The 1987 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 1987 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Ninian Stephen.
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.
† indicates an award given posthumously.
Order of Australia
Companion (AC)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Emeritus Professor Arthur John Birch, CMG | For service to science, particularly in the field of organic chemistry | |
| Hugh Reskymer Bonython, AO DFC AFC | For service to the community, particularly as Chairman of the SA Jubilee 150 Board | |
| Air Marshal Sir James (Anthony) Rowland, KBE DFC AFC | For service to the Crown and to the people of New South Wales |
Officers (AO)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Francis Alfred Billson | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology | |
| Milton Deane Bridgland | For service to industry, particularly through his contributions to industry associations and councils | |
| Donald Vernon Burrows, MBE | For service to music, particularly in the field of jazz music | |
| Professor Barry Leighton Cole | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of optometry | |
| Stella Cornelius, OBE | For service to international relations, particularly in the cause of peace | |
| Peter John Waraker Cottrell, OBE | For service to secondary industry | |
| The Honourable Justice William Charles Crockett | For service to the law, to the Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of VIC and to horse racing | |
| Emeritus Professor David Henry Curnow | For service to science, particularly in the field of clinical biochemistry | |
| His Excellency Frederick Rawdon Dalrymple | For service to the Public Service as a diplomatic representative | |
| Rosemary de Brissac Dobson | For service to literature, particularly in the field of poetry | |
| Dr Stanley Jack Marcus Goulston, AM MC | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology | |
| The Honourable Frederick Sheppard Grimwade | For service to the Victorian Parliament, to agriculture and to the community | |
| Professor Keith Jackson Hancock | For service to learning | |
| Barbara Rosemary Hardy | For service to conservation and the community. | |
| Dr Adolphus Marcus Hertzberg | For services to the sugar industry | |
| John Harold Kaye, AM MBE | For service to scouting | |
| Bryan Nivison Kelman, CBE | For service to industry and to the promotion of exports | |
| Mark Matthew Leibler | For service to the community, particularly to the Jewish community | |
| David George Joseph Malouf | For service to literature | |
| Professor Raymond Leslie Martin | For service to learning | |
| Emeritus Professor Russell Lloyd Mathews, CBE | For service to government and to education | |
| Kenneth Maxwell McKenna | For public service | |
| Hugh Matheson Morgan | For service to the mineral industry and to the arts | |
| The Honourable Justice Francis Mervyn Neasey | For service to the law and to law reform | |
| Brian John Downey Page, CBE | For service to the legal profession and to government | |
| Charles Nelson Perkins | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| The Most Reverend Dr Keith Rayner | For service to religion | |
| Donald Robert Shanks, OBE | For service to opera | |
| Emeritus Professor Frank Douglas Stephen, DSO | For service to paediatric surgery, particularly in the field of research | |
| Rae Martin Taylor | For public service | |
| John Edwin Tomlinson | For service to accountancy and to the community | |
| Dr Peter Stephen Wilenski | For service to international relations and to public sector reform, particularly through fostering the implementation of social justice and equity principles | |
| John Christopher Williams, OBE | For service to music |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral Phillip Graham Newman Kennedy | For exceptional service and performance of duty in the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Chief of Naval Operational Requirements and Plans | |
| Rear Admiral Neil Ralph, AM DSC | For exceptional service and performance of duty in the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Chief of Naval Staff | ||
| Army | Major General Henry John Coates MBE | For service as Head of the Defence Staff, Washington | |
| Major General Peter Julian Day | For service to the Australian Army as Deputy Chief of the General Staff | ||
| Air Force | Air Vice Marshal Alan Edwin Heggen | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Chief of Air Force Materiel |
Member (AM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams | For service to the arts, particularly to film and television | |
| Robert Bozon Alderton | For services to the profession of surveying and to the community | |
| Eileen Armstrong | For service to nursing, particularly geriatric nursing | |
| Noel Bruce Aspery | For service to banking | |
| Dr Anthony Michael Atkins | For service to international relations, particularly in the field of famine relief and agricultural development in Africa | |
| Donald William Barkley | For service to local government and primary industry | |
| George Edgerton Barlow | For service to the Public Service, particularly as Deputy Chief Defence Scientist | |
| Arthur Lindsay Barnett | For service to the Public Service, particularly with the Electoral Commission, NSW | |
| Reginald James Bartley | For service to public service, particularly to the legal profession | |
| Dr Catherine Helen Berndt | For service to anthropology, particularly in relation to the Aboriginal society and culture | |
| Emeritus Prof Ronald Murray Berndt | For service to anthropology, particularly in relation to the Aboriginal society and culture | |
| Maurice Gregory Binstead | For service to the beef cattle industry | |
| Frederick John Blight | For service to literature and education | |
| Eric Bogle | For service to the performing arts as a songwriter and singer | |
| William Bolitho | For service to the Australian shipping industry | |
| John Hanson Boorne | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly in the field of design and production of medical and scientific apparatus | |
| Wilby Laurence Brown | For service to public service, particularly librarianship | |
| John Cargher | For service to the performing arts, particularly in the field of music | |
| Salvatore Ross Catanzariti | For service to the fruit canning industry | |
| Nina Mikhailovna Christesen | For service to education, particularly to the study of Slavic language and culture. | |
| David Ross Coles | For service to the sport of horse racing | |
| Dr Alfred Brian Corrigan | For service to health in the field of rheumatology and sports medicine | |
| Peter Walkinshaw Cowan | For service to Australian literature | |
| Elaine Meredith Crome | For service to local government | |
| Desmond Crowe | For service to primary industry, particularly as a representative of primary producers | |
| Thomas Andrew Dalton | For service to the housing industry and to the Bathurst-Orange Development Corporation | |
| Dr David John David | For service to science, particularly in the study of soils | |
| Alan Keith Davidson, MBE | For service to cricket | |
| Samuel Robert Davie | For service to education, particularly in the field of engineering | |
| Dr Colin Boyne Degotardi | For service to medicine in the field of psychiatry | |
| James Thomas Dominguez | For service to merchant banking and to the community | |
| James Creswell Dooley | For service to the science of geophysics and to the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics | |
| The Reverend Keith McCallum Dowding | For service to the community and to international relations | |
| Esther Mary Doyle | For service to community welfare through the Catholic Women's League | |
| Alice Eva Doyle | For service to the restaurant industry and to the community | |
| Edward Ruben Duke | For service to education | |
| Peter John Elliott | For service to architecture, particularly in the field of public housing | |
| Dr Wesley Earl Fabb | For service to the medicine and to health education | |
| Dr David Noel Morton Fearon | For service to child health education | |
| Councillor Allan Francis Fifield | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Ronald Edward Fowell | For service to multiculturalism, particularly in the field of broadcasting | |
| Eva Grace Geia | For service to the Aboriginal and Islander community | |
| Commissioner Alexander George Gillon, OBE | For service to local government | |
| The Reverend Canon Alfred James Glennon | For service to the community and to religion | |
| Alfred Joseph Goran | For service to the law and to harness racing | |
| David Morrice Gordon | For service to horticulture and conservation, particularly in the growing of Australian flora | |
| Harold Walter Green | For service to community welfare, particularly through the Sydney City Mission and the Wesley Central Mission | |
| Keith Murray Grundy | For service to the community, particularly the Specific Learning Difficulties Association of South Australia | |
| His Excellency Walter Philip John Handmer | For public service as a diplomatic representative | |
| Edward Joseph Hanlon | For service to those with impaired vision and to the sport of weightlifting | |
| John Lawrence Harrower | For service to secondary industry, particularly to the small business community | |
| Professor Bernard Joseph Hickey | For service to education and the study of Australian literature overseas | |
| George Leslie Hollings | For service to journalism | |
| Isobel Ada Humphery | For service to the community, particularly to war widows, and for service to education | |
| Kenneth William David Jack, MBE | For service to the arts, particularly to watercolour painting | |
| Dr Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson | For service to the science of botany as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney | |
| His Honour Judge David Anthony Talbot Jones | For public service, particularly as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal | |
| Jack Jordan | For service to education, particularly in the field of technical and further education | |
| John Geoffrey Keegan | For service to the heavy engineering industry | |
| Karl Hubert Knappstein | For service to the wine and brandy industry | |
| Walter Alfred Kober | For service to the iron ore industry | |
| Christopher Joseph Lancucki | For service to the community, particularly the Polish community | |
| Hartwell George Lander | For service to the community, particularly in the fields of road trauma, the law and youth | |
| Dr Margaret Stuart Leggatt | For service to those with schizophrenia and to their families | |
| Walter Max Leopold Lippmann, MBE | For service to the welfare of ethnic communities | |
| Ivor Maurice Lloyd | For service to secondary industry | |
| Fritz Karl Heinz Lowen | For service to the furniture design and manufacturing industry | |
| Jean Paton McKinnon Marshall | For service to the performing arts, particularly as a theatre director | |
| David Lloyd Martin | For service to the performing arts as an administrator | |
| Cornelius Harris Martin | For service to the mining industry, particularly coal mining | |
| Donald Arthur McKechnie | For service to primary industry, particularly to the Queensland grain industry | |
| Dr Theodore Richard Morley | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of anaesthetics, and to the community | |
| Dr Maurice Joseph Mulcahy | For service to conservation and to agriculture science | |
| David Henry Murden | For service to the building industry | |
| Dennis Hans Olsen | For service to the performing arts | |
| Dr Andrew Delbridge Osborn | For service to library science | |
| Ruth Park (Niland) | For service to literature | |
| Frederick Henry Parslow | For service to the performing arts | |
| Brother Kenneth William Payne | For service to education | |
| Noel Michael Pelly | For service to the performing arts, particularly to ballet | |
| Bruce Leslie Petty | For service to the media as a cartoonist | |
| Cedar Prest | For service to the art of stained glass and to the community, particularly youth | |
| Bruce Rowcliffe Redpath | For service to the road transport industry and to the community | |
| John Joseph Roarty | For service to the welfare of those with physical and intellectual disabilities | |
| Dr Maurice Joseph Sainsbury, RFD | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry | |
| Maxwell Thomas Sandow | For service to the community | |
| Donald Sarah | For service to the building and construction industry | |
| Professor Edward Scott | For service to education | |
| Jan Boleslav Sedivka | For service to music | |
| Austin Joseph Selleck | For public service, particularly with the Defence Service Homes Corporation | |
| Dr Stefania Winifred Siedlecky | For public service, particularly in the field of women's health | |
| David Lindsay Sims | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly in the field of international trade | |
| Roy Edwin Skinner, ED | For service to international relations through the United Nations Organisation | |
| Graham Haughton Slee | For service to secondary industry, particularly to the metal trades industry | |
| Florence Clare Strangman Taylor | For service to music | |
| Gregory Lawton Taylor, OAM | For service to international relations and to the community | |
| Professor David Evatt Tunley | For service to music as a composer and educator | |
| Thomas Tycho, MBE | For service to music, particularly through training and encouraging young talent | |
| Leon Albert Vidler | For service to the welfare of those with impaired hearing, particularly in the field of education | |
| Gordon Charles Watson | For service to music as a performer and as a teacher | |
| Kathleen Nance Watson | For service to education | |
| Ellis Bryson John Wayland, RFD ED | For service to the community, particularly to the South Australian 150 Jubilee Celebrations | |
| Gerald Wells | For service to commerce | |
| Peter Denis White | For service to the cattle industry and to equestrian sport | |
| Freda Leslie Whitlam | For service to education and to the community | |
| Raymond Wells Whitrod, CVO QPM | For service to Australian law enforcement, to victims of crime and to the community | |
| Stanley James Willmott | For service to the media, particularly to commercial radio and television | |
| David Roy Woodrow, RFD ED | For service to education, particularly in the field of computer studies | |
| Robert Raymond Woodward | For service to architecture, particularly in the field of fountain design | |
| Dr Robert Charles Wright | For service to medicine, particularly to the development of the advanced life support system within the New South Wales Ambulance Service | |
| Robert John Yeomans | For service to the community | |
| Carla Maria Zampatti (Spender) | For service to the fashion industry as a designer and manufacturer |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Captain David Sage Ferry | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Director of Naval Aircraft Engineering | |
| Captain Peter John Hugonnet | For outstanding achievements while serving as the Director of Naval Training | ||
| Commander Jonathan Warren Jones | For exceptional service and performance of duty as the Commanding Officer, HMAS Coonawarra | ||
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Alan Romeo Batchelor | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as leader of the Army Around Australia Relay Marathon | |
| Colonel Donald Douglas Beard RFD | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the Royal Australian Medical Corps | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Henry John Clarsen | For service as Director of the Army War Game Centre | ||
| Brigadier Geoffrey Frederick Cohen | For service to the Australian Army as Chief of Staff, HQ Training Command | ||
| Brigadier Francis James Cross, OBE | For service to the Australian Army in the fields of Military engineering and accommodation and works | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel John Arthur Jones | For service as Commanding Officer 5th/7th battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Ian James Pennell | For service to resource management in the Australian Army, particularly in the field of Operational Planning of Health Services | ||
| Major Peter Stuart Robinson | For service to the Australian Army in the field of Joint Service Operations | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel David Alexander Webster | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of training | ||
| Air Force | Air Commodore Peter Maxwell Grigg | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Director General Policy and Plans Air Force | |
| Wing Commander Edward John Kendall Lewis | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Staff Officer Financial Accounts and Personnel Services, Headquarters Support Command | ||
| Wing Commander Graeme Robert Peel | For service to the Royal Air Force in the field of Aviation Medicine | ||
| Wing Commander Norman Jeffrey Stroud | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Staff Officer Special Projects in the office of the Chief of the Air Staff | ||
| Flight Lieutenant Howard Kenneth Veal | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Operations Officer of No. 92 Wing Detachment, Butterworth, Malaysia | ||
| Air Commodore Ian Hamilton Whisker | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Officer Commanding Royal Australia Air Force Base Darwin |
Medal (OAM)
General Division
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Kathleen Adey | For service to softball | |
| Robert Clyde Aitken | For service to international relations | |
| Donald McEwan Alexander | For services to Primary Industry, particularly plant propagation | |
| Selby George Alley | For service to the community | |
| John Edward Anderson | For service to sailing | |
| Philip Grant Anderson | For service to the sport of cycling | |
| Evelyn Edith Andrews | For service to the community | |
| Peter Thomas Antoine | For service to rowing | |
| Keitha Mary Boyce Arnold | For service to the community and to nursing | |
| Edna Muriel Atkinson | For service to the community, particularly the aged and infirmed, Caulfield Hospital | |
| Frank George James Baker | For service to the community and local government | |
| Stephen Harold Bant | For service to the Public Works Dept, Victoria | |
| Geoffrey Keith Bartram | For service to mountaineering | |
| Malcolm William Batten | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Arthur James Beaver | For service to the Indo-Chinese community | |
| Ronald William Beckett | For service to the community and youth | |
| Grace Margaret Bennetts | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health services | |
| Pierce John Berigan | For service to surf lifesaving | |
| Valmai Marjorie Bertrand | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Elizabeth Anne Bigham | For service to gymnastics and youth | |
| Dorothy Martha Boyt | For service to aged care | |
| Raymond Matthew Brown | For service to lifesaving | |
| Thomas Henry Bryant | For service to primary industry, particularly as Deputy Chairman of the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation | |
| Constance Marie Bryce, BEM | For service to the community | |
| Gwendoline Isabel Bull | For service to the sport of athletics and the community | |
| Elaine Millicent Burt | For service to nursing | |
| Edna Busse | For service to ballet | |
| Clarence Reginald Buswell | For service to the Public service in the field of computing and communications | |
| Gerald Thomas Bynes | For service to the Public Service | |
| Reverend Father John Lawrence Camilleri | For service to the Italian and Maltese communities | |
| Josephine Campagnolo | For service to the community | |
| Richard Carter | For service to the sport of squash | |
| George William Carver, BEM | For service to the community, particularly the frail aged | |
| Clare Patricia Casey | For service to the community and education | |
| Dale Caterson | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Dorothy Kathleen Choveaux | For service to croquet and to the community | |
| Frederick Albert Charles Chubb | For service to the community and to ex-service personnel | |
| Myrtle Millicent Clyde | For service to the community | |
| Gertrude Mallaby Cockburn | For service to community welfare | |
| William Roderick Collins | For service to the film industry and to television | |
| James Leopold Vincent Comans, DFC | For service to sport | |
| Arthur Ivan Conroy | For service to the community | |
| Captain John Kyle Cook | For service to the shipping industry and to marine surveying | |
| Raymond George Cook | For service to the trade union movement, particularly the Health and Research Employees' Association | |
| Andrew Dollman Cooper | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Raymond Ambrose Cork | For service to the community and local government | |
| Alice Gwendoline Corry | For service to ex-service personnel | |
| Phyllis Catherine Crawford | For service to children with disabilities | |
| Richard Howard Davey | For service to the welfare of the aged | |
| Louis Henry Davis | For service to the community, particularly for children and youth | |
| Margaret Mary Day | For service to the Girl's Brigade | |
| Harold Dean | For service to the community | |
| Charles Dick | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Mark Andrew Luke Doyle | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Clarence Charles Drury | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Phyllis Evelyn Duguid | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Clifford John Duncan | For service to judo | |
| Clarence Lisle Dunn | For service to the community | |
| Raymond Edgar Edmondson | For public service, particularly as Deputy Director of the National Film and Sound Archive | |
| Annie Alphonsus Elliott | For service to the community and to ex-service men and women | |
| Stephen Frederick Evans | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Aileen Elizabeth Favell | For service to community welfare | |
| Adair Janelle Ferguson | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Roy Cyril Fettke | For service to art | |
| Debra Lee Flintoff-King | For service to the sport of athletics | |
| Patricia Anne Ford | For service to the community | |
| Edward Charles Ford | For service to the community | |
| John Edward Freedman | For service to the sport of Rugby Union | |
| Frederick George Friend | For service to the community, particularly to the elderly | |
| Elizabeth Jean Fussell | For service to physiotherapy | |
| James Chester Stewart Galloway | For service to the sport of rowing | |
| Kathleen Mary Gambetta | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Josephine Gapper | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Malcolm Ian Garrington | For service to the community as a swimming instructor | |
| Dr Ian James Gawler | For service to the community as Founder/Director, Australian Cancer Patients' Foundation Inc | |
| Dora May Gordon | For service to the welfare of children and to the community | |
| Jefferson Weyburn Gordon | For service to the welfare of children and to the community | |
| Nellie Gould, BEM | For service to women's athletics and to ex-servicewomen | |
| Colin Robert James Grant | For service to Rugby League football | |
| Bridget Eileen Gregory | For service to nursing | |
| Roy Stanley Gruber | For service to the community, particularly to bushfire prevention and control | |
| Lincoln Ross Hall | For service to mountaineering | |
| Jean Emily Cameron Hall | For service to the welfare of the elderly | |
| John William Simpson Harcus | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Kevin Philip Hardiman | For service to the community | |
| George Haritos | For service to shipping | |
| Kenneth Hartley | For service to the community | |
| Noel Richard Hedges | For service to the community | |
| John Edward Heffernan | For service to the trade union movement | |
| Marjorie Durstan Hele | For service to the community and to social welfare | |
| Andrew Henderson | For service to mountaineering | |
| Eva Frances Hendrie | For service to the community | |
| Victoria Alexandra May Hobbs | For service to the nursing profession, particularly in recording its history in Western Australia | |
| Raymond Hollingworth | For service to the welfare of people with physical disabilities | |
| The Reverend Canon Wilfred Holt | For service to education | |
| Freda Hooper | For public service, particularly as a speech pathologist | |
| Audrey Kathleen Hutton | For service to the community | |
| John William Irving | For service to Australian Rules football, particularly as an umpire | |
| Merle Robertha Jackomos | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Glenn Robert James | For service to Australian Rules football and to the community | |
| William Alexander Jamieson | For service to journalism and to the community | |
| Detective Sergeant First Class David Jefferies | For service to the welfare of children | |
| Steve Arthur Karas | For service to the community particularly to the Greek community | |
| Joseph Peter Keenan | For service to the trade union movement and to the community | |
| Ivy May Keevers | For service to ex-servicewomen and to the community | |
| Thomas Ivon Ward Kelly | For service to the motor industry and to the community | |
| Thomas Peter Kemmis | For service to the community and to ex-service men and women | |
| The Reverend Dr Alexander William Kenworthy | For service to community welfare | |
| Allan Robert Kerr | For service to amateur boxing and to youth | |
| Dorothy Dawn Kling | For service to the community | |
| Jozef Michael Kolmajer | For service to the community, particularly as an interpreter and translator | |
| Charles Arthur Krenkel | For service to the community | |
| Suzanne Ciscelle Landells | For service to swimming | |
| Desmond Percy Lapidge | For public service as Director of Marketing, Queensland Department of Primary Industry | |
| Graham Ernst Leditschke | For service to community welfare | |
| Edna Thelma Lincoln | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Chief Superintendent John Henry Lockhead | For public service with the South Australia Police Force | |
| Timothy John Macartney-Snape | For service to mountaineering | |
| Laurence Leonard Macpherson | For service to aviation | |
| Philip Gerard Maley | For service to the community, particularly to ex-service men and women | |
| The Very Reverend Nicolas Mansour, MBE | For service to the Lebanese community | |
| Lorraine Audrey Marsh | For service to the community, particularly to the elderly | |
| Richard Arthur Mason | For service to sport and to television | |
| Francis Newman McDonnell | For service to local government and to the community | |
| George Edward McGuirk, MBE | For service to the trade union movement | |
| Michael Scott McKay | For service to rowing | |
| Gerard Gale Meredith | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| Joan Miller | For service to the community, particularly through the Girl Guides Association | |
| Group Captain Ronald Gempton Mills (Ret'd) | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| David William James Mingay | For the service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| John Menzies Mitchell, MVO | For service to the community, particularly to the South Australian Jubilee 150 celebrations | |
| Michael Francis Moloney | For service to education | |
| Brian Gregory Moores | For service to athletics, particularly for those with disabilities | |
| Alma Gladys Morris | For service to the performing arts and to the community | |
| Gregory Mortimer | For service to mountaineering | |
| Reginald Keith Mortimer | For service to the trade union movement and to the community | |
| Bronwyn Christine Moye | For service to those with disabilities, particularly in the field of education | |
| Hilda Rosetta Myers | For service to the community, particularly to the Jewish community | |
| Arthur George Stanley Myers | For service to the community, particularly to the Jewish community | |
| James Hector De Lisle Neilson | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| Karen Joy Neville | For service to water-skiing | |
| Ronald Newman | For service to the Jewish community | |
| Jenny Steele Nosworthy | For service to the community, particularly through the South Australian Jubilee 150 celebrations | |
| John Patrick O'Keefe | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Marjorie Jean Oates | For service to the community | |
| William Percival Packard | For service to the Australian National University community, particularly as Warden of Bruce Hall | |
| Frederick Charles Pennell | For service to the welfare for ex-service men and women | |
| Edithe Marjorie Edmunds Pigott | For service to the community | |
| Sylvester Jack Pompei | For service to marine search and rescue activities in Port Phillip Bay | |
| Ion Popa | For service to rowing | |
| James Peter Roy Potter | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| David Lee Price | For service to the community as Chairman of HMAS WATSON Memorial Chapel Trust | |
| John William Edgecombe Pross | For service to athletics | |
| Brother Rexford John Pye | For service to the Aboriginal community | |
| Lieutenant Alan Joseph Quarmby, (Rtd) | For service to youth, particularly with the Naval Reserve Cadets | |
| Dr John Clive Radcliffe | For service to the Australian Electric Transport Museum and Museums Association of South Australia | |
| Kenneth Arthur Forsyth Readwin | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Noel Aloysius Reidy | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Elsie May Reinke | For service to the community | |
| Clarissa Mary Repton | For service to the Aboriginal community | |
| Kenneth John Roberts | For service to cartography | |
| Alexander Herbert Rowe | For service to speedway racing | |
| Arthur Herbert Satchell | For service to music, particularly to band music | |
| Thomas James Savige | For service to the horticulture | |
| Joan Narelle Shannon | For service to nursing, particularly in the field of stomal therapy | |
| Robert Eric Staunton | For service to basketball | |
| Kenneth Willoughby Talbot | For service to the community | |
| Mary Lila Tanner, MBE | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| Alice Tarlton | For service to the welfare of children and the aged | |
| Mervyn Reginald Tebbutt | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Thomas William Templeton | For service to parliament and to the community | |
| Warren Milton Thomson | For service to music, particularly in the field of music education | |
| James Bruce Tomkins | For service to rowing | |
| Florence Kathleen Ann Towse | For service to the community | |
| Councillor Nicolas Trandos | For service to local government and primary industry, particularly market gardening | |
| Joyce Thelma Tuckwell | For service to the community | |
| Robert John Waldon | For service to swimming | |
| David Barry Vivian Walsh | For service to cycling, particularly as National Coaching Director | |
| Gerard Stanislaus Wardell | For service to scouting | |
| Glynn Mayne Watkins | For service to education | |
| Chief Inspector Andrew Christopher Wells | For public service with the New South Wales Police Force and the Australian Federal Police | |
| Lawline May Wheaton | For service to the community | |
| Allen David Williams | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women | |
| Nell Williams | For service to the community, particularly through the Lions Club International for 30 years and to the performing arts | |
| Roger Williamson | For service to the welfare of ex-service men and women and to the community | |
| Leo Denis Willis | For public service as superintendent of the Royal Australian Navy’s Oil Fuel Installation, Darwin | |
| Robert Harrison Younger | For service to local government | |
| David Zuker | For service to sports medicine and physiotherapy |
Military Division
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer Stephen Lambert Dent | For exceptional service and outstanding contribution to photographic display support for the Royal Australian Navy | |
| Warrant Officer David George Minto | For an outstanding contribution in support of Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet during his service in the Directorate of Fleet Engineering Policy | ||
| Warrant Officer Robert James Ruse | For outstanding service to the Weapons Electrical Engineering Department of the Australian Submarine Squadron, HMAS Platypus | ||
| Lieutenant Ronald Arthur Sheather | For outstanding service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Parade Training Officer, HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Petty Officer Michael Victor Winter | For outstanding service as a Physical Training Instructor in the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class 2 John Henry Bosker | For performance of duty in the field of engineering | |
| Warrant Officer Class 1 John William Burns | For performance of duty as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Ronald John Jager | For performance of duty to the Army Reserve in the 5th Military District | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Noel Stewart Jarvis | For performance of duty in the field of physical training | ||
| Corporal Norman Edward Johns | For service to the Australian Army Catering Corps in the 1st Military District | ||
| Captain Hans Otto Marschall | For performance of duty as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the 2nd/4th battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Roy Leonard Mundine | For performance of duty as Quartermaster Sergeant of the 49th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Raymond Graham Norman | For performance of duty as Regimental Sergeant Major Logistic Command | ||
| Sergeant Francis Thomas Reidy | For service to the Australian Army in the fields of health and hygiene | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Peter William Rosemond | For service as the Regimental Sergeant Major of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment | ||
| Captain Clifford Arthur Savage | For performance of duty as Regimental Sergeant Major, Second Division | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Patrick Joseph Scanlan | For performance of duty in the Directorate of Protocol and Visits, Department of Defence | ||
| Staff Sergeant Denice Kay Woods | For performance of duty to the Army Reserve, particularly in the field of pay administration | ||
| Air Force | Warrant Officer John Brian Blenikinsop | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Warrant Officer of the Radio Maintenance Section of No 486 Maintenance Squadron | |
| Sergeant Brian Stanley Corkill | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge of the Motor Trimming Section at No. 2 Stores Depot | ||
| Warrant Officer Lewis Martin Cunningham | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a clerk in the Directorate of Personnel Computing Systems | ||
| Warrant Officer Robert James Kinnane | For service as warrant officer disciplinary of the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Warrant Officer Dennis Robinson | For service to Royal Australian Air Force as Warrant Officer Engineer responsible for Boeing 707 maintenance at No. 486 Maintenance Squadron | ||
| Flight Sergeant William Morrow Strong | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Senior Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge of Support Flight, No. 2 Airfield Defence Squadron | ||
| Warrant Officer Bryan Roy Tuckey | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a Clerk Administrative at Headquarters Royal Australian Air Force Base East Sale | ||
| Flight Sergeant Roy Wilfred Tungate | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Senior Non-commissioned Officer-in-Charge Air-Frame Section, No. 79 Squadron |
References
- ^ "Australia Day 1987 Honours List" (PDF). Governor-General of Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- "Announcing and presenting awards". www.pmc.gov.au. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ "Australia Day honours". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 1987-01-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2018-10-30.