| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Daisy Evelyn Louise Aitken | For service to the performing arts | |
| Henry Samuel Alexander | For services to medicine, particularly in the field of optical dispensing |
| Gloria Fay Balcombe | For service to the community, particularly through the CWA |
| Richard Messenger Banks | For service to the community, particularly in relation to co-operative societies |
| Edmund James Bartrim | For service to the community |
| Janice Gwendoline Bateman | For service to the community |
| Walter Victor Bates | For service to the sport of soccer |
| Frederick Hector Bathurst | For service to the welfare of people with impaired vision |
| Jocelyn Reta Bayly | For service to the sport of netball |
| Cecilie Bearup | For service to the community, particularly in the field of occupational therapy education |
| Dr Fred Cyprian Better | For service to sports medicine |
| David Henry Bibby | For service to the community and local government |
| Steele Roy Bishop | For service to the sport of cycling |
| Isobel Kendall Bowden | For service to the community and conservation |
| William Thomas Boyd | For service to the community |
| Maxwell Thomas Brisbane | For service to the sport of basketball |
| Allen William Bryan | For service to the community |
| Thelma Elizabeth Budrodeen | For service to the community, particularly through the Riding for the Disabled programme |
| Alderman Harold Manus Bull | For service to the community and local government |
| Noel Edgar Burge | For service to sport |
| Molly Veronica Byrne | For service to the community and parliamentary service |
| Neville Allan Byrnes | For service to the community |
| Ian James Warner Cameron | For service to the sport of motor cycling |
| Carmelo Caruso | For service to the Italian community |
| Leonard Francis Cheffers | For service to the community and local government |
| Henry Humphrey Marsden Chilton, OBE | For service to primary industry, particularly the growing marketing of fruit and vegetables |
| Henry Ernest Chipperfield | For service to the community, particularly in the field of hospital administration |
| Robin Wayne Chisholm | For service to industry, particularly in the field of small business |
| Alice Constance Clark | For service to the community |
| Olive Bell Clifton | For service to the community, particularly through the St John Ambulance Brigade |
| Essieina Coffey | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Dr Conn Constantinou | For service to the Greek community |
| Sergeant Second Class William Denis Crompton | For service to the community, particularly through the Citizens Youth Welfare Association |
| Michael William Cronin | For service to the sport of rugby league football |
| Grace Laurette Cuming | For service to the community |
| Clarence James Daley | For service to the sheep industry in Australia |
| Janice Faye Davis | For service to the sport of judo and to the community |
| Kevin Dodd | For service to the community, particularly in the field of hospital administration |
| Betty Jean Dunkley | For service to the welfare of children, particularly those with intellectual disabilities |
| Mathew Francis Dwyer | For service to the Office of Australian War Graves |
| Elaine Margaret Fairclough | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of the aged |
| Bertram Albert Farquhar | For service to the community and to primary industry |
| Gwendoline Ethel Farrington | For service to the community and to local government |
| Francis Anthony Finegan | For service to the sport of boxing and to the community |
| Cindy-lu Fitzpatrick | For service to the sport of swimming |
| Margaret Joyce Ford | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Christopher Charles Edwin Gahan | For service to local government and to the community |
| Phillip Raleigh Ginsberg | For service to the sport of ice hockey |
| John Herbert Gleeson | For service to the trade union |
| Councillor Harold George Golland | For service to local government and to the community |
| Sergeant Third Class Clive Keith Grimshaw | For service to local government and to the community |
| Leslie Brian Gronow | For service to sport and to the community |
| Kenneth Charles Gulliver | For service to sport, particularly cricket and basketball |
| George Thomas William Hall | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Kenneth Valentine Hampton | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Claudia Adams Hargreaves | For service to the community through music |
| Keith Edward William Harper | For public service |
| Charles William Harriman | For service to the outback community of North Queensland |
| Millicent Treeby Herbert | For service to the community |
| Walter Bernard Hesling | For service to the arts |
| Wanda Zofia Teresa Hessler | For public service and for service to the Polish community in Australia |
| Sergeant Second Class William Charles Hipwell | For public service with the New South Wales Police Force |
| Arthur Oswald Hoad | For service to primary industry and to the community |
| Noel George Hodges | For service to the community, particularly through the State Emergency and Country Fire Services |
| William Laurence Hoffmann | For service to music |
| Councillor Allan George Holden | For service to local government and the community |
| Stephen Roy Holland | For service to the sport of swimming |
| Valerie Major Howse | For service to international relations through the Australian Committee for Venice |
| William Richard Henry James, MC | For service to nursing |
| Eric Clifford Jamieson | For service to the community |
| John Christian Jeppesen, RFD | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Robert Vincent Jervis | For service to journalism |
| Sister Mary Perpetua Johnston | For service to the community |
| Clifford Hubert Stewart Johnstone | For service to the community |
| Walter Leslie Kelly | For service to the community |
| Mavis Maud Kennedy | For service to Aboriginal children |
| Maxwell Kevin Kirwan | For service to the sport of water skiing |
| Jack Robert Larcombe | For public service and for service to the community |
| Anne Mary Lobato | For service in the community |
| Eric Stephen Loft | For service to the community |
| George Antonio Lonzar | For conservation and to tourism |
| Margaret Frances Lukes | For service to the community, particularly in the field of mental health |
| Senior Constable Ronald Malcolm Macfarlane | For public service with the Australian Federal Police |
| Dr Geoffrey Charles Macfarlane | For service in the field of hyperbaric medicine |
| Dorothy Mary McAdam | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| John James McAnulty | For public service as a diplomatic representative |
| Ethel Constance McEwen | For service to the community |
| John Norman Muir McFarlane | For service to industry and to the community |
| Monica Cecilia McGillivray | For service to those with learning difficulties |
| Vera Catherine McKeown | For public service |
| Robert Joseph McKerrow | For service to industry, particularly with building societies in Western Australia |
| James McLoughlin | For service to the welfare of those with disabilities |
| Merva Millicent McMorrow | For service to the community |
| John Robert McMurray | For service to the community and to the sport of Australian rules football |
| Gladys Alvena McNaught | For service to the community |
| Betty Jean McSweeney | For service to the community |
| Doris Rosetta (Dot) Mendoza | For service to the performing arts |
| Millthorpe Malcolm Midgley, AFC | For service to the community |
| Ian McDonald Mill | For service to the community |
| Donald Peter Morrison | For service to the sport of surf life saving |
| The Reverend Father Grant Morrow | For service to youth with disabilities, particularly through scouting |
| Councillor Brenda Murray | For service to the community |
| Thomas Charles Nash | For service to the community |
| Raymond Bede Newland | For service to the Australian Dental Association and to the community |
| Ray Ruby Gertrude Oldham | For service to the community through conservation of the man-made and natural environment |
| John Anthony Osborne | For service to the community |
| Madeline Overmyer | For service to the community |
| Sister Helena Parker | For service to the community |
| David Leland Parsons | For service to the community, particularly to charitable organisations |
| Ettie Pau | For service to the Torres Strait Islands community |
| Gordon Adrian Perlstein | For service to the trade union movement particularly with the Australian Transport Officers' Federation |
| Margaret Helen Peters | For service to nursing, particularly midwifery education and practice |
| Angelo George Pippos | For service to the Greek community in Queensland |
| Lilian Purves | For service to the nursing of the aged |
| John Francis Quinn | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Robert Reid | For service to the dairy industry and to the community |
| Jean Elizabeth Reid | For service to the education of children with learning difficulties |
| Roy Brendon Reidy, BEM | For service to the welfare of children |
| Ian Pountney Richmond Rex | For service to the community, particularly with the voluntary fire service |
| Thomas Albert Roberts | For service to the community |
| Dr Lancelot Turbet Robey | For service to the community, particularly in the field of medicine |
| Jean Neal Robinson | For service to early childhood education |
| Alfred Douglas Ross | For public service |
| Phyllis Mary Russell | For service to the scouting movement |
| Terence John Santry | For service to art, both as an artist and teacher |
| Jack William Robert Scott | For service to the community particularly through the Country Fire Authority |
| Robert James Scott | For service to the community and to local government |
| Elizabeth Alice Silsbury | For service to music and music education |
| Colleen Ellen Sims | For service to the education of children in outback Queensland |
| Francis Ernest Sims | For service to the education of children in outback Queensland |
| Robert Alan Smith | For service to the sport of surf life-saving |
| Leslie Ernest Smith | For service to the welfare of children |
| Donald Braithwaite Snadden | For service to the community, particularly through the Victoria Hospitals' Association |
| Jesse Franklin Spicer | For service to the Rostrum movement |
| Jean Elizabeth Starr | For service to the conservation and care of koalas, and treatment of the diseases affecting them |
| Dorothy Ruth Stewart | For service to the welfare of people with impaired vision |
| Arthur Raymond Sullivan | For service to youth through the Air Training Corps |
| Wendy Lois Swift | For service to nursing, particularly in the field of burns injuries |
| Peter Swindells | For service to local government, particularly in the fields of education and management |
| Eva Florence Syers | For service to the community and to charitable organisations |
| Francis Inglis Synnott | For service to the printing industry |
| Alwyn Florence Tamo | For service to the community |
| Detective Sergeant Ronald Albert Thomas | For public service with the South Australian Police Force |
| Arthur David Timms | For service to local government and to the community |
| Arthur Alan Tonkin | For service to the trade union movement, particularly through the meat industry employee's union |
| Wilfred Thomas Hood Truelove | For service to the community |
| Gordon James Vesperman | For service to the sport of swimming |
| William Glyn Walkley | For service to the community |
| Edward Moss Waxman | For service to the community |
| Wallace Robert Werrett | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Thomas James Whitehouse | For service to the sport of lawn bowls, particularly in the development of participation in sport by the visually impaired |
| Elizabeth Dorothy Wilson, MBE | For service to the welfare of the ageing |
| Frank Zions | For service to the community |
