| Recipient |
Citation |
Notes
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| June Patricia Adams |
For service to the community of the Tumut Shire |
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| Sister Josephine Mary Agnew |
For service to nursing, particularly through the Mater Private Hospital
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| John Anagnostou |
For service to the Greek community and to veterans through the Greek Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia
|
| Carmelita Bestil Anderson |
For service to women's lawn bowls
|
| June May Angus |
For service to the community through the NSW Branch of the Presbyterian Women's Association
|
| Henri Walter Aram |
For service to the community and to improving public awareness and understanding of the principles of finance and investment
|
| Haneef Badrudeen |
For service to Australian Asian relations through the Sri Lankan and Indian communities, and for services to the Australian Muslim community
|
| Dolores Ball |
For service to the community as founder of the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Support Group
|
| Phyllis Margaret Bannan |
For service to the care and support of people with intellectual disabilities in South Australia
|
| Roy Charles Barber |
For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the POW Association and the TPI Association in Tasmania
|
| Barbara May Barnes |
For service to the community and to youth through the Bankstown Youth Foundation
|
| Margaret Clare Barrie |
For service to youth through Guides Australia
|
| Charles Robertson Barton |
For service to the promotion of Australian classical composers and performers as programmer, on-air presenter and producer
|
| Reuben Roy Basham |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Peter Francis Batey |
For service to the arts as a producer and director, and to the community
|
| Reginald Ryan Baxter |
For service to the Lismore community, particularly through sporting groups and local government
|
| Janet Alison Beckman |
For service to the community, particularly through library services and animal welfare
|
| Christine Elizabeth Berry |
For service to animal welfare, particularly through the Donkey Society of New South Wales
|
| Kaye Lesley Birkbeck |
For service to the welfare of children as a foster parent
|
| Emma Marie Blackhurst |
For service to the community of Dunsborough
|
| Dr John (Hans) Bollig |
For service to the community, particularly in the areas of aged care and youth development
|
| Walter Spencer Bough |
For service to the community of Cheltenham
|
| Councillor Sylvia Janet Brandenburg |
For service to local government, to regional development, and to the community of the Lake Grace district
|
| Janine Minna Bravery |
For service to the visual arts
|
| William Brown |
For service to the community through the Victorian State Emergency Service
|
| Dr Anthony Roland Buhagiar |
For service to medicine in the field of general practice, and to the Maltese community
|
| Arthur William Bullen |
For service to youth, particularly through scouting and junior rugby union football
|
| Dianne Marie Burge |
For service to community health, particularly through the Arthritis Foundation of South Australia
|
| George Alfred Burne |
For service to the Australian film industry as a cinematographer
|
| Jack Butcher |
For service to the community through brass bands and choirs
|
| Doris Marjorie Byrne |
For service to the community of Allora and district
|
| Michael John Byrnes |
For service to surf lifesaving
|
| Ronald John Cahill |
For service to the community through charitable organisations, and to the law
|
| Dr Robert Norman Castle |
For service to the community of Stawell as a general practitioner
|
| Clifford Ernest Chamberlain |
For service to the community of Albury-Wodonga and to the preservation of local history
|
| Richard Thomas Chant |
For service to the community of North Queensland as a sports commentator
|
| Kevin Chapman |
For service to the media as a parliamentary broadcaster, and to the community
|
| Russell William Clark |
For service to the community through the Port Fairy Folk Festival, and to local government
|
| Dr Miles De Courcy Clarke |
For service to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance
|
| Alice Lillian Coleman |
For service to the community of the Atherton Tablelands
|
| Dr Stephen Clive Cox |
For service to oral health programmes through the United Mission to Nepal
|
| June Alison Craw |
For service to arts administration through the Queensland Theatre Company
|
| Elizabeth Martin Crichton |
For service to the community of Nyngan
|
| Aldo Arthur Crotti |
For service to the community as a philanthropist
|
| Charles Lawrence Curley |
For service to charitable organisations within Australia and overseas
|
| Gary John Cuthbert |
For service to youth through sport
|
| Captain Jack Kenneth Davenport |
For service to aviation safety
|
| Richard Hasse Davis |
For service to tourism, particularly through the Caravan Parks Association of South Australia
|
| Elizabeth Mary Davis |
For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
|
| Aris Egbertus de Jong |
For service to conservation, to environmental education, and to entomology
|
| Selby Verdon Dean, DCM |
For service to local government and to the community
|
| Lynda Susan Dean |
For service to the tea tree industry and to the community
|
| Kevin John Dent |
For service to the community, particularly through the New South Wales State Emergency Service
|
| Roslyn Marion Derrett |
For service to regional cultural development and to tourism
|
| Maurice George Dick |
For service to veterans and their families through the Limbless Soldiers’ Association of Australia
|
| Donald Charles Dickson |
For service to veterans, and to the community of Brunswick Heads
|
| Joan Ffoukes Doney |
For service to the conservation of Australian native plants
|
| Dorothy Marion Douglas |
For service to the community, particularly through the Salvation Army and St John Ambulance and various fundraising activities
|
| James William Dryden |
For service to youth through the Scout Association and Guides Australia
|
| Douglas George Dufty |
For service to marine rescue and boating safety
|
| William Henry Dunn |
For service to the Penrith community
|
| Henry William Dunn |
For services to the community and to veterans
|
| Dr Arthur James Dyer |
For service to amateur theatre
|
| Dr Bruce Berkeley Edelman |
For service to the community and to local government
|
| Alfred William Eden |
For service to the communities of Portarlington and the Bellarine Peninsula
|
| Bruce William Edmunds |
For service to sailing
|
| Stanley John Edwards |
For service to the community of Dunsborough
|
| Angelo Efstathis, CBE |
For service to the community as a philanthropist
|
| Ronald Charles Ellis |
For service to the Australian Red Cross Society, particularly through the development of fundraising services
|
| Dr Ernest Bert England |
For service to community health, particularly through the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund
|
| Francis Campbell Evans |
For service to the community of Cessnock, particularly through scouting and the Lions Club
|
| Miles Farmer |
For service to people with disabilities through the Riding for the Disabled Association
|
| Elaine Kaye Farmer |
For service to surf lifesaving
|
| Graeme Arthur Ferguson |
For service to people with visual impairments
|
| Gunhilde Leopoldine Ferris |
For service to classical dance as a teacher and performer
|
| Henry Leslie Firth |
For service to motor racing as a driver, team manager and engineer
|
| Helen Elizabeth Fletcher |
For service to people with disabilities through the Aid and Recreation Association for the Disabled
|
| Ruth Ann Fletcher |
For service to youth through Guides Australia
|
| Olive Jacqueline Jean Fowler |
For service to the community of Camden
|
| Michael William Fraser |
For service to local government and to the community
|
| Walter Robert Freeman |
For service to the community through establishing Probus Clubs, particularly in the Central North Coast Region
|
| John Edward Frost |
For service to the performing arts
|
| Kenneth Frederick Gardiner |
For service to the welfare of veterans and aged people
|
| Sidney Milton Garland |
For service to the community through the Canterbury Bankstown Leagues Club
|
| William Edward Gaynor, RFD |
For service to surf lifesaving
|
| Dr Laurence Edwin Georgeson |
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross
|
| Dr Arthur Malcolm Gill |
For service to scientific research into bushfires and their effects on the environment
|
| Irene Stella Gillard |
For service to veterans, and to the performing arts
|
| Lyall Leslie Gillespie, ISO |
For service to the community, particularly through the research and documentation of the history of the Canberra region
|
| Leonard Matthew Gleeson |
For service to the grain industry in Western Australia, and to the community
|
| Bernie Gold |
For service to the Jewish community and to sport through Maccabi Australia
|
| Ethel Verna Goodman |
For service to the community of Albany, particularly through the preservation and restoration of the National Trust property “Old Farm Strawberry Hill”
|
| Lynette Beverley Gray |
For service to baton twirling as a coach and administrator
|
| Kenneth Donald Green |
For service to youth, particularly through the Naval Reserve Cadets
|
| Beverley Joy Greet |
For service to community health, particularly to women with HIV/AIDS
|
| Doris Lillian Gribble |
For service to the community, particularly aged people
|
| Clive Mayor Hall |
For service to the wool industry and futures trading, and to the community
|
| Reverend Dr Allen Harry Hall |
For service to bilingual education programmes and the translation of Aboriginal languages
|
| Lady April Felicity Hamer |
For service to the community through charitable organisations
|
| Harry Ronald Harborne |
For service to the community of Moree
|
| Warren James Harris |
For service to the community of Burnie, particularly through the Lions Club
|
| Clive Andrew Hartcher |
For service to the paint industry through the development of polymers and coatings for specific industrial use
|
| Barbara Jean Hebden |
For service to the promotion of music and the performing arts in Queensland
|
| James Haig Henderson |
For service to former members of No 10 Repair and Salvage Unit and their families
|
| Michael Conway Hendrikson |
For service to the craft of wheelwrighting
|
| Michael John Hennessey |
For service to the community, particularly through the Granville Train Disaster Memorial Committee
|
| Norman Hibbert |
For service as a fundraiser and supporter of community and charitable organisations
|
| Robert Martin Hitchcock |
For service to Rugby Union football, particularly as coach of the Australian Rugby Union Women's team
|
| June Ellen Holdsworth |
For service to the community of Camden
|
| Richard Alan Holland |
For service to community health, particularly as a carer for people with HIV/AIDS
|
| Jessica Millicent Horder |
For service to people with disabilities through Riding for the Disabled
|
| Sister Mary Alphonsus Horgan |
For service to music education
|
| John Edward Hughes, APM |
For service to the community
|
| Stanley Hunt |
For service to the Chinese community
|
| Reverend Richard Warwick Hurford |
For service to the Grafton community through the Anglican Church
|
| James Husband, BEM |
For service to the welfare of veterans and their families through the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Association
|
| John Williss Hutchinson |
For service to the wool industry, particularly as a shearing instructor and coordinator of training
|
| Dr Elizabeth Rae Jane |
For service to medicine in the field of general practice, and to the community through Soroptimist International
|
| John William Johnston |
For service to the community of Scone
|
| Alwynne Beryl Jona |
For service to the community through the Victorian Association for the Blind
|
| Elaine Jones |
For service to the community of Narrabri
|
| Wlodzimierz Anthony Jucha |
For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Polish Ex-Servicemen's Association and the 8th Battalion Association
|
| Despina Kalaf |
For service to the Greek community
|
| John Maxwell Kidd |
For service to the community, particularly youth, and to Rugby Union football
|
| Susanne Gay King |
For service to squash
|
| Dr Robert Peter Knight |
For service to the development of veterinary services in the community of Terang and Noorat
|
| Matti Allan Kolkka |
For service to surf lifesaving
|
| Maria Krupska |
For service to the Polish community
|
| Leonard Bruce Kubbere |
For service to the community and to tourism through the establishment of the Featherdale Wildlife Park
|
| Esme Lane |
For service to youth through the scouting movement
|
| Harold Murray Lang |
For service to local government and to the community
|
| John Harold Albert Lang |
For service to the community through charitable and service organisations
|
| Kevin Raymond Langdon |
For service to the community through the Motor Neurone Disease Association of New South Wales
|
| Betty Irene Lawrence |
For service to the community of Red Cliffs
|
| Sylvia May Le Marquand |
For service to youth through Guides Australia, and to the community
|
| Claire Elizabeth Lee |
For service to the St Mary's Polio Rehabilitation Centre in Andra Pradesh, India, as a missionary and physiotherapist
|
| Philip Leong |
For service to the community of Townsville
|
| Basil Richard Lewers |
For service to recreational and sport fishing
|
| David Barton Lewis |
For service to Rugby Union football
|
| Robert Alfred Little |
For service to surf lifesaving
|
| Malcolm David Little |
For service to the community
|
| Malcolm Reid Lobsey |
For service to the community and to local government
|
| Jack Kingsley Looney |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Dr Peter Robin Macneil |
For service to rural medicine, and to community health
|
| John Richard Maidment |
For service to Australia's cultural heritage through the Organ Historical Trust of Australia
|
| Tamara Makeev |
For service to the Russian Orthodox community, and to the Ethnic Communities Council of the ACT
|
| Marie Amy Manning |
For service to the development of community information services in South Australia
|
| Adrian Edward Mannix |
For service to the communities of Drysdale and the Bellarine Peninsula
|
| Stephen John Mason |
For service to veterans as editor of the Australian Special Wireless Group Association newsletter
|
| Linda Doone Mayne |
For service to people with disabilities through the Sunshine Welfare and Remedial Association
|
| John Anthony McAuliffe |
For service to junior surf lifesaving, and to lawn tennis
|
| George McBride |
For service to the community through the Lions Club and Meals on Wheels
|
| Bettine Patricia McCaughan |
For service to the arts, particularly as a teacher of voice
|
| Ronald David McClure |
For service to the sugar cane industry, particularly in the Mackay region
|
| Craig John McDermott |
For service to cricket and to the community
|
| Bevan John McDonald |
For service to the community through the Salvation Army and Rotary
|
| Albert Louis McDonell |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Graeme McGee |
For service to the community, particularly through Fire and Emergency Services, and to competitive long bore shooting events
|
| Shauna Fogarty McGilvray |
For service to the community through the Graffiti Alert Project and the Legal Arts Crew
|
| Annette Jean McGuiness |
For service to community health, and to the welfare of the people of Wedge Island
|
| Cleveland John (Toby) McLeish |
For service to the community, particularly as bandmaster of the Cowra Band
|
| Roslyn Anne McLeod |
For service to the tourism industry, particularly through the promotion of Australian venues and facilities for conferences and meetings
|
| Roy Anthony Peter Medich |
For service to the community through fund raising
|
| Robert John Meehan |
For service to Vietnam veterans and to the preservation of military history
|
| Giuseppe Gianfranco Merizzi |
For service to the Italian community
|
| Robert John Middleton |
For service to lawn bowls
|
| William George Dyer Middleton |
For service to conservation and the environment, and to land management
|
| Graeme Allan Millar |
For service to the community of Gisborne
|
| John Antill Millett |
For service to literature as editor of Poetry Australia
|
| Elizabeth Milnes |
For service to pioneering and facilitating the development and infrastructure of Alice Springs
|
| Ethel May Mitchell |
For service to the Uniting Church in Australia (Victorian Synod) and to the community
|
| Warren John Mitchell |
For service to surf lifesaving through the development and introduction of the inflatable rescue boat (IRB)
|
| Eric George Molyneux |
For service to veterans, particularly through the 2/43rd Battalion Association and the 10th Field Regiment Association
|
| Olive Marie Mulholland |
For service to the community through welfare organisations of the Catholic Church
|
| Jean Estelle Neilson |
For service to secondary education through the development of innovative programmes for girls, and to the community
|
| Gwendoline Newitt |
For service to the community of Sorrell
|
| Stanley Alfred Newman |
For service to the community, particularly through arts organisations, and to local government
|
| Jack Thomas Newman |
For service to the community through the St Giles Society, and to architecture
|
| Ann Elizabeth Nichol |
For service to aged care and to community health organisations
|
| Edna Louie Florence Norton-Baker |
For service to the community as a fundraiser
|
| John Charles O'Donnell |
For service to the performing arts, particularly through the Cairns Choral Society and the North Queensland Eisteddfod Council
|
| Richard Quin O'Neill |
For service to the community, particularly through the Murgon Local Ambulance Committee
|
| Alma Doris O'Rourke |
For service to nursing, particularly aged care
|
| Joseph Thaddeus O'Sullivan, OBE |
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian-Irish Heritage Association, the Perth Centre of International Pen and the W B Yeats Society
|
| Jillian Anne Munro Nivison Oppenheimer |
For service to heritage conservation and the environment, particularly through the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales)
|
| Kenneth Paul Owens |
For service to the community of Redhead
|
| Daniel William Page |
For service to the community of Blanchetown
|
| Thelma Ann Parish |
For service to the community, particularly to children with intellectual disabilities and their families
|
| Albert Graham Parish |
For service to the community, particularly to children with intellectual disabilities and their families
|
| Frank Passalaqua |
For service to the community of Guildford
|
| Raymond Passmore |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Henry John Paternoster |
For service to cricket and to the community
|
| Francis William Pengelly |
For service to lawn bowls and to the community
|
| Rosemary Jean Penn |
For service to visually impaired people, particularly through the South Australian Blind Cricket Club
|
| Ann Penny |
For service to ex-servicewomen and to the community
|
| Shirley Dawn Penny |
For service to the community of Mildura and district
|
| Brian Neville Phemister |
For service to the community through the New South Wales Retired Commissioned Officers’ Association
|
| Richard Robert Phillips |
For service to the preservation of Australia's military history and heritage
|
| Stanley Robert Ping |
For service to the community and to local government
|
| Sister Camille Poidevine |
For service to community health and to music education
|
| John Crichton Polack |
For service to the community, particularly to aged care
|
| The Reverend Joyce Sylvia Polson |
For service to the community through the Anglican Church
|
| Norman Geoffrey Poulter |
For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the Speleological Research Group of Western Australia
|
| Fofy Prouzos |
For service to the Greek community
|
| John Adrian Pulbrook |
For service to the community of Morawa
|
| Colleen Mary Pyne |
For service to education, and to the establishment of the North Australia Research Unit
|
| Mavis Irene Quartermaine |
For service to youth through Guides Australia, and to the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
|
| Elaine Phyllis Quickenden |
For service to the environment through the Lamington Natural History Association
|
| Frederick Ernest Raffo |
For service to youth and to veterans
|
| Eileen Patricia Redrup |
For service to the community through charitable organisations
|
| Alan John Rees |
For service to youth, particularly through the Australian Services Cadet Scheme
|
| Dr Edgar Richard Reid |
For service to community medicine as a general practitioner, to veterans and to sporting groups
|
| George Percy Reid |
For service to the community, particularly through the Coleambally Rescue Service and the Murrumbidgee Shire Bushfire Service
|
| Richard David Richmond Rex, BEM |
For service to veterans and their families
|
| Joy Rice |
For service to the community, particularly through the Radar Air Defence Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force Association
|
| Lyal Gordon Richardson |
For service to local government and to the community
|
| Jean Ivy Lucy Roberts |
For service to women in South Australia through the National Council of Women and the Churches of Christ
|
| The Reverend Father John Brendan Rogers |
For service to the community, and to veterans and their families
|
| Robert George Romanes |
For service to the community through the Recreation Industry Council of Australia
|
| Russell Sidney Ronan |
For service to the community, particularly through Ballina Tidy Towns and Riding for the Disabled
|
| John Duncan Ross |
For service to tourism and to charitable organisations
|
| Francis Thomas Rowell |
For service to veterans
|
| Desmond John Rundle |
For service to cricket administration
|
| Douglas John Rymer |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Mavis Jean Salisbury |
For service to the preservation and recording of community history
|
| Evelyn Margaret Scott |
For service to children with intellectual disabilities, particularly through the ACT Down Syndrome Association
|
| Dr Dorothy Scott |
For service to the discipline of social welfare through research and education, and to the development of specialist support services in the areas of ante- and post-natal depression and child abuse and neglect
|
| Walter Batchelor Scott-Smith |
For service to youth through the Scout Association of Australia, and to the community
|
| John William Seager |
For service to veterans through the New South Wales section of the Naval Association and the Submariners’ Association of Australia
|
| Helen Audrey Ray Searle |
For service to athletics as a coach, administrator and competitor
|
| Christopher Sheed |
For service to conservation and to the preservation of old growth forests
|
| Donald Herbert Sheffield |
For service to the Institute of Municipal Engineering Australia
|
| Councillor Anthony John Sheridan |
For service to local government
|
| Caroline Elisabeth Oswald Simpson |
For service to the conservation of Australian heritage
|
| Bessie Sledge |
For service to conservation and the environment through the Cooleman Ridge Parkcare Group
|
| Gwendoline Betty Small |
For service to the community, particularly through the Raymond Terrace Ladies’ Bowling Club
|
| George Smith |
For service to the welfare of veterans through the 7th Australian Division Association and the 2/25th Field Regiment Association
|
| Harry Smith |
For service to aged people, and to sport
|
| Gavin John Staines |
For service to music education, particularly through school and community bands
|
| Giovanni (John) Stefanelli |
For service to the community through business and service organisations
|
| Margaret Frances Stevens |
For service to the community of Roebourne, particularly through the Pilbara Aboriginal Church
|
| David George Stevens |
For service to
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| Maxwell Alan Wyndham Stone |
For service to the community of Broadmeadows, and to local government
|
| Philip Gordon Swan |
For service to the community, particularly children, as a Primary School Chaplain
|
| Mabel Dowling Taylor |
For service to the community of Ballarat
|
| Clifford Frank Theilley |
For service to cricket through the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association
|
| Zillah Helen Thomas |
For service to the community of Katanning, particularly through the Good Samaritan Industries
|
| Enid Sydney Thompson |
For service to the community, particularly through the Schizophrenia Fellowship of Victoria
|
| Joseph Thomsen |
For service to veterans and to the community
|
| Moya Margaret Turner |
For service to the community of Penrith
|
| Leonard James Turner, MBE |
For service to veterans through the Western Australian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia
|
| Carole Turner |
For service to the community, particularly through the Fairfield Community Aid and Information Service
|
| Frank Samuel Van Straten |
For service to the performing arts as a historian, museum director and radio broadcaster
|
| Walter Rhodes Varley |
For service to veterans through the 2/1st Australian Armoured Brigade Reconnaissance Squadron Association
|
| Joan Margaret Vaughan |
For service to the community, particularly through surf lifesaving
|
| Peter Anthony Vodic |
For service to the mining industry, and to the community of Broken Hill
|
| Dr William Downing Walker |
For service to overseas medical aid programmes through Interplast
|
| John William Walker |
For service to local government and to the community
|
| Helen Jean Walker |
For service to the community, particularly aged people
|
| Jozef Waclaw Wasiel |
For service to the Polish community
|
| Agnes Irene Webb |
For service to the community, particularly through the United Hospital Auxiliaries
|
| Kim West |
For service to the community through Life Education Victoria
|
| Penelope Jane White |
For service to veterans as a physiotherapist
|
| Alexander Geoffrey Duckett White |
For service to the community through the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation
|
| Cynthia Joan Williams |
For service to the community of Guyra
|
| Mary Louise Willsallen |
For service to the sport of carriage driving, particularly through the Equestrian Federation of Australia and the Australian Driving Society
|
| Shirley Cameron Wilson |
For service to the community, particularly through art organisations
|
| Harold Woodward |
For service to youth through scouting, and to the community
|
| Bryan Åland Woolcock |
For service to veterinary science, and to the community
|
| Ernest Eric Zillmann |
For service to the observation, recording and promotion of Australia's natural history
|