The 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 13 June 1982 in Australia.[1] [2]
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John Gosman Allwright | For service to primary industry | |
| Richard Austen | For service to the coal industry | |
| Dr Robert Francis Brissenden | For service to literature | |
| Dr Joan Helen Bryan | For service to medical research | |
| Emeritus Professor Gilbert James Butland | For service to education | |
| Evonne Fay Cawley, | For services to the sport of tennis | |
| John Edmund Duggan | For service to parliamentary and local government services | |
| The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Andreas Evatt | For service to law | |
| Frank Randall Harris | For public service | |
| Lloyd James Hartigan | For service to industry | |
| Frank Colin Hassell | For service to architecture | |
| Associate Professor Donald Richmond Horne | For service to literature | |
| John Barry Humphries | For service to the theatre | |
| The Honourable Justice Samuel Joshua Jacobs | For service to the community | |
| Henry Frederick Jensen | For parliamentary and local government service | |
| Raymond John Kirby | For service to industry | |
| Dr Kenneth David Muirden | For service to medicine | |
| The Reverend Arthur William Preston, | For service to the community | |
| Phillip Lovett Ridings | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Captain Robert James Ritchie, | For public and community service | |
| Henry Edwin Rossitor | For public service | |
| Professor Alan George Lewers Shaw | For service to education | |
| Roy McCowan Simpson | For service to architecture | |
| Professor Ralph Owen Slatyer | For service to science | |
| Kenneth Wilberforce Tribe, | For service to the arts, particularly in the field of music | |
| Carlo Valmorbida | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| John Sampson White, | For public service | |
| David George Druce Yencken | For service to conservation and history |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral Rothesay Cathcart Swan, | For service as Director General of the Natural Disasters Organisation and as Controller of Establishments in the Department of Defence | |
| Air Force | Air Vice Marshal James Hilary Flemming, | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Brother Oswald Stanislaus Adams | For service to education | |
| Reverend Ronald William Allardice | For service to religion | |
| Alan Jack Antonio | For service to local government | |
| Bert Frederick George Apps | For service to the community | |
| Professor John Bloomfield | For service to sports medicine | |
| William Henri Bowen | For service to the community | |
| Raymond Burkitt | For service to the community and industry | |
| Eugene Allan Norbert Byrne | For service to the sport of Rugby Union | |
| Mervyn James Callaghan | For service to the community and trade unionism | |
| John William Callow | For service to medicine | |
| Kenneth Livingstone Carr | For service to the community and the welfare of youths | |
| The Reverend Canon Ivor Frederick Church | For service to religion | |
| Audrey William Conn | For service to the public | |
| Professor John Douglas Correll Crisp | For service to engineering | |
| Charles Philip Cullen | For service to education | |
| James Bartholomew Cummings | For service to the sport of horse racing | |
| Alderman Ronald Edward Davis | For service to the community and local government | |
| John Edward Delaney | For service as a hospital administrator | |
| Colin Boyd Dunlop | For service to the community | |
| Keith Stacey Edmunds | For service to the public | |
| Samuel Fisher | For service to the community | |
| Dr The Honourable Derek David Freeman | For service to dentistry | |
| Maurice Desmond Frost | For public service | |
| Neil William Hunt Furness | For service to commerce and education | |
| Ronald Malcolm Gibbs | For service to education | |
| James Wallace Goulter | For service to the community | |
| Commander James Stewart Guest, | For service to medicine | |
| Professor Leslie Keith Humble | For service to music | |
| William George Solomon Huxley | For services to conservation | |
| Dr Roger John Ingham | For service to education | |
| Dr Owen Francis James | For service to medicine | |
| George Joseph | For service to local government and to the community | |
| William Herbert Kenworthy | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Darani Lewers | For service to craft and the manual arts | |
| Dr Kathleen Rachel Makinson | For public service | |
| The Honourable Peter McMahon | For service to trade unionism and community | |
| John West McMaster | For service to surf life saving | |
| Brigadier Ernest George McNamara, RL | For public service | |
| Diana d'Este Medlin | For service to education | |
| William Waldron Goss Meecham | For service to commerce and industry | |
| Bernard Grant Mitchell | For service to education | |
| Ernest Edward Morris | For service to the building industry | |
| The Right Reverend Cecil Emerson Barron Muschamp | For service to the community and to religion | |
| John William O'Neill | For service to agriculture | |
| Thomas James Perrott | For service to the community | |
| Thomas Mansergh Pickering | For service to jazz music and to librarianship | |
| Harold Edward Porter | For service to literature | |
| Dr Corrie Reye | For service to medicine | |
| Frederick John Roberts | For public service | |
| Lincoln Gordon Rowe | For service to industry and commerce | |
| Major Madge Rush | For service to the community | |
| Harry Stickland | For service to local government | |
| Gladys Evelyn Tanner | For service to nursing | |
| Arthur Grahame Taylor | For service to the community | |
| Dr Marjorie Ruth Walker | For service to medicine | |
| Peter Lindsay Weir | For service to the film industry | |
| Frank Wickham | For public service |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Captain Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss | ||
| Captain Daryl Robin Osmond Shaw Fox | For service to the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Commander Brian Lee Spark | For service to the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Gerard Curtis, | For service to the SAS Regiment | |
| Colonel John Talbot Dunn, | For services to the Australian Army in the field of medicine | ||
| Colonel John Garth Hughes | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bentley Knight | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Peter Donald Knight | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel James Baildon Potter, | For service to the Army Reserve | ||
| Air Force | Wing Commander John Herbert Dunn | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Number 5 Squadron | |
| Wing Commander James Keith Gray Moore | For service to the Department of Defence (Air Force Officer) | ||
| Wing Commander Brian O'Connell | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Wing Commander Harold Ernst Adam Pfeffer | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force | ||
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claire Patricia Airey | For service to the community and nursing | |
| Roger Quilter Allen | For service to disabled children | |
| Raphael Apuatimi | For service to the Aboriginal art culture and arts | |
| Cuthbert Milne Ayling | For service to the community | |
| Agnes Cecilia Bailey | For service to the community | |
| Ronald Keith Baker | For service to the community and local government | |
| Royston William Baldwin | For service to sport in the fields of cricket and Australian Rules football | |
| Irene Mary Therese Barry | For service to the community and music | |
| Edith Emma Beasley | For service to disabled children | |
| Harry John Beauchamp | For service to the community | |
| Dawn Bennett | For service to the disabled | |
| Charles Findlay Bentley | For service to adult education | |
| William Frank Bird | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Bernard Abraham Boas | For service to the community | |
| Douglas Gordon Bowd | For service to the community | |
| Marie Antoinette Boyers | For service to education in the field of speech and drama | |
| Sister Mary Alexius Boyle | For service to education | |
| Alexander William Boyne | For service to the community | |
| Emily Susan Brimfield | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Susanne Janet Douglas Broad | For service to the community | |
| Harold John Brown | For service to life saving | |
| Janet Mary Browning | For service to the community | |
| Helen Ruth Burmester | For service to the community | |
| James Henry Butler | For service to the community and local government | |
| Eric Charles Butler | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Geoffrey Harold Cambridge | For service to commerce | |
| John Emile Ferdinand Cannot | For service to the community and to surf life saving | |
| Albert John Carlisle | For service to the community | |
| John William Chamberlain | For services to the Public Service | |
| John Parker Bua Chapman | For service to the timber industry | |
| Royl Francis Chardon | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community | |
| Robert Donald Christsen | For public service and service to the community | |
| Sydney Ernest Churchill | For service to the fruit and vegetable industry | |
| Frank John Clark | For service to the community | |
| David Michael Cockburn | For service to optometry | |
| Muriel Frances Cohen | For service to music | |
| Arthur Edward Cole | For service to the community | |
| Arthur James Collins | For service to band music | |
| Peter Gordon Cooper | For service to the sport of badminton | |
| Basil Creedy | For service to the community and local government | |
| Malcolm Carlyle Crosbie | For service to the community | |
| Brian Cross | For service to youth welfare | |
| Eileen Daniel | For service to the sport of softball | |
| Lionel Ray Daniel | For service to the community and local government | |
| Inspector Robert William Davis | For service to the public | |
| Eva Edna Dennis | For service to the disabled | |
| Muriel Alice Dickinson | For service to the community | |
| John Bernard Dillon | For service to the community and trade unionism | |
| Robert Arthur Donald | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Colin George Duke | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Clive Watson Elliott | For service to education | |
| Elsie Agnes Erwen | For service to the community | |
| Louis Nicholas Fleyfel | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Douglas James Fullston | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Ivan Thomas James Gates | For service to the community | |
| George Geddes | For service to the community | |
| Albert William James Giddings | For service to the community | |
| Ernest William (Joseph) Glascott | For service to journalism | |
| Kevin Francis Gould | For service to the community | |
| Herman Gutman | For service to the community | |
| Councillor Robert George Halliday | For service to local government and community | |
| Guy Ronald Hamlyn-Harris | For service to the community | |
| Bernhard Hammerman | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Lieutenant Commander John George Hampson | For service to youth welfare | |
| John Joseph Hanley | For service to the cattle industry | |
| Evelyn Pauline Harding (Queenie Paul) | For service to the theatre | |
| George Walter Harman | For service to local government and community | |
| Ronald Francis Harrison | For service to the community | |
| Hilda Florence Heinrich | For service to the community | |
| William Hickey | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| The Reverend Monsignor Barry James Hickey | For service to the community | |
| Senior Sergeant Colin Robert Hodder, QPM | For public service | |
| Ralph Frederick Holden | For service to the community | |
| Eleanor Phoebe Holmes | For service to the community | |
| Edward William Robert Howard | For service to the community | |
| Ruth Hilda Harrison Hurn | For service to nursing | |
| Albert Charles Jackson | For service to local government | |
| Edward John (Ted) Jackson | For service to the community | |
| Clarence Roy James | For service as hospital administrator | |
| Francis Edwin Johnson | For service to the sport of Rugby League Football | |
| Neville Raymond Johnson | For service to the sport of squash | |
| George Johnstone | For service to the sport of horse racing | |
| Muriel Valerie Ryan (Mrs Johnstone-Need) | For service to medicine | |
| Lorna Marjorie Jolly | For service to the sport of womens hockey | |
| David Penry Jones | For service to the community | |
| Richard Oscar Jones | For service to the community | |
| Eileen Margaret Kane | For service to ballroom dancing | |
| Milan Karamarko | For service to the Croation community | |
| Henry O'Connor Kennedy | For service to local government and community | |
| Marie Helene Kentwell | For service to child welfare | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Killinger | For service to the community and religion | |
| William Geoffrey Kinsman | For service to the community | |
| Michael Kiprioti | For public service | |
| Frederick John Kittle | For service to the community | |
| Barbara Alison Knezevic | For public service | |
| Assistant Commissioner Richard Carlile Knight | For public service | |
| Djoli Laiwonga | For service to Aboriginal culture and arts | |
| Raymond Stanley Lambert | For service to the community | |
| Joseph Arthur Langton | For service to the community | |
| Harold Francis Lashwood | For service to the entertainment industry | |
| Brian Layland | For service to optometry | |
| Kenneth James Leal | For service to the printing industry | |
| Enid Bosworth Lorimer | For service to the performing arts | |
| Mary Vera Loveday | For service to the community | |
| James William Mackey | For service to the community | |
| Liyapidiny Marika | For service in the field of Aboriginal health and welfare | |
| Patricia June Martin | For service to youth welfare | |
| Frederick Percy McCallum | For service to the sport of Australian rules football | |
| Phyllis Emily McDonald | For service to the community | |
| Betty Jean McDonald | For service to the community | |
| Rawdon Townshend McDouall | For service to local government and community | |
| Ian Stuart McKenzie | For service to the community | |
| William Harold Mitchell | For public service | |
| Domenico Morizzi | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Mabel Joyce Mossemenear | For service to the disabled | |
| Henry Eric Mullen | For public and community welfare | |
| Kenneth Claude Murchison | For service to equestrian sport and community | |
| Robert Frank Neander | For service to the welfare of members of the Defence Force | |
| Colin Odgers | For service to the community | |
| Madge Blackmore (Lesley) Oldershaw | For service to the community | |
| Olive Nell Oxlee | For public service | |
| Peter Pan Quee | For public service | |
| Norma McNeel Paterson | For service to the community and music | |
| Lawrence Alfred Payne | For service to local government and community | |
| Albert Edward Pearce | For service to the community | |
| Barry Thomas Pengelly | For service to the community | |
| George Harnett Phillips | For service to the community | |
| Agostino Domenico Pietracatella | For service to the community | |
| Nicholas Polites | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Clarence Donald Pretty | For service to the community | |
| William John Puregger | For service to the community | |
| Alexander Daniel Rice | For service to the community | |
| Thomas Alexander Roberts | For service to equestrian sport | |
| John James Robertson | For public service | |
| Bruce Arnold Robson | For service to the community | |
| Karel Rodny | For service to the sport of soccer | |
| Thelma May Rowatt | For public and community service | |
| John Patrick Savage | For service to trade unionism | |
| Otto Rex Schroeter | For service to sport in the fields of bowls and Australian rules football | |
| Wladyslaw Kazimierz Sikorski | For public service | |
| Sergeant John Smith | For community service | |
| Cyril Thomas Stafford | For service to the community | |
| Leonard John Stone | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Kevin John Sullivan | For service to the community | |
| Kenneth John Summerhill | For service to the community, particularly with pony clubs | |
| Dr Jack Sunderman | For service to medicine | |
| James William Fletcher Sweet | For service to the sport of rifle shooting | |
| John Kenneth Thistlethwaite | For service to education | |
| Albert Leslie Thomas | For public service | |
| James Andrew Thompson | For service to the sport of gymnastics | |
| Dorothy May Thorne | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Roy Leo Patrick Turner | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Reverend Johannes Frederick Hermanus Vanderbom | For service to religion and community | |
| Dr Demetrios George Varvaressos | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Wilfred Douglas Verco | For service to the community | |
| Pearl Voller | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Evelyn Walker | For service to the performing arts | |
| Herbert Edgar Ward | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Edward Charles Wesley | For service to education | |
| Leslie Sydney Wickham | For service to the community | |
| Laurel Jean Willis | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Hannah Wilson | For service to the community | |
| David Worobin | For service to music | |
| Edward Athelstan Wrightson | For service to the community | |
| Victor George Yaxley | For service to local government | |
| Zuzanna Zarebska | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Warrant Officer Robert Theodore Caplice | For service to the Royal Australian Navy | [3] [4] |
| Warrant Officer Peter Andrew Lewis Eley | |||
| Warrant Officer Gordon Lawrence Miller | |||
| Warrant Officer Colin Trevor Rowley | |||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class Two Grahame Donald Anderson | For service to the Australian Army | |
| Warrant Officer Class One Reginald Martin Hind | For service to the Army Reserve | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Brian Kent London, DCM | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One George Robert Townsend | For service to the Royal Australian Engineers | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Kevin Stanley Wendt, BEM | For service as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Trevor John Williamson | For service to the Australian Army | ||
| Air Force | Warrant Officer Barry Redshaw | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force |