| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Dr Jean Anges Battersby | For service to the arts and to public service | |
| Dr Norman Gregory Joseph Behan, | For service to the arts, particularly to the Queensland Art Gallery |
| Emeritus Professor Lindsay Michael Birt, | For service to education |
| Alexander Carmichael, | For service to public service and commerce |
| Hector William Crawford, | For service to Australian television production |
| David Frederick Dallwitz | For service to music, particularly in the field of jazz |
| George Francis Davies, | For service to the media and to the community |
| Emeritus Professor Austin Eric Doyle | For service to medical teaching and research |
| Anthony Murray Gleeson, | For service to the law and to the Crown |
| William Graham Gosewinckel | For public service, particularly as general manager of AUSSAT |
| Professor Fred Henry George Gruen | For service to education, particularly in the field of economics |
| Kenneth George Hall, | For service to medicine, particularly as a cardiologist |
| The Reverend Vernon Henry Harrison | For service to the community, particularly in the field of aged care |
| Robert Merry Hillman | For public service, particularly in the field of engineering |
| Emeritus Professor Frederic Raphael Jevons | For service to learning, particularly in the field of distance education |
| Kenneth Norman Jones, | For public service, particularly in the fields of education and departmental administration |
| Brenton James Langbein | For service to music particularly as violinist, orchestral conductor and teacher |
| Max Leon Liberman | For service to the housing industry |
| Chesborough Ranald Macdonald | For service to the community, particularly as chairman of Victoria's 150th anniversary celebrations |
| Ronald Holland Martin | For service to the wheat industry |
| Professor James Graham McLeod | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of neurology |
| Chief Commissioner Sinclair Imrie Miller, | For public service, particularly with the Victoria Police Force |
| Emeritus Professor John Derrick Ovington | For service to conservation, particularly as director, national parks and wildlife service |
| Keith Francis Parry | For service to the mineral industry, particularly in the field of gold mining |
| His Excellency Alfred Roy Parsons | For public service as a diplomatic representative |
| Wallace Keith Pilz, | For public service, particularly as director, New South Wales Public Works Department |
| Leonard Ian Roach | For service to commerce and to the community |
| Dr Alan Geoffrey Serle | For service to scholarship and literature, particularly in the field of Australian history |
| John William Shaw, | For service to opera |
| Dr Warwick Sydney Lees Stening | For service in the field of medical education |
| The Honourable Justice John Leslie Toohey | For service to the community, particularly as Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Commissioner |
| John Webber Venn | For public service to residential neighbourhood design with the National Capital Development Commission. |
| The Honourable Justice Howard Edgar Zelling, | For service to the community and the law, particularly as Chairman of the South Australian Law Reform Committee | |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Betty Margaret Andersen | For service to nursing education | |
| Jurek Kazimierz Andrecki | For service to the community, particularly the Polish community |
| Russell William Arland | For service to the local government |
| Ian Harry Backler | For service to the fishing industry |
| Alan Richard Bagnall | For service to the Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Frank John Ball, | For service to civil aviation, particularly as General Manager of Trans Australia Airlines |
| Victor Colin Belsham | For service to the sport of squash |
| James Duncan Bennett, | For service to the community and local government |
| Frederick Nils Bennett | For service to the public service, particularly in the fields of industry and defence |
| Shirley Stanton Berg | For service to education |
| Dr Victor Blackman | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of pathology |
| Malcolm Jack Blight | For service to Australian football |
| Allan Robert Border | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Kenneth Robert John Boylan | For service to health administration |
| The Honourable Cecil George Brettingham-Moore, | For service to the community |
| Dr John Peter Bush | For service to the community and medicine |
| John Laurence Carroll | For service to the public service in the field of finance and for service to public speaking through Rostrum |
| Wendy Jennifer Chapman | For service to the community and local government |
| Donald Coburn | For service to the welfare of the aged |
| David Murray Coleman | For service to communications, particularly through Telecom |
| Dr Clive Keith Coogan | For service to science and to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| Rosemary Crossley | For service to those with severe communication disabilities |
| Lindsay James Curtis | For service to the public service, particularly to the Attorney-General's Department |
| Dr Brian Forster Dickens, | For service to the mentally and physically impaired |
| William John Draper | For service to journalism and to the community, particularly as the editor of Who's Who in Australia |
| Dr Leslie Raymond Hill Drew | For service to the public, particularly in the treatment of alcohol and drug dependence |
| John James Duncan | For service to the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia |
| Milo Kanangra Dunphy | For service to conservation |
| Allan Millsteed Eddy | For service to the sport of lawn bowls and to the community |
| Dr Eva Gizella Eden | For service to education |
| Mabel Edmund | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Jonathan George Wycombe Erby | For service to the community and to architecture |
| Patrick Ambrose Farnan | For service to international trade |
| Professor Peter James Fensham | For service to the community and to education |
| Professor David Alexander Ferguson | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of occupational and environmental health |
| Norman William Frederick Fisher | For service in the fields of labour market research and public administration |
| Alec Fong Lim | For service to the community and to local government |
| Glenys Rae Fowles | For service to opera |
| Millicent Daisy Fox | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health |
| Albert Richard Gardner, | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| Dr Harry William Garlick | For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of education and administration |
| Ray Ginsburg | For service to community, particularly to women |
| Colin Raymond Gramp | For service to wine industry technology |
| Dr Ferry Grunseit | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics |
| Dr Dorothy Jean Hailes | For service to medicine, particularly in relation to women |
| George Alexander Haines | For service to secondary industry |
| Patricia Joan Harper | For service to the welfare of one-parent families |
| John Melman Harrison, | For service to art |
| Dr Arthur George Harrold | For service to conservation, particularly in Queensland |
| Elaine Alys Haxton | For service to arts, particularly printmaking |
| Douglas John Hill | For service to public sector accounting and to hockey |
| Ian Graham Hodges | For service to those with multiple sclerosis and to youth welfare |
| Geoffrey Hogan | For service to the community and to international disaster relief |
| George Longworth James, | For service to road safety and motor transport, particularly through the National Roads and Motorists' Association |
| Barbara Tarlton Jefferis | For service to literature |
| The Honourable Walter Jona | For service to the community, particularly to the Jewish community |
| Ronald Stanley Jordan, | For service to the Australian meat industry |
| Mary Veronica Joseph | For service to the community |
| Cecil David Mack Jost | For service to art and music |
| Eric Robert Kelly | For service to industrial relations |
| Kenneth John Kelsall | For service to the engineering profession, particularly in the development of Western Australia's water resources |
| Deputy Commissioner Raymond Elmo Killmier, | For service with the South Australian Police Force |
| Brian King | For service to local government and to the community |
| Norman Edward King | For service to the community and to local government |
| James Edward Layt | For service to the cement industry |
| Dr Richard Bruce Lefroy | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of geriatric medicine |
| Dr Robert Glendenning Linton | For service to ophthalmology |
| Norman Wilson Llewelyn | For service to the performing arts |
| Dr Wilfred Roy Longworth | For service to education |
| Patricia Anne Lovell, | For service to the film industry |
| John William MacBean | For service to the trade union movement |
| Isador Alexander Magid | For service to the community, particularly to the Jewish community |
| John Henry Marshall | For service to sports administration, particularly to World Cup athletics |
| The Reverend Dr Gilbert James McArthur | For service to the community, particularly in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands |
| Victor Francis McCristal | For service to game fishing and to the community |
| Graeme William McKinnon | For public service, particularly to the Australian exploration in the Antarctic |
| Mona Menzies | For service to nursing |
| Dr Jeffrey Owen Miller | For service to education |
| Detective Chief Superintendent Alan James Mills | For public service with the Australian Federal Police Force |
| Joan Mitchell Montgomery, | For service to education |
| David Charles Moore | For public service and for service to the community |
| Henricus Alphonsus Maria Nederveen | For service to commerce to the Dutch community and to hockey |
| Geoffrey Rowland Needham | For service to metallurgy, particularly through the Australian Foundry Institute |
| Walter Derek Noble | For service to the community and to local government |
| Marion Elaine Parsons | For service to the visually imparied |
| Dr Robin June Parsons | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of nursing education |
| Raymond Robert Frederick Pelham Thorman | For service to secondary industry, particularly through the Australian Chamber of Commerce |
| Dr Grace Amelia Perry | For service to Australian literature, particularly as editor of Poetry Australia |
| Roy William Osmac Pugh | For service to the community |
| Lady Susan Gai Street | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health |
| Margaret June Ritchie, | For service to the community |
| Cecil Edward Rix | For service to conservation and to ornithology |
| Max John Roberts | For service to the mining industry |
| Ruth Nellie Rogers | For service to early childhood education |
| Alfred Ruskin | For service to the arts, particularly opera and ballet |
| The Reverend Brother Walter Xavier Simmons | For service to education |
| The Honourable Donald William Simmons, | For service to parliament and to the community |
| Keith Simpson | For service to the building industry in Western Australia |
| Jack Thurston Snelson | For service to agriculture |
| Walter John Stamm | For service to engineering |
| Andrew Leon Tannahill | For service to the community and to the scouting movement, particularly as the inaugural Chief Commissioner, Australian Capital Territory branch |
| Henry Oreste Thomas | For service to the valuation profession particularly as editor of The Valuer |
| John Hadley (Jack) Thompson | For service to the film industry |
| Charles Rex Threlfo | For service to the New South Wales Fire Brigade Services |
| Albert Henry Tognolini | For service to engineering, particularly with the Main Roads Department of Western Australia |
| Dr John Paul Tonkin | For service to medicine, particularly as an ear, nose and throat surgeon |
| Dr Paolo Totaro | For service to the community, particularly to the Italian community, to arts and to education |
| Augustus Schwartze Trippe | For service to industry and commerce |
| Reginald Turner | For public service with the Department of Defence |
| Alexander John Kerry Walker | For service to the barley industry |
| Professor Russell Braddock Ward | For service to literature particularly in the field of Australian history |
| Michael Weinstein, | For service to soccer |
| David Bruce Lynton Williams | For service to the film industry |
| David Linney Wills | For service to the metal and engineering industries |
| Dean Robert Wills | For service to the metal and engineering industries |
| Dr Lionel Leopold Wilson | For service to medicine, particularly in the administration of health care services |
| Frank Edward Yeend | For service to hockey |
| Philip John Young | For service to agricultural development in Australia and in third world countries |
| William John Robert Young, | For service to sport, particularly through the Olympic and Commonwealth Games associations | |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Navy | Commodore Harold John Parker Adams | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly Joint Communications Electronics | |
| Commodore Anthony Michael Carwardine | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Commanding Officer of HMAS Adelaide |
| Commodore Malcolm Douglas Jackson | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Deputy Fleet Commander and Chief of Staff of Her Majesty's Australian Fleet |
| Commander Robert Richards | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Master Attendant for the Port of Sydney |
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Kerry George Gallagher | For service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment |
| Major Dianne Margaret Garbin | For service to Australian Army financial resource management at Headquarters Training Command |
| Major Robert Walter Hartley | For service to Australian Army in the field of electronic warfare |
| Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Robert Hill | For service to the Australian Army as second in command of the Special Air Service Regiment |
| Brigadier Noel John McGuire | For service to Australian Army as Commander 1st Military Division |
| Lieutenant Colonel John Albert Pietzner | For service to Australian Army Financial Management |
| Colonel Donald Quinn | For service to Australian Army as Commanding Officer, Central Army Records Office |
| Major Kimlyn Bruce Templeton | For service to Army Reserve, particularly in the 17th Battalion, the Royal New South Wales Regiment |
| Air Force | Squadron Leader Peter Chappelow | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Head of the Maintenance Development Office for the Hornet Aircraft Programme, Williamtown |
| Wing Commander Ross Campbell Clelland | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force while on exchange with the United States Air Force |
| Wing Commander Barry James Ellison | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Senior Equipment Officer at RAAF Base Amberley Queensland |
| Wing Commander Bruce John Stewart Mouatt | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Director of Operations in the Tactical Fighter Project Office |
| Group Captain David Norman Rogers | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer, Base Squadron Richmond |
| Air Commodore Hans Jorg Friederich Roser | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Director General Tactical Fighter Project | |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Betty Allan | For services to the welfare of those with impaired hearing | |
| Phyllis May Allum | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of stress-related problems |
| Audrey Evelyn Anderson | For service to nursing |
| Marie Armstrong | For service to the performing arts |
| Daisy Bacon | For service to the community, particularly through the Girl Guide movement |
| Councillor Dorothy Jean Baker | For service to the community and local government |
| Alderman Jill Lorraine Barber | For service to the community and local government |
| Stewart Barnes | For service to the community, to youth, international relations and peace |
| Edna Barolits | For service to the public service, particularly to the Aboriginal community |
| Kenneth Peter Neville Baronie | For service to the community, particularly through the Good Neighbour Council of Western Australia and the Migrant Emergency Fund |
| Geoffrey Frank Barron | For service to the community and the welfare of Broken Hill residents |
| Fay Norma Bataille, | For service to education and the community of Norfolk Island |
| Barbara Edith Biggins | For service to the arts, particularly through the South Australian Council for Children's Films and Television |
| Thomas Charles Boag | For service to tennis and public service |
| Francis Neville Bonser | For service to the fishing industry |
| Clement Booth | For service to the intellectually impaired |
| Dr Thomas Henry Boshier | For service to the dental profession |
| Henry Francis Boyle | For service to the community, particularly in the field of local history |
| Richard David Bradshaw | For service to the performing arts as a puppeteer |
| Neil Anthony Bridgefoot | For service to the community and local government |
| Nancye Margaret Bridges | For service to the performing arts |
| Robert Alden Brooks | For service to the welfare of the physically impaired |
| James John Brown | For service to conservation and gymnastics |
| Valerie Mary Browne | For service to the welfare of autistic children |
| Carol Margaret Budd | For service to the public service |
| Errol Desmond Bungey | For service to the sport of lawn bowls |
| Charles Lloyd Burley, | For service to the community |
| Joan Kathleen Burnett | For service to the community and ballet |
| Eileen Beryl Burns | For service to the community, particularly through the Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital |
| Herbert Buttery | For service to the visually impaired |
| James Benedict Cahill | For service to the community, particularly in the field of Aboriginal education |
| John Phillip Carmody | For service to the public service |
| Sidney Hayward Castine | For service to the community and local government |
| Daniel Clark | For service to the sport of cycling |
| Joyce Yvonne Clothier | For service to ballet |
| William Henry Collins | For service to those with intellectual disabilities |
| Elaine Adele Colquhoun | For service to the community, particularly to pony clubs |
| Raymond Martin Conroy | For service to the sport of harness racing |
| Leslie John Constable | For service to the community |
| Captain Raymond Keith Cooper | For service to the community as a military historian |
| Mavis Corbett | For service to the community, particularly to children |
| James Mitchell Cornwell | For service to the community and health administration |
| Michael Joseph Curtis | For service to the community and local government |
| Graham Hamilton Dillon | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Herman Cornelius Drenth | For service to the community |
| Kevin Charles Duffy | For service to the public service and to the community |
| Richard Alfred Dunn | For services to the sport of rugby league |
| Cornelius Henry Dwyer | For service to the transport industry, particularly as general secretary of the Taxi Council Queensland |
| Randolph Keith Evans | For service to the community |
| Megan Marjorie Evans | For service to music |
| Winsome Joan Evans, | For service to music |
| John Bateson Faulkner | For service to the community |
| Reverend Diego Fernandez Del Rio | For service to the Spanish community |
| Charles Allen Fishburn | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| Herbert Crommelin Fitzroy | For service to the community |
| Catherine Foggo | For service to the community, particularly in the field of local history |
| Kathleen Margaret Forte | For service to the community, to international relations and peace |
| Maxwell Henry Gale | For service to the community and to international relations |
| Margaret Clare Gartland | For service to the community in the field of education |
| John Gavegan | For service to journalism |
| Myra Frances Gofton | For service to the community and to ex-service personnel |
| Clifford Dominic Goodchild | For service to music |
| Sally Sophia Goold | For service to nursing education |
| Keith Francis Gooley | For service to the meat industry and to the community |
| Dianne Rose Gorman | For service to the sport of hockey |
| Michael Robin Francis Goss | For service to art as an artist and administrator |
| Albert Holmes Graham | For service to the community |
| Jessie Marshall Griffin | For service to the community |
| Ronald Selwyn Grubb | For service to the community and to the welfare of ex-personnel |
| Mario Rheta Hardie | For service to the community, particularly to the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales |
| Herbert Colin Livingston Harvey | For service to the community |
| Erwin Ernest Heckendorf | For service to the community |
| Albert George Henderson | For service to local government and to the community |
| Adeline Ethel Hicking | For service to welfare, particularly to the Royal Flying Doctor Service |
| Ellen Mary Higham | For service to nursing education |
| Perry Colin James | For service to local government and to the community |
| Henry Thomas Jarvis | For service to the community |
| David Leslie Jimmieson | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Stephen Kelen | For service to literature |
| Douglas James Malbon Kiely | For service to the community, particularly to youth |
| Louis Stevenson Langoulant | For service to health administration and the community |
| Francis Wilbur Le Page | For service to the community and to local government |
| Walkiri Valery Walter Lebedew | For service to volleyball |
| Andrew Lederer | For service to soccer |
| John Albin Edmund Lee | For service to the community and to local government |
| Stanley Lewis | For service to the community |
| Andrew Shu Wah Lim | For public service as secretary of the Australian Capital Territory Medical Board |
| Beryl Iris Lovell | For service to the community |
| Hurtle Reginald Lupton | For service to the community and to local government |
| Barry Layton Macdonald | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| William James MacFarlane | For service to the community, particularly the sick in the Hunter region |
| Stanley Hastings Manning | For service to welfare, particularly with the Wesley Central Mission |
| Ronald Leslie Marriott | For service to youth, particularly through the scouting movement, and to the community |
| George Francis Gell Marshall, | For service to rugby union football |
| Barbara Mary McDonough | For public service, particularly the establishment of specialised libraries for the Department of Defence |
| Edna Betty McGill | For service to education and to the community |
| Ena Irene McGinn | For service to the community, particularly to Voluntary Aid and Australian Army Medical Women's Service Association |
| Ethel Joyce McGrath | For public service with the Patents Office |
| Francis William McGuren | For service to local government and to the community |
| Betty Ilma McIntyre | For service to health, particularly in the field of occupational therapy |
| Jean Alice Sutherland McKinlay | For service to the teaching of music, particularly to children |
| Amelia McLachlan | For service to the community |
| Barbara Patricia Mehan | For service to infant welfare |
| Elsie Rose Milton | For service to the Royal Newcastle Hospital |
| Dr Geoffrey Henry Moore | For service to medicine |
| Stanley John Nicholes | For service to sport as a fitness consultant |
| Phillipena Noel | For service to libraries, especially in the field of children's literature |
| Allen George Norris | For service to athletics and sports administration |
| James Andrew Noseda | For service to athletics and sports administration |
| Eva Esme O'Brien | For service to nursing, particularly at the Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital |
| John Francis O'Hanlon | For service to the community through charitable organisations |
| Henry Thomas O'Neill | For service to the newsagency industry |
| Bernard Philip O'Reilly | For service to the St John Ambulance Association and to the community |
| Karleen Osborne | For service to young people with physical disabilities |
| Maisie Oclanis Pain | For service to the red cross and to the welfare of those with Down's Syndrome |
| Patricia Paton | For public service with the Department of Foreign Affairs |
| George William Perry | For service to the community, particularly to senior citizens |
| Dr Harry Peters | For service to medicine, particularly as administrator of the Prince of Wales Hospital |
| Gordon George Poidevin | For service to the community |
| Herbert Clive Pratt | For service to the temperance movement |
| Superintendent Robert John Noel Prigg | For public service with the Australian Federal Police Force |
| Dimitrios Psarakis | For service to the community, particularly the Greek community |
| Frederick Douglas Quinane | For service to the community |
| Gary Arnold Radford | For service to the community |
| Dr John Gojko Radunovich | For service to the community and medicine |
| Stephen Istvan Raskovy | For service to wrestling |
| Robert Pearson Reading | For service to agriculture and to the community |
| Jean Heather Richards | For service to the community through charitable organisations |
| Merle Erica Richardson | For service to lawn bowls through the Newcastle District Bowling Association, and to the community through service groups and as a fundraiser for welfare organisations and for projects at the University of Newcastle |
| Ronald Ross | For service to the community |
| Dr Michael Sawer | For service to international relations between Australia and China |
| Paul Vincent Scanlan | For service to the community |
| Leila Caroline Schmidt | For service to the community, particularly to the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales |
| John Matthew Schreck | For service to horse racing |
| Archibald Allan Scott | For service to the community |
| Ann Elizabeth Scott | For service to the media as a rural broadcaster and to the community |
| Raymond Thomas Shea | For service to the community and to the trade union movement |
| Raoul Wesley Shepherd | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel |
| Stuart Howard Shorter | For service to scouting |
| Francis Ian Showell | For service to the tourist industry |
| Mary Elizabeth Smith | For service to the community |
| Lenore Irene Snowden | For service to the community |
| Fergus John Gordon Speakman | For service to athletics |
| Edwin George Stafford | For service to the Retired Police Association of Victoria and to the community |
| Robert Herbert Stringer | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health |
| Margaret Emily Sutherland | For service to early childhood education |
| Elizabeth Symonds | For service to those with disabilities particularly to the Spastic Centre of New South Wales |
| Matthew Douglas Tallon, | For service to cricket and hockey |
| Harry William Thomas Tidmarsh | For service to the welfare of the physically impaired, particularly as a splintmaker |
| Dorothy Mary Trumble | For service to those with impaired hearing |
| Kenneth John Turner | For service to local government and to the community |
| James Patrick Ulbrick | For service to manufacturing engineering and to the community |
| Lawrence Waina | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Captain Joyval Mary Walton | For service through the Salvation Army to the rehabilitation of the drug and alcohol addicted |
| Captain Robert Walton | For service through the Salvation Army to the rehabilitation of the drug and alcohol addicted |
| Sing-wu Wang | For public service to the National Library, particularly to the Orientalia collection |
| Mary Alice Watt | For service to the community |
| Mearl Dew Waye | For service to the community through the Queen Victoria Hospital Auxiliary |
| Dianne Leslie Gillett Weidner | For service to the community through the National Trust of Queensland and Toastmasters International |
| John William Weir | For service to community radio as a voluntary music librarian |
| Ralph Arthur Whitfeld, | For service to local government and to the community |
| Dorothy Winifred Wicks | For community service to welfare organisations |
| Alfred Forbes Wilson | For service to religion and to the Aboriginal communities of northern Australia |
| Eric John Woodcock | For service to the community of King Island |
| Lindsay Gordon Woods | For service to the welfare of the elderly, particularly through the Lionsville Homes |
| Kathleen Margaret Ziesing | For service to the community, particularly through the care of the sick and elderly | |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer Garry Raymond Coombe | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as Chief Instructor at the Submarine Warfare Systems Centre HMAS Watson | |
| Chief Petty Officer Susanne Lindell Finch | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as a member of the staff of the Director of Sailors' Postings |
| Lieutenant Pamela Margaret Gadd | For service to Naval communications |
| Chief Petty Officer Douglas Eric Short | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as Chief Boatswain's Mate and Training Chief Petty Officer on board HMAS Stuart |
| Chief Petty Officer David Liegh Woodall | For service to the Royal Australian Navy in the Directorate of Naval Supply Services |
| Warrant Officer Leslie Harold Lyndon Wright | For service to the Fremantle Port Division of the Royal Australian Naval Reserves while serving at HMAS Leeuwin |
| Army | Warrant Officer Class Two Lindsay John Augustus | For service to the Australian Army as caterer, 2nd Cavalry Regiment |
| Warrant Officer Class One Christopher Brown | For service to the Australian Army as an adviser with the Defence Cooperation Program in Western Samoa |
| Warrant Officer Class One Graeme Douglas Brown | For service to the Australian Army as Battery Sergeant Major, 10th Medium Regiment, the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery |
| Captain Peter John Campbell | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 2nd/3rd Field Engineer Regiment |
| Warrant Officer Class Two John Thomas Dolton | For service to the Australian Army in the field of supply |
| Warrant Officer Class One Trevor Stanley Grewar | For service to the Army Reserve, particularly with the 5th Field Engineer Regiment |
| Sergeant Leslie Arthur Owens | For service to the Australian Army in the 1st Military District Band |
| Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Phillips | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a medical adviser in cyclone-damaged Vanuatu in 1985 |
| Warrant Officer Class One Kerry James Small | For service to the Australian Army in the field of Personnel Management |
| Warrant Officer Class One Kevin Laurence Smith | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Regimental Sergeant Major, North West Mobile Force |
| Warrant Officer Class One Robert Wayne Smith | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Australian Exchange Officer and Instructor at the United States Army Engineer School |
| Warrant Officer Class Two Gary David Vale | For service to the Special Air Service Regiment of the Australian Army |
| Warrant Officer Class Two Darryl James Waddell | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Training Warrant Officer the Pilbara Regiment at Tom Price |
| Air Force | Sergeant Donald Maxwell Eccles | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in-Charge of the Equipment section at No 75 Squadron |
| Sergeant Ronald Edward Holdcroft | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, Chef-in-Charge of both the Officers and Sergeants Messes at RAAF East Sale |
| Warrant Officer David Allan Lugg | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Warrant Officer-in-Charge of Laboratories Flight at No 2 Aircraft Depot |
| Warrant Officer Michael Richard Morris | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as a Flight Engineer Instructor with the Airman Aircrew Flying Training School |
| Warrant Officer David Parker | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Warrant Officer Clerk Administrative at Headquarters RAAF Base Williamtown |
| Warrant Officer John Robertson | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge of Boeing 707 Aircraft Maintenance at No 486 Squadron |
| Warrant Officer Alan William Rudd, | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Warrant Officer-in-Charge of Engine Production Section at No 3 Aircraft Depot |
| Flight Sergeant Robert Alfred Syer | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge of the Physical Training Section at RAAF Base Richmond | |
