The 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 11 June 1984 by the office of the Governor-General.
The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.
Order of Australia
Companion (AC)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Andrew Smith, CMG | For service to the community, particularly through administration of the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal (1983) Trust Fund |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Vice Admiral David Willoughby Leach, AO CBE MVO | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Chief of Naval Staff | |
| Air Force | Air Marshal Selwyn David Evans, AO DSO AFC | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief of Air Staff |
Officer (AO)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Kenneth John Campbell Back | For service to education | |
| Dr Alexander Boden | For service to the community and science | |
| Professor Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton | For service to education | |
| Harrison Bryan | For service as a librarian | |
| Leslie William Ralph Cave | For services to commerce and industry | |
| Dr David Owen Crompton | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology | |
| Professor Graeme Reade Anthony Ellis | For service to science, particularly in the field of radiophysics | |
| Michael Gleeson-White | For service to commerce and to the arts | |
| Albert Keith Johinke | For public service, particularly in the field of public transport | |
| James Bolton Leslie, MC | For service to the aviation industry and to community and cultural affairs | |
| Neville John McCarthy | For public service, particularly as Director Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, and for service to the community | |
| Dr Ian Gordon McWilliam | For service to science and technology | |
| Robert Lyndhurst Piesse | For service to primary industry, particularly in the development of fencing techniques | |
| The Most Reverend Donald William Bradley Robinson | For service to religion | |
| Ernest James Lyle Turnbull | For service to media | |
| Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, CBE | For service to ethnic welfare |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral Michael Wyndham Hudson | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty's Australian Fleet | |
| Army | Major General Raymond Jack Sharp, RFD ED | For service to the Army Reserve | |
| Brigadier Raymond Alan Sunderland | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Air Force | Air Vice Marshal John William Newham | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force | |
| Air Commodore Ian Traill Sutherland | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force |
Member (AM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claudio Piperno Alcorso | For services to the arts, education and to ethnic welfare | |
| Ida Lessing Faith Bandler | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Elizabeth Lorna Bartlett | For service to the community, particularly in the field of women's and children's welfare | |
| Marina Berezowsky | For service to ballet | |
| Dr Peter Bernard Botsman | For service to the arts and education | |
| Geoffrey Wilfred Bottrill | For service to the accountancy profession | |
| Nancy Fotheringham Cato | For service to Australian literature | |
| Emeritus Professor Avon Maxwell Clark | For service to education, particularly in the field of biological science | |
| Harold Spencer Cottee | For service to the community | |
| The Reverend Dr David Ray Cox | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Brother Quentin Michael Duffy | For service to education and to religion | |
| Margreta Ann Enid Elkins | For service to opera | |
| Giuseppe Emanuele | For service to the building industry | |
| John Edward Ferris | For service to the building industry and to the community | |
| Maxwell Raymond Finlayson | For service to local government | |
| Jack Lovett Fitzgerald | For service to the community, particularly with the Salvation Army | |
| Eugene Kenneth Foreman | For public service, particularly in the development of statistical methods in Australia and PNG | |
| Gordon David Geeves | For service to the welfare of people with dissibitities | |
| John Meighen Gibbs | For service to children's welfare | |
| John Clifford Hamilton | For service to the sport of Australian football | |
| William Howard | For public service, particularly in the field of defence science | |
| Raymond Barraclough Jennison | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Stanley Patrick Kelly, DFC | For service to banking | |
| Dr Ernest Joseph Kirby | For service to the community | |
| Professor Kwong Chiu Lee Dow | For service to education | |
| Faye Lo Po | For service to education and to the community | |
| Ronald Grant Lyon | For service to architecture | |
| Denis James Martin | For service to the Australian manufacturing industry | |
| Dr Ian Haig McConchie | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of thoracic surgery | |
| Kathleen Louise McCredie | For service to education | |
| Regis Maria McKenzie | For service to nursing | |
| Stephen Hamar Midgley | For service to the conservation of freshwater fish species | |
| Dr Roy Markham Mills | For service to thoracic medicine | |
| Dr Reginald Mills | For service to education and to science, particularly in the fields of physical and electro-chemistry | |
| Milton Moon | For service to ceramic arts, particularly pottery | |
| Ian Kenneth Morton | For service to rural development, particularly through the Rural Finance Commission | |
| Cyril Joseph Nethery | For service to the welfare of the ageing | |
| Geoffrey Malcolm Oscar | For service to the pharmacy profession | |
| Professor Beverley Raphael (Rickarby) | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry | |
| Dr William David Lindsay Ride | For service to science and education, particularly in the fields of zoology and biology | |
| Judith Mary Roberts | For service to the community, particularly women's affairs | |
| Amedeo Filiberto Sala | For service to the electronics industry | |
| Max Edmund Schubert | For service to the wine industry | |
| Vernon John Schuppan | For service to the sport of motor racing | |
| Francis Joseph Sweeney | For service to accountancy and to commerce | |
| Maximilian Sean Walsh | For service to journalism | |
| Alexander Storry Walton | For service to the Australian film industry, particularly as director of the Australian Film and Television School | |
| Frederick William Whitby | For service to trade unionism | |
| Ronald Thomas White | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Mary Alice Whitehead | For service to the community, particularly women's affairs | |
| Lindsay Gordon Wilson | For service to primary industry, particularly vegetable growing and marketing | |
| Professor Dianne Yerbury | For service to education, particularly in the fields of industrial relations management and public administration |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Lieutenant Commander Michael Victor Butler | For service to the Royal Australian Navy | |
| Commodore Donald Morton Coulson | For service to the development of Naval Supply Support | ||
| Lieutenant Commander William Warland Farrell | For service to the Musician Branch of the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Captain Peter Ian Murdoch Ferguson | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Director of Naval Training | ||
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Peter William Brooks, ED | For service to the Army Reserve | |
| Major Sidney Harold Cheeseman | For service as Officer Commanding 1st Watercraft Workshop | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Peter John Fitzpatrick | For service as Commanding Officer 2nd Signal Regiment | ||
| Major Geoffrey Thomas Hawker | For service to workshop equipment and facilities engineering in the Australian Army | ||
| Colonel David Robert Lawrence | For service as the Commandant of the Army Apprentices School | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Robert William McLeod, RFD | For service as Commanding Officer 10th Battalion, The Royal South Australian Regiment | ||
| Major Neil Colin Smith | For service to the Australian Army in the field of explosive ordnance disposal in the Solomon Islands | ||
| Major James John Arundel Wallace | For service as Officer Commanding 1st Special Air Service Squadron | ||
| Brigadier Ian Rignold Wills | For service as Commander 2nd Supply Group | ||
| Air Force | Wing Commander Richard John Campbell | For service as Senior Engineering Officer, No 5 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force | |
| Wing Commander Leo Francis James | For service as Commanding Officer, Number 1 Operational Support Unit, Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Flight Lieutenant James Graham Kelley | For service to the joint exercise planning staff, Exercise Kangaroo 83 | ||
| Wing Commander Anthony Edward Lowe | For service as a staff officer at Headquarters Operational Command, Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Squadron Leader Barbara Ann Fillery McKeown | For service as a nursing officer in the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Wing Commander Richard James Pavey | For service as the Director of Computerised Supply Systems, Air Force Office |
Medal (OAM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Peter Acton | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly in the field of packaging | |
| Ernest Ross Alcorn | For services to primary industry and to the community | |
| Kenneth Robert Alexander | For services to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Major Raymond Ernest Allen | For service to the community, particularly with the Salvation Army | |
| Genevieve Louise Batterham | For service to people with disabilities | |
| Harold George Berry | For service to the community, particularly in the Melbourne Ambulance Service | |
| Dr Arthur Bruce Biggs | For service to the community and medicine | |
| John Henry Penn Blick | For service to the fruit growing industry | |
| Ruth Bontschek | For service to people with disabilities | |
| Hazel Irene Boyle | For service to the community, particularly in the welfare of the hearing impaired | |
| James Brennan | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Kenneth Idwal Brine | For service to the building industry and to education | |
| Fred Philip Bromley | For service to the community, particularly welfare of people with disabilities | |
| Thomas Francis Brooks | For service to the sport of cricket and baseball | |
| Bertie Brownlow | For service to sport, particularly cricket and hockey | |
| Christine Ann Burton | For service to the sport of netball | |
| Ernest David Carey | For service to public service to the Northern Territory | |
| Michael Cecil Claybourn | For service to the sport of surf lifesaving | |
| May Clifford | For service to music | |
| Alexander Gerald Colley | For service to conservation | |
| Richard Walter Condon | For service to soil conservation | |
| John Conochie | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of the ageing | |
| Elsie Reid Coutts | For service to the community | |
| Dr Clare Alice Cunningham | For service to medicine, particularly the welfare of children with disabilities | |
| John Patrick Cusack | For service to the dairy industry | |
| Kenneth Roy Davis | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of the ageing | |
| Francis Albert Di Blasi | For service to the community, particularly migrant welfare | |
| Winifred Hilda Dickinson | For service to the sport of croquet | |
| Raymond Mills Durie | For service to the sport of athletics | |
| Tom Efkarpidis | For service to the Greek community in Australia | |
| Joan Lora Ellice-Flint | For service to the community and to education | |
| Pauline Jean English | For service to sport, particularly in relation to people with disabilities | |
| Robert Wilford Farr | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Harveline Featonby | For service to education, particularly children with disabilities | |
| Councillor Robert William Fell | For service to local government and the sport of yachting | |
| Robert Bruce Ferguson | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Charles Douglas Fielder | For service to the sport of surf lifesaving | |
| Marjorie Miriam Fitz-Gerald | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Norma Vere Fletcher | For service to welfare through the Riding for the Disabled Association | |
| Maureen Freer | For service to Australian literature | |
| John Andrew French | For service to the community | |
| Clarence George Garnsworthy | For service to the community | |
| Harry Hans Gerstle | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Queensland Bush Children's Health Scheme | |
| Cedric Frederick Godden | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of people with disabilities | |
| Robert William Gotts | For service to the furniture manufacturing industry | |
| Edward Raymond Graham | For service to athletics | |
| Kenneth Dunstan Grant | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Dorothy Green | For service to Australian literature | |
| Helen Margaret Hanrahan | For service to the community | |
| Betty Hargreaves | For service to the community | |
| Ralph Nicholas Harris | For service to education, particularly in relation to those with impaired hearing | |
| Jane Ann Hennessy | For service to the community | |
| Victor Herman | For service to trade unionism and to the community | |
| Raynham Ross Holloway | For service to local government | |
| Leslie John Howard | For service to the sport of rugby union football | |
| John Henry Hudswell | For service to the community | |
| Winifred Humbley | For public service, particularly with the Department of Foreign Affairs | |
| Edwin Charles Hyland | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Louisa Agnes Ingram | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Stephen John Jani | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Frank Milton Jeffree | For service to welfare of the ageing | |
| David Gordon Jones | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Elsie Rose Jones | For service to education, particularly in relation to Aboriginal culture | |
| Eric Lloyd Jory | For service to the community | |
| Nancy Monica Joyce | For service to nursing | |
| Samuel Karpin | For service to the Jewish community in Australia | |
| David Harold Kemp | For service to the community | |
| William Kidston | For service to the community, particularly in relation to co-operative societies | |
| Alfred Charles King | For service to the community | |
| Jean Ruby Lashbrook | For service to the community, particularly as a member of the Country Women's Association | |
| Julia Lawrence | For service to the community | |
| Arthur Geoffrey Lee | For service to scouting and to the community | |
| Conrad Augustus Lembke | For service to forestry | |
| Reginald Lenaghan | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Edward James Long | For service to the community, particularly in relation to co-operative societies | |
| Margaret Annette Rose Mack | For service to the welfare of people with disabilities | |
| Margaret Davidson Mackie | For service to education | |
| Neville Patrick Maguire | For service to the community | |
| William George Manly | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Jack Louis Maver | For service to the scouting movement | |
| Klaus Wilhelm Mayer | For service to the German community in Australia | |
| Naomi Ruth Mayers | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Alderman Raymond Cousins McCormack | For service to local government | |
| Richard Bede McCosker | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Henry George McDermott | For service to local government to the community | |
| Heather May McDonald | For service to education, particularly in relation to children with disabilities | |
| Norman Thomas McMahon | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Neil William McNamara | For service to local government | |
| Ernest Edward McQuillan | For service to the sport of boxing | |
| The Reverend Canon Alfred Ernest Miller | For service to the community, particularly in relation to welfare service | |
| John Stewart Murray | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Percival George Nash | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Jean Newson | For service to the community, particularly through the Bendigo Art Gallery | |
| Stanley Linton Nicholls | For service to sport, particularly athletics | |
| Edward Moses Obeid (rescinded 2014) | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Reverend Brother Joseph Felix O'Connor | For service to education and to religion | |
| John Edward O'Grady | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Kevin O'Mahoney | For service to the blind | |
| Leslie Norman O'Neill | For service to the community and to education | |
| James Douglas Omond | For service to the community | |
| Walter George Parr | For service to education, particularly in relation to those with impaired hearing | |
| Alice Sadie Parsons | For service to the community | |
| Philemon Pearson | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Mervyn George Nicholas Pentreath | For service to the community | |
| Nina Phillips | For service to the community | |
| William Rorke Pullar | For service to the welfare of people with disabilities | |
| Garnet Keith Putland | For service to the sport of lawn bowls | |
| Captain Douglas Orry Quayle | For service to religion | |
| Harry Rankine | For service to the dairy industry, to local government and to the community | |
| Noel Lanceter Rawson | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Kevin Francis Riordan | For service to local government and to the community | |
| James Galway Riordan | For service to the community | |
| Barbara Winifred Robertson | For service to the welfare of people with disabilities | |
| Sarah Helen Robinson | For service to the welfare of the ageing and to the community | |
| Roland Edward Robinson | For service to literature, particularly in the preservation of Australian Aboriginal mythology | |
| Irene Dorothy Robinson | For service to the community | |
| Maureen Roebuck | For service to the community | |
| Joseph Stanley Russell | For public service | |
| David William Ruston | For service to floriculture | |
| Dr Gordon Francis Saggers | For service to the community | |
| Dr Gordon Edgecombe Sanders | For service to the community | |
| Herbert Joseph Sawbridgeworth | For service to the welfare of the ageing | |
| Reginald Arthur Shaw | For service to the community, particularly to the Volunteer Fire Brigade | |
| Pamela Yvette Moxey Sheppard | For service in the field of occupational therapy | |
| Ernest Maurice Silverton | For service in the sport of lawn bowls | |
| Ronald Edwin Slaughter | For service to the egg production industry | |
| Sydney John Snell | For service to the sport of lawn bowls | |
| Henry Leopold Speagle | For public service | |
| Gregory Michael Stadtmiller | For public service, particularly to the welfare of seamen | |
| Herbert Geoffrey Stevens | For service to athletics | |
| Zbigniew George Sudull | For service to the Polish community in Australia | |
| Evelyn Margaret Thompson | For service to music | |
| Patricia Thomson | For service to trade unionism, particularly the welfare of working men | |
| Marjorie Isabel Enever Todd | For service to the Armidale community for over 50 years | |
| Eric James Tremethick | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Marjorie Alice Trewin | For service to the community | |
| George William Harry Turnbull | For service to the sport of lifesaving | |
| John Joseph Roy Turner | For service to medical techniques, particularly in the field of anaesthetics | |
| Captain Ernest Victor Watkins | For service to the community | |
| Roy William Whalan | For service to the community and to horticulture | |
| Graham Ross White | For service to sport | |
| David Williams | For public service in maintaining lighthouse equipment | |
| Betty Norma Wilson | For service to medical laboratory technology |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer Phillip Leslie Davis | For service to the Naval Stores Department HMAS Hobart | |
| Chief Petty Officer Brian Lawrence Eagles | For service as Assistant to the Defence and Naval Attache, Paris | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Brian James Furner | For service to the Clearance Branch Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Robert John Jeffreys | For service as a senior physical training instructor in the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Warrant Officer Kenneth John McMiles | For service to the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Paul Prince | For service as Barrack Master HMAS Creswell | ||
| Warrant Officer Robert Edgar Sanders | For service as the Marine Engineering Officer HMAS Kimbla | ||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class Two Warren Herbert Bradd | For service as an instructor to Junior Leaders in the Australian Army | |
| Warrant Officer Class One Warren John Burns | For service to the Royal Australian Regiment as Regimental Sergeant Major | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Allan Cordwell Burrows | For service as Warrant Officer Coordination in the Office of the Chief of the General Staff | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Janet Fay Capper | For service as Chief Clerk, District Unit Brisbane | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Peter James Greenbury | For service as Quartermaster Sergeant, 106 Field Workshop | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Eric Barry Neville Hampson | For service as Master Gunner, Field Force Artillery | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Ian Peter Hartshorn | For service as the Artificer Sergeant Major, 16 Air Defence Regiment Workshop | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Allan Stephen Hill | For service as movements supervisor Canungra Transport Unit | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Neil John Jamieson | For service as Supervisor Technical Communication, 6th Signal Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Frank Frederick Bastiaas Mallee | For service to the Australian Army in the field of clerical administration | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Alec Kevin Mead | For service as Divisional Pay Liaison Officer, 1st Division | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Ross Edward Smith | For service as Regimental Sergeant Major, 1st Aviation Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two James Brenton Willshire | For service to the Special Air Service Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Kenneth John Wilson | For service as Caterer, 2nd Field Supply Battalion | ||
| Sergeant Richard William Wilson | For service to the Royal Australian Corps of Transport Pipes and Drums | ||
| Air Force | Sergeant Alan James Coyte | For service as an electrical fitter at No 486 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force | |
| Warrant Officer Reginald Harry Robert Manners | For service in the field of explosives ordnance disposal in the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Warrant Officer Charles William Eric Marney | For service to communications security in the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Warrant Officer Ian Reginald McKellar | For service to technical publication support in the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Sergeant Maurice Gordon McPhillips | For service as an electrical fitter in the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Warrant Officer Michael Gerald Page | For service to the School of Photography, Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Rawlins | For service as an electrical fitter at Base Squadron, Darwin | ||
| Warrant Officer William James White | For service as a general fitter at No 2 Aircraft Depot, Royal Australian Air Force |
References
- ^ "NATIONAL ORDER OF AUSTRALIA LIST". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 788. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 June 1984. p. 8. Retrieved 6 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1984 HONOURS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S212. Australia. 11 June 1984. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Cancellation of award of the Order of Australia in the General Division made to Mr Edward Moses Obeid". Government Gazette: C2014G02071. Commonwealth of Australia. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2020.