| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Betty Allan | For services to the welfare of those with impaired hearing | [1] [2] |
| Phyllis May Allum | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of stress-related problems |
| Audrey Evelyn Anderson | For service to nursing |
| Marie Armstrong | For service to the performing arts |
| Daisy Bacon | For service to the community, particularly through the Girl Guide movement |
| Councillor Dorothy Jean Baker | For service to the community and local government |
| Alderman Jill Lorraine Barber | For service to the community and local government |
| Stewart Barnes | For service to the community, to youth, international relations and peace |
| Edna Barolits | For service to the public service, particularly to the Aboriginal community |
| Kenneth Peter Neville Baronie | For service to the community, particularly through the Good Neighbour Council of Western Australia and the Migrant Emergency Fund |
| Geoffrey Frank Barron | For service to the community and the welfare of Broken Hill residents |
| Fay Norma Bataille, MBE | For service to education and the community of Norfolk Island |
| Barbara Edith Biggins | For service to the arts, particularly through the South Australian Council for Children's Films and Television |
| Thomas Charles Boag | For service to tennis and public service |
| Francis Neville Bonser | For service to the fishing industry |
| Clement Booth | For service to the intellectually impaired |
| Dr Thomas Henry Boshier | For service to the dental profession |
| Henry Francis Boyle | For service to the community, particularly in the field of local history |
| Richard David Bradshaw | For service to the performing arts as a puppeteer |
| Neil Anthony Bridgefoot | For service to the community and local government |
| Nancye Margaret Bridges | For service to the performing arts |
| Robert Alden Brooks | For service to the welfare of the physically impaired |
| James John Brown | For service to conservation and gymnastics |
| Valerie Mary Browne | For service to the welfare of autistic children |
| Carol Margaret Budd | For service to the public service |
| Errol Desmond Bungey | For service to the sport of lawn bowls |
| Charles Lloyd Burley, QFSM | For service to the community |
| Joan Kathleen Burnett | For service to the community and ballet |
| Eileen Beryl Burns | For service to the community, particularly through the Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital |
| Herbert Buttery | For service to the visually impaired |
| James Benedict Cahill | For service to the community, particularly in the field of Aboriginal education |
| John Phillip Carmody | For service to the public service |
| Sidney Hayward Castine | For service to the community and local government |
| Daniel Clark | For service to the sport of cycling |
| Joyce Yvonne Clothier | For service to ballet |
| William Henry Collins | For service to those with intellectual disabilities |
| Elaine Adele Colquhoun | For service to the community, particularly to pony clubs |
| Raymond Martin Conroy | For service to the sport of harness racing |
| Leslie John Constable | For service to the community |
| Captain Raymond Keith Cooper | For service to the community as a military historian |
| Mavis Corbett | For service to the community, particularly to children |
| James Mitchell Cornwell | For service to the community and health administration |
| Michael Joseph Curtis | For service to the community and local government |
| Graham Hamilton Dillon | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Herman Cornelius Drenth | For service to the community |
| Kevin Charles Duffy | For service to the public service and to the community |
| Richard Alfred Dunn | For services to the sport of rugby league |
| Cornelius Henry Dwyer | For service to the transport industry, particularly as general secretary of the Taxi Council Queensland |
| Randolph Keith Evans | For service to the community |
| Megan Marjorie Evans | For service to music |
| Winsome Joan Evans, BEM | For service to music |
| John Bateson Faulkner | For service to the community |
| Reverend Diego Fernandez Del Rio | For service to the Spanish community |
| Charles Allen Fishburn | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| Herbert Crommelin Fitzroy | For service to the community |
| Catherine Foggo | For service to the community, particularly in the field of local history |
| Kathleen Margaret Forte | For service to the community, to international relations and peace |
| Maxwell Henry Gale | For service to the community and to international relations |
| Margaret Clare Gartland | For service to the community in the field of education |
| John Gavegan | For service to journalism |
| Myra Frances Gofton | For service to the community and to ex-service personnel |
| Clifford Dominic Goodchild | For service to music |
| Sally Sophia Goold | For service to nursing education |
| Keith Francis Gooley | For service to the meat industry and to the community |
| Dianne Rose Gorman | For service to the sport of hockey |
| Michael Robin Francis Goss | For service to art as an artist and administrator |
| Albert Holmes Graham | For service to the community |
| Jessie Marshall Griffin | For service to the community |
| Ronald Selwyn Grubb | For service to the community and to the welfare of ex-personnel |
| Mario Rheta Hardie | For service to the community, particularly to the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales |
| Herbert Colin Livingston Harvey | For service to the community |
| Erwin Ernest Heckendorf | For service to the community |
| Albert George Henderson | For service to local government and to the community |
| Adeline Ethel Hicking | For service to welfare, particularly to the Royal Flying Doctor Service |
| Ellen Mary Higham | For service to nursing education |
| Perry Colin James | For service to local government and to the community |
| Henry Thomas Jarvis | For service to the community |
| David Leslie Jimmieson | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Stephen Kelen | For service to literature |
| Douglas James Malbon Kiely | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| Louis Stevenson Langoulant | For service to health administration and the community |
| Francis Wilbur Le Page | For service to the community and to local government |
| Walkiri Valery Walter Lebedew | For service to volleyball |
| Andrew Lederer | For service to soccer |
| John Albin Edmund Lee | For service to the community and to local government |
| Stanley Lewis | For service to the community |
| Andrew Shu Wah Lim | For public service as secretary of the Australian Capital Territory Medical Board |
| Beryl Iris Lovell | For service to the community |
| Hurtle Reginald Lupton | For service to the community and to local government |
| Barry Layton Macdonald | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| William James MacFarlane | For service to the community, particularly the sick in the Hunter region |
| Stanley Hastings Manning | For service to welfare, particularly with the Wesley Central Mission |
| Ronald Leslie Marriott | For service to youth, particularly through the scouting movement, and to the community |
| George Francis Gell Marshall, QPM | For service to rugby union football |
| Barbara Mary McDonough | For public service, particularly the establishment of specialised libraries for the Department of Defence |
| Edna Betty McGill | For service to education and to the community |
| Ena Irene McGinn | For service to the community, particularly to Voluntary Aid and Australian Army Medical Women's Service Association |
| Ethel Joyce McGrath | For public service with the Patents Office |
| Francis William McGuren | For service to local government and to the community |
| Betty Ilma McIntyre | For service to health, particularly in the field of occupational therapy |
| Jean Alice Sutherland McKinlay | For service to the teaching of music, particularly to children |
| Amelia McLachlan | For service to the community |
| Barbara Patricia Mehan | For service to infant welfare |
| Elsie Rose Milton | For service to the Royal Newcastle Hospital |
| Dr Geoffrey Henry Moore | For service to medicine |
| Stanley John Nicholes | For service to sport as a fitness consultant |
| Phillipena Noel | For service to libraries, especially in the field of children's literature |
| Allen George Norris | For service to athletics and sports administration |
| James Andrew Noseda | For service to athletics and sports administration |
| Eva Esme O'Brien | For service to nursing, particularly at the Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital |
| John Francis O'Hanlon | For service to the community through charitable organisations |
| Henry Thomas O'Neill | For service to the newsagency industry |
| Bernard Philip O'Reilly | For service to the St John Ambulance Association and to the community |
| Karleen Osborne | For service to young people with physical disabilities |
| Maisie Oclanis Pain | For service to the red cross and to the welfare of those with Down's Syndrome |
| Patricia Paton | For public service with the Department of Foreign Affairs |
| George William Perry | For service to the community, particularly to senior citizens |
| Dr Harry Peters | For service to medicine, particularly as administrator of the Prince of Wales Hospital |
| Gordon George Poidevin | For service to the community |
| Herbert Clive Pratt | For service to the temperance movement |
| Superintendent Robert John Noel Prigg | For public service with the Australian Federal Police Force |
| Dimitrios Psarakis | For service to the community, particularly the Greek community |
| Frederick Douglas Quinane | For service to the community |
| Gary Arnold Radford | For service to the community |
| Dr John Gojko Radunovich | For service to the community and medicine |
| Stephen Istvan Raskovy | For service to wrestling |
| Robert Pearson Reading | For service to agriculture and to the community |
| Jean Heather Richards | For service to the community through charitable organisations |
| Merle Erica Richardson | For service to lawn bowls through the Newcastle District Bowling Association, and to the community through service groups and as a fundraiser for welfare organisations and for projects at the University of Newcastle |
| Ronald Ross | For service to the community |
| Dr Michael Sawer | For service to international relations between Australia and China |
| Paul Vincent Scanlan | For service to the community |
| Leila Caroline Schmidt | For service to the community, particularly to the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales |
| John Matthew Schreck | For service to horse racing |
| Archibald Allan Scott | For service to the community |
| Ann Elizabeth Scott | For service to the media as a rural broadcaster and to the community |
| Raymond Thomas Shea | For service to the community and to the trade union movement |
| Raoul Wesley Shepherd | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Stuart Howard Shorter | For service to scouting |
| Francis Ian Showell | For service to the tourist industry |
| Mary Elizabeth Smith | For service to the community |
| Lenore Irene Snowden | For service to the community |
| Fergus John Gordon Speakman | For service to athletics |
| Edwin George Stafford | For service to the Retired Police Association of Victoria and to the community |
| Robert Herbert Stringer | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health |
| Margaret Emily Sutherland | For service to early childhood education |
| Elizabeth Symonds | For service to those with disabilities particularly to the Spastic Centre of New South Wales |
| Matthew Douglas Tallon, MC | For service to cricket and hockey |
| Harry William Thomas Tidmarsh | For service to the welfare of the physically impaired, particularly as a splintmaker |
| Dorothy Mary Trumble | For service to those with impaired hearing |
| Kenneth John Turner | For service to local government and to the community |
| James Patrick Ulbrick | For service to manufacturing engineering and to the community |
| Lawrence Waina | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Captain Joyval Mary Walton | For service through the Salvation Army to the rehabilitation of the drug and alcohol addicted |
| Captain Robert Walton | For service through the Salvation Army to the rehabilitation of the drug and alcohol addicted |
| Sing-wu Wang | For public service to the National Library, particularly to the Orientalia collection |
| Mary Alice Watt | For service to the community |
| Mearl Dew Waye | For service to the community through the Queen Victoria Hospital Auxiliary |
| Dianne Leslie Gillett Weidner | For service to the community through the National Trust of Queensland and Toastmasters International |
| John William Weir | For service to community radio as a voluntary music librarian |
| Ralph Arthur Whitfeld, MBE | For service to local government and to the community |
| Dorothy Winifred Wicks | For community service to welfare organisations |
| Alfred Forbes Wilson | For service to religion and to the Aboriginal communities of northern Australia |
| Eric John Woodcock | For service to the community of King Island |
| Lindsay Gordon Woods | For service to the welfare of the elderly, particularly through the Lionsville Homes |
| Kathleen Margaret Ziesing | For service to the community, particularly through the care of the sick and elderly |
