterham | For service to the community. | |
| Colin Kenneth Beashel | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Alexander Clifford Beauglehole | For service to botany, conservation and ornithology. | |
| Alma May Bode | For service to the angora and mohair industry. | |
| Joseph Meyer Brandon-Bravo | For service to the community. | |
| Percy Edward Brierley | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel. | |
| Sylvia Hazel Brose | For service to education. | |
| Robert Neil Brown | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Sister Mary Elizabeth Bui-Thi Nghia | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| Alexander Leslie Cahill | For service to trade unionism. | |
| Norman Astley Calvert | For service to the sport of rifle shooting and the community. | |
| Anita Olive Campbell | For public service in the field of Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Dr Margaret Enid Christian | For service to the community, particularly in the care of animals. | |
| David Chugg | For service to the community. | |
| Florence Amy Cluff | For service to trade unionism and the welfare of the aged. | |
| Denis George Leonard Coley | For public service. | |
| Daphne Rosina Colless | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Kathleen Mary Cooper | For service to local government and the community. | |
| Dr Wilson Leighton Corlis | For service to medical education. | |
| Major Peter Costello | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| William Leslie Joseph Crofts | For service to local government and the community. | |
| Carmel Curtain | For service to children's welfare. | |
| George Harold Daldry | For service to sport and the community. | |
| Virginia Margaret Davey | For service to the community. | |
| Francis James Day | For service to sport and the community. | |
| David Rex Deer | For service to primary industry, particularly apiculture. | |
| Antonino Albert deFina | For service to the sport of skindiving. | |
| Donald Gatjil Djerrkura | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Monica Alma Duane | For service to the community. | |
| Russell Frank Ebert | For service to Australian football. | |
| Frank Brian Evans | For service to education and the community. | |
| Damian Michael Fewster | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Jennifer Vivienne Filby | For service to the community. | |
| Constance Dorn Fogarty | For service to tennis. | |
| Roy Bennett Fothergill Galpin | For service to local government and the community. | |
| Richard Thomas Gard | For service in the field of mental health and to rowing. | |
| Leslie Arthur Gardiner | For service to podiatry. | |
| Raymond Arnold Graetz MC | For service to the community. | |
| Norman Mervyn Green | For service to primary industry and local government. | |
| James Edward Greening | For service to the community. | |
| John Vincent Groves | For service to the community, particularly junior sport. | |
| Dorothea Hildegard Johanna Hamilton | For service to nursing. | |
| George Godfrey Hard | For service to the community, particularly with the Prisoners' Aid Society. | |
| Betty Mildred Harding | For service to the community. | |
| Kenneth Edgar Haslingden | For service to local government and the community. | |
| Edward Bonaventure Heffernan | For service to the visual arts. | |
| Sister Mary Vianney Henry | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of orphaned children. | |
| Geoffrey Payne Hodge | For public service. | |
| Frances Honour Hogan | For service to the community. | |
| Thomas William Holmes | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel. | |
| Thelma May Hoy | For service to the community. | |
| Stanley Edward Hummerston | For service to the community. | |
| Allan Marcus Huston | For service to the community. | |
| James James | For service to the community. | |
| Kenneth Peter Judge | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Johnny Kalisperis | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| John Charles Carew LaForest | For service to the newsagency industry. | |
| Alfred Harrington Langdon | For service to the manufacturing industry. | |
| Anita Josephine Mary Le Tessier | For service to education in the field of speech and drama. | |
| Lynley Jean Lewis | For service to the country community, particularly the teaching of ballet to children. | |
| Cole Michael Lissiman | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Robert Campbell Llewellyn | For service to the community. | |
| Ernest Lone | For public service. | |
| Rolfe Scott McAllister | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Patrick Joseph McCormack | For public service. | |
| Arnold Robert McGill | For service to ornithology. | |
| The Reverend Dr Colin Anthony McKay | For service to the community, particularly in the field of psychiatric care. | |
| William Patrick McNamara | For service to the building industry and the community. | |
| Ronald Charles MacKenzie | For service to the sport of freshwater fishing. | |
| Joan MacLean | For service to the community. | |
| William Forrester Fisher MacLennan | For service to the community. | |
| Theresa Delores Maunder | For service to ballet. | |
| Maria Irena Mencinsky | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| Patricia June Moore | For service to basketball. | |
| Colin Thomas Nicholas | For service to cricket. | |
| Jacqueline Moya O'Brien | For service to nursing. | |
| Bert Oliver | For service to yachting. | |
| Mary Roberta Owen | For service to the community, particularly in the field of women's affairs. | |
| Neville George Perkins | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Rosemary Ann Pirie | For service to the community. | |
| Irene Gwendoline Ramsay | For service to the community. | |
| George Rawnsley | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Brian John Richardson | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Stanley Stuart Roberts | For service to the community. | |
| Father Peter James Robinson | For service to the welfare of the disabled. | |
| Major Arthur Frederick William Shaw RL | For service to the community. | |
| Grant Eugene Simmer | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Phillip Murray Smidmore | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Mary Clare Smith | For public service. | |
| Rosemary Joy Stacy | For service to the Girl Guides Association. | |
| Florence Winifred Stalley | For service to the community. | |
| James Francis Stephens | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel. | |
| James Ronald Stoner | For service to the community. | |
| Leon George Stubbings | For service with the Australian Red Cross Society. | |
| Andrzej Szczygielski | For service to ethnic welfare and the welfare of ex-service personnel. | |
| Joan Margaret Taggart | For service to the community. | |
| Hugh Keith Treharne | For service to yachting, particularly as a crew member of Australia II in the successful America’s Cup Challenge 1983. | |
| Gina Florence Triaca | For service to ethnic welfare. | |
| Harold Elliot Twartz | For service to the community. | |
| Edward Leo Twohill | For service with the Pony Club Association. | |
| Wagea Waia | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Eileen May Walker | For service to the community. | |
| Thomas James Wallace | For service to the community. | |
| Stanley Ward | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of alcoholics. | |
| Ivy May West | For service to nursing. | |
| William Raymond Wilkie | For public service. | |
| Charles Henry Wilson | For service to the community and the life-insurance industry. | |
| Garnet Ian Wilson | For service to Aboriginal welfare. | |
| Reginald Wilson-Irving | For service to the entertainment industry and the community. | |
| Florence Edith Wrighter BEM | For service to athletics. | |
| Albert Ernest Clifford Young | For long-distance running. |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer John William Balcolm | For service to the Communications Centre of HMAS Moreton and Naval Communications Area Local Station, Brisbane. | [1] |
| Chief Petty Officer Peter Mintern Brown | For service to the RAN Reserve, particularly to Diving Team 6. | ||
| Able Seaman Ian Robert Duffner | For service as a seaman in the Royal Australian Navy. | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Derek Brian Hampson | For service as Deputy Marine Engineer Officer of HMAS Moresby. | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Raymond James Tweedie | For service as the senior sailor in charge of the stores department of HMAS Cairns. | ||
| Warrant Officer Eric Thomas Watson | For service as the Supply Officer (Catering) in HMAS Nirimba. | ||
| Army | Sergeant Eric John Bardsley | For service as Supervisor Army Messes, Joint Services Staff College. | |
| Warrant Officer Class Two Geoffrey Reginald Bateman | For service as a Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, District-Support, Unit, Sydney. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Ronald Alexander Coleman | For service in the field of training, particularly as Regimental Sergeant Major, Training Command. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Stephen Leitch Collins | For service in the field of contact repair and maintenance of Army equipment. | ||
| Captain Kevin John Dunnicliffe | For service as a Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant in the 5th/7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. | ||
| Sergeant Alan William Forte | For service as the Physical Training Instructor, 1st Military Hospital. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Douglas John Gammon | For service in training Army apprentices at 1st Base Workshop Battalion. | ||
| Captain Barry Alwyn John Hassall | For service as the Regimental Sergeant Major, Officer Cadet School. | ||
| Corporal Eric John Leask | For service as driver for the General Officer Commanding Logistic Command. | ||
| Sergeant Brian Edward Medcraft | For service to the Army Malaria Research Unit. | ||
| Sergeant Keith Richardson O'Connor | For service as Gunnery Instructor, Armoured Centre. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Graham Maxwell O'Hearn | For service in the field of armoured-vehicle technical support, particularly with 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment. | ||
| Captain Lindsay Ross Pyne | For services as Senior Nursing Officer, Army Apprentices School. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Trevor Albert Robson | For service as the Movements Officer, Liverpool Transport Unit. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Ola Sever Stevenson | For service in the field of parachute and Army Reserve Special Action Force training. | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Frederick John Titcume | For service as Unit Administrative Officer, 1st Port Construction and Repair Group. | ||
| Air Force | Warrant Officer John Gilbert Chalmers | For service as a warrant officer engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force. | |
| Warrant Officer Graham David Copeland | For service as a caterer at RAAF Base, East Sale. | ||
| Sergeant David Ross Cussons | For service to the RAAF as an aircraft metal worker. | ||
| Sergeant Joseph Paul Kozey | For service search and rescue crewman, No 2 Flying Training School, RAAF. | ||
| Flight Sergeant Norman Vincent Meechan | For service as a security guard at No 1 Stores Depot RAAF | ||
| Sergeant Howard Vernon MiSSa't | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a photographer. | ||
| Flight Sergeant Harry William Park | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a blacksmith. | ||
| Warrant Officer Donald James Stanley Smith | For service as a motor-transport driver at Base Squadron, RAAF Base, Richmond. |