| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Gennaro Alfonso Giuseppe Abignano | For services to the construction industry and to the community | |
| Keith Frederick Alder | For services to the public service |
| Dr Allan James Antcliff | For service to horticultural science |
| John Edward Atkinson | For service to the Aboriginal arts |
| Alfred Paget Beatty | For service to primary industry |
| Dr Maurice Berah | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of pathology |
| Raymond Berg | For service to architecture |
| Phillip Walter Coles | For service to sport |
| Peter Gregor Collins | For service to the Public Service |
| Ronald John Cotton | For service to accountancy |
| Dr William Evan Davies | For service to medicine, particularly the care and welfare of the disabled |
| Anne Barbara Deveson | For service to the media |
| Frederick Sinclair Dobbin | For service to the community and education |
| Sydney James Donovan | For service to the media |
| Dr John Henry Temple Ellard | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry |
| Keith Marshall Ethell | For service to the community, particularly the veterinary profession |
| Emeritus Professor John Maxwell Freeland, | For service to architecture, particularly as an historian |
| Mary Mansell Gibson | For service to childhood education and to the community |
| Henry Charles Gubler | For service to primary industry |
| Murray David Haines | For service to education |
| Dr Spyros Emanuel Halikis | For service to dentistry |
| Staveley Frederick Norton Hickson | For service to commerce |
| John Brettell Holliday | For public service |
| Dr Roland Adrian Glennie Holmes | For service to the community |
| Trevor John Kennedy | For service to the media |
| The Reverend Douglas Frederick Kirkup | For service to religion and to the community |
| Henry Arthur Llewellyn | For service to the community |
| James Sinclair Millner | For service to industry and to the community |
| Robert Edward Moors | For service to the arts and to the community, particularly as director of the Moomba Festival |
| David Grantley Morgan | For service to education |
| John Jackson Morris | For service to the film industry |
| George William Muir | For service to education |
| The Reverend James Alexander Murray | For service to religion and the community |
| George Buchan Ogilvie | For service to the theatre and to the performing arts |
| Elaine Phillipa Orr | For service to nursing |
| Frederick Henry Phipps | For service to industry |
| Dr Geoffrey Howard Pike | For community welfare service in Australia and overseas |
| Lindsay Garfield Plane | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Mervyn Morris Powell | For service to the horse racing industry and to the community |
| Dr Charles Archibald Price | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Rex Thomas Reid | For service to the community, in particular to charities that focus on assisting women and children |
| William Thomas Schmidt | For public service |
| Ian Oswald Spicer | For service to industry and to the community |
| Basil Holmes Travers, | For service to education |
| Arthur William John Voss | For service to technical education and to the community |
| Suzanne Walker | For service to the arts, particularly in the field of crafts |
| Florence May Wallace | For service to the community |
| John Weir Wilson | For service to the blind |
| Murray George Winders | For service to the motor industry |
| Ronald John Yates | For service to the aviation industry |
| Joan Margaret Young | For service to education and to the community | |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Navy | Commodore William James Crossley | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Director General of Naval Manpower and Director General of Facilities Branch Navy | |
| Lieutenant John Thomas Goss | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Head of cooking staff of HMAS Cerberus |
| Principal Chaplain Monsignor Geoffrey Francis Mayne | For service to the Chaplaincy Branch of the Royal Australian Navy |
| Commander Richard John Perry Withycombe Perryman | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly in the field of military communications |
| Commander William Gray Ritchie | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Executive Officer, HMAS Stirling |
| Captain David Henry Thomson | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Commanding Officer of HMAS Hobart |
| Army | Brigadier Richard Ernest Bird | For service to Army co-ordination and organisation |
| Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Edward Coombes | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Director of the Junior Wing, Reserve Command and Staff College |
| Major John Patrick Dinan | For service to the Army Reserve in the field of Officer management |
| Lieutenant Colonel Brian Patrick Green | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as 2nd in command of the Field Force Battle School |
| Major Ian William McQuire | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment selection and procurement |
| Major Ronald Lewis James Northcott | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Ceremonial Officer and Chief Marshall for the XII Commonwealth Games |
| Colonel Barry Douglas Phillips | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment procurement |
| Major Wayne Hayden Ripper | For service to the Army Reserve, particularly as Officer Commanding the 47th Transport Squadron |
| Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Thomas Shambrook | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Australian Defence Force Project Officer for the XII Commonwealth Games |
| Captain Ronald Douglas Squires | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Quarter Master of the Armoured Centre |
| Major Ian Leighton Stewart | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Officer Commanding the Perth Workshop Company |
| Chaplain Second Class Lester Thompson | For service as Staff Chaplain, 2nd Military District and Senior Anglican Chaplain to Headquarters Field Force Command and Headquarters Training Command, Australian Army |
| Colonel Maxwell Bruce Tinkler | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment maintenance |
| Air Force | Squadron Leader David Andrew Collie | For service as an administrative officer in the Royal Australian Air Force |
| Flight Lieutenant Allan Lindsay Davidson | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Office in Charge of the Mobile Air Terminal Unit |
| Group Captain Terence Holyoake | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer, Number 1 Stores Depot. |
| Group Captain John Burroughs MacNaughtan | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Number 481 Maintenance Squadron. |
| Air Commodore Bernard John Reynolds | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Officer Commanding, RAAF Air Base, Butterworth, Malaysia |
| Group Captain Douglas Hilton Sinclair | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Director of Personnel Airmen, Department of Defence, Air Force Office |
| Flight Lieutenant Hugh Osborne Trounson | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief Instructor at the Air Movements Training and Development Unit |
| Squadron Leader Geoffrey Parke Wade | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a Staff Officer in the Directorate of Personnel Services, Department of Defence, Air Force Office |
| Wing Commander Francis Ian Walke | For service as Principal Reserve Dental Officer, Royal Australian Air Force Reserve Queensland |
| Wing Commander Terry Charles Arthur Wilson, | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Joint Force Commander, Australian Contingent Multinational Force and Observers | |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Adikuiam Adidi | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Wilfred Percy Allinson | For service to the community as a volunteer worker for the XII Commonwealth Games |
| Margaret Roblin Allwright | For service to nursing |
| Glenys Fay Anderson | For service to the community and conservation |
| Ethel May Anderson | For service to the community |
| Neville Thomas Andrews | For service to industry and to trade unionism |
| Vivienne Ashcroft | For service to youth welfare and to the community |
| Ernest Askew | For service to the community |
| Alfred Fredress Bennett | For service to the community |
| James Sylvester Bennie | For service to the community |
| Maynard Harding Bills | For service to the deaf |
| Owen Fendick Blattman | For service to the community |
| Harold Patrick Boland | For service to the community and the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Dr James Hugh Bray | For service to the poultry industry |
| Alan George Bray | For service to the community |
| Richard Paull Septimus Burt | For service to the community |
| Dorothy Joan Louise Caelli | For service to the sport of gymnastics |
| Alderman George Albert Edward Cayley | For services to the community and local government |
| Councillor Alan Reginald Clark | For service to the local government and to the community |
| Robert Bruce Comben | For service to the community and local government |
| Kevin Richard Coombs | For service to sport for the disabled and to Aboriginal welfare |
| Graham Studley Cornes | For service to the sport of Australian rules football |
| Kevin Craik | For service to the welfare of youth |
| Ernest Alfred Crome | For service to the community, particularly as a benefactor of historical objects |
| Jean Davenport | For service to the community |
| Brian Kilmaine De Courcy-Ireland | For service to the community and local government |
| Alderman Julie Barbara Dearing | For service to the community and local government |
| Allan Temple Dingle | For service to the community |
| Elsie May Drummond | For service to the sport of ladies bowls |
| Geoffrey Dymock | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Nellie Mary Escott | For service to the community |
| Henry Edwin Fairall | For service to the community |
| Margaret Isobel Fulton | For service to the media as a journalist and writer in the field of cookery |
| John Alexander Selwyn Geddes | For service to the community and to local government |
| Alfred Yule Llewellyn Gillam | For service to the community |
| Albert John Goggins | For service to local government and the community |
| Martin Joseph Gooley | For service to the community |
| Margaret Green | For service to disabled children |
| Ernest Donald Hackney | For service to the community |
| Lillian Ruth Harrison | For service to education |
| John Pinkerton Hayes | For service to disabled children |
| Vincent Patrick Heffernan | For service to local government and to the community |
| William James Hodgins | For service to junior football and to the community |
| Dr Ernest Pease Hodgkin | For service to natural science and to the community |
| Bernard Augustine Hodgman | For service to the community |
| Kevin John Hogan | For service to the sports of cricket and football |
| Robert Malcolm Hooper | For service to sport, particularly cricket and football, and to the community |
| Oliver James Hughan | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Senior Sergeant Carolus Isua | For public service in the field of Aboriginal welfare |
| John William George Joel, | For service to the community |
| Marjorie Gowling Johnson | For service to the arts, particularly the field of crafts |
| Ronald Samuel Johnston | For service to the furniture industry |
| Ronald Norman Jones | For service to the community |
| Pelagia Peter Kakulas | For service to ethnic welfare |
| David Anthony Keating | For service to sport during the XII Commonwealth Games |
| The Reverend Father Michael Kelly | For service to the community |
| Margaret Johannah Kelsh | For service to the community |
| Thomas Albert David Kennedy | For service to the horseracing industry |
| Frederick Kirkland | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Leonard James Kittle | For service to the community |
| Paraskevi Vivi Koutsounadis | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Marjorie Lina Ladkin | For service to nursing |
| Dorothy Yvonne Laver | For service to local government and to the community |
| Giuseppe Lo Schiavo | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Mary Linton Thorne Loder | For service to nursing |
| Ian Francis Martin | For service to the maize industry |
| Donald Robert Muir Mason | For service to legal government and the community |
| Norman Alfred Vale May | For service to the media |
| Robert Thomas McAnally | For service to the disabled |
| Dr Amy Gladys McGrath | For service to the theatre |
| Marea Victoria Meyers | For service to the community |
| Peter John Murphy | For service to the community |
| Eric Leonard Myatt | For service to the sport of junior cricket |
| Jeanie Merry Nash | For service to the community |
| Nora Nelligan | For service to the sport of swimming |
| Doris Eleanor Nicholls | For service to scouting |
| Rita Jane Nightingall | For service to education, particularly speech development by the disabled |
| Ernest Joseph O'Donnell | For public service |
| Peter Joseph O'Halloran | For service to education, particularly in the field of mathematics |
| John Archibald Owens | For service to the disabled |
| Frederick Eugene Peterson | For service to trade unionism |
| William Arthur Prenzler | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| John Ward Rees | For service to local government and to the community |
| Kathleen Mary Barbara Ridley | For service to the community |
| Dianne Roberts | For service to Aboriginal welfare |
| Alfred Schulmeister | For service to medicine, particularly as a prosthetist |
| Edith Irene Seymour-Hudak | For service to the community |
| Peter John Patrick Shield | For service to the dry-cleaning industry |
| Antonina Skoroszewski | For service to ethnic welfare |
| Hilda Mary Spicer | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community |
| Len Clem Stevens | For service to the honey industry |
| Patricia Jean Walker | For service to the sport of squash |
| Donald Eric Wallin | For public service |
| James Wilfred Warburton | For service to the community |
| David Watson | For service to the plumbing industry |
| Dorothy Ann Watters | For service to the community |
| Shirlee Catherine Williams | For public service |
| Dulcie Jean Wilson | For service to nursing and to the community | |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Navy | Warrant Officer Max Berger | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Deputy Marine Engineer Officer, HMAS Canberra | |
| Warrant Officer James Edwin Burton | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Works Property Officer, HMAS Watson |
| Warrant Officer Robert William Gale | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Divisional Officer in the Supply School, HMAS Cerberus |
| Chief Petty Officer Christopher Donald Gallagher | For service to Fleet Tactical Communications in the Royal Australian Navy and as an instructor in the Communications School, HMAS Cerberus |
| Warrant Officer Geoffry Alan Russell | For service in the training of musicians in the Royal Australian Navy School of Music |
| Chief Petty Officer WRAN Maureen Ann Weir | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Motor Transport Controller, HMAS Albatross |
| Army | Sergeant Malcolm Raymond Bishop | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a radio operator with 6th Battalion, RAR |
| Warrant Officer Class One David Laurence Cave | For services to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of personnel management in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals |
| Warrant Officer Class One Philip John Clark | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as an instructor at the School of Army Health |
| Warrant Officer Class One William Hugh Dempster | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Manning Section Supervisor, Central Army Records Office, Melbourne |
| Sergeant Stephen Charles Facer | For service to the Royal Australian Infantry |
| Warrant Officer Class Two John William Gillan | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Cadet Group Liaison Warrant Officer with the 1st Cadet Group |
| Warrant Officer Class One Raymond Barrett Hartigan | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Regimental Sergeant Major Army Apprentice School |
| Corporal Kristeen Ann Lewis | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a personal driver to senior army commanders |
| Sergeant Daniel Robert McIver | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a technical storeman in support of the XII Commonwealth Games |
| Warrant Officer Class Two Eileen Pritchard | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a Clerk Administration with the 49th Battalion The Royal Queensland Regiment |
| Warrant Officer Class One Walter Raymond Robinson | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Training Warrant Officer, 14th Field Squadron, 4th Field Engineer Regiment |
| Corporal Lynne Veronica Sage | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Unit Pay Representative and Chief Clerk of the 1st Base Workshop Battalion |
| Air Force | Warrant Officer Donald Leslie Bray | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a mess supervisor |
| Warrant Officer Allen Richard Burgess | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an engineer |
| Sergeant David William Gardner | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an airframe fitter at No 2 Squadron |
| Sergeant Barry Norris Haskins | For service to Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an airframe fitter at Number 2 Flying Training School |
| Flight Sergeant Robert Hogan | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an instructor at the RAAF School of Technical Training |
| Warrant Officer Brian Clifford Jones | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly at No 2 Stores Depot |
| Warrant Officer Anthony Charles Muspratt | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a Warrant Officer Engineer with the Australian Contingent to the Multinational Force Observers in the Sinai | |
