The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.[3]
† indicates an award given posthumously.
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| James Barnes | For service to Rugby League as a player and administrator | |
| Patrick Joseph Barrett | For service to public administration |
| Hugh Collis Barry | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of orthopaedic surgery |
| James Beggs | For service to industrial relations |
| John Benedek | For service to international trade, particularly in Eastern Europe |
| Richard Clayton Bennett | For service to medicine, particularly as a surgeon |
| Edward Peter Benson | For service to community health |
| Anthony Richard Berg | For service to the arts, particularly in the field of music administration |
| Beatrice Caroline Brown | For service to sculpture and to arts administration |
| Arthur Alexander Brownlea | For service to community health |
| Oscar Elton Butcher | For service to conservation and to the meat industry |
| Alexander John Carmichael, | For service to education |
| Charles Stanley Chambers, | For services to social welfare, particularly through the Sydney City Mission and Mission Australia |
| Helena Patricia Chaplin | For service to people with intellectual disabilities |
| Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood | For service to literature |
| John David Chesterman | For service to town planning |
| Donald Stewart Child | For service to medical administration |
| Patricia Hazel Clancy | For service to the law, particularly in the field of family law |
| John Kevin Clarebrough, | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardio-thoracic surgery |
| Arthur Colvin Lindesay Clark | For service to paediatric education and to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians |
| Leslie Edward Clarke | For service to the community through the design of schools which incorporate community facilities |
| June Francis Cochrane | For service to nursing |
| Reginald Thomas Cole | For service to industrial relations |
| Hal John Hester Colebatch | For service in the fields of respiratory medicine and research |
| John Kieran Collins | For service to psychology and research on Australian youth |
| Everald Ernest Compton | For service to the community, particularly in the field of professional fund raising |
| Brian Henty Connor | For service to the community through road safety education and to the Australian College of Road Safety educations and to the Australian College of Road Safety |
| Gerard Leigh Cramer | For service to education, particularly as Principal of Carey Baptist Grammar School |
| Manfred Douglas Cross | For service to the Australian Parliament and to the community |
| Joseph Anthony Dalzell | For service to public health, particularly in the field of orthoptics |
| Reginald Frederick Dawson | For service to local government |
| Margaret McKendrick Dempster | For service to primary education, particularly in the ACT |
| Quentin Earl Dempster | For service to the media, particularly in the fields of journalism and current affairs |
| Giovanni Di Fede, | For service to the Italian community |
| Kiernan John Joseph Dorney, | For service to the welfare of the aged and disabled |
| Susan Kathleen Dow | For service to international relations, particularly through the Save The Children Fund |
| George Dreyfus | For service to music, particularly as a composer |
| Lindsay Percival Duthie | For service to international trade |
| Colin James Egar | For service to cricket administration |
| For service to the sport of Rugby Union football |
| Sam Fiszman, | For service to the community |
| Justice John Francis Fogarty | For service to the reform of Australian Family Law and to the Child Support Evaluation Group |
| Lyal Catherine Fowler | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly the development of equipment to transport bulk concrete |
| Malcolm Swanson Fricker | For service to the administration of horse racing |
| Janette Edith Lockhart Gibson | For service to the community |
| Angus Duncan MacRae Graham, | For service to law enforcement and to correctional services |
| John MacDonald Falconar Grant, | For service to sport for the disabled |
| Wilfred James Gray | For service to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs |
| Joyce Greenwood | For service to people with intellectual disabilities |
| Michael John Hall | For service to the forestry industry |
| Thomas Hamilton | For service to medicine, particularly accident and emergency care |
| Gordon Alfred Harrison | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of anaesthetics |
| Judith Alison Ruth Hay (Mrs Rees) | For service to blood transfusion medicine, particularly serology, and to forensic science |
| Mervyn Patrick Warwick Hegarty | For service to biochemistry, particularly in the field of plant toxins, and to technical education |
| Lorraine Shirley Henderson | For service to women's health, particularly through the Endometriosis Association of Victoria |
| Raymond Hogan | For service to the Trade Union movement |
| Reverend Barry Russell Hunter | For service to religion |
| Malcolm Geoffrey Irving | For service to merchant banking and to the community |
| William James Kirkby-Jones | For service to the housing industry |
| Maurice James Law | For service to youth, particularly through the Scout Association |
| Ian Murdoch Leslie | For service to the community, particularly through Foster Parents Plan |
| Elizabeth Honor Lloyd | For service to international relations |
| Peter James Lloyd | For service to international relations, particularly to the Australian communities in Iraq and Kuwait |
| Peter Loveday | For service to education, particularly through the North Australia Research Unit |
| Ernest Grant Macdonald | For service to industrial relations, training and the community |
| John Mackenzie | For service to education in the mining industry and to the community |
| Rosemary Letitia Marriott (Mrs Nichols) | For service to disabled persons through the Merry Makers Performing Group |
| Richard Wallace Maslen, | For service to local government and to the community |
| Ian Richard Mathews | For service to journalism |
| David James McEwan | For service to the wood industry |
| John Maxwell McGregor | For service to the community, particularly through the Arthritis Foundation |
| Maureen May McGuirk | For service to education and administration, particularly as principal of Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney |
| Paul Trevor McKay | For service to the Parliament of Tasmania as clerk of the House of Assembly |
| John Middlin | For service to the mining industry and to the community |
| Rev Francis James Moloney | For service to religion |
| Heather Irene Moorhead | For service to early childhood education |
| Lynette Margaret Mounsey | For service to youth, particularly through the Girl Guides Association |
| Iain Gordon Murray | For service to sailing and yacht design |
| Arthur William Musk | For service to respiratory medicine and in the field of asbestos and smoking-related diseases |
| Gabriel Stephen Nagy | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology |
| Keith Neighbour | For service to architecture |
| Robert George Nicol | For service to business and commerce and to the community |
| John Gilmore Nutt | For service to engineering |
| John Francis O'Neill | For service to public sector industrial relations |
| Enzo Gaspare Alessandro Oriolo | For service to industry and commerce |
| Jozef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotowski | For service to the visual arts |
| Preston Ross Patrick | For service to the community as a medical historian |
| Jill Perryman, | For service to the performing arts |
| Brian Martin Powell | For service to the conservation of Australian native fauna and flora through management of the natural environment |
| David Harris Prest | For service to education as principal of Wesley College and through the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia |
| Elizabeth Maurine Puddy | For service to medicine in the field of child, adolescent and family health |
| Anthony James Morell Rae | For service to education as headmaster of Newington College and through the Association of Independent Schools |
| Robin Isobel Rawson, | For service to the development of the Australian system of honours and awards |
| John Charles Rivett | For service to engineering and to the Institution of Engineers Australia |
| Alan William Roberts | For service to mechanical engineering, particularly in the fields of bulk handling technology, research and education |
| James Arthur Roche, | For service to engineering and to the community |
| Eric Charles Rolls | For service to literature and environmental awareness |
| Joyce Marie Said | For service to mentally ill people, particularly through the After Care Association of New South Wales |
| Lawrence Michael Sawle | For service to cricket administration |
| For service to athletics |
| Clifford Gordon Semmler | For service to the wheat industry, Australian Rules football and to the community |
| Wilma Joyce Shakespear | For service to sports, particularly netball |
| Gracelyn Joan Smallwood | For service to Aboriginal health and welfare over many years and to public health, particularly in relation to HIV/AIDS |
| Roger Clitheroe Smith | For service to swimming |
| Robert Plantagenet Somerset | For service to the cattle industry and to local government |
| Dean Milton Southwood | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of onto-rhino-laryngology |
| Norman Spencer | For service to the Advance Australia Foundation, to the television industry and to the community |
| John Jeffery Tate | For service to the community |
| Sidney James Taylor | For service to basketball |
| Richard David Telford | For service to sport and sports science |
| Peter Francis Thorley | For service to local government and to the community |
| Berwick Carlyon Tonkin | For service to engineering and to the community |
| Ian Anthony Trewhella | For service to the welfare of, and sport and recreation for, persons with disabilities |
| Rev John Corcoran Wallis | For service to religion |
| Cyril Ralph Ward-Ambler | For service to business and commerce |
| William Hugh George Whittaker | For service to community health through HIV/AIDS organisations |
| John Maxwell Wilcox | For service to the coal industry |
| Verdon George Edward Garratt Williams | For service to music and to the community |
| John Robert Williamson | For service to Australian country music and in stimulating awareness of conservation issues |
| Denis Patrick Wilson | For service to athletics |
| George Wing | For service to dentistry |
| Ian Alexander Christie Wood | For service to the State of Queensland | |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|
| Cora Mary Adcock | For service to the community | |
| Alfred George Warren Aikman | For service to the community and local government |
| For services to tennis |
| Millicent Isobel Avery | For service to the community through community organisations and Christian work |
| Alice Grace Farren Ayres | For service to youth through music |
| Hope Ball | For service to gliding |
| Gillian Leonie Banks | For service to the arts, particularly museums and galleries and to the National Trust |
| Rayner Francisco Ferrer Bellchambers | For service to the environment and conservation |
| Harold Cyril Benson | For service to veterans, particularly in the Gold Coast and Melbourne regions |
| Peter James Berwick | For service to public health, particularly as Hospital Administrator of the Mornington Bush Nursing Home |
| Lenora Alice Bishop | For service to the community and local government |
| Nancy Deloi Bosler | For service to the community, particularly youth, aged people and to people with disabilities |
| Lorenze Albert Bucton | For service to the community and to the aged |
| Robert Alec Bull | For service to the community and voluntary service |
| William Richard Burbidge | For service to aquatic sports |
| Grahame James Bush | For service to the community |
| Peter James Byrnes | For service to the Australian Government, particularly through assistance to the Australian community in Kuwait |
| Robert James Campbell | For service to equestrian sports and rodeo competitions |
| John Cann | For service to the community, conservation and the environment, particularly through natural history |
| David George Carolane | For service to music, particularly choral music |
| Gwenyth Hilda Carruthers | For service to veterans |
| Peggy Carter | For service to the community |
| Neville Cecil Cartledge | For service to the community |
| Mary May Cavanagh | For services to the sport of lawn bowls |
| For services to the sport of rowing |
| Chee Kin Chew | For service to the Chinese community |
| Michael Fitzgerald Clarkin | For service to the community through sponsorships of disadvantaged and sporting groups |
| Flora Elizabeth Cobb | For service to the community through the Society of St Vincent de Paul |
| Agnes Ann Coe | For service to the community, particularly Aboriginal welfare |
| Kathleen Agnes Colwell | For service to the community, particularly the Royal Children's Hospital Auxiliary |
| Bryan Francis Compton | For service to engineering, particularly the building and construction industry |
| Gladys Doreen Cooney | For service to the community and local government |
| James Abbott Corcoran | For service to the community and local government |
| Alexander Crichton | For service to the sugar cane industry and to the community |
| Irene Davison Crosthwaite | For service to the community |
| Eva Cunningham | For service to community health, particularly through podiatry |
| John James Cushing | For service to the sport of hockey and to the community |
| Rev Henry Gilbert Davis | For service to the community, particularly the ecumenical movement |
| Clara Elizabeth Davis | For service to the community, particularly animal welfare and protection |
| William Allan Dawson | For service to the community and local government |
| Richard Victor Diggins | For service to local government and to the community, particularly foster care |
| Margaret Dodds | For service to nursing |
| Ernest Maurice Dopson | For service to youth, particularly naval cadets |
| Brian Stanhope Draper | For service to the sport of rowing, particularly through the SA Olympic Council |
| Horace Hayden Drexel | For service to youth |
| Frederick Alwyn Druce | For service to the community, particularly through fire and emergency services |
| Alojzy Dziendziel, | For service to the Polish community |
| Blair Denis Edgar | For service to education and to the performing arts |
| Peter Francis Egan | For service to radio, opera and to the community |
| Sidney George Ellis | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Basil Foster Emery | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Margaret Lillian Eutick | For service to the community, particularly through the Lismore Base Hospital |
| Joan Margot Evans | For service to the community through charitable organisations |
| Lawrence Arthur Evans | For service to the community |
| Gwendoline Ellen Fenech | For service to the Maltese community |
| David Patrick Finnegan | For service to the community through the Uniting Church and to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
| Cameron George Fitzgerald | For service to the Royal Lifesaving Society |
| Barbara Fowler | For service to the arts, particularly crafts |
| Harold Donald France | For service to veterans, particularly through the Dunkirk Veteran's Association |
| Herbert Frank | For service to the Dutch community |
| Keith Harding Franklin | For service to the media and communications through radio and television programmes on rural affairs |
| Sidney Robert Freshwater | For service to the sport of cycling |
| Anne Jessie Fuller | For service to the arts, particularly administration through the Victorian Association of Performing Arts and to the community |
| Kathleen Genevieve Gallogly | For service to politics, particularly the Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party, Queensland |
| Robert Francis Gamble | For service to local government |
| Clyde Garrow | For service to science and technology through the wool industry |
| Donald Mackinnon Geddes | For service to the community, particularly the State Emergency Services |
| Jean Gee | For service to the community, particularly sport and youth |
| Doris Ethel Rosemary Gibbs | For service to the Gold Coast community |
| John Henry Fawdon Gibson | For service to the community, particularly emergency services, marine search and rescue through the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol |
| Monica Mary Glenn | For service to the community, particularly through women's affairs |
| Frederick Ernest Glisson | For service to veterans |
| Tessie Linda Goodstate | For service to the Bankstown community |
| John Ferguson Gow | For service to veterans and to the Korumburra community |
| Theodore James Gray | For service to primary industry, particularly through the exhibition poultry industry |
| Kenneth Douglas Gray, | For service to aged people |
| Dawn Estelle Greig | For service to the community, particularly fire and emergency services |
| Horace Joseph Osborne Ham | For service to the community, through local organisations |
| Harry Hammond | For service to the community, particularly Lions Club International, and to nursing |
| Bernard Joseph Harley | For service to the Illawarra Catholic Club and the club industry |
| Patricia Lesley Harrison | For service to local government and women's affairs |
| Angelo George Hatsatouris | For service to the Greek community |
| Meredith Jean Hayes | For service to primary industry, conservation and the environment |
| Hilton Beresford Hayes | For service to people with disabilities |
| Mervyn Thomas Hazell | For service to sailing, water rescue and rugby union coaching |
| Colin Selwyn Heckenberg | For service to the community through the Royal Lifesaving Society of Australia |
| Mary Mildred Heffernan | For service to women's athletics, and people with physical disabilities and visual impairments |
| Gordon Yian Henry | For service to the community, particularly through the Freedom From Hunger organisation, and to the Chinese community |
| Clement Bertrand Hill | For service to local government and the community |
| Don Alan Hodge | For service to the community, particularly during the floods of 1990 in Forbes |
| Kevin Vincent Hodgson | For service to local government and to the community |
| George John Whitelaw Hogg | For service to choral singing and eisteddfod |
| Dorothy Caroling Hollingsworth | For service to education, particularly through educational broadcasting to schools |
| John Douglas Warren Holt | For service to veterans |
| Bertha Marie Horrobin | For service to the community |
| Ronald Leonard Horswell | For service to community health, through the Waste Disposal Contractors Association of NSW |
| Arthur John Hort | For service to the community |
| John Russell Hudson | For service to youth, particularly through the Skillshare program |
| Adrian Rex Hurley | For service to basketball |
| Desmond Joseph Illingworth | For services to greyhound racing |
| Brian Harold Iivimey | For service to Rugby Union football |
| Lorna Dorothy Jenkins | For service to the community through the Ecumenical Coffee Brigade |
| Thomas Alexander Johnson | For service to Australian Rules football |
| Kevan Reginald Johnston | For service to the performing arts as a choreographer actor and dance teacher |
| Helen Denise Jones | For service to music as a singer and choir conductor |
| Eunice Beryl Kennedy | For service to those with intellectual disabilities and to the community |
| Desmond John Knight | For service to the community |
| Guelah Korman | For service to the community |
| James Henry Kuhl | For service to the community and local government |
| Josephine Lacey | For service to community relations and the Jewish community |
| Judith Alice Lamb | For service to the community |
| LeRoy John Landis | For service to youth through the Australian Cadet Corps |
| Beatrice Maud Landsberg | For service to music and theatre |
| Mervyn Leigh Langford-Jones | For service to horse racing and the community |
| David Alexander Lawson | For service to the community, particularly aged people |
| John Hasker Learmonth | For service to medicine as a rural practitioner and educator |
| Jeffrey Denison Lee | For service to music |
| Richard Leonard Leggo | For service to local government |
| Edmund Terry Lenthall | For voluntary service to the community |
| Julie Marion Lewis | For service to literature as an author and teacher |
| Rhodanthe Grace Lipsett | For service to infant health and the care of mothers and babies |
| John Staunton Loney | For service to disadvantaged people through the Society of St Vincent de Paul |
| Joan Lyon | For service to scouting |
| Eric Lyon | For service to scouting |
| Harry Alexander MacDonald | For service to education |
| Kevin Maunder | For service to gymnastics |
| Judith Ann May | For service to the community and local government |
| Edward John McBarron | For service to conservation and the environment, and to systematic botany |
| John Francis McCafferty | For service to the road transport industry and tourism |
| Annie Evelyn McClure | For service to the community, particularly those with visual impairments |
| Keith McColl | For service to the wool industry |
| Veronica Catherine McCormack | For voluntary service to the community |
| Malcolm Cameron McDonald | For service to the community, particularly the Ambulance Service and Fire and Emergency Services |
| Norma Violet McGovern | For voluntary service to the community |
| Dorothy Marie McHugh | For service to netball |
| Richard Harold McIntyre | For service to music as former director of the Canberra Youth Orchestra |
| Desmond James McKenna | For service to the community, particularly through the establishment of St Francis Xavier College |
| Aubrey Moore Mellor | For service to the performing arts |
| John Alexander Laird Menard | For service to local government and the community |
| Darren John Mercer | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Dean Paul Mercer | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Valmae Merrin | For service to Australian detainees in Thailand |
| Thomas Alexander Middleton | For service to sports administration and the community |
| Christopher John Miles, | For service to croquet |
| Alan George Milton | For service to local government |
| Joan Margaret Morison | For service to canoeing and kayaking |
| For service to sport administration and Australian Rules football |
| Kathleen Patricia Mutimer | For service to aged people |
| Jean Nancy Neilsen | For service to the community, particularly aged people |
| Robert Nelson | For service to wartime merchant mariners |
| Joyce Doreen Newton | For service to nursing administration and education |
| Noel Edward Nicholls | For service to the community, particularly veterans |
| Rev Heinrich Johannes Noack | For service to religion |
| William James Norbury | For service to veterans |
| Ronald O'Brien | For service to those with severe multiple physical disabilities |
| Mary Julia Dympna O'Keefe | For service to low income people in the community |
| Desmond Hilary O'Meara | For service to veterans |
| Frank Bennett O'Shea | For service to youth, through training courses for forest industries |
| Jock Osmotherly | For service to scouting and to the community |
| Ivor George Paech | For service to veterans |
| Severyn Pejsachowicz | For service to the Jewish community |
| John Gidney Pennell | For service to Sport administration, particularly pentathlon and biathlon events and for service to the community |
| Leslie James Peterson | For service to international relations, particularly through the South Pacific School Aid Project |
| George William Phillips, | For service to the community, particularly through the State Emergency Service |
| Trevor George Pickering | For service to medicine |
| John Eric Pickersgill | For service to social welfare |
| Gerda Pinter | For service to the community |
| Thomas Henry Piper | For service to the community |
| Brian Polomka | For service to local government and to architecture |
| Neville John Pratt | For service to baseball |
| John David Printz | For service to veterans |
| Ruby Dawn Prior | For service to the Alice Springs Royal Flying Doctor Auxiliary |
| Phyllis Anne Quick | For service to the community |
| Helen Margaret Jennifer Reid | For service to education, particularly of girls |
| Kathleen Rose Reidy | For service to industrial relations and to nursing |
| Edward James Richards | For service to veterans |
| Raymond Charles Richards | For service to the community |
| Desmond Geoffrey Morland Rickards | For service to the community, to local government and to golf |
| Geoffrey James Riley | For service to the community |
| Graham Houghton Roberts | For service to golf and the community |
| Jennefer Mary Roberts | For service to education administration |
| Marie delaPlato Roberts | For service to music education, particularly the violin |
| Penelope Joan Robertson | For service to people with disabilities |
| Keith Ernest Rooney | For service to the community |
| Brian Charles Rope | For service to the community and to religion |
| Isaac Michael Rosen | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of urology |
| Roberto Rossi | For service to local government and the community |
| Sylvia Jessie Rowell | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Perth Hospital |
| Mildred Ila Rudge | For service to children's welfare as a foster carer |
| Elizabeth Melva Rushton | For service to the community |
| Richard Alfred Scanlan | For service to the community |
| David Hamilton Scotland, | For service to pipe band music and the community |
| Ian David Scott | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Wilfred James Secomb | For service to the community, including through the Uniting Church in Australia |
| Rev Maurice Albert Joseph Shinnick | For service to community health, particularly as Chaplain to Acceptance, Adelaide |
| Audrey Rosa Sifleet | For service to people with physical disabilities |
| Edmund Thomas Smith | For service to education and to the community |
| Isabel Elizabeth Smith | For service to children's welfare |
| James Edward Smith | For service to community safety, particularly through the Ambulance Rescue School |
| David Joseph Solomon | For service to the Jewish community |
| Anthony Eric South | For service to people with disabilities and to disadvantaged groups |
| Frederick Phillip Spielvogel | For service to local government and to the community |
| Lilian Ruth Squair | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through Riding for Disabled |
| Allan Edward Staal | For service to local government and the community |
| Helen Grace Stafford | For service to youth and the aged |
| Ronald James Standen | For service to the community |
| Sidonie Mary Stormonth | For service to the community |
| John Michael Armstrong Stringer | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol |
| Robert William John Talbott | For service to wheelchair sports and to people with disabilities |
| Allan Duval Tannock | For service to the veterans and to the community |
| Reginald Henry Taylor | For service to local government |
| Hazel Winifred Taylor | For service to women, particularly through the War Widows' Guild |
| Norman Allan Templeton | For service to the community and local government |
| Ruby Margaret Thomasson | For service to scouting |
| Raymond Francis Tilley | For service to book retailing and the community |
| Henry Verdun Traeger, | For service to veterans |
| Peter John Treseder | For service to bushwalking |
| Stephen Leslie Tubb | For service to the Australian Government, particularly through assistance to the Australian community in Kuwait |
| Michael Joseph Tuck | For service to Australian Rules football |
| Noel Victor Unicomb | For service to local government and the community |
| Marinus Gerardus van Arkel | For service to ethnic communities and to veterans |
| Winifred Mary Vears | For service to the community |
| Diana Aileen Walder | For service to the arts, particularly through the Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| Kevin James Walkom | For service to the community, particularly through the Society of St Vincent de Paul |
| Alan Robert Wallis | For service to motorcycling |
| Maxwell Joseph Watters | For service to the arts, particularly as a teacher and promoter of the arts in the Upper Hunter region |
| John Edmond Wellings | For service to adult education |
| Mary Weston | For service to the community |
| John Joseph Whelan | For service to social welfare, particularly through the San Miguel Centre |
| Herbert Frederick White | For service to industrial relations, particularly through the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland |
| Barry Wilbur Wilkins | For service to tourism, particularly through the Begonia Festival |
| Pegi Williams | For service to children's literature |
| Herbert Henry Williams | For service to veterans |
| Leslie James Williams | For service to the community |
| Selwyn Peter Willmott | For service to local government |
| Olga Jean Wood | For service to youth, particularly through the Girl Guides Association |
| Francis Stewart Wren | For service to Australian Rules football, to local government and the community |
| Peter Graham Young | For service to youth and the Baptist Church | |
