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 |
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| Eric Fraser Ainsworth | For service to the community of South Australia, particularly the disability sector, through the SPARC Disability Foundation, and to business through involvement with the energy and biotechnology industries. | |
| John Aloizos | For service to medicine, particularly medical administration, and to the Australian Divisions of General Practice. |
| Randolph Ranjit Alwis | For service to the development of multiculturalism in Australia as an advocate and lobbyist, and to the community through the promotion of indigenous reconciliation. |
| Robert George Andry | For service to psychology as a theorist, practitioner and therapist, and through the development of the practice of cross-cultural forensic psychology. |
| Michael George Angelakis | For service to the development and promotion of the South Australian seafood, wine, food and tourism industries, and to the community through support for health and social welfare agencies. |
| Trevor ApSimon | For service to medicine, particularly for pioneering work in the area of interventional neuroradiology in Australia. |
| June Maree Ashmore | For service to people who are blind or vision impaired, as an executive member of a range of blindness-related organisations providing advocacy, support and assistance to members. |
| Solvig Baas Becking | For service to arts and crafts, particularly through developmental work in textile art in Australia and with the modern craft movement, and as a teacher and mentor. |
| Earle Ian Backen | For service to art as a contributor to the development and understanding of contemporary art, both as an artist and as a lecturer in the tertiary education sector. |
| Christopher James Baker | In recognition of service to the community, particularly children, through the initiation and development of the Ronald McDonald House and Clinic in Adelaide, and as a supporter of church, social welfare, youth and community celebration programmes |
| Norbert Berend | For service in the field of thoracic medicine in Australia as a clinician, researcher, educator and administrator. |
| Frank Richard Bishop | For service to water engineering, to the development of the Australian Water Association, and as a consultant, educator and administrator. |
| Kenneth John Bladen | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Western Australian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Margaret Camilla Bolster | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the Conservation Council of South Australia and as editor of the magazine Environment SA. |
| William Bawden Bott | For service to local government in regional New South Wales, particularly through the Local Government Shires Association, and to the community of Corowa. |
| Eileen Kampakuta Brown | For service to the community through the preservation, revival and teaching of traditional Anangu Aboriginal culture and as an advocate for indigenous communities in Central Australia. |
| Gerald Burns | For service to youth welfare, particularly through the development of the innovative services and programmes of Marist Youth Care. |
| Michael Burr | For service to the development of the Australian olive industry through the fostering of research into the genetics, processing and assessment of olive oil, and as a pioneer in the development of geriatric medicine within Australian teaching hospitals. |
| Lana Eleanor Cantrell | For service to the entertainment industry, and for assistance to the Australian community in New York. |
| Sandra Maureen Capra | For service to community health, particularly through the advancement and promotion of nutrition and dietetics as an educator and researcher, and to the Guiding movement. |
| David Sulman Carment | For service to the community, particularly through the National Trust of Australia, as an advocate for the protection of Northern Territory cultural heritage, and to the scholarship and dissemination of knowledge of Northern Territory history. |
| Mary Adelaide Carroll | For service to community health, particularly through the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway) and the National Heart Foundation of Australia. |
| Frederick John Casson | For service to the community, particularly people living with mental illness, through the establishment, provision and promotion of a range of mental health services in Western Australia. |
| Bruce Richard Champ | For service to agricultural research and entomology, particularly through the development of stored grain insect control. |
| James Douglas Chapman | For service to local government, and to the community of the Atherton Tablelands and far north Queensland, particularly through the promotion of economic development in the region. |
| Antony Erling Charlton | For service to the community through the organisation and promotion of fundraising events to support a range of health, research, rehabilitation and veteran groups in Australia. |
| Alan Wilson Clark | For service to the community of the Shoalhaven district as a member and administrator of historical, social welfare and sporting organisations, and to the researching and publishing of local history. |
| Bryan George Coombe | For service to the development of the Australian grape and wine industry, particularly as an educator and as a pioneer of physiological and developmental research on grape berries. |
| Barbara Markell Cooper | For service to pedigree dog breeding through the Working Kelpie Council of Australia and its promotion of the registration of dogs and encouragement of breeding with recognised working animals to ensure purity of the line. |
| Judith Ann Cottier | For service to education as the Principal of Perth College, and through fostering educational opportunities for young women in both academic and co-curricular areas. |
| John Thomas Cowley | For service to the community, particularly people who are visually impaired, and to the print media industry. |
| Frederick Harold Cress | For service to the visual arts in Australia as an artist and teacher, and to the community through support for cultural and medical research organisations. |
| David Graeme Croft | For service to electrical engineering, particularly the electricity supply industry, and to the community through the activities of Rotary International. |
| Ann Mary Cullity | For service to the community of Western Australia through organisations involved with education, the arts, health care and scientific research, and as a fundraiser for charitable groups. |
| Kevin William Davis | For service to the community, to the arts, and to education, particularly the development of educational opportunities for Aboriginal children. |
| Hilton Forrest Deakin | For service to the international community, particularly through the Catholic aid agency, Caritas Australia, and to the people of East Timor. |
| Michael James Dodson | For service to the indigenous community, particularly in raising awareness of social justice issues, as a contributor to advancing the reconciliation process, and as a campaigner for native title rights. |
| Peter Joseph Drake | For service to education, especially through leadership of the Australian Catholic University, to the study of economics, and to overseas aid delivery. |
| Roger du Blet | For service to the housing industry, to small business development, and to transport infrastructure in Queensland. |
| Terrence John Edwards | For service to the community through Rotary International, particularly as a volunteer for the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. |
| Peter John Fenner | For service to medicine through marine toxinology research and management, to surf lifesaving in Queensland, and to the community. |
| Denis William Fitzgerald | For service to Rugby League football as a player and administrator, and to the community of Parramatta. |
| John Flannagan | For service to the community through the development and expansion of the services provided by Foodbank Australia. |
| Anthony Fowke | For service as an advocate for the advancement of mental health services in Australia, and to the community. |
| Charles Hugh Francis | For service to the law, particularly as a contributor to the process of legal and administrative reform, and to the community by facilitating public access to the legal system. |
| Kevin John Gaskin | For service to medicine in the field of paediatric gastrointestinal disease, particularly with the gut, liver and nutritional complications of cystic fibrosis. |
| Sylvia Gelman | For service to the community, particularly through a range of organisations concerned with issues affecting women |
| Luigi Alexander Giglia | For service to the Western Australian dairy industry through a range of industry organisations and by contributing to the establishment of the Herd Improvement Scheme, and to the community. |
| Diane Ethersey Griffin | For service to the community, particularly people with dementia and their carers, and as an advocate for and contributor to the establishment and development of a number of organisations, including the Alzheimer's Association NSW. |
| Richard Winston Gulley | For service to the law and to the legal profession, particularly through the Law Society of New South Wales and the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales. |
| Lindsay Charles Hamilton | For service to the development and promotion of bilateral relations between Australia and Taiwan, particularly through the Australia-Taiwan Business Council. |
| Jeffrey Stewart Heath | For service to people with disabilities as an advocate for improved services and through the publication of Link magazine. |
| Robert Hecker | For service to the community through a range of service, cultural, social welfare and sporting organisations, and to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology. |
| Richard John Hein | For service to the transport industry, particularly through the Australian and international shipping sectors and the development of port facilities. |
| Phyllis Merle Henning | For service to the rural sector in Western Australia, particularly through the West Australian Learning Centre Movement, and to the community of Koorda. |
| Christopher Charles Heyde | For service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these disciplines. |
| William Edwin Hillis | For service to the development of wood science and forest products technology, and to the sustainable use of forest resources. |
| Terence Noel Hogan | For service to the rice industry, particularly through the Ricegrowers' Co-operative Limited, and to the community of Jerilderie through service in a range of local government roles. |
| Peter Wentworth Hughes | For service to engineering and water management in Australia. |
| Torstein John Hundloe | For service to environmental protection, particularly in the areas of fisheries and coastal management, ecotourism, protected area management and environmental economics. |
| John McLeod Hunn | For service to medicine, particularly in developing the burns treatment unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital, to medical education, and to the community. |
| Charles Angas Hurst | For service to science, particularly in the field of mathematical physics as an educator, researcher and administrator. |
| Bella Irlicht | For service to education, particularly to children with special needs, and to the community. |
| Jennifer Carmel Isaacs | For service to creating awareness of the significance of Aboriginal culture, and as a promoter of emerging indigenous talent in all areas of the arts. |
| Percy Harold Iszlaub | For service to local government and to the community of the South Burnett district, particularly the development of regional tourism, information technology access and infrastructure. |
| Christine Russell Jenkins | For service to respiratory medicine as a physician, administrator and educator, particularly in the field of asthma education. |
| Keith Arthur Johnson | For service to genealogy as an author and publisher of Australian family history, and through the Society of Australian Genealogists and the Royal Australian Historical Society. |
| Mary Patricia Kaufmann | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through Minda Special School and the Intellectual Disability Services Council. |
| Max Kay | For service to the entertainment industry through the establishment of the Civic Theatre Restaurant and the development of young performers, and to the community as a fundraiser for charitable organisations. |
| For service to the arts, particularly printmaking, and to art organisations. |
| Maureen Hyne Kingston | For service to the welfare of the ageing through the Association of Independent Retirees as an adviser and representative. |
| John Christopher Kirby | For service to the community of Canberra through a range of business and community organisations, including the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Canberra Association of Regional Development. |
| Ainslie Florence Lamb | For service to the legal profession, particularly as an educator in the area of cross-cultural and indigenous issues, and to the community, particularly in education. |
| James Sutherland Lawson | For service to medical administration and to the community, particularly through programmes aimed at health improvement. |
| Patricia Marie Le Lievre | For service to the community of western New South Wales, particularly through local government, regional development, and isolated rural family organisations. |
| Wellington Lee | For service to local government through the City of Melbourne, and to the community, particularly through Landcare Foundation Victoria and the State Library of Victoria Foundation. |
| Jane Louise Lennon | For service to conservation, the environment and heritage issues, particularly as an administrator, consultant and executive member of a range of government committees and organisations. |
| Josephine Lonergan | For service to education and to the community, particularly through the Australian Parents' Council and a range of educational organisations. |
| Sam Lovell | For service as a mentor to indigenous groups and communities in the Kimberley region in developing tourism ventures. |
| Iris Christina Lovett-Gardiner | For service to the indigenous community as founder of the Aboriginal Community Elders Service Hostel in Melbourne, and through translating and documenting the generational stories and history of the Kerrup-J-Marra clan from the Lake Condah Mission. |
| Graeme William Lyall | For service to music as Artistic Director of the Western Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra, and as a musical director, composer and performer. |
| For service to sport, particularly Rugby Union football as coach of the Australian Wallabies. |
| David Mandie | For service to the community of Melbourne, particularly as a benefactor to a broad range of medical, arts and sporting organisations, and as an executive member of several committees and associations promoting commerce, tourism and international trade. |
| Hella McAdam | For service to the Children's Cancer Institute Australia, and for the development of a corporate sponsorship programme. |
| John William McAdam | For service to the Children's Cancer Institute Australia through fundraising for research into the causes and treatments of childhood cancer. |
| Stuart Richard McDonald | For service to agribusiness and rural communities in Victoria through the Rural Finance Corporation and the Young Farmer Finance Council, and to the Parliament of Victoria. |
| John Noel McKnoulty | For service to the administration of sport, particularly cricket, to the administration of a range of government regulatory authorities, and to the community, particularly through organisations associated with the Catholic Church. |
| Donald Ross McWilliam | For service to the wine industry and through leadership of a range of industry organisations. |
| Patrick Winston Medway | For service to conservation and the environment through environmental education and a range of organisations and committees concerned with the preservation of wildlife and nature, particularly the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. |
| Ian Fraser Meikle | For service to the print media and related press organisations, and to the community through a range of welfare and arts organisations. |
| For service to cricket, particularly as an administrator with the Australian Cricket Board, the Victorian Cricket Association and the Victorian Country Cricket League. |
| Merrilyn Leila Murnane | For service to paediatrics, particularly in the areas of care and protection of abused children and youth. |
| James Francis Murphy | For service to the community and business sectors of the Australian Capital Territory through a range of private and government committees and associations, and to the wine industry, particularly through marketing and promotion. |
| Paul Nisselle | For service to medicine and the medical profession through contributions to a range of government and professional organisations, and to the community through youth welfare and cultural groups. |
| Michael James O'Connor | For service to the community through raising public awareness of defence, security and strategic issues. |
| Marjorie Pagan | For service to the community, particularly through the restoration of heritage items and promoting the activities of the Association of Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, and as a fundraiser for charitable organisations. |
| Diana Elizabeth Penniment | For service to local government, and to the advancement of rural community issues through Women in Agriculture and Business and a range of local organisations. |
| David Claude Plummer | For service to community health as a contributor to the development of policy, sexual health education programmes and clinical services to combat HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. |
| Mary Edith Porter | For service to the community, particularly through Volunteering Australia and a broad range of welfare organisations in the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Eva Raik | For service to medicine as a pathologist, and to the Australian health system through membership of a broad range of government and professional associations and committees. |
| Yvonne Rae Rate | For service to sport, particularly netball, as an administrator with a range of committees and councils, and as a coach and player. |
| Paul John Robertson | For service to children's health and welfare through the establishment and administration of the Financial Markets Foundation for Children, and to the community through church and educational organisations. |
| John Brian Robinson | For service to environmental protection, particularly through the development of appropriate legislation and fostering partnerships between government, industry and the community to improve the physical environment. |
| Maxwell James Robinson | For service to medicine through the practice and teaching of paediatrics. |
| Alan David Robson | For service to education, particularly in the field of agricultural science, and to the development of agricultural research through a range of research committees and councils. |
| Bruce Frederick Rounsefell | For service to medicine as a pioneer, researcher and educator in multi-disciplinary pain management. |
| Peter Desmond Rousch | For service to the higher education sector, to support for greater access to tertiary education for Aboriginal students, to the arts, and to the community. |
| Derek John Roylance | For service to veterans and their families as an executive member of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and as a contributor to the administration of the League in Papua New Guinea. |
| Pamela Joan Russell | For service to medical research in the field of oncology, particularly in improving detection methods and in developing preventive approaches for prostate cancer. |
| Malcolm Rex Sainty | For service to genealogy as an author and publisher of Australian family history, and through the Society of Australian Genealogists and the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations. |
| Geraldine Jane Scarlett | For service to young people through the Guiding movement, particularly in the areas of training and welfare, and to the community through the work of the Salvation Army. |
| Anne Schofield | For service to the performing arts as an administrator and fundraiser for the Sydney Theatre Company, and to the applied and decorative arts, particularly antiques, as an author and consultant. |
| Basil Alfred Sellers | For service to the community as a philanthropist through donations to a number of charitable and community organisations, to sports development, and to business. |
| For service to the Australian visual arts as a painter whose work has been exhibited in, and forms part of, national and international galleries and collections. |
| John Ambler Snowdon | For service to the mental health of the ageing, particularly through psychiatric research and rehabilitation, and as an executive and consultant on a range of government and professional organisations. |
| Daniel Stiel | For service to the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games as the Chief Medical Officer and through efforts to ensure a 'drug-free' Games, and to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology. |
| Elisabeth Faye Stokes | For service to young people through the Girls' Brigade Australia, and to the community of Greenwood. |
| For service to the Parliament of Australia and to the community, particularly as an advocate for improved services and conditions affecting women. |
| Percy Edwin Sykes | For service to veterinary science, particularly equine health, and to the thoroughbred horse racing industry. |
| Ronald Josiah Taylor | For service to conservation and the environment through marine cinematography and photography, by raising awareness of endangered and potentially extinct marine species, and by contributing to the declaration of species and habitat protection. |
| William Ronald Utteridge | For service to the community through Relationships Australia and through a wide range of welfare, social service and conservation organisations. |
| Kenneth Dennison von Bibra | For service to the community of northern Tasmania through contributions in the areas of local government, agribusiness, the arts and the preservation of heritage and historical sites. |
| Catherine Mary Walter | For service to business, particularly as a director of a range of public companies, to the arts, to the law, and to the community through the Melbourne City Council. |
| Richard Dennis Walter | For service to the community, particularly as a health administrator and as an executive member of a range of educational and regional development organisations, and to local government. |
| Phoebe Florence Wanganeen | For service to the indigenous community of South Australia, particularly through the provision of advice and as a contributor to the development of educational programmes, and through the activities of a range of social welfare and support groups. |
| Peter John Wertheim | For service to the community as an executive member of a range of peak Jewish organisations, and through projects aimed at promoting greater community understanding. |
| Shirley Joan White | For service to people with asbestos-related disease, particularly through the establishment of the Queensland Asbestos Related Disease Support Society. |
| Stephen Wilkinson | For service to medicine as a surgeon, researcher, administrator and teacher, and to the community as a promoter of a healthy lifestyle for children. |
| Courtney John Williams | For service to the Australian mining and metallurgical industries, particularly as a leader in the development of suspension smelting of non-ferrous metals. |
| Ian Philip Williamson | For service to the surveying profession, particularly through the design, operation and management of cadastral and land information systems, and to the community as a member of a range of educational councils. |
| Rodney Mervyn Willox | For service to local government at state, regional and local levels, to the environment as an executive member of waste and water management authorities, and to the community through health, welfare, emergency service and veterans' associations. |
| Margaret Ann Wood | For service to the community, particularly through participation in a range of organisations concerned with raising awareness of and dealing with alcohol and drug abuse, and providing educational and employment opportunities for 'at risk' young people. | |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
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| Helen Florence Abigail | For service to the community of Wagga Wagga through the provision of care for the ageing and for people with disabilities. | |
| George Henry Ackaoui | For service to the community of Wollongong. |
| Pamela Adams | For service to the community, particularly through Vision Australia Foundation's Radio for the Print Handicapped and the Anti Cancer Council of Victoria. |
| James Andrew Aitken | For service to the community, particularly through St Peter's Anglican Church Wynnum Community Service Committee. |
| Iris Aldridge | For service to the community of Bendemere Shire. |
| Shirley Anne Allen | For service to podiatry, particularly the development of treatment of foot disorders in people with diabetes. |
| Joyce Elizabeth Alley | For service to children with cleft lip and palate as a speech pathologist. |
| Joyce Maria Allie | For service to the community through the establishment of the organisation Reaching Out to People in Emotional Stress. |
| Robert Henry Appleton | For service to the community of Geelong. |
| Anthony Joseph Armarego | For service to the community of Cockburn City. |
| Esma Armstrong | For service to the environment, particularly in the areas of land and water quality management, and to the community. |
| Eric Stanley Arnold | For service to the community of Lithgow, particularly through Little Athletics. |
| Valda Louise Arrowsmith | For service to the community of Nunawading, and to local government. |
| David William Atkinson | For service to the community of Warrnambool, particularly through local government. |
| John Nicolson Aubrey | For service to veterinary science, and to the community of Townsville. |
| Edward Lloyd Badke | For service to the communities of Coolangatta and Burleigh Heads, particularly through support for the local ambulance committee. |
| Tom Lawrence Baillieu | For service to the community of Coolah. |
| Geoffrey Roddick Baker | For service to the community of Tarcutta. |
| Jack Baldwin | For service to the communities of the Hunter and Lake Macquarie districts through a range of service, aged care groups and the Scouting movement. |
| Vincenzo Gaetano Balestra | For service to the Italian community of Fitzroy and surrounding suburbs. |
| Graeme Stanley Banks | For service to export meat and affiliated industries, and to the study and cultivation of orchids. |
| Trevor Albert Banks | For service to medicine, and to the community, particularly in the field of palliative care. |
| Thomas Colin Bannister | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. |
| Gwenyth Joy Barbary | For service to the community of Woomelang, particularly through the Bush Nursing Centre and establishment of accommodation for the ageing. |
| Merle Barrett | For service to the community of Orange. |
| Lennox Vernon Bastian | For service to speleology in Western Australia as an explorer and surveyor, and to the protection of caves. |
| Henry Bayliss | For service to the community of Coonabarabran, particularly through the Junior Golf Association. |
| Jean Lois Bayliss | For service to the community of Coonabarabran, particularly through the Junior Golf Association. |
| Arthur Harold Beale | For service to people with disabilities as an advocate and through involvement in a range of support groups. |
| Mary Elizabeth Beck | For service to the community of Rushworth. |
| John James Bedford | For service to the community of Bankstown. |
| Pamela Bell | For service to the visual arts as curator and as a contributor to the advancement of culture and scholarship. |
| Jack Bennett | For service to sport, particularly through the administration and development of cricket and Australian Rules football in Tasmania, and to youth through Studentworks. |
| John Herbert Berry | For service to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance Australia, South Australia. |
| Barry Johnson Bevis | For service to the community of the Hornsby area through the Anglican Church. |
| David Biles | For service in the field of criminology as an educator, researcher and adviser. |
| Robert Graeme Blake | For service to people with disabilities through Rowing Australia's adaptive rowing programme, DISROW. |
| Kathleen Mary Bleechmore | For service to people with intellectual disabilities through the provision of accommodation, employment and day programmes. |
| Olga Muriel Blundell-Wignall | For service to the community of Mundaring. |
| John Ronald Books | For service to the community, particularly through retiree associations and as a heritage boat and yacht restorer. |
| Ronald Bradley | For service to surf lifesaving as a competitor, official and administrator, and by promoting junior participation. |
| Gerald Humphrey Brameld | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Life Saving Society. |
| Arthur Albert Bridges | For service to the community of Esperance through rural, sporting and service organisations. |
| Judith Anne Brigden | For service to the community of Ku-ring-gai, particularly the welfare of the ageing. |
| Iris Doreen Bristow | For service to the community of Narembeen. |
| Julie Diane Britton | For service to the community, particularly as a foster parent for children with severe intellectual disabilities. |
| Raymond Brooks | For service to the community of the Shoalhaven Shire. |
| Colleen Brown | For service to the indigenous community through the family therapy movement and as a counsellor. |
| Betty Joy Bruce | For service to the community as a youth leader and fundraiser for Try Youth and Community Services Inc. |
| Gordon Charles Bryant | For service to the community of Coolah. |
| Lucinda Jane Bryant | For service to people with disabilities as the artistic director of Merry Makers Australia. |
| Millicent Grace Bryant | For service to sport, particularly as a volunteer swimming, life saving, and water polo instructor and trainer. |
| Joseph Anthony Buda | For service to the community, particularly the Italian community of Cabramatta. |
| Cyril Victor Bunny | For service to the community through the Rostrum Clubs of New South Wales. |
| Ormonde Roger Butler | For service to the community of Moree and district through health, youth and church organisations. |
| Susan Jane Caracoussis | For service to the community through the promotion of activities celebrating the Australian nation, and to the development of the public relations profession. |
| Kathleen Constance Carins | For service to education, particularly through the Tasmanian Home Education Advisory Council. |
| Victor Richard Carle | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families. |
| Anne Marie Carroll | For service to the community, particularly through Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment. |
| Kathryn Janet Carstens | For service to the ageing, particularly through the Community Care Centre Annerley, and to the community. |
| Phillip Leonard Carter | For service to the community of Quirindi, and to the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. |
| Monica Carter | For service to the community of Naracoorte. |
| Father Lester Gerald Cashen | For service to the Catholic Church, particularly in the area of education and in the administration of St John's College at the University of Sydney. |
| Frederick George Cassidy | For service to the community, particularly through the No 30 Squadron Beaufighter Association. |
| Dorothy Chamberlain | For service to the community, particularly through the Central Coast Family History Society Inc. |
| Jeremy Robert Chapman | For service to the community through the establishment of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry. |
| Robert William Chittenden | For service to the community, particularly through the Canberra Police and Citizens Youth Club. |
| Jan Maree Chivers | For service to the community of Cowra. |
| Desmond James Christiansen | For service to music as a performer, director and chorus master. |
| Robert William Christie | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the 2/29 Battalion AIF Association. |
| Peter Cinque | For service to the community through the New South Wales State Emergency Service. |
| Eric Bruce Ciracovitch | For service to veterans and their families, and to the community, particularly through the West Lakes Rotary Club. |
| Catherine Ellen Clark | For service to Catholic education in South Australia. |
| Joan Ellen Clarke | For service to social welfare research, and to the development of community support services and training for health workers, particularly through the Prahran Mission. |
| Priscilla Murray Clarke | For service to education through the establishment of bilingual education programmes for preschool children of migrant and refugee families. |
| Stevie Clayton | For service to the community, particularly through contributions to the process of gay and lesbian law reform, in the field of anti-discrimination and in the areas of safety, welfare and health including HIV/AIDS. |
| Dilwyn David Cleak | For service to the community, particularly through the Albany Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Dympna Coleman | For service to the community of Kew, particularly through the restoration of local bushland. |
| Anthony Francis Collings | For service to the management and administration of university sport. |
| Errol Keith Collins | For service to the community of Newcastle through music. |
| Valerie Collins-Varga | For service to opera as a performer, teacher and administrator. |
| Geoffrey Ronald Collinson | For service to the community of the Bungendore district through local government and sporting, ex-Service and rural fire service organisations. |
| Bobby Connelly | For service to the community of Oakey. |
| John Lawrence Cook | For service to the community of Benambra. |
| Vilma May Cook | For service to the community of Nambucca Valley. |
| Warren Francis Cook | For service to the community, particularly the welfare of children 'at risk' as a Children's Magistrate, and through the Scouting movement. |
| Guy Copley | For service to the community through educational, service and family support organisations. |
| Nora Eileen Corcoran | For service to the community of Barellan. |
| Robin Corfield | For service to the community through the preservation of Australia's military history in association with the Friends of the 15th Brigade. |
| John Robert Corkill | For service to forest conservation, particularly in north eastern New South Wales. |
| William Dudley Cornell | For service to the community of Horsham. |
| Margaret Christine Cossins | For service to the community, particularly through the establishment of the Cairns Regional Gallery. |
| Alva Kelway Courtis | For service to the community of Esperance, particularly through the provision of health and social welfare services. |
| Roxena Cowie | For service to the community of Fingal Valley, particularly through St John Ambulance. |
| Anna Stirling Cox | For service to the community, particularly through the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. |
| Irene Mary Cracknell | For service to the community through health, social welfare and emergency services groups. |
| Colleen Lynda Crane | For service to the community of Norfolk Island. |
| Donald McMillan Crawford | For service to the community of Armidale through aged care, sporting, social welfare and service groups. |
| Anthony Charles Cree | For service to the community, particularly through the Victoria Day Council and the Federation of Australian State and Territory Day Associations. |
| Noel Bruce Crellin | For service to the community, particularly people with disabilities. |
| Ronald Charles Cross | For service to chaplaincy, particularly through the development and introduction of National Health Care Chaplaincy Standards, and to the community. |
| Walter David Crosswell | For service to the community of the Sorell Shire through a range of welfare, service and historical organisations. |
| Graham Bernard Cummins | For service to the community through sports administration, development and coaching. |
| Yvonne Lorraine Cuschieri | For service to the community, particularly to children with cancer and their families. |
| Peter Kaiss Dahdah | For service to the community of Taree. |
| Russell Thomas Davidson | For service to the stud merino and wool industries. |
| Phillip Harris Davis | For service to education, particularly through Newington College, and to the community. |
| John Norman Daye | For service to the community as an advocate for people with HIV/AIDS, particularly in the provision of support and treatment services. |
| Malcolm Fletcher Deall | For service to the people of Nepal through the provision of voluntary dental care and training. |
| Robert Laurie Dewar | For service to the honey bee industry as an advocate for the establishment of a peak industry body, quality assurance programmes, and disease and pest control. |
| Armando Di Sipio | For service to the Italian community of Moonee Ponds and surrounding suburbs. |
| Pauline Lorna Dickson | For service to the community of Bungonia. |
| Terence Dillon | For service to vocational training through the Work Skill Australia Foundation. |
| Lawrence Dimech | For service to the Maltese community within New South Wales. |
| Dennis Paul Donohue | For service to the community of Charleville. |
| Marie Therese Doolan | For service to people with burns and lymphoedema through designing and tailoring compression garments. |
| Loraina Lilian Dorham | For service to the community, particularly the ageing and veterans. |
| James Thomas Dorman | For service to the community, particularly through the Lord Howe Island Museum and Historical Society. |
| Raymond Leslie Douglas | For service to the community of Poowong. |
| Peter Henry Doyle | For service to the restaurant and catering industries, to the development of tourism, and to the community, particularly people with disabilities. |
| Emil Herman Draeger | For service to business and commerce through the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. |
| William Bird Dreverman | For service to the community of East Gippsland. |
| Joyce Duncan | For service to the community as a volunteer and fundraiser for the Balmain Hospital Auxiliary, the Children's Hospitals at Camperdown and Westmead, and Bear Cottage, Manly. |
| James William Dwyer | For service to the law, particularly through the provision of legal advice relating to intellectual property and trademarks, and to the community as a fundraiser for charitable organisations. |
| For service to the arts as a glass engraver. |
| Elizabeth Anne Dyer | For service to the community of Margaret River. |
| Andrew Maclean Ellis | For service to medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon. |
| Evangelia Angela Erturk | For service to arts and crafts as a master ceremonial embroiderer. |
| Anastasia Sheila Evans | For service to the community through the development of support services for women, as an advocate for women prisoners and by raising awareness of social justice issues. |
| For service to the community through the promotion of Christian values and the development of support and social welfare services for families and young people. |
| Geoffrey Thomas Evans | For service to the community of Echuca. |
| Robert Housley Farnsworth | For service to medicine, particularly as a paediatric urologist. |
| Enid Laurel Farrow | For service to the community, particularly through The Crowle Foundation. |
| Jennifer Anne Filmer | For service to the community of Tharwa, particularly through the rural bush fire service. |
| Kevin Bruce Finch | For service to the community of Bankstown, particularly through the development of junior soccer. |
| Eva Fischl | For service to the community, particularly through JewishCare. |
| For service to the community through a range of charitable organisations, and to the broadcast media. |
| Robin Gerard Fisher | For service to the community of Tamworth as a general practitioner. |
| Christine Lesly Fitzpatrick | For service to the community of Bridgewater/Gagebrook. |
| Martin Fitzpatrick | For service to youth through the Scouting movement. |
| Ronald Edward Fluck | For service to railway heritage conservation through the National Railway Museum. |
| Beryl Vera Fookes | For service to people with intellectual disabilities through Bayley House. |
| Robert Fothergill | For service to the community through organisations providing assistance for the ageing, young people and veterans, and their families. |
| Charles Missen Fraser | For service to the community of Warwick, and to the livestock transport industry. |
| Keith Weedon Free | For service to the horseracing industry, and to the community. |
| Audrey Jillian Fullagar | For service to sport, particularly through netball administration. |
| Margaret Elaine Gallagher | For service to the community, particularly women and children in the Manly Warringah district of Sydney through support for Pregnancy Help. |
| Patricia Evelyn Gallaher | For service to the arts and to the community, particularly as a regional librarian. |
| David Eliot Gamson | For service to the community, particularly through the Barker College Council and the Combined Associated Schools Committee. |
| Richard Alan Gilford | For service to the community of the Hunter Valley Region, particularly through the Hunter Plant Operating Training School and the programmes of Rotary International. |
| William Elliott Gillies | For service to ophthalmology, particularly through the study of glaucoma and strabismus. |
| Leslie Graham Gillies | For service to the community of Bendigo. |
| Jane Philippa Gilmour | For service to conservation and the environment through the Earthwatch Institute (Australia). |
| Gerry Helne Gimblett | For service to education, particularly to students in rural and regional areas. |
| Robert Anthony Glenister | For service to children with cancer, particularly through founding Kayaking for Kemo Kids and fundraising for childhood cancer research. |
| Reginald Edwin Golding | For service to people with disabilities through the Riding for the Disabled Association in Orange. |
| Cornelis Goosens | For service to the community of Uraidla. |
| Francis Robert Gorrel | For service to the community of the Sutherland Shire, particularly through the work of the Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society. |
| George William Grant | For service to the community, particularly through promoting inter-faith harmony. |
| William Grant | For service to veterans, particularly through the Royal United Services Institute. |
| Freda Jean Gray | For service to the community through the Hobart Town (1804) First Settlers Association. |
| Donald Thomas Gray | For service to surf lifesaving, particularly at club level and as an examiner and competition official. |
| Geoffrey Selwyn Green | For service to the Jewish community, particularly through social welfare and relief organisations. |
| Neil Kelso Greenwood | For service to the sugar industry, and to the community of Proserpine. |
| John William Griffin | For service to the community of Castlemaine, particularly through the Mount Alexander Hospital. |
| Susan Elizabeth Griffin | For service to the community as a foster carer for children. |
| Thelma Shirley Grinyer | For service to veterans and their families through the Narrabeen RSL Veterans' Retirement Villages. |
| Ronald Marcus Grocke | For service to music through the Tanunda Liedertafel, and to the community of the Barossa Valley. |
| Edwin Haberfield | For service to country music as a songwriter and performer. |
| George Haddock | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the National Parks Association of Queensland. |
| June Lawrence Hadley | For service to the community through the activities of VIEW Clubs of Australia. |
| Margaret Norma Hale | For service to the community of Rockhampton, particularly through the Guiding and Scouting movements. |
| Rita Pauline Hall | For service to the community, particularly through the Kerang and District Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary. |
| Peter Glenn Hammat | For service to the communities of the Northern Areas region of South Australia, particularly through the administration of health services. |
| John Henry Hansford | For service to people with physical disabilities through the construction and adaptation of mobilising aids and equipment. |
| Kevin Clarke Harris | For service to the community of Claremont. |
| Stanley Uther Harris | For service to veterans and their families through the Wauchope Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community of the Hastings region. |
| Kay Elizabeth Hatherly | For service to radiotherapy, particularly in the field of electronic portal imaging. |
| Albert Elvin Hayter | For service to the community of Ballina. |
| Edna Joyce Hayter | For service to the community of Ballina. |
| John Clyde Headon | For service to the community of Hay. |
| Terence Thomas Healey | For service to the ageing and to veterans and their families through the administration and management of healthcare facilities. |
| Trevor James Heath | For service to the veterinary profession, particularly as an educator, mentor and administrator. |
| Charlie John Hedges | For service to the community of Yass, particularly to veterans and their families. |
| June Marion Heinrich | For service to the community and the ageing, particularly through the Baptist Community Services of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Norman Harold Henderson | For service to the community, particularly to children with disabilities through the Sunnyfield Association. |
| Helen Veronica Hendrey | For service to the community of the Mornington Peninsula. |
| Edward Ian Henry | For service to the community, to the ageing, and to education as a teacher of mathematics. |
| Stanley Walter Henwood | For service to the community of Tynong. |
| Isobel Hermann | For service to the community of South West Rocks. |
| Barbara Robina Hickman | For service to the community of Bundaberg, particularly through Meals on Wheels. |
| Michael Macmeikan Hill | For service to local government, and to the environment through the promotion of recycling and the use of sustainable energy. |
| Judith Kay Hindle | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly in the Hobsons Bay region. |
| Peter Austin Hobbs | For service to youth at risk through the development and implementation of the organisation Streetwork. |
| Ann Louise Hogan | For service to the care of native wildlife in the Hunter region. |
| Suzanne Winifred Hogan | For service to the community through music, and to physics education. |
| Mary Veronica Holmes | For service to the ageing community of North Plympton through Southern Cross Care. |
| Arthur Philip Holt | For service to the community, particularly through a range of services for youth with disabilities and the ageing. |
| Everard Gladstone Hooper | For service to the community of Dunedoo. |
| Janice Kay Hooper | For service to nursing in South Australia. |
| Bruce James Howden | For service to education, particularly as an administrator. |
| Gordon Noel Huish | For service to the community, particularly through the Queensland Branch of the Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia. |
| Robert Douglas Humphris | For service to the mining industry, particularly the coal industry. |
| Raymond Stanley Hyslop | For service to medicine in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, particularly as an administrator and educator. |
| Robert Charles Irving | For service to the documentation of the architectural history of Australia. |
| Margaret Joanne Jackson | For service to the communities of Mortlake and Darlington. |
| Gwyneth Jaeger | For service to the community of Gunnedah. |
| Oliver Martin Jane | For service to local government, and to the rural community of Kerang. |
| Michael Paul Jarrett | For service to the community as an advocate for people with disabilities. |
| Lance Paul Jensen | For service to the community through fundraising for a range of charitable organisations. |
| Eva Joel | For service to the Jewish community through a range of women's interest, social welfare and charitable organisations. |
| Leslie Charles Johnston | For service to the community, particularly through Rotary International. |
| Margaret Mary Johnstone | For service to the community, particularly through the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association. |
| Stephen John Judd | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology. |
| Ernest George Keegan | For service to the community of the Hunter Region through a range of business, political, service and sporting organisations. |
| Noal William Keen | For service to cricket as a player, umpire and administrator. |
| Gladys Vera Kelly | For service to the community of South Arm. |
| Justin Henry Kelly | For service to medicine as a paediatric surgeon. |
| Tunnies Kemper | For service to the community of Wollongong, particularly through Rotary International. |
| Father Gavan Edward Kennare | For service to the community as a parish priest and as an army chaplain. |
| Margery Lilian Kennett | For service to public health in laboratory biosafety and polio eradication. |
| Grant Victor Keynes | For service to youth in South Australia through the establishment and operation of the Errappa Blue Light Youth Camp. |
| Khachig Khachigian | For service to the community through religious ministry and evangelism, particularly within the Armenians of Sydney. |
| Deborah May Kilroy | For service to the community, particularly through providing assistance to women in correctional facilities. |
| Ronald Alfred Kingsbury | For service to the community of Canberra through voluntary organisations, particularly those associated with the care of the ageing and people with disabilities. |
| Edward Gladstone Kirk | For service to the cattle industry, particularly as a Brahman breeder, to local government, and to the community. |
| Elizabeth Evelyn Kirkham | For service to the community, particularly through the Guiding movement and church groups. |
| Ivan George Kolarik | For service to the community, particularly through the development of improved relationships between the police and people of non-English speaking backgrounds. |
| Magdolna Kozak | For service to the Hungarian community in Sydney. |
| Stefan Kozuharov | For service to the Bulgarian community in Sydney. |
| Paul Henry Kregor | For service to the community through a range of organisations providing care for people with disabilities. |
| John Charles Krummel | For service to the arts, particularly through the Marian Street Theatre. |
| Barbara Anne Lacy | For service to the community, particularly through organisations fostering ecumenism. |
| Jack Lang | For service to the community, particularly through the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home and the Uniting Church Wayside Chapel. |
| Donald William Lavers | For service to the development of the avocado industry. |
| Kenneth Alexander Lawson | For service to the communities of Tully and Cardwell, and to local government. |
| Carmel Leavey | For service to Catholic education, particularly as a researcher, and to the community. |
| Stephen Chinghin Lee | For service to education, particularly through the promotion of Chinese language teaching in Victoria. |
| Graeme Colvin Legge | For service to local government, and to the community of Emerald. |
| Robin Letts | For service to the community of Donald through a range of service and sporting groups and publication of the local newspaper. |
| Clive Maxwell Linnett | For service to the community of Ivanhoe through a range of service groups, and to local government. |
| Ronald Robert Lipman | For service to the community of Tamworth. |
| Karunatissa Halgahawatta Liyanaratchi | For service to the Sri Lankan community of Victoria. |
| Timothy Donald Looker | For service to youth through the development of outdoor recreation and camping programmes through the YMCA of South Australia. |
| Ack Sing Louey | For service to the Chinese community of Victoria. |
| Lois Joyce Loughnan | For service to the community of Georges River. |
| Benjamin Love | For service to the community, particularly through ex-Service and youth groups. |
| Carolyn Alice Lowry | For service to the arts and to the community, particularly through the restoration of the Independent Theatre in North Sydney. |
| Peter Ernest Lowry | For service to the arts and to the community, particularly through the restoration of the Independent Theatre in North Sydney. |
| Shirley Anne Lowy | For service to the Jewish community through the Chai Foundation. |
| Edna Grace Lyle | For service to the community through the Youth Hostels Association. |
| Reginald Bruce MacDonald | For service to the print media, and to the community of Bendigo. |
| Mary Eleanor Maclean | For service to the community of the South Coast region. |
| William John Madden | For service to the community, particularly veterans and their families. |
| Gary John Madsen | For service to cricket administration. |
| Mary-Magdalena Majlath | For service to the Hungarian community of Sydney. |
| Kathleen Ormiston Malta | For service to the communities of Mandurah and Peel. |
| Ronald John Marcus | For service to the community through Rotary International. |
| Hazle Ann Marland | For service to primary industry, to local government, and to the community. |
| Robert William Marshall | For service to the community, particularly through the establishment of stroke support groups. |
| Arthur Howie Marshall | For service to conservation and the environment through the identification of threatened plant species and as a contributor to botanical collections in Australia. |
| Charles Percival Martin | For service to the community of the Mid North Coast region. |
| Ronald Harry Maston | For service to veterans and to the community through the 2/30th Battalion Association. |
| Elaine Frances Mayer | For service to the community through the Australian Tinnitus Association (NSW). |
| Peter Hayden McCall | For service to the communities of Springvale and Dandenong. |
| Norma Joan McCausland | For service to local government, and to the communities of Berwick and Casey. |
| Ellen June McDonald | For service to education through the Essex Heights Primary School, and to the community. |
| Robert Herbert McDonald | For service to the development of the apiary industry, and to the community. |
| Maureen Therese McGrath | For service to the community of Yass. |
| Hugh Malcolm McKay | For service to basketball as a coach and administrator. |
| Colin Henry McKinnon | For service to the community, particularly through the Ryde Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Valarie Margaret McPherson | For service to the community, particularly children as a foster carer. |
| Olive Martha McVicker | For service to the arts, particularly through the City of Hamilton Art Gallery, and to the community. |
| Sybil Jean Mehl | For service to the community of Moruya. |
| Robert Charles Menary | For service to the development of agricultural industries, particularly the essential oils and plant extract industry in Tasmania. |
| Bruno Metsar | For service to the Estonian community of Melbourne through cultural activities and the ethnic Scouting and Guiding movements. |
| Douglas Leigh Miles | For service to the community of Pyramid Hill, and to the dairy industry. |
| Constance Norma Millett | For service to the community of Clunes. |
| Judith Moffatt | For service to the development of the protea and native cut flower industries, particularly in Queensland. |
| John Arthur Montgomery | For service to the community through fundraising for charitable groups in the Sydney Northern Beaches area. |
| Ross Newton Moore | For service to the community of Toronto. |
| Alfred Douglas Morgan | For service to local government, and to the communities of Northam and Avon. |
| Lawrence Louis Muller | For service to the Australian dairy industry, particularly in the fields of dairy science and technology. |
| Gerard Victor Murphy | For service to people with disabilities through the Raymond Terrace and Lower Hunter Centre Riding for the Disabled Association. |
| Paul William Murphy | For service to the community of Newcastle. |
| Susan Frances Murray | For service to the community of Canberra, particularly through the Spiral Club. |
| Barbara Joan Musgrove | For service to the community of Tilligerry through the development and construction of a number of recreational projects designed to protect the natural environment. |
| Rosemary Nairn | For service to the community of South Australia as a musical director, conductor, composer and educator. |
| Jean Persis Neely | For service to the community, particularly through the Guiding movement and the Australian Red Cross. |
| Henry James Nesbitt | For service to veterans, particularly through the Ex-Prisoners of War Association. |
| Timothy Donnelly Nevard | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the development of the Mareeba Wetlands. |
| Peter William Newell | For service to the community of the Illawarra region. |
| Joan Clare Newman | For service to the community of Casino. |
| James Nicholson | For service to the communities of Oatley and the Georges River, particularly through care for the ageing. |
| Harold Alexander Noble | For service to the community of the New England region, particularly through health service organisations. |
| Desmond John Noll | For service to youth in South Australia, particularly through the Noorla Yo-Long Blue Light Youth Camp. |
| Margaret Mary O'Callaghan | For service to the community, particularly as an advocate for the welfare of the ageing. |
| Thelma Jean O'Neill | For service to the community of the Australian Capital Territory, particularly through the activities of Blackfriars Catholic Parish and the Catholic Women's League. |
| Shane Arthur O’Connor | For service to surf lifesaving in Queensland. |
| Wilma Barbara O’Connor | For service to the communities of Fairfield and Bankstown, particularly through support for family day care and the Bankstown Bi-Centenary Youth Foundation. |
| Richard John O’Dea | For service to youth in South Australia through the establishment and operation of the Errappa Blue Light Youth Camp. |
| Ian O’Halloran | For service to the community of Castlemaine. |
| Mary Joan O’Leary | For service to the communities of Lithgow and Portland, particularly through the provision of social welfare and support services. |
| Alfred On | For service to the Chinese community of the Northern Territory. |
| Lawrence Gregory O’Sullivan | For service to the community through the promotion of social justice and the protection and maintenance of civil liberties, and to the law. |
| Rosemary Owens | For service to athletics as an administrator and coach. |
| Michael Sidney Page | For service to the community of Blaxland and the Lower Blue Mountains area. |
| Dorothy May Pargeter | For service to education, particularly in the areas of curriculum development and student welfare, and as a member of a range of South Australian educational bodies. |
| Betty Joyce Parsons | For service to the community of Wollongong, particularly through music education and the Business and Professional Women's Club. |
| Peter William Partridge | For service to local government in north eastern Tasmania. |
| Alan Arthur Patterson | For service to education, particularly in the areas of student support and curriculum development, and to the community of Melton. |
| John Edmund Patterson | For service to the community of Hobsons Bay, particularly in the areas of conservation, heritage, and health administration. |
| Paul Paviour | For service to music, particularly within the community of Goulburn, as an educator, composer and musician. |
| Alan John Pearson | For service to the community of New Norfolk. |
| Leslie Norman Peart | For service to the communities of Mount Beauty and Bright, and to local government. |
| Thelma Mary Pendlebury | For service to the community, particularly through the Bexley Uniting Church. |
| Malcolm Richard Penn | For service to visually impaired people, particularly in the areas of cricket and education. |
| Mavis Joyce Percy | For service to the community of Forestville. |
| Phillip Lacey Perman | For service to the arts, and to the communities of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan. |
| Stewart Petering | For service to local government, and to the communities of the Wimmera Mallee area. |
| Colin Lindsay Philpott | For service to the rural communities of Western Australia, particularly as Chairman of the Country High School Hostels Authority. |
| Grant Stanley Pierce | For service to local rural communities in Tanzania through the planning, initiation and supervision of community development projects including educational, fresh water and health facilities. |
| Margaret Elizabeth Pinchback | For service to the community of Albany. |
| Marie Joan Pinkerton | For service to the community of the Sutherland Shire, particularly through junior soccer. |
| Daryl Norman Pinner | For service to the community through the Victorian Branch of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Association. |
| William Robert Polley | For service to canine breeding and showing through the Royal Canine Council of New South Wales and the Fox Terrier Club. |
| John Henry Pretty | For service to the community of Jindivick. |
| Eileen Grace Priest | For service to the community of Nyngan. |
| Dailan Pugh | For service to forest conservation, particularly in north eastern New South Wales. |
| Herbert George Rae | For service to the communities of Berwick and Narre Warren North. |
| Noel Eric Reid | For service to the community of Narrandera. |
| Harold Keith Ridgway | For service to the community of Koo Wee Rup. |
| Lois Marjorie Ritchie | For service to the community as a voluntary musical accompanist for choirs, theatrical groups, individual singers and instrumentalists. |
| George Alexander Roberts | For service to the recording and preservation of aviation history, and to vintage and veteran car organisations. |
| Jacob Barney Rosenblum | For service to the Jewish community of Sydney. |
| Eric Oxley Row | For service to the veteran community, particularly through the welfare activities of the Concord Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Elizabeth Stuart Rozenbilds | For service to hospital administration in South Australia. |
| Peggy Irene Rule | For service to the community of Gippsland, particularly through the Australian Red Cross and the National Council of Women. |
| Margaret Merline Russell | For service to women through the Penrith Pregnancy Support Service. |
| Lorna Rayner Rutledge | For service to the community of Nowra. |
| Leo Peter Ryan | For service to dentistry, particularly through the promotion of oral health education and fluoridation of public water supplies, and through the Queensland Branch of the Australian Dental Association. |
| Denise Marie Ryan | For service to the community through mental health organisations and support for mental health care reform in Queensland. |
| Nives Sain | For service to education, particularly through the Loreto College, Marryatville. |
| Joan Mavis Sainsbury | For service to the community, particularly through the Kincumber Holy Cross Parish and the Society of St Vincent de Paul. |
| Richard Henry Sasse | For service to the community of the Morawa Shire. |
| For service to the Parliament of New South Wales, and to the community of Wagga Wagga. |
| William John Schneider | For service to the Beef Shorthorn cattle industry, and to the community of the Manning Valley district. |
| Peter Schramm | For service to wetland restoration and conservation along the Murray River in South Australia, particularly the rehabilitation of the Loveday Wetlands. |
| Anthony John Scott | For service to the community through fundraising for charitable organisations and as an advocate for veterans. |
| Kylie Margaret Scotter | For service to croquet, particularly through the Manly Croquet Club. |
| Margaret Therese Scroope | For service to Catholic education as a teacher, principal and administrator. |
| Leonardo Antonio Scundi | For service to community and charitable organisations through fundraising activities. |
| Edward Soroszczuk Selwyn | For service to the law and to the community through the New South Wales Legal Aid Commission. |
| Alan John Shannon | For service to the community of Young, and to local government. |
| Gwenda Eunice Shannon | For service to the community of Armidale. |
| Maureen Anne Sheargold | For service to the community of the Sunshine Coast, particularly through the establishment of the Maroochy Regional Botanic Gardens. |
| Merrilyn Jane Shepherd | For service to the community, particularly as an advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Victor Colin Shepherd | For service to the welfare of veterans through the St Marys Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Stanley James Sherringham | For service to athletics through the Sutherland Districts Athletics Association and Athletics New South Wales. |
| Keith Cameron Sims | For service to sport, particularly through the South Australian Amateur Football League. |
| Alan Menzies Sinclair | For service to local government in the Parry Shire, and to natural resource management. |
| Stanley Raymond Sindel | For service to aviculture as an author, breeder and researcher of Australian parrots, lorikeets and cockatoos. |
| George William Slattery | For service to the community of Mount Gambier. |
| Anthony Russell Smith | For service to tourism, and to the community by raising awareness of environmental issues affecting the health of the Murray-Darling River system. |
| Aileen Frances Smith | For service to the community of Launceston, particularly through musical groups, and to tennis administration. |
| Beryl Mary Smith | For service to education, particularly for children who are deaf or hearing impaired, and to women through the ACT Branch of the Australian Federation of University Women. |
| Ian Crawford Smith | For service to the community of Ballarat, and to the Organ Historical Trust of Australia. |
| June Smith | For service to the community of George Town through local government, health and social welfare services, and community events. |
| Robert Arthur Smith | For service to surf lifesaving in New South Wales as an administrator and official, and to the Wauchope community through sporting organisations. |
| Robert Naylor Smyth | For service to the people of East Timor through the 2/2nd Commando Association Independent Trust Fund. |
| Mona Lilian Sowden | For service to the community of Oakey. |
| Isobel Mary Sparrow | For service to the communities of Nannup and Busselton. |
| Christopher Lee Stannard | For service to the community, particularly through the restoration and preservation of maritime heritage vessels of the Sydney Maritime Fleet. |
| Peter Alan Stanton-Cook | For service to the communities of Murwillumbah and Kingscliff, particularly through health care organisations. |
| Halina Statkus | For service to the Lithuanian community in Melbourne. |
| Simon Leslie Stein | For service to the community through fundraising for charitable organisations. |
| Bernice Monica Steinhauer | For service to the community of Hoppers Crossing through the St Peter Apostle Parish and Primary School. |
| Patricia Ann Stewart | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Multiple Birth Association. |
| Keith Edmund Sticpewich | For service to the prune industry, and to the community. |
| Wayne Douglas Stuart | For service to the designing and building of an Australian concert grand piano. |
| Timothy John Sullivan | For service to local government, and to the community of Orange. |
| Annette Irene Swaffield | For service to the Guiding movement, particularly through the Australian Adult Leadership Program and the Australian Trainers Training Program. |
| Marie Lois Sweeney | For service to hockey administration and junior hockey in Rockhampton. |
| Gwyneth Lloyd Terry | For service to the community through Community Information Victoria and Community Information Diamond Valley. |
| Joyleen Hilda Thomas | For service to the ageing and people with disabilities, particularly through Community Options, the Community Living Project, and the training of service providers. |
| Robert Stanley Thorpe | For service to the community, particularly through the Variety Clubs of Australia. |
| Robert William Tomlin | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families in Mittagong. |
| Rowena Evelyn Trieve | For service to the South Sea Islander community |
| Alfred Donald Trounson | For service to the community as creator of the National Photographic Index of Australian Birds. |
| John William Upjohn | For service as Brigade Medical Officer for the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board. |
| Christopher Peter Vardon | For service to local government, and to the community of the Eurobodalla Shire. |
| Charles David von Stieglitz | For service to the community of Evandale. |
| Robert Albert Wade | For service to watercolour painting as an artist, educator and promoter of Australian art. |
| Patricia Betty Walker | For service to the community, particularly through the Foster Care Association (New South Wales) Inc. |
| Albert Francis Wallace | For service to golf administration, and to the Muscular Dystrophy Association of New South Wales through fundraising activities. |
| Cecil William Wallach | For service to the community through the Royal United Services Institute of Victoria. |
| Father Joseph Patrick Walsh | For service to the community through the Catholic Church. |
| Francis David Ward | For service to the community of Campbelltown and district. |
| Thomas James Watson | For service to the aerial agricultural industry in Australia. |
| Brian Edward Webb | For service to the community, particularly through teaching people with a disability to play lawn bowls. |
| Colin Maxwell Webber | For service to veterans through the North Ryde Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Cecelia Gow Webster | For service to the community of Devonport. |
| Eric Hantley Weinman | For service to the shipping industry, particularly in the area of maritime training standards and certification. |
| Kevin Walter Wellfare | For service to the welfare of veterans, particularly through the New South Wales Branch of the Korea and South East Asia Forces Association of Australia. |
| Janice Dorothy West | For service to nursing, particularly as the Director of Nursing at the Coolah District Hospital. |
| Howard Douglas Wheaton | For service to the community of Armidale. |
| Geoffrey Douglas White | For service to medicine in rural areas, particularly through the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, and to the community of Manilla. |
| Margaret Winifred White | For service to the community through the fostering of cross-cultural understanding in the education system. |
| Norman Harold White | For service to international relations through the promotion of cultural, business and education interests between Australia and Japan. |
| Ronald George Whitehead | For service to the community, particularly through the Bankstown Hospital, the Bankstown Frail Aged Persons' Homes Trust and Lions International. |
| Allan Whiter | For service to the community of Eden. |
| Simon Kim Whittle | For service to the community through the Buderim War Memorial Community Association. |
| Kenneth Wiggins | For service to the community, particularly through the Sussex Inlet Lions Club. |
| Mavis Bertha Wilkinson | For service to the community of Singleton. |
| Jean Rhonda Williams | For service to Vietnam veterans and their families. |
| Noel Eric Williamson | For service to the community, particularly through Downs Group Training, the Rotary Club of Toowoomba South, the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation and the Toowoomba District Health Council. |
| Betty Wilson | For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women's Association of New South Wales. |
| Richard John Wolany | For service as a sponsor of community, charitable and sporting groups. |
| Peter Regalado Wood | For service to fostering interest in the history of the 1893 New Australia settlement in Paraguay. |
| David Francis Yeates | For service to the community, particularly as the Medical Superintendent at Boonah Hospital. |
| Murray Gordon Young | For service to the community, particularly through organisations supporting people with disabilities. |
| Roy Alfred Zimmerman | For service to education, particularly through the Junior School Heads Association of Australia and Newington College. | |
