The 1990 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1990 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden. [1]
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June. [2]
† indicates an award given posthumously.
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sir William Archer Gunn, KBE CMG | For service to primary industry | [1] [3] |
| Professor Sir John Carew Eccles | For service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology | |
| The Honourable Dr Thomas Weetman Smith, QC | For service to the law and to legal institutions | |
| Sidney Baillieu Myer | For service to business and commerce, to government and to the community |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Barrett, OBE | For service to banking and accounting | [1] [3] |
| Dr Kevin Bleasel | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of neurosurgery | |
| Allan Robert Border, AM | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Professor Bettina Cass | For service to social security policy and women's affairs | |
| William Harold Clough, OBE | For service to engineering and to the construction industry | |
| Michael John Cook | For service to the public service | |
| Professor David Miles Danks | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics and birth defects | |
| William Duncan Ferris | For service to international trade and to industry | |
| The Honourable Francis Robert Fisher | For service to the law and to education | |
| Ronald Gordon Fry, MBE | For service to industrial relations | |
| John Gandel | For service to business, commerce and to the community | |
| Rosemary Goldie | For service to religion and to international relations | |
| Trevor William Haines | For public service | |
| Dr George Vincent Hall | For service to medicine, particularly as a cardiologist | |
| Ken Robert Handley, QC | For service to the law and to religion | |
| Professor William Samuel Calhoun Hare | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of radiology | |
| Peter Dunstan Hastings† | For service to journalism | |
| Professor John Basil Hennessy | For service to archaeology and to international relations | |
| Professor Harry Payne Heseltine | For service to education particularly in the field of Australian literature | |
| Professor Phillip William Hughes | For service to education | |
| The Honourable Ralph James Dunnett Hunt | For service to the Australian Parliament | |
| Daryl Sanders Jackson | For service to architecture | |
| The Honourable Mr Justice William Kaye, QC | For service to the law | |
| Dr Michael Stockton Keating | For public service | |
| Neal Francis Kent | For public service and service to transport | |
| Professor Paul Ivan Korner | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of research | |
| Colin John Lanceley | For service to art, particularly as a painter and sculptor | |
| Dr Peter Gordon Livingstone | For public service | |
| George Alfred Lloyd, OBE | For service to aviation and to international relations | |
| Robert Bernard Maybury | For service to finance, particularly through the building society movement | |
| Professor Isabel McBryde | For service to education, particularly in the field of Australian prehistory | |
| Roderick Duncan McLeod | For service to primary industry, particularly grain growing | |
| Dr Frank Harland Mills | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiothoracic surgery | |
| Professor Gerald White Milton | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of malignant melanoma | |
| Grevor Chilton Molyneux, OBE | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health administration and fund raising | |
| Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, OBE | For service to music | |
| The Most Reverend Eric Gerard Perkins | For service to religion and to social welfare | |
| Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, OBE | For service to music | |
| The Honourable Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson, CMG | For service to government and politics and to the Victorian parliament | |
| Elizabeth Catherine Usher | For service as a speech therapist to people with disabilities | |
| His Honour Chief Judge Glenn Royce Donal Waldron | For service to the law | |
| Nancy-Bird Walton, OBE | For service to aviation, particularly the participation of women in aviation | |
| John Yeowart | For service to the coal mining industry | |
| The Honourable Michael Jerome Young | For service to the Australian parliament |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral David Guy Holthouse | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Logistics) | [1] |
| Commodore Peter Clifford Mitchell AM | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Anzac Ship Project Director | ||
| Army | Major General Brian William Howard AM MC | For service to the Australian Army as Director General, Natural Disasters Organisation | |
| Major General John David Keldie | For service to the Australian Army, in particular as Commander 2nd Division | ||
| Air Force | Air Vice-Marshal Graham Wallace Neil | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff — Personnel | |
| Air Vice-Marshal Richard John Bomball | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Development |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Reverend Neil William Adcock | For service to religion and the community | [1] [3] |
| Albert Arlen | For service to music and the performing arts | |
| Peter Charles Tustin Armytage | For service to horseracing as an administrator and owner | |
| Frank Arok | For service to soccer, particularly as the Australian national coach | |
| Yvonne Jean Bain | For service to women's affairs, particularly through the National Council of Women | |
| Melvie May Banks | For service to the hairdressing industry and to the community | |
| Robert Graeme Barnard | For service to music, particularly jazz | |
| Robert Alexander Barter | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of pathology | |
| Archie Barton | For service to Aboriginal welfare and land rights | |
| Henry Trevor Bennett | For service to the public service, particularly in the field of business law | |
| Frank Lincoln Bett | For service to the public service | |
| Douglas Ronald Birch | For service to industrial relations | |
| Stanley Aloysius Bitmead | For service to the trade union movement | |
| Wing Cdr Richard John Bluck | For service to the community through the St John Ambulance and to youth | |
| John Francis Boultbee | For service to the sport of rowing as an administrator | |
| Thomas Ray Bradley | For service to medical science and technology, particularly in the field of cell biology | |
| Anne Mary Brennan | For service to social work | |
| Elizabeth Annita Campbell | For service to the community, particularly to youth through the Peer Support Foundation | |
| Kathleen Joan Campbell | For service to adult education | |
| Emeritus Professor Arthur Frederick Cobbold, OBE | For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of administration and medical education | |
| John Cole | For service to the Australian fishing industry | |
| Aileen Coleman | For service to international relations, particularly as a medical missionary in Jordan | |
| Rabbi Doctor Shalom Coleman, CBE | For service to religion and to the community | |
| Geoffrey Page Cook | For service to the construction industry and to the community | |
| Ian Cooper | For service to music education | |
| Douglas Ward Cunliffe | For service to the science and technology, particularly through the Anglo-Australian Telescope project | |
| Kenneth George Cunningham | For service to the media, particularly as a sporting broadcaster | |
| Associate Professor Bruce Walker Davis | For service to heritage and to conservation | |
| Walter Johannes Augustinus De Veer, MBE | For service to the Dutch community, multicultural broadcasting and to sport | |
| David John Dewhurst | For service to biomedical engineering for people with disabilities | |
| Wandrina Johanna Woutrina Douglas Broers | For service to the Dutch community, particularly through the fostering of the language and culture | |
| David Donn Eagleson | For public service | |
| Stewart Geoffrey East | For service to business, commerce and to the community | |
| Alan Edmund William Edwards, MBE | For service to the performing arts | |
| Bruce Harrison Edwards | For service to accountancy | |
| Peter Colin Roy Edwards | For service to conservation and the environment and to the community | |
| Janet Lucile Elder | For service to thoracic medicine and to the community | |
| Emeritus Professor Ralph Warren Victor Elliott | For service to the community and to education | |
| Averil Fink, MBE | For service to the welfare of the aged | |
| Neville Horner Fletcher | For service to science, particularly in the field of applied physics | |
| Joseph Robert Emmott Fraser | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of rheumatic diseases | |
| Max Gillies | For service to the performing arts | |
| Samuel Mark Goldbloom | For service to the community particularly through the peace movement | |
| Ian John Gollings | For service to veterans affairs | |
| Patricia June Goodheart | For service to the Girl Guide Association and to the community | |
| Desmond John Gerald Griffin | For service to natural history, particularly through the Australian Museum | |
| Elisabeth Ann Harricks | For service to people with impaired hearing | |
| Beryl Sidney Haynes | For service to people with physical disabilities, particularly in the field of physiotherapy | |
| Thomas Clement Hayson | For service to business and commerce | |
| The Honourable Charles Murray Hill | For service to the South Australian parliament and to the community | |
| Peter Phillip Hitchcock | For service to conservation and the environment | |
| Harold William Holowell | For service to the trade union movement | |
| Elspeth Phyllis Hope-Johnstone | For service to the art, to early childhood education and to public broadcasting | |
| Anthony Martin Houen | For service to people with disabilities, particularly those with impaired hearing | |
| Donald James Hughes | For service to business and to industry, particularly the food industry | |
| William Arthur Charles Hughes | For service to the trade union movement | |
| Ronald William John Robinson James, MBE | For service to the community | |
| Leslie Arthur Jeckeln | For service to the New South Wales parliament as an administrative officer | |
| John Frederick Jenkinson | For service to children with physical disabilities | |
| The Honourable Lawrence Borthwick Kelly | For service to the New South Wales Parliament and to the community | |
| Shirley Marjorie Kidd | For service to nursing | |
| Evelyn Koshnitsky, BEM | For service to chess | |
| Kurt Albert Lance | For service to skiing | |
| John Landerer | For service to the legal profession, particularly in the field of legal education, and to the community | |
| Alderman Michael Lardelli | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Clive Ditton Lee | For service to amateur athletics | |
| Beryl Eileen Linn | For service to religion and to education | |
| Reginald Marsh | For public service and service to the community | |
| William Ian McCullough | For public service | |
| Arthur Gregory McDonald | For service to the community and to industry | |
| Roderick Gardner McEwin | For service to medical administration | |
| Roderick Hamilton McGeoch | For service to the law and to the community | |
| Joseph Daniel McGinness | For service to the Aboriginal community | |
| Robert Ian McNamara | For service to people with disabilities | |
| Donald Frederick Nicholls | For public service | |
| Nicholas John Nicolaides | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of pathology | |
| David Brian O'Connor | For service to the Australian bicentennial celebrations | |
| Bruce Lefroy Okely | For public service | |
| John Bramston Russell Oldham | For service to landscape architecture | |
| Emeritus Professor Rex Charles Olsson | For service to education, particularly in the field of finance and accounting | |
| Warren George Osmond, OBE | For service to veterans | |
| William Abernethy Park, CBE | For service to education, to finance and the community | |
| Ian Wilson Paterson | For service to education | |
| Mervin George Phillips | For service to the community and to primary industry | |
| Professor Douglas William Piper | For service to medical education and medical research, particularly in the field of gastroenterology | |
| Judith Anne Porter | For service to nursing | |
| The Reverend Dr Gordon George Powell | For service to religious broadcasting and to alcoholics | |
| Guenter Prass | For service to the wine industry | |
| John Scott Rowe | For public service | |
| George Romano Santoro | For service to medical administration and to the Italian community | |
| Sydney Kitchener Saul | For service to veterans | |
| Frederick Charles Shield | For service to the finance industry, particularly through the building society movement | |
| Georgia Shield | For service to the community, particularly those suffering emotional and mental illness | |
| Commander Michael Thomas Edward Shotter, RAN | For service to the Australian bicentennial celebrations | |
| John Maslin Sibly | For service to conservation, particularly in the field of urban planning | |
| Hari Narayan Sinha | For service to science and technology and to Australian-Indian relations | |
| John Harman Slade | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology | |
| George Hermon Slade | For service to horticulture, particularly the culture of orchids | |
| Margaret Slattery, MBE | For service to education and to the community | |
| David Henry Solomon | For service to science and technology, particularly in the field of polymer chemistry | |
| Professor Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville | For service to the law and to bioethics | |
| The Reverend Herbert Rhead Stevens | For service to education | |
| Leslie Allan Swinstead | For service to industrial relations and to the community | |
| Lady Viola Wilson Tait | For service to the performing arts | |
| Michael John Talberg | For service to the community | |
| Kathleen Joan Taperell | For public service | |
| Peggy Stuart Taylor | For service to nursing, particularly in the field of neo-natal care | |
| Peter Taylor, OBE | For service to the community, particularly in the field of care for the aged and infirm | |
| Lurline Tillett | For service to children with disabilities, particularly autistic children | |
| George Henry King Tippett | For service to international relations in the field of medicine | |
| Arthur Michael Douglas Tooth | For service to primary industry | |
| Harry Oscar Triguboff | For service to building and construction and for philanthropy | |
| Patricia Ann Turner | For public service | |
| Frederic Boyd Turner | For service to people with physical disabilities | |
| Doron Ur | For service to the community, particularly in the field of multicultural affairs | |
| Roy Henry Wallace | For service to education | |
| Roderick John Wallace | For public service, particularly to the conservation of Australian film archives | |
| Patricia Ward | For service to librarianship | |
| Dorothy Ann Wentworth | For service to the community, particularly women's affairs | |
| Ian Sydney Wilson | For service to education, particularly through parent participation | |
| Alexander Walter Young, OBE | For service to the community |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Captain Rupert Anthony Christie RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Director of Surface Warfare and Command and Control | [1] |
| Commodore Ian Fletcher Holmes RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Director General Fleet Maintenance | ||
| Commodore Robin Nyren Partington RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Naval Officer Commanding North Australia Area | ||
| Lieutenant Commander Bryan Chisholm Rowland RFD, RD, RANR | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Control of Shipping Training Cell | ||
| Army | Colonel Richard Palmer Knox | For service to the Australian Army as Director of Financial and Management Support | |
| Lieutenant Colonel William Julian Andrew Mellor | For service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer of the 5th Aviation Regiment | ||
| Brigadier Errold Frederick Pfitzner | For service to the Australian Army as the Chief of Staff Joint Exercise Planning Staff | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Peter Neville Rule RFD | For service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer Queensland Agricultural College Training Unit | ||
| Brigadier George Thomas Salmon | For service to the Australian Army in the field of new capital equipment procurement | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Ian Malcolm Stewart | For service to the Australian Army as Staff Officer Grade One Plans, Headquarters Land Command Australia | ||
| Major Ronald James Tattersall | For service to the Australian Army as an administrative staff officer in Army Office, Canberra | ||
| Major Gerald Anthony Thurnwald | For service to the Australian Army as Officer Commanding 19th Dental Unit | ||
| Air Force | Wing Commander Michael Brendon Birks | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer No 34 Squadron, Fairbairn ACT | |
| Air Commodore Colin Edward Bradford | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Director of Personnel Officers | ||
| Flight Lieutenant David John Green | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as an instructor in the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Wing at the Army School of Military Engineering | ||
| Wing Commander Jonathan Scott Hamwood | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer, Base Squadron, Tindal | ||
| Wing Commander Allan Grant (Angus) Houston | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer No 9 Squadron and subsequently Officer Commanding A Squadron, 5th Aviation Regiment | ||
| Group Captain James Frederick George Kennedy | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the facilities manager of the RAAF Base Tindal development project | ||
| Squadron Leader Warren James Ludwig | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the tactical co-ordinator, Standards and Training Office No 10 Squadron, Edinburgh, South Australia |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Beatrice Ellen Abell | For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Home Mission Society | [1] |
| Toula Andrikopoulos | For service to the Greek community | |
| Eftychia Antoniou | For service to the Greek community | |
| George Charles Colville Armstrong | For service to the community and veterans | |
| Ian Maxwell Leslie Armstrong | For service to the community, particularly in the field of community history | |
| Bernard Clarence Badger | For service to veterans | |
| Joan Margaret Banks | For service to health education and women's affairs | |
| Cedric Anthony Beverly Baxter | For service to the sport of badminton. | |
| Henry Robert Beak | For service to the community and local government | |
| Michael Anthony Beckwith | For service to the community and local government | |
| Donald Fyfe Bell | For service to amateur athletics and to the community | |
| Reginald John Bennett | For service to the community | |
| Eileen Bennett | For service to community health and to international relations | |
| Kenneth John Maynard Bilston | For service to engineering | |
| Commander Alexander Duncan Black | For service to local government | |
| Patrick Finbar Boland | For service to veterans | |
| Alice Clifford Bott | For service to the community | |
| Raynor Richard Bott | For service to veterans | |
| Francis Walter Bourke | For service to the community and sport | |
| Henry Keith Bowler | For service to the sport of table tennis | |
| Fay Catherine Bray | For service to the community and youth | |
| George James Francis Breen | For service to veterans | |
| Valerie Jean Broad | For service to the community and people with physical disabilities | |
| Wilfred Brooks | For service to the Public Service | |
| Betsy Caroline Brown | For service to music and education | |
| Christine Penelope Brune | For service to international relations through International Children's Aid | |
| Neita Joyce Burkill | For service to the community | |
| Joseph Burton | For service to the community | |
| Donald Campbell | For service to the sport of soccer, particularly as a referee | |
| Lt Cdr Kenneth Henry Cartwright | For service to the sailing and youth | |
| John Aloysius Cavanagh | For services to the community | |
| Doris Winifred Chalmers | For services to the welfare of the aged | |
| George Jira Chaloupka | For services to Aboriginal art and culture | |
| Antony Erling Charlton | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Jean Chase | For service to early childhood education | |
| Judith Olive Chisholm | For service to Aboriginal health and welfare | |
| Michael Nicholas Churkin | For service to the Russian community | |
| Alan Clarkson | For service to the media as a sports journalist | |
| David Major Cody BEM | For service to animal welfare, particularly at Taronga Park Zoo | |
| Eileen Bernice Coe | For service to nursing | |
| Albert Thomas Cooper | For service to the Public Service | |
| Margaret Cooper | For service to the disabled | |
| Ernest George Cope | For service to the community and to youth | |
| Charles Rowland Cornall | For service to community health, particularly to hospital administration | |
| Arthur Richard Cox | For service to veterans | |
| Anthony John Culnane | For service to the community | |
| Ailsa Margaret Curtis | For service to the education of children with intellectual disabilities | |
| Councillor William Mayfield Dane | For service to the community and local government | |
| Joan Dare | For service to the welfare of the aged | |
| Aline Frances Darke | For service to the community | |
| Janet Lancaster Darling | For service to international relations and to the environment | |
| Alan Darcy Darlington | For service to veterans | |
| Mijo Ivan Darveniza | For service to the community, particularly through the Victorian Ambulance Service | |
| Dr Joseph Ivan Davis | For service to sports medicine and the community | |
| Vincent Gerard Davis | For service to community welfare, particularly through the St Vincent de Paul Society | |
| Johannes Cornelius Jacobus De Jong | For service to martial arts | |
| Arthur Edward Denison | For service to the baking industry | |
| Maria Dnistrjanski | For service to the Ukrainian community | |
| Charles Francis Doyle | For service to junior basketball | |
| Mary Frances Wiseman Duchesne | For service to ballet | |
| Sister Ruta Dzenis | For service to nursing and to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| Paul Barcroft Eccles | For service to the Public Service | |
| Brother Boyd John Egan | For service to the community and to education | |
| The Honourable Dr Roger August Alfred Faes De Bryon Faes | For service to community health and to the New South Wales Parliament | |
| Clifford Wilmot Farmer | For service to the community | |
| Andrew Fleming | For service to the sport of judo | |
| Deaconess Doris Ellen Fletcher | For service to the community, particularly in the field of migrant assistance | |
| William James Frecklington | For service to coach building and craftsmanship | |
| William Henry Charles Fullwood | For service to the community | |
| Alderman Graham Charles Gard | For service to local government | |
| Guerin Gardner | For service to the sport of canoeing | |
| Brian Alan Glencross | For service to hockey | |
| John Douglas Gordon | For service to music, particularly as a carillonist | |
| Councillor George Albert Gould | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Lyall Lintott Green | For service to the community | |
| Helen Rhoda Greentree | For service to the community, particularly to youth | |
| Vladislav Gregurek | For service to the tourist and hospitality industry | |
| Nicanora Growns | For service to the Filipino community | |
| Thomas Philip Grundy | For service to education and multicultural affairs | |
| Gordon Talbot Gunn | For service to the arts, particularly as a pipe organ builder and player | |
| Jack Vernon Guye | For service to local government and to the community | |
| John Edmond Haddad | For service to the community. | |
| Gregory Francis Hamilton | For service to people with hearing and visual disabilities | |
| Peter Keith Harten | For service to the Trade Union movement | |
| Lillian Marjorie Florence Hawke | For service to the community | |
| John Graham Hawley | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Pamela Moira Hayes | For service to nursing and midwifery education | |
| Bernhard Elizabeth Heiden | For service to lawn bowls and to youth | |
| Maria Heymans | For service to art | |
| Frederick Harley Hillier MBE | For service to veterans | |
| Eric Hind | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Joan Rita Hoffman | For service to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| Earle Samuel Hoffman | For service to the Jewish community | |
| Frederic Keith Davenport Howard | For service to the community | |
| Henry Humphris-Clark | For service to surf life saving | |
| Peter John Hunter | For service to photography. | |
| Kevin Robert Hutchinson | For service to the community particularly through the restoration of historic river boats. | |
| Francis Patrick Aloysius Hyde MBE | For service to Rugby League football and to the media. | |
| Ian Lindsay Irwin | For service to the Australian bicentennial celebrations, particularly through the Castrol World Car Rally. | |
| William George Jameson | For service to people with intellectual disabilities. | |
| Margaret Rose Jobson | For service to the welfare for the aged. | |
| Major Elizabeth Pearl Johnson | For service to community welfare, particularly through the Salvation Army. | |
| Councillor Thomas Edward Johnston | For service to local government and to the community. | |
| Thomas Henry Jones | For service to the Western Australian Parliament, to the trade union movement and to the welfare of the elderly. | |
| Fiorenza Jones | For service to the Italian community. | |
| Paraskevas Perry Kailis | For service to the Greek community. | |
| Gwen Kemmis MBE | For service to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| Marjory Kent | For service to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. | |
| Enid Ethel Kerr | For service to social welfare, particularly through Life Line. | |
| Noel George Langley | For service to soccer, particularly as a junior coach. | |
| Ruth Isobel Langley | For service to community health, particularly through the Asthma Foundation of South Australia | |
| Barry Michael Lee | For service to industry, particularly in the area of fire protection | |
| John Charles Lewis-Driver | For service to veterans | |
| Marcus Linton | For active involvement in several community groups including the Commando Association (since 1960); Norman Park Methodist Church, Coorparoo and District RSL, Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal; and Blue Nursing Appeals | |
| Raymond Cecil James Little | For service to cricket administration | |
| Donald George Macdonald | For service to horticulture | |
| Nancy Florence MacIvor | For service to the community | |
| John Dight Mackay | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Bruce Malcolm Mackie | For service to the welfare of the aged and to Legacy | |
| Dr Sheena Dawson MacLeod | For public service, particularly to public health | |
| Francis George Makepeace | For service to the community | |
| Muriel Doreen Markey | For service to the community | |
| Dr Betty Jean Harvard Marks | For service to medicine and to the community | |
| Pamela Howard Marsh | For service to physiotherapy | |
| Colonel John Henry Marsh MBE | For service to the community | |
| Richard Paul Marshall | For public service. | |
| Ruth Lena Mataitis | For service to migrant assistance | |
| Brenda Olive Matthews | For service to the arts, particularly to porcelain painting | |
| Janice Mary May | For service to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| Louis Benedict Joseph McGovern | For service to education | |
| Margaret Edna McGregor | For service to the community, particularly to the foster grandparent scheme | |
| William John McKenzie | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Stanley Bruce McKenzie | For service to the community | |
| Deaconess Mavis Jean McKinnon | For service to religion | |
| Donald McKnight | For service to ice skating | |
| Pamela Mary McLean | For service to surf life saving | |
| Cedric Haig McLean | For service to scouting | |
| Rae McLintock | For service to education | |
| David George McQuitty | For public service | |
| Roberta McRae | For service to migrant assistance | |
| Abraham Charles Mellick | For service to the community | |
| Mary Merlin | For service to Aboriginal welfare and to the community | |
| Jack Howard Mills | For public service | |
| John William Mills | For service to the community and to veterans | |
| Ursula Merle Modder | For public service, particularly to early childhood education | |
| Sister Marie Therese Morganti | For service to education | |
| Thelma Isobel Morris | For service to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| Lillian May Mouatt | For service to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| John Robert Moulton | For service to the Australian Bicentennial celebrations, particularly the Sydney Australia Day celebrations and fireworks display | |
| Kevin Lesley Myers | For service to life saving | |
| Alexander Gilmour Nason MBE | For service to the agricultural show movement | |
| Mary Isabel Catherine Newman | For service to the retail fashion industry | |
| Leslie Gilbert Newton | For service to veterinary science and to the community | |
| Clare Mary O'Connor | For service to the community | |
| Edward (Terry) Oppy | For service to the community and to soccer | |
| Dean (Rocky) Page | For service to the community and to country music | |
| Graeme Ogilvy Paton DFC | For service to the community | |
| Harold Peden | For service to the Trade Union movement | |
| Angela Maria Pedicini | For service to the community | |
| Neville Bruce Perrin | For service to the welfare of the aged | |
| John Frederick Peters | For service to judo | |
| William Robert Pfitzner | For service to the community | |
| Rita Mavis Phillips | For service to nursing | |
| Emily Elizabeth Powell | For service to the community, particularly through the Bankstown Hospital Auxiliary | |
| Joan Eleanor Prior | For service to the community and to music | |
| James Weir Quaite | For service to hockey | |
| Anthony Rafty | For service to the media as a cartoonist | |
| Allan Walter Ransley | For service to the community | |
| Garry Edward Richards | For service to youth | |
| Dorothy Richards | For service to the arts, particularly for the Parliament House Embroidery | |
| Paddy Roe | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Mary Beatrice Russell | For service to the Girl Guides Association | |
| Anthony Joseph Ryan | For service to the Australian Wool Corporation as a senior shearing coach | |
| Lucy Ruby Saini | For service to the community | |
| Kenneth William Sandoe | For service to the community | |
| Geza Francis Kim Santow | For service to the community | |
| Herbert Edward Scotford | For service to the community, to arts and to the media | |
| Francis Desmond Seton | For service to the baking industry | |
| Councillor George Edward Shill | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Pinhkham Simmalavong | For service to the Lao/Indo-Chinese community | |
| Ross Lincoln Simpson DFC | For service to the community | |
| Peter Charles Sims | For service to conservation and to the environment | |
| Margaret Jane Sivyer | For service to the community | |
| Bernard Zdzislaw Skarbek | For service to the Polish community | |
| Henry Robert Slaney | For service to primary industry | |
| Winifred Bullot Smith | For service to nursing education | |
| Alan Samuel Smith | For service to local government | |
| Richard Gordon Spinks | For service to swimming, particularly rehabilitative hydrotherapy | |
| Miroslav Srdarov | For service to the Yugoslav community and to local government | |
| Arthur Exley Stephenson | For service to primary industry, and to road safety through the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland | |
| Neil Stephen Sullivan | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Stephen James Tazewell | For service to the community, to conservation and to local history | |
| David Albert Thompson | For service to Legacy | |
| Sybil Thornton | For service to people with disabilities | |
| Margaret Ruth Tindale | For service to conservation and the environment | |
| David Morgan Tuckerman | For service to the community | |
| Dr Raoul De Crespigny Tunbridge | For service to medicine and to the Victorian State Disaster Plan | |
| Shirley Wrathall Twist | For service to the community | |
| Ignatius William Tyquin | For service to Rugby League football | |
| Jean Azile van Nooten BEM | For service to children with visual and hearing disabilities | |
| Georgina Alma Venville | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Councillor Robert Gardner Walker | For service to primary industry, particularly sheep breeding | |
| Geoffrey Roy Walker | For public service | |
| Maureen Anne Walsh | For service to the community | |
| Nicholas Anthony Ronald Waterlow | For service to the arts | |
| Alfred Thomas Webb | For service to the community, particularly through the United Hospital Auxiliaries | |
| Annie Isabel Wellington | For service to the community | |
| John Douglas Frederick West | For service to the Victoria State Emergency Service | |
| George Albert Westcott BEM | For service to the community | |
| James Abbot McNeil Whistler | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Dudley Lyle Whittington | For service to commerce and property development | |
| Richard James Whittington | For public service | |
| Walter Frederick Widdeson | For service to the West Australian Axemen's League | |
| Kenneth Arthur Williams | For service to lawn bowls | |
| Betty Louise Reading Willis | For service to the Returned Services League Women's Auxiliaries | |
| Jack Reginald Willis | For service to veterans | |
| Percy Ross Wills | For service to veterans | |
| Arthur Frank Wilson | For service to the community | |
| Hazel Mary Wilson | For service to Aboriginal support services | |
| Robert Irving Winter-Irving | For service to Nagambie Bush Nursing Hospital | |
| William Louis Wonder | For service to youth and to international relations | |
| Gerald Albert William Worsell | For service to the Sports Union of the University of New England | |
| Alan James Wright | For service to the community | |
| Patricia Carrie Wright | For service to swimming | |
| Malcolm John Yeo RFD * | For service to education and aviation training for young people | |
| Evelyn Eleanor Young | For service to the community and to women's affairs | |
| John Fitzgerald Yuncken | For service to maritime history |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer Frederick Ian Baker | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly in the maintenance of Guided Missile Destroyers | [1] |
| Lieutenant Peter John Dermot Mitchell | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Senior Marine Technical Hull Sailor in HMAS Success | ||
| Warrant Officer Michael John Stubbs | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Administrative Staff Officer at the Supply School in HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Peter Mark Tyler | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Staff Officer Shipborne Lifesaving and Survival Equipment to the Directorate of Naval User Requirements | ||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class One Peter James Bruce | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of 8th/12th Medium Regiment | |
| Warrant Officer Class One Russell Don Campbell | For service to the Australian Army as RSM of 8th Brigade | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Graham William Docksey | For service to the Australian Army as the RSM of Logistic Command | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Roger Paul Gillis | For service to the Australian Army in the field of Electronic Warfare | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Bernard John Johnson | For service to the Australian Army as Squadron Sergeant Major 103rd Signal Squadron | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Kenneth Norman Johnston | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of Land Command Battle School | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Alan Raymond Kelb | For service to the Australian Army in the field of apprentice training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One David Meehan | For service to the Australian Army in the field of training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Roger Sidney William Payne | For service to the Australian Army as Supervisor Physical Training at the Infantry Centre | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Shane Bradley Purdon | For service to the Australian Army as the Warrant Officer Supervisor, Construction with Regional Engineer Liverpool | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Clem William Russell | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 31st Battalion, the Royal Queensland Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Keith Wayne Spence | For service to the Australian Army as a Training Development Warrant Officer at the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Centre, Directorate of Personal Computing, Personnel Branch, Department of Defence (Army Office) | ||
| Captain Anthony Charles Turner | For service to the Australian Army in the field of training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Clarence Arthur Whitehorn | For service to the Australian Army in the field of communications and cryptographic accounting | ||
| Air Force | Flight Sergeant Joseph Anthony | For service to the RAAF as a technician with the Aircraft Engineering Division at HQ Support Command | |
| Warrant Officer Garry Edward Eldridge | For service to the RAAF as the technical supervisor at No 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit | ||
| Flight Sergeant Gary Edward Glazier | For service to the RAAF in the Technical Airmen Manning Cell, Directorate of Personnel Airmen | ||
| Warrant Officer John Murray Hansen | For service to the RAAF as the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of No.2 Airfield Defence Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley | ||
| Flight Sergeant Alexander James McCabe | For service to the RAAF as Assistant Caterer, Base Support Wing, Darwin | ||
| Pilot Officer David James McCann | For service to the RAAF as a Load-Master Instructor at No.5 Squadron, RAAF Base, Fairbairn |
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