The 1998 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1998 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane.[1]
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.[2]
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Honourable Chief Justice Michael Eric John Black | For service to the law, to the legal profession and to the judiciary, particularly as Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia through enhancing the quality of judicial services provided to the community in the resolution of disputes | |
| Major General William Brian James, | For service to the welfare of veterans and service people, particularly as National President of the Returned and Services League of Australia through leadership and advocacy in the areas of health prevention, medication usage and community | |
| Professor Sir Robert McCredie May | For service to science and scientific research, particularly in the area of biological conservation involving the interaction between population, resources and the environment, to scholarship and to the formulation of science policy | |
| The Very Reverend Dr James Frederick McKay, | For service to the spiritual and physical wellbeing of the people of outback Australia through innovation and initiative in pioneering the best possible health care and educational services in remote areas | |
| The Honourable Chief Justice John Harber Phillips | For service to the law, the administration of justice, law reform and education as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and for his contributions to literature, the visual arts and the community | |
| Professor Grant Robert Sutherland | For service to science in the field of human genetics research and to the human genome project and, in particular, for his contribution to the discovery of the importance of 'fragile chromosomes' in the field of inherited diseases |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | For service to banking and finance, particularly as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Australia Bank Ltd and for his contributions as a member and supporter of a wide range of community and sporting organisations | ||
| Douglass Ingham Aspinall, | For service to primary industry, in particular, the merino sheep breeding industry, to ex-service organisations and to the community | ||
| Richard Lawrence Crosbie | For service to business and finance, particularly through the credit union movement since 1975, and as Chairman of the Credit Union Services Corporation (Australia) Limited | ||
| Judith Jane Perry Dunster | For service to the community in the field of aged care as the founder and developer of the Abbeyfield Society (Australia) Limited in creating a new concept of community housing for older people | ||
| Slim Dusty, | For service to Australian country music and to the entertainment industry as a composer and performer | ||
| For service to engineering, in particular, marine engineering in the areas of design and construction, and to the community | |||
| For service to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology research, and in the development of public policy across a range of primary health issues | |||
| Professor Frederick George Hilmer | For service to management education, competition policy, and workplace reform | ||
| Dr Cherrell Hirst | For service to education as Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology, and to medicine, in particular women's health through the promotion of mammographic screening for the early detection of breast cancer | ||
| Clifford Frederick Hughes | For service to medicine, in particular as a cardiac surgeon, to international relations, and to the community | ||
| Warwick Gordon Kent | For service to commerce at State, National and international levels as Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Bank of Western Australia Ltd (Bank West), and to community organisations | ||
| Glen William Kinross | For service to community development programs and to improving international relations as an executive member of Rotary International in Australia and as the elected International President 1997-1998 | ||
| Commissioner Michael John Palmer, | For service to advancing the professionalisation of policing through the introduction of far-reaching anti-corruption processes and management practice reform | ||
| For service to the science of hydrology, to scientific communication in promoting the interests of science for the community, and the Australian culture through architecture and literature | |||
| For service to the discipline of chemical engineering, both academically and professionally, to tertiary education and to the community | |||
| David William Rogers | For service to tertiary education as the Chancellor of Monash University, to the gas and petroleum industry, and to the community | ||
| Richard Vincent Ryan, | For service to the Aboriginal community of the Northern Territory through the promotion of education, employment, health and tourism programs | ||
| Dr Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn, | For service to the performing arts through the establishment of the Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation offering philanthropic support to rejuvenate old theatre facilities to continue the development of Australian drama and theatre | ||
| For service to international relations and to the development of policy approaches to sanctions, human rights, defence and trade issues | |||
| Geoffrey Bernard White | For service to the business community in the areas of civil engineering, construction and mining, and to the advancement of the thoroughbred racing industry | ||
| For service in the field of social sciences, especially public administration through the formulation of public policy advice and for his contribution to UNESCO in all its fields |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Bruce Konrad Armstrong | For service to medicine through research into cancer epidemiology | |
| Frances Anne Atkinson | For service to geology through pioneering field work on the origin of the Undara Volcanic System in North Queensland, for bringing national and international attention to these unique natural features, and for her sustained efforts towards establishing their effective protection | |
| Peter Hamilton Bailey, | For service to the law, particularly as an advocate and educator in the area of human rights at national and international levels, and to the community | |
| Phillip Norman Bates | For service to cycling through the promotion and conduct of cycling events, and to the community | |
| For service to the community of Nauiyu Nambiyu in the Northern Territory, particularly through the promotion of Aboriginal education and Aboriginal art | ||
| Hugh Sandford Beggs | For service to the Australian wool industry | |
| Dr John Barton Best | For service to the development of quality assurance in health care in Australia, particularly through the creation of the Peer Review Resource Centre and as Foundation Editor of the Journal, Australian Clinical Review | |
| Leonard Francis Bleasel | For service to the Australian gas and energy industries, and to the community | |
| Emeritus Professor Barry Boettcher | For service to biological science and education, particularly as Foundation Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Newcastle, and to reproductive immunology | |
| Anthony Peter Boultbee, | For service to the agricultural and livestock industries, in particular through the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of Western Australia | |
| Diana Mildred Bowman | For service to education, in particular to the education of young women, the professional development of School Principals, and to education management | |
| Dr Stephen Vickers Boyden | For service to science through the development of ideas and scholarship in the discipline of human ecology | |
| Keith Arthur Bradley | For service to the community, particularly through the ACT Division of the National Heart Foundation, to athletics, and to the Angelman Syndrome Association | |
| Dr Thomas Christopher Kenneth Brown | For service to the furniture industry | |
| Alan Gordon John Brown | For service to the forestry industry, particularly through research into tree breeding, and the development of plantation forestry in Australia | |
| Nicholas Burton Taylor | For service to business through the accountancy profession, and to the rural community | |
| Kevin Victor Campbell | For service to charitable organisations, particularly through the TVW Channel 7 Telethon Trust, to television administration, and to the community | |
| For service to the community, particularly in the areas of palliative care, women's issues, and economic development, and to the South Australian Parliament | ||
| Professor Thomas Carrick Chambers | For service to the science of botany and its application to horticulture as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and as a teacher and researcher on conservation issues and botanical concepts | |
| Sister Juliana Coulson | For service to community health and to hospital administration as a senior administrator and Director of Calvary Hospital, Hobart | |
| Dr Robert John Coulthard | For service to the Lions 'Sight First' Foundation both in Australia and internationally since 1965 | |
| For service to the community, and to Parliament at Federal, State and Local levels | ||
| For service to rowing as President of the Balmain Rowing Club for 16 years, Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the NSW Rowing Association for eight years, and Australian Team Manager for five world rowing events including the 1984 Olympic Games | ||
| Professor William James Cumming | For service to medicine, particularly through the teaching and practice of orthopaedic surgery in Australia, and through the Orthopaedic Training Scheme in Indonesia and Pacific countries | |
| Gregory James Daniel | For service to the community through arts organisations and charities, and for his contribution towards the successful bid for the Sydney Olympic Games | |
| John Popham Deshon | For service to the community, in particular by addressing architectural design and construction requirements for people with disabilities | |
| John Anthony Desmarchelier, | For service to the sugar industry, particularly in the areas of development, trade and industrial relations, and to the community | |
| Associate Professor John Malcolm Duggan | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology, and to the community in the Hunter Valley | |
| Professor Terence Dwyer | For service to medicine in the fields of public health and epidemiology | |
| Dr William Sydney Egerton | For service to medicine as a vascular surgeon and as a medical educator | |
| Dr Peter Mervyn Elliott | For service to women's health, particularly in the fields of obstetrics, gynaecology and gynaecological oncology in Australia and overseas | |
| Dr Harold Robert Elphick, | For service to medicine, particularly thoracic medicine and the management and surveillance of tuberculosis and as President of the Australian Council of Smoking and Health WA | |
| Brian Cameron France | For service to business and financial organisations, particularly during the development period of the Australian Stock Exchange, and to the community | |
| Emeritus Professor George David Galliver | For service to music as a research scholar, singer, conductor and Elder Professor of Music, University of Adelaide, 1966 to 1983 | |
| The Honourable Justice John Foster Gallop, | For service to the law as Judge, to military law as a member of the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal, and to the community | |
| John Alan Gilmour | For service to laboratory accreditation and standardisation through the National Association of Testing Authorities, the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation, and to the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Conference | |
| Professor John Reginald Glastonbury | For service to tertiary education as an administrator, to the development of engineering education, and to the preservation of Australia's railway heritage | |
| Edwin Raymond Gorham | For service to engineering, particularly in the development of the Pilbara Iron Ore Province, and other resource activities in Western Australia | |
| Dr Bronwyn Margaret Gould | For service to youth in New South Wales through Guides Australia and the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect | |
| Robert Leslie Greaves | For service to the building and construction industry, in particular as past president of both the Australian Institute of Building, and the Master Builders’ Federation of Australia, and to youth through 'Youth For Christ' | |
| Andrew Douglas Grummet | For service to business, to the arts and to the community | |
| For service to industrial relations, particularly through the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Victorian Trades Hall Council | ||
| Leigh Loddington Hall | For service to business and commerce, in particular to the improvement of ethical and professional standards and the efficiency of the Australian Securities Markets | |
| Trevor John Harris | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, and to the management of head and neck cancer | |
| Frederick Rock Herd | For service to the meat industry in Australia, and to the community of Geelong | |
| Dr Peter Stuart Hetzel | For service to medicine in the field of cardiology, particularly in cardiac investigation and in the development of open-heart surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital | |
| For service to art as a painter of portraits and still life subjects | ||
| Alan David Hickinbotham | For service to housing and urban development as Founder and Managing Director for over 40 years of the Hickinbotham Group, and to the community of Adelaide | |
| Peter McLaren Hiscock | For service to museums, historic parks, nature conservation and tourism | |
| Philip Matthew Holt | For service to business and industry through industrial development and consumer affairs | |
| Dr Alf Howard | For service to science through Antarctic exploration as a member of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931), for his work on food technology and preservation, and for his contribution to statistical design | |
| The Reverend Alan Harry Jackson | For service to the community, particularly through the Parramatta Mission and as a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia | |
| Wadim (Bill) Jegorow, | For service to the community, in particular to multiculturalism and local government | |
| David Howard Jenkin | For service to international relations through the provision of overseas aid and development and disaster relief as Chairman of World Vision Australia | |
| Franceska Charlotte Jordan | For service to the community and to aged care as a past President of both the Alzheimers Association of Australia and the Queensland Branch of the Association | |
| Professor Max Kamien | For service to medicine, particularly in the area of Aboriginal health and rural medicine | |
| Sydney Whittle Kay, | For service to veterans, in particular through fundraising as the Volunteer Promoter and Chairman of the RSL War Veterans’ Homes and Welfare Art Union | |
| Richard Albert Kell | For service to engineering, particularly in the area of structural design and the construction of bridges and for the export of engineering services to the Asia Pacific region | |
| Andrew Garrington Kemp | For service to business and commerce, and to the community | |
| Dr Alan Joseph King | For service to the community, in particular the Returned and Services League of Australia, and the St John Ambulance Brigade in Western Australia | |
| Dr John Franklin Knight | For service to the community through philanthropic contributions, in particular the establishment of the Medi-Aid Centre Foundation, and as an advocate through the media of public health and medical issues | |
| Andrew Heng Seak Koo | For service to the community, particularly through vocational education and training as Chairman of the Tasmanian State Training Authority, and Past Chairman of the Tasmanian Printing Industry Training Board | |
| Alan Keith Lavis | For service to the community through a wide range of organisations, in particular the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia from 1970 and as Queensland Chairman since 1985 | |
| Alexander MacGillivray | For service to the law and to the promotion of legal education in Queensland | |
| Professor Francis William Marsden | For service to medicine, in particular as a pioneer in 'limb salvage' in musculo-skeletal tumour surgery | |
| Carol Anne McCaskie | For service to social justice issues, as a lawyer and nurse, particularly in the area of prevention of drug and alcohol abuse | |
| Jack Hobbs McConnell | For service to architecture as a pioneer of the modern movement since World War II in South Australia and Victoria | |
| John Edward Moore | For service to the Society of St Vincent de Paul in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory | |
| Robin Stanley O'Regan, QC | For service to the Australian Red Cross at State and National levels | |
| Dr Alexander Allan Palmer | For service to medicine and medical research in the fields of anatomical pathology, cancer pathology, and haemorheology | |
| Patricia Anne Poole | For service to local government through the Coonabarabran Shire Council, the NSW Shires Association, and the Ulan County Council | |
| Professor Michael Charles Pryles | For service to national and international arbitration and mediation, in particular as President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration | |
| Robert James Puffett | For service to technical and further education, in particular as Director of the Sydney Institute of Technology since 1991 | |
| Lionel Norman Rackley, | For service to military history as Chairman of the Brisbane Royal Australian Air Force Memorial Committee, and to people with intellectual disabilities | |
| John George Ravenhall | For service to youth, in particular through the Scout Association and its Leader Training Program | |
| Trevor James Reddacliff | For service to land development and the tourism industry, in particular as Chairman of the Urban Renewal Task Force in Brisbane, and to the performing arts through the Warana (now Brisbane) Festival | |
| Professor Janice Clare Reid | For service to cross-cultural public health research and the development of health services of socio-economically disadvantaged groups in the community | |
| Ruth Amelia Reid | For service to the community, in particular to charities that focus on assisting women and children | |
| Russell Gordon Rollason | For service to international development and international humanitarian aid through the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, and to the promotion of social justice in Australia | |
| Maurice Kevin Rudd | For service to industrial relations, particularly through the Australian Workers’ Union | |
| Dr John Peter Sarks | For service to ophthalmology, in particular to research into age-related macular disease | |
| Dr Shirley Heather Sarks | For service to ophthalmology, in particular to research into age-related macular disease | |
| Gabriel Savas | For service to the community in the area of policy development for Liquor Law reform, and to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation of the ACT | |
| For service to Australian Rules football as a player and coach, and to the community | ||
| Leslie Ernest Smith | For service to the community, particularly as the inaugural Electoral Commissioner of Western Australia | |
| Jack Smorgon | For service to the meeting of the processing industry as Deputy Chairman of the Smorgon Meat Group, and for his philanthropic contributions | |
| Arthur James Sparks | For service to rugby league football for over 43 years at state, national and international levels | |
| Dr Phillip Maxwell Spratt | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiopulmonary transplant surgery | |
| Dr Alan Ernest Stocks | For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of diabetes and endocrinology | |
| Murray Herbert Tobias, QC | For service to the legal profession, particularly through the New South Wales and Australian Bar Associations, and to military law | |
| For service to the community, particularly through the Channel 7 Perth Telethon trust by raising funds for charities that support children's medical research | ||
| Professor Max Norman-Isadore Walters | For service to medicine and education, particularly in the field of pathology, to medical research, and to the community | |
| John Stuart Walton | For service to the community, in particular to public health administration, and to Australian heritage | |
| Dr Sydney Charles Warneke | For service to the dental profession, particularly through organised dentistry and in the field of dental oncology and oral cancer rehabilitation | |
| Emeritus Professor Donald Walter Watts | For service to the advancement of science in the field of chemistry, to tertiary education, and to policy development in education | |
| William Henry Watts | For service to medicine, in particular ophthalmology, and to the provision of ophthalmic services in the Pacific region | |
| Dr Martin Wesley-Smith | For service to music as a composer, scriptwriter, children's songwriter, lecturer, presenter of multimedia concerts, and a member of various Australia Council boards and committees | |
| Victor Charles West | For service to dentistry in the field of orthodontics as an educator and administrator, and to the community | |
| Associate Professor Mary Therese Westbrook | For service to people with disabilities, in particular those suffering from post-polio syndrome, and to the education in the field of health sciences research | |
| Dr Neville Graeme White | For service to scientific research, particularly in the field of biological anthropology in Indigenous Australian groups, and for service to the Aboriginal community of Donydji | |
| Warwick James Wilkinson, | For service to the development of pharmacy in Australia through involvement in education and industry and professional bodies, and to the community | |
| Enid Joyce Williams | For service to the health of people with eating disorders as Founder of the Anorexia Bulimia Nervosa Association of South Australia | |
| The Reverend John Michael Williams | For service to education, as Director of Catholic Education in Tasmania from 1969 to 1993 | |
| Sister Roseabel Jessie Williamson | For service to international humanitarian assistance as a medical missionary in the central and eastern highlands of Irian Jaya for more than 30 years | |
| Douglas Thomas Wright | For service to the metal trades industry, particularly as Director of the New South Wales Branch, Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia | |
| Dr Burt Zerner | For service to science, particularly in the field of biochemistry, and to education |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Principal Chaplain Max Leroy Davis | For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Director General Chaplaincy – Navy | |
| Army | Colonel Peter Alexander Bysouth | For exceptional service to the Australian Army in the fields of aviation and service conditions | |
| Brigadier Peter Francis Haddad | For exceptional service to the Australian Defence Force in the field of logistics, in particular as the Director of the Defence Logistic Redevelopment Project | ||
| Brigadier Maurice William Meecham | For exceptional service to the Australian Army, in particular as Director of Military Art at the Royal Military College Duntroon, as Commander 6th Brigade and as the first Commander of the 7th Task Force | ||
| Colonel Neil McLay Wilson | For exceptional service and contribution to the Army Reserve in South Australia | ||
| Air Force | Air Commodore Ian Harley Ashbrook | For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Air Force in the fields of aeronautical engineering and logistics | |
| Flight Sergeant Keith Charles Knight | For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Air Force as an imagery analyst | ||
| Group Captain Christopher Geoffrey Spence | For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Officer Commanding No 86 Wing, Richmond, New South Wales |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Adonis | For service to the Jewish community, particularly through the Western Australian Division of the Women’s International Zionist Organisation for over 50 years | |
| Marlene Barbara Anderson | For service to tennis as a player, coach and administrator | |
| Ailsa Anderson | For service to people with physical disabilities, in particular through the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of Queensland | |
| Dr Ronald Werner Bade | For service to the community, in particular to the aged community of the West Wimmera region | |
| Charles Ian Badham | For service to the community as Executive Director of NRMA Careflight and as Co-Founder of the first helicopter medical/rescue service in Australia | |
| Dallas Arthur Baker | For service to the community, in particular as coordinator of the Queensland State Disaster Auxiliary and executive officer of the State Emergency Services Volunteer Executive Committee | |
| Valerie Muriel Ball | For service to local government as Mayor of Strathalbyn since 1987, and to the community | |
| Ernest John Barnes | For service to the community of the Breeza district | |
| Melvyn Barnett | For service to the community, particularly through the Victims of Crime Assistance League (VOCAL) | |
| Evelyn Mary Beckenham | For service to youth through the Girls Friendly Society, and to the provision of accommodation for homeless young women | |
| Marie May Benfield | For service to veterans and their families as President of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Mildura Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia for 30 years | |
| Norma Benporath | For service to the craft of tatting as a designer and through the international publication of her patterns | |
| Judith Helen Bertalli | For service to the Aboriginal community of Dareton by creating employment opportunities and promoting local artists' work through the Tulklana Kumbi Aboriginal Gallery | |
| For service to badminton as a player, coach, selector, and administrator. | ||
| John Lynn Birtchnell | For service to the community, in particular for service on the Alexandra Secondary College Council from 1967 to 1994, and through Rotary International, the Salvation Army, the Country Fire Authority and the Australian Red Cross Society | |
| The Reverend Dr Geoffrey Herbert Blackburn | For service to the Baptist Church, in particular through the Baptist Union of Australia and the Baptist World Alliance | |
| Mabel (Anne) Bladon | For service to the community through the Mary Bladon Christian Fellowship which supports and sponsors christian evangelists to assist people who are disadvantaged | |
| Peter John Blatch | For service to youth as a leader of the Scout movement for over 20 years | |
| Dr Edwin Cordeaux Blomfield | For service to the community of the Bega Valley as a medical practitioner and as a supporter of local organisations and charities | |
| Sister Lucina Bourke | For service to people with intellectual disabilities through the establishment of the Emmaus Ministry in Western Sydney, and as National President of Faith and Light | |
| Lennard Steve Brajkovich | For service to the chicken meat industry, particularly through the Chicken Meat Industry Committee, the Western Australian Chicken Meat Council, and the Australian Chicken Growers’ Council | |
| John Thomas Brewer | For service to the community, particularly through Southern Cross Care (formerly Southern Cross Homes), the Knights of the Southern Cross, the Seniors On Line Project, and Neighbourhood Watch | |
| Dr Patrick Matthew Briody | For service to education as a teacher, administrator and consultant | |
| The Reverend Father Peter Julian Brock | For service to choral music, particularly as Musical Director of the Newcastle University Choir since 1979 | |
| Keith Ronald Brown | For service to the community of Hay through local government, the Returned and Services League of Australia, the Hay Hospital Board, and to lawn bowls | |
| Dr Peter Ferguson Brownell | For service to science in the field of plant physiology, to education, and to the community | |
| Stephen Hawdon Buck | For service to the preservation of railway heritage through the ACT Chapter of the Australian Historical Society, the Canberra Railway Museum and the Michelago Tourist Railway | |
| For service to the Norfolk Island community, particularly as a member of the Legislative Assembly advocating initiatives to improve health care facilities and social infrastructure | ||
| Sister Bernice Ann Bugler | For service to adults with intellectual disabilities as Founder and Director of the Irabina Association | |
| Samuel Burgess | For service to the transport industry through the Chartered Institute of Transport, and to tourism as Chairman of the Zig Zag Railway | |
| John Robert Burley | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families through the Nyngan Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Marion Lorys Burns | For service to the community through organisations established by the Uniting Church in the Bendigo region to assist aged people and underprivileged members of society | |
| Sandra Mary Burrage | For service to youth, including Guides with Disabilities, and to the community of Annangrove | |
| Alan Augustine Burt | For service to the Ashburton community through charitable and sporting organisations, in particular Meals on Wheels | |
| Nina Dorothea Kestell Buscombe | For service to the community through the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria, the Victorian School for Deaf Children, the Victorian Council of Social Service and Zonta | |
| Peter Mark Butler, | For service to the community, in particular to children and families through Berry Street Inc and the promotion of pro bono legal services | |
| Brian Roger Bywater | For service to community history, as co-organiser of the Kookaburra March and the Coo-ee March re-enactments | |
| Betty Bridget Caelli | For service to people with intellectual disabilities through the Delando Crescent Welfare Corporation, and to the community | |
| William Martin Callinan | For service to high school education as a School Principal and through the Australian High School Principals’ Association | |
| Mary Anne Carroll | For service to the community, particularly through the organisation Compassionate Friends, and as a fundraiser for St Margaret’s Hospital | |
| Ena Mary Carson | For service to the community of Mt Gravatt, particularly through the Mt Gravatt Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society, the Mt Gravatt Show Girl Quest and the Mt Gravatt Highland Charity | |
| Sita Carter | For service to community health as Honorary Secretary of the Council of the Anglican Deaconess Institution, Sydney and as a fundraiser for the Hope Healthcare Group | |
| Dr Dorothea Mabel Cerutty | For service to education, music, drama, the arts and the community | |
| Russell Edwin Chancellor | For service to the community, in particularly as Honorary Treasurer of the Australian Brain Foundation | |
| Robyn Margaret Chaplin | For service to the sport of fencing as an administrator and delegate at state, national and international levels | |
| Dr Joseph Yee-Tim Cheung | For service to medicine, particularly through the Australian Chinese Medical Association for over 20 years | |
| Leslie David Chignell | For service to veterans, in particular through the Balgowlah-Seaforth-Clontarf Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Brian David Church, | For service to the community in the area of social justice through promoting multiculturalism and Aboriginal reconciliation | |
| The Reverend Benjamin Albert Clarke | For service to the community by assisting drought affected rural parishes, and as Honorary Chaplain of the Currumbin/Palm Beach Returned and Services Leagues Club | |
| Rita May Clarke | For service to charities and community organisations as a fundraiser, performer and organiser of musical events | |
| Edward William Cockram | For service to the development of horseracing and horse-breeding through the Australian Bloodhorse Breeders Association, the Victorian Bloodhorse Breeders Committee, the Victorian Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme, and as Manager of Arundel Stud Farm | |
| Peter Louis Cohen | For service to hockey at state, national and international levels as a player, coach and administrator | |
| Sister Mary Barbara Cohen | For service to nursing, particularly in the field of haemodialysis | |
| Brian Frederick Cooper | For service to veterans as an advocate and as an Executive Member of veterans’ organisations in Western Australia | |
| Richard Cooper | For service to surf lifesaving, in particular as a coach to the Manly Junior Life Saving Club | |
| Emanuel Austin Cooper | For service to the Shepparton community, in particular as an Elder of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal people and as an administrator of Aboriginal community service organisations in Victoria | |
| Vincent Thomas Corbin | For service to the communities of Winton and Longreach, particularly through the Lions Club and the Scout Association of Australia | |
| Dr William Thomas Costello | For service to the Grafton and Clarence Valley communities as a surgeon and educator, and to the cattle industry through the Angus Society and the Grafton Abattoir Co-operative | |
| John Francis (Mick) Cotter | For service to communities in the Eastern Goldfields region, in particular through the Royal Flying Doctor Service | |
| Paul Couvret | For service to local government through the Warringah Shire Council, to veterans, and to the community | |
| Lesley Mary Cox | For service to child development, in particular as the Director of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama, and to the community | |
| Edward Charles Crane | For service to the community of Mildura, particularly through the State Emergency Service | |
| Doreen Upton Crawford | For service to community health as instigator and co-founder of the A H Crawford Cancer Treatment Society Inc. Trust through the provision of palliative care equipment and accommodation for country people with cancer, and their families | |
| Evelyn Mary Cruddas | For service to nursing, particularly as Director of Nursing at the Lord Fraser Home for the Aged Blind | |
| Laszlo Istvan Csaba | For service to the Hungarian community, in particular through the Australian Hungarian Association of Western Australia and the Council of Hungarian Associations of Western Australia | |
| Phyllis Gwendolyne Currie | For service to children as a foster parent, to the Amputees Association of Victoria, and to the community | |
| Stanislawa Dabrowski | For service to homeless youth in Canberra through the establishment of a soup kitchen providing food for over 200 persons each week | |
| John Patrick Daffy | For service to people with disabilities through Yalundah Adult Services Incorporated, to the community and to local government | |
| Robert Clive Dahl | For service to the community and, in particular, aged people through the Gladstone Central Committee on the ageing | |
| Trevor Davidson | For service to young people in detention centres by enhancing links with community service groups, in particular legal service providers | |
| Myrza Wesley Dawson | For service to veterans through the Avoca Sub-Branch of the Returned Services League of Australia, and to the community through fundraising and welfare activities | |
| Beryl Rose Dawson | For service to veterans through the Avoca Returned and Services Ladies Auxiliary, and to the community through fundraising and welfare activities | |
| Margaret (Nancy) Day | For service to the promotion of bicycle transportation and cycling as a recreation through the Bicycle Institute of South Australia and the Bicycle Federation of Australia | |
| Nora Bernece Delany | For service to the community of Bright, especially through promoting improved health and welfare services, and to the Bright Hospital Board | |
| Dulcie Mabel Denson | For service to the community, in particular through the Old Noarlunga Branch and the Warrekila Group of the Country Women’s Association | |
| Sidney Colin Diffey, | For service to the community of Rutherglen through the Returned and Services League of Australia, Glenview Community Care, the North East Pastoral Council of the Victorian Farmers Federation, the Country Fire Authority and the Albury Wodonga Council of Social Services | |
| Sidney Drury | For service to the community through the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the ACT and the ACT Branch of Technical Aid to the Disabled, and to veterans through the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Anne Dryen | For service to charitable organisations and to the Jewish community over 60 years | |
| John Edward Dunbabin | For service to the rural community through Rural Support Tasmania, and to youth through the Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania | |
| Noel Frederick Dunn | For service to the United Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of New South Wales as Grand Masters from 1992 to 1996, and as President of the Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes of NSW | |
| Patricia Irene Eaton | For service to animal welfare through the rescue and rehabilitation of Australian wildlife | |
| Charles Louis Evans | For service to youth and supporting groups on Norfolk Island | |
| Keith Bernard Eyles | For service to athletics for over 40 years through the New South Wales Athletics League, and to Rugby League football as a coach and referee | |
| Thomas Francis Keith Fitzgerald | For service to veterans through the Naval Association of Australia, Queensland section | |
| Thomas David Fitzgerald | For service to the community of Warren and surrounding district, in particular to veterans and war widows through the Warren Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Florence Fletcher | For service to the community of Inglewood | |
| For service to the community, particularly through supporting charitable organisations which seek to help young people, and to the media in the area of talk-balk radio | ||
| Ann Freak | For service to youth through the Girl Guide movement in South Australia for more than 60 years and as a fundraiser for the Crippled Children’s Association | |
| William Cecil Fripp | For service to local government through the Bega Valley Shire Council and to the community through the Tura Beach Progress Association | |
| Celia Muriel Fry | For service to the community of Cairns, in particular through the Girl Guide movement for over 70 years | |
| John Richard David Gabriel | For service to veterans through the Royal Australian Air Force Association, Mandurah Branch | |
| Frances Jean Gallagher | For service to fundraising as a founding member and President for 12 years of the Christopher Robin Committee at the Sydney Children’s Hospital | |
| Stanley Ernest Galvin | For service to the community through the Tidy Towns Committee, the Parks & Gardens Committee and the Yerong Creek Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Allan Allman Gamble | For service to architectural history through drawing and documenting Sydney’s architectural landscape, and to arts administration | |
| Trevor Barry Gavin | For service to Rugby League football through the Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League Council and the Queensland State Secondary Schools Sports Association | |
| For service to local government, the community and the Australian parliament | ||
| Peter Somerville Golding | For service to the Executive Council of the Australian Red Cross Society, New South Wales Division, and to the Rotary Club of Society | |
| Norman Stephen Gonsalves | For service to ballroom dancing as an adjudicator, coach, organiser and dancer, and as Honorary Secretary of the Dancing Association of South Australia for over 30 years | |
| Dundas Corbet Gore | For service to civil engineering, particularly as Project Director for the construction of the Sydney Opera House | |
| Agnes Edwina Grady | For service to veterans through the Royal Australian Air Force Association, Canberra Branch | |
| Eleanor Betty Grey | For service to education through the Australian Education Union, Tasmanian Branch, and to the community through organisations including the National Council of Women and Zonta International | |
| Alan Joseph Grindal | For service to cycling as a competitor, and to the promotion of the sport by coaching juniors | |
| Felicity Jane Gunner | For service to the community, particularly through the Alzheimer’s Association at the state and national levels | |
| Margaret Mary McLean Hamilton | For service to veterans through the Returned Sisters Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community through the Guild of Christ Church, St Lucia | |
| Roy Albert Hamilton | For service to the community of Kununurra, and to fostering agricultural and industry development in the region | |
| Neville David Hannaford | For service to music through the Brighton Secondary School and the Australian Music Examinations Board | |
| Trudy Hanson | For service to the community as New South Wales State Director of the Citizen Radio Emergency Service teams for 15 years, the National Association for Loss and Grief, and the State Emergency Service | |
| Dr Vivian Lee Hawke | For service to medicine, particularly as a general practitioner in the Semaphore area for more than 50 years | |
| William Keith Hayes | For service to education, particularly through the Creche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland | |
| Winifred Mary Healey | For service to the welfare of children as a foster parent, particularly children with disabilities or behavioural problems | |
| John Francis Healy | For service to the community through charitable organisations, and for his work with young men in their sport and personal development | |
| Joyce Hecker | For service to the community, in particular through the Friends of Walkerville Library, Neighbourhood Watch and the Blind Welfare Association | |
| Peter Leonard Henssler | For service to veterans, particularly through the Vietnam Veterans Welfare Association | |
| Paulene Marie Hertslet | For service to the Brewarrina community, in particular through local government, health and aged care organisations | |
| Ian Laurie Hickinbotham | For service to the Australian winemaking industry | |
| Brother James Thomas Higgins | For service to the Catholic school education system, and to the community | |
| Councillor John Maurice Hill | For service to local government, in particular as Mayor of the Lachlan Shire, and to the Yaddra Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade as Secretary for over 50 years | |
| Terence William Hogan | For service to the community, through the Anglican Church Perth Diocesan Trustees, the Anglican Deposit Fund Board and the Anglican Homes Inc Board | |
| David Laurence Hordern | For service to education, particularly in the field of special education, and to the community | |
| Yvonne Mary Howell | For service to the community, particularly through the Angliss Hospital Ladies Auxiliary for more than 40 years | |
| William Richard Hoyles | For service to youth, in particular as Director of Youth Services and Aftercare for Barnardos Australia | |
| Terence Burton Huey | For service to lawn bowls at local and state levels | |
| Olive Dorothy Johnson | For service to lawn bowls, and to the community through the Fellowship of First Fleeters and the Sutherland Shire Historical Society | |
| For service to art as a cartoonist and illustrator | ||
| Lawrence Edwin Jones | For service to the community, particularly in the field of social welfare through ‘Near Care’ and ‘Clayfield Care’, and to the Neighbourhood Tree Watch | |
| Brenda Kable | For service to the community, in particular through the Avalon Community Library, the Avalon Preservation Trust and the Pangloss Circle | |
| Ette Ilamri Kainu | For service to multiculturalism through Finnish community organisations, the Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland and the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland | |
| Evangeline (Lilly) Kelaidis | For service to the Greek community, in particular through organisations including the Order of AHEPA, the Greek Orthodox Community of St George, and the Hellenic Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| George William Kelly | For service to the community, particularly through the Southpaw Stroke Club and the Lions Club of Canberra Valley | |
| Leon Victor Kempler | For service to trade, in particular as Federal Chairman of the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce | |
| Warren Gordon Kermond | For service to the community through charitable and arts organisations | |
| Dr William Campbell Kerr | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry | |
| Thomas Andrew Kettle | For service to the community, particularly through organising fundraising treks across Australia for charitable organisations | |
| Sandra Dianne King | For service to squash | |
| Yee Lam | For service to the Chinese community, particularly through the Victorian Elderly Chinese Academy | |
| John Henry Law | For service to cricket through the Western Suburbs United Churches Cricket Association and the Barkly Street Uniting Church Cricket Club | |
| Peggy Doreen Lawton | For service to the community through the Flinders Medical Centre Volunteer Service | |
| Ruth Leitch | For service to the community of Moree through charitable organisations, particularly the Salvation Army | |
| Elaine Grace Leneghan | For service to the community, particularly through the Stroke and Disability Information (Hunter) Inc. and other community care organisations in the Newcastle area | |
| Betty Ruby Levy | For service to the community of Springwood, particularly through her involvement with numerous community organisations including the Red Cross Society, and the Blue Mountains Concert Society | |
| Grahame Kerr Lindsay | For service to surveying, through membership of professional associations and as Commonwealth Surveyor General, and to the community | |
| Frances Anne Long | For service to the community through musical performances and fundraising as Musical Director of the Bell Singers | |
| Sydney Joseph Long | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, and to junior cricket and football | |
| The Honourable Kenneth Francis Lowrie, | For service to the community, to local government and to the sport of lawn bowls | |
| Neville Coleman Loxton | For service to the community of Bundaberg, particularly as chairman of ‘Argo-Trend’, a major annual fundraising event | |
| Maisie Lupton | For service to the communities of Warrimoo, Springwood and the Lower Blue Mountains district | |
| Robert Archibald Macdonald | For service to youth through the Scout Association of Australia, particularly as the New South Wales Branch Commissioner for International Activities | |
| Joan Norma Doris Mannell | For service to youth as a teacher of music and ballet, to the community through fundraising concerts, and as organist for Scone Uniting Church for over 40 years | |
| Joy Elaine Marks, | For service to veterans as Honorary Welfare/Pensions Officer of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) | |
| Myra Joyce Martin, | For service to the community as a teacher of dance, and as a volunteer and fundraiser for community organisations | |
| Robert Lewis Maslen | For service to youth through the Scout Association of Australia, particularly as the Chief Commissioner of the South Australian Branch, and through the Youth Affairs Council for South Australia | |
| Kenneth Charles McDonagh | For service to the welfare of the aged community, particularly through the Addie Mills Senior Citizens Centre and the Gosnells and District Stroke Club | |
| Elizabeth Harrison McDonagh | For service to the welfare of the aged community, particularly through the Addie Mills Senior Citizens Centre and the Gosnells and District Stroke Club | |
| Anthony John McEniry | For service to the community, particularly through the Bendigo unit of the Victoria State Emergency Service | |
| Evan David McGrath | For service to the local community of Mareeba, particularly through local government, community groups and sporting organisations | |
| Professor Jim McKnight | For service to the community through the Smith Family, Lifeline, the Homecare Service and other charitable organisations | |
| Timothy George McLaren | For service to rowing, particularly as a coach of Australian crews participating at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and in world rowing championships since 1990, and in on-water coach education | |
| Mack Charles McLaren | For service to veterans through the ACT Branch of the Rats of Tobruk Association, and to the community as a supporter of the ACT Branch of the Australian Red Cross Society | |
| Lindsay Edward McMillan | For service to veterans, particularly through the Walcha Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and the Walcha Ex-Service Memorial Club, and to the community | |
| Ernest Mervyn McQuillan | For service to journalism, particularly in the field of media photography | |
| Anthony Michael | For service to the Greek community through the Hellenic Youth Association and its associated sporting activities | |
| Colin James Mickan | For service to the community, particularly as chairperson of the Kapunda Hospital Board and through the promotion of health services in rural South Australia | |
| Ronald Middleton | For service to the community of Bunbury, particularly in the fields of music and the arts | |
| Alan Leigh Middleton | For service to educational administration through Melbourne High School, particularly as a member of the School Council for 34 years | |
| Nancy Agnes Millington | For service to the community, particularly through the Dudley Hospital Auxiliary | |
| Charles Joseph Mitchell | For service to local government and to the community of Walgett | |
| Alan Grafton Mitchell | For service to the profession of naval architecture through the Australian Division of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects | |
| Ailsa Marlene Morris | For service to women in rural areas through the Queensland Country Women’s Association | |
| Clifford Munro Moss | For service to veterans, particularly through the Katunga Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and the Murray-Goulburn Ex POW Association, and to the community | |
| Kerin James Mulhall | For service to veterans, particularly through the Townsville Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community | |
| The Reverend Joe Mullins, | For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Church and as Rector of St Peter’s Church, Weston | |
| Keith Douglas Munro | For service to the community, particularly as the Honorary Curator of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals Museum | |
| Keith Robert Murton | For service to hockey and to the Australian Olympic movement | |
| John Alfred Neale, | For service to veterans, particularly through the Albury Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the Albury Wodonga Branch of the Military History Society | |
| Zika Nester | For service to the arts as co-founder, chief tutor and registrar of the Ensemble Acting Studios in Sydney | |
| Vytautas Stasys Neverauskas | For service to the Lithuanian community, particularly as President of the Adelaide Lithuanian Association | |
| Sheila Elspeth Newman-Truswell | For service to social work in the areas of social justice and the fostering of excellence in professional standards | |
| Michael John Noonan | For service to the arts as an author of numerous novels, works of non-fiction, television scripts and plays | |
| Ronald O'Connor | For service to the community, particularly to surf lifesaving, and to the welfare of aged people | |
| Edwin Vivien O'Dea | For service to the community, particularly as an active member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul for over 50 years | |
| Professor Frank Oberklaid | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of ambulatory paediatrics and child health | |
| Edward James Ovens | For service to the community, particularly through the Coffs Harbour District Council of the Banana Growers Federation for 44 years, and to surf lifesaving | |
| Robert William Page | For service to the community, particularly as a member of the Beacon Hill Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade | |
| Senior Constable David Rowntree Parker | For service to youth as the founder and coordinator of the Camp Hill Blue Light Disco, and to the community | |
| Lindsay Douglas Patience | For service to the community, particularly through his involvement in various community organisations and fundraising activities for charity | |
| Nehama Ruth Patkin | For service to the community, particularly as a piano and music teacher, and as an administrator and organiser of musical events for charity | |
| Marion Jessie Patterson | For service to athletics, in particular race walking, through the Victorian Women’s Amateur Athletic Association and Athletics Australia | |
| Geoffrey Arthur Pattison | For service to photography, particularly through the Tasmanian Photographic Federation and the Australian Photographic Society, and to the community | |
| Olive Mary Paull | For service to the community through local organisations, including Meals on Wheels | |
| John Bartley Pearson | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association and the Herbert River Farmers League | |
| Lindsay John Peck, | For service to veterans, particularly through the 7th Division Engineers Association, and to the community | |
| Allan Cunliffe Perry | For service to the community, particularly through local government | |
| Joyce Mary Petfield | For service to athletics as an administrator and official for over 35 years | |
| Patrick Joseph Phelan | For service to the community, particularly through the Manly Lantern Club and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children | |
| Juanita Catherine Phelan | For service to the community, particularly through the Manly Lantern Club and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children | |
| Lance Arthur Pickering | For service to the community as the National President of Heart Support Australia | |
| Councillor Noel Edgar Playford | For service to the community and to local government in the promotion of regional development through the South East Queensland Regional Economic Development Committee | |
| Monsignor Raymond Ignatius Pope | For service to the community of Kadina-Wallaroo, particularly through the Catholic Church Meals on Wheels and the Star of the Sea Hostel and Nursing Home | |
| Jessie Mary Porteous | For service to people with visual impairments as a voluntary transcriber of texts into Braille for over 35 years | |
| Gwenyth Evelyn Price | For service to the community, and to community history in particular, by producing a photographic history of the Cue-Day Dawn area | |
| Dr John Prior | For service to the community of Boggabri, particularly as a medical practitioner for over 45 years, and for his involvement with local community organisations | |
| Alistair McDonald Ramsay, | For service to basketball, particularly as the Founder and Secretary General of the Oceania Basketball Confederation | |
| Ian Malcolm Lesley Ramsay | For service to the community as a volunteer with the Department of Family and Community Services, and in particular for his involvement with the Central Western Work Program | |
| Dr Balaji Rao | For service to the community, particularly aged people, through the Lions Club of Tocumwal and district | |
| Tamarapakam Janardhana Rao | For service to the Indian community, particularly through the Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria and the Consulate of India, Melbourne | |
| Helen Lorain Rasko | For service to the entertainment industry and to charitable organisations, particularly through the Actors Benevolent Fund | |
| Maxwell Hansley Rawnsley | For service to the Scamander community | |
| Allan Claude Ray | For service to tourism and to youth employment in the Hunter region | |
| Stephen John Christopher Raymond | For service to radio and television, and to community organisations | |
| Robert Alwyn Raymond | For service to the media and television industry, particularly as a director and producer of television documentaries and public affairs programs | |
| Garda Eileen Richardson | For service to the community and to youth, particularly through the Glen Life Group and Life Link Samaritans | |
| Frances Hamilton Rigby | For service to the community, particularly through the Central Council of Auxiliaries of the Royal Melbourne Hospital | |
| Charles Arthur Risby | For service to primary industry, particularly in the development of the Tasmanian hardwood sawmilling industry, and to the community | |
| William Alexander Robertson | For service to the community, particularly to veterans and their families through the Clovelly Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Neil James Rogers | For service to the community, and to veterans and their families | |
| Louise Rosenberg | For service to the Jewish community, particularly as secretary of the Australian Jewish Historical Society | |
| Norman Rothfield | For service to the promotion of peace and human rights in Australia and internationally | |
| Evelyn Rothfield | For service to the promotion of peace and human rights in Australia and internationally | |
| Donald Edward John Rowe | For service to the community and to veterans, particularly through the Armidale Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Patricia Ann Rowland | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Western Australian State Headquarters of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Emeritus Professor James Geoffrey Pennefather Ryan | For service to medicine and medical education in the specialty of general practice and community medicine | |
| Bryce Wesley Saint | For service to the community, particularly to children, through the Safety House Association of South Australia | |
| Brian George Sandow | For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Church | |
| Benedick Samuel Joseph Schuster | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Burleigh Heads Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and Gold Coast Legacy | |
| Colin Ivor Schwartz | For service to the wheat industry in New South Wales, in particular grain handling, storage and distribution, and to the community | |
| Robert (Jock) Scott | For service to the ex-service community, particularly through the National Headquarters of the Returned and Services League of Australia and the Australian-Hellenic Memorial Committee | |
| Joanna Seabrook | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the regeneration of native vegetation in Western Australia | |
| Anne Veronica Shapcott | For service to the welfare of the ex-service community and to youth, particularly through the Air Training Corps | |
| Leonard Jack Shapcott | For service to the welfare of the ex-service community and to youth, particularly through the Air Training Corps | |
| Carl Sharpe | For service to sports administration, particularly cricket, in Orange and the western region of New South Wales for over 30 years | |
| John William Sharpe | For service to the community, particularly through surf lifesaving and the Australian Winter Swimming Association | |
| Elsa Dorothea Sheldrick | For service to the Leeton community, particularly through the Red Cross and Uniting Church | |
| Ellen Margaret Shepherd | For service to the community, particularly to senior citizens, by providing musical entertainment and supporting fundraising activities for over 40 years | |
| Robert Eugene Shergis | For service to the hairdressing industry, particularly in South Australia | |
| Eric Singleton | For service to wildlife conservation through the establishment of the Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary in Bayswater | |
| Joan Cicely Skaife | For service to the community of Wyong and district | |
| Kathleen Jean Smith | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through the Riding for the Disabled Association | |
| Cyril Charles Smith | For service to the community, particularly through the Diamond Creek Progress Association and the Anglican Church, and management of the Sutherland Homes for Children for over 40 years | |
| Lewis Donald Bernard Smithall | For service to the community, particularly as a volunteer with the St John Ambulance and the Northam Fire Brigade | |
| David Colling Southern | For service to education and to the community, particularly through Rotary | |
| Duncan Stalker | For service to education, in particular the Australian Secondary Principals Association, and to the community | |
| Rosemary Allison Stanton | For service to community health, particularly through education in the field of nutrition and dietetics | |
| Santina Stransky | For service to the community, particularly children, through fundraising activities for Save the Children Fund and the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children | |
| Sista Alice Edith Strom | For service to the preservation of maritime history | |
| Geoffrey Edwin Summerhayes | For service to the arts through the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and to the community | |
| Dawn Sword | For service to the community, particularly in the provision of child care facilities | |
| Hurtle Douglas Symons | For service to the community, particularly through promoting multiculturalism and through the Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem | |
| Josef Szoka | For service to the Polish community of Launceston, particularly through the Good Neighbour Council and the Polish Returned and Services League | |
| Mavis Kingston Taber | For service to people with hearing disabilities, particularly through the Wagga Wagga branch of Better Hearing Australia | |
| Donald John Haig Taggart | For service to the preservation of community history through the Historical Society of St Kilda since 1975 | |
| Captain Alan James Tait | For service to shipping, particularly through industry and safety reform | |
| Rose Matilda Taylor | For service to the community, particularly through the Sandgate and District Senior Citizens Centre | |
| Lola Stafford Teale | For service to the Glenreagh community, particularly through the Country Women’s Association | |
| Carmen Testa | For service to the Maltese community in the West Sunshine area for over 45 years | |
| Peter Theo Theophilou | For service to the Green community in the Bankstown area | |
| Donald McLean Tibbits | For service to veterans, particularly through the 2/23rd Battalion Association, for over 40 years | |
| Alan Alfred Ticehurst | For service to the community of Cloncurry and Mount Isa | |
| Associate Professor Maurice Hutchison Todd | For service to social work education, to professional organisations, and to the community | |
| Marjorie Amy Todd | For service to the Armidale community for over 50 years | |
| David Victor Torr | For service to the community as Works Manager for the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Lucille Leila Turfrey | For service to the community through the Salvation Army | |
| Hilda (Billi) Turney | For service to the Tweed Heads and Gold Coast communities for over 35 years | |
| Keppel Arthur Turnour | For service to the community, particularly to aged people through the Shepparton and District Retirement Villages Inc for over 30 years | |
| James William Valladares | For service to the ex-service community for over 50 years through the Saddleworth Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia | |
| Silvana Vidoni | For service to the community, particularly to children with disabilities | |
| Domenico Vitocco | For service to the community of south western Sydney through business and community organisations | |
| Ian Charles Wall | For service to the welfare of the ex-service community | |
| William Angus Walsh | For service to the welfare of the aged community, particularly through fundraising activities | |
| Robert Daniel Walshe | For service to education and the environment | |
| Gwendoline Ann Walton | For service to the Hyden community, particularly through the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association, and as a sports administrator | |
| Gwendoline Mary Walton | For service to the Scarborough community, particularly by being a blood donor for over 45 years involving over 345 donations and through fundraising activities | |
| The Reverend Canon John Alfred Warby, | For service to the Aboriginal community, the Anglican Church and ex-service organisations | |
| Douglas Morton Warlters | For service to the Camden Haven Valley community for over 40 years | |
| John Stanley Warner | For service to the Edenhope community | |
| Captain Nicholas James Gregory Watling, | For service to the community and to aviation, particularly as a pilot with the Royal Flying Doctor Service | |
| Marion Lesley Watson | For service to community health through organisations helping to rehabilitate people with drug and alcohol dependencies | |
| Colleen Janie Watts | For service to the Carcoar community, particular the welfare of aged people | |
| Joan Wearne | For service to the community of the Blue Mountains | |
| Barbara Jane Webb | For service to the Dubbo and Brewarrina Shire communities, particularly through the Australian Red Cross Society | |
| James Greer Webster | For service to sports journalism, and as Media Director for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games | |
| Richard John Wells | For service to the welfare of the ex-service community | |
| Ross William Wells | For service to the wool industry for over 30 years | |
| Dennis Fredrick White | For service to the Lithgow community by providing musical entertainment for the aged | |
| Doreen Joyce White | For service to the Lithgow community by providing musical entertainment for the aged | |
| Frank Whittington | For service to local government and to the Brookton community, particularly through the Volunteer Fire Brigade | |
| Ronald James Wilkinson, | For service to the community | |
| Keith Albert Walter Williams | For service to conservation and the environment | |
| Jean Marie Woodbury | For service to the community through the Sandgate and District Senior Citizens’ Centre | |
| William Wright | For service to youth through the Scout Association of Australia | |
| Peter Yiallouris | For service to the Greek and Cypriot communities | |
| Dr Allen Peng Yung | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of infections diseases | |
| Yvonne June Zardani | For service to the community, particularly to women and the aged | |
| Lewis Lloyd Zilles, | For service to pipe bands, brass bands and marching girls’ organisations for over 75 years |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Lieutenant Commander Brian William Barnett | For meritorious service and devotion to duty as a member of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, especially in the field of Naval Control of Shipping | |
| Warrant Officer Noel Cregan Kirk | For meritorious service and outstanding achievement in the field of catering in the Royal Australia Navy, in particular as the Catering Manager in HMAS Stirling | ||
| Lieutenant Commander David Christian Scott | For meritorious service in the provision of intelligence support to the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Defence Force | ||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class One Dennis Wayne Bowman | For meritorious service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of 4th Field Regiment, and as Regimental Master Gunner of the School of Artillery, Royal Australian Artillery | |
| Warrant Officer Class One Lynette June Gweneth Dowsett | For meritorious service to the Army Reserve as an administrator | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Mark Drake Dunn | For meritorious service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st Commando Regiment and the 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Stewart William Purdie | For meritorious service to the Australian Army as the Regimental Sergeant Major of the 25th Battalion, the Royal Queensland Regiment, the 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment and the 7th Brigade | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Raymond John Raddatz | For meritorious service to the Australian Army in a broad range of highly demanding appointments in the fields of regimental duties, peacekeeping and defence cooperation | ||
| Air Force | Sergeant John Dunbar | For meritorious service to the Royal Australian Air Force in the development of trade certification and civilian accreditation for the aircraft welder mustering | |
| Warrant Officer Errol James Reidlinger | For meritorious service to the Royal Australian Air Force in the field of transport logistics | ||
| Warrant Officer Malcolm William Skilton | For meritorious service to the Royal Australian Air Force in the field of telecommunications management |