| Recipient |
Citation |
Notes
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| Elva Jessie Abrahams |
For services to community health, particularly through the Drug and Alcohol Services Council of South Australia |
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| Nancy Mabel Adams |
For service to the community in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie area, particularly through the Girl Guides Association, the Scout Association, surf life-saving and the Australian Sports Medicine Federation
|
| Peter Houghton Ainsworth |
For service to the Returned and Services League, Bush Nursing and ARC
|
| Pauline Fay Albon |
For services to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross Society
|
| Meryl Lindsay Allworth |
For service to the community of Holbrook
|
| Robert Cooper Allworth |
For service to music as a composer and as an advocate of other Australian composers' works
|
| Stanley Alexander Ambrose |
For service to mechanical engineering, through the development of Australian standards for safety in the pressure equipment industry
|
| Olga Patricia Anderson |
For service to the community, particularly through the Coast Centre for Seniors, Soroptomist International and CanTeen
|
| Michelle Andrews |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Troy Andrews |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Unity Andrews |
For service to the support and care of widows of ex-servicemen through the St George Sutherland Widow's Club and the Jacaranda Club
|
| Alyson Annan |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Peter Thomas Arnott |
For service to youth through the Wirraway Christian Youth Centre
|
| Julia Antonina Xenia Arnott |
For service to youth through the Wirraway Christian Youth Centre
|
| Albert Ralph Arthur |
For service to the community, particularly through the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and Meals on Wheels
|
| Hazel St Barbe Atkinson |
For service to people with disabilities and special needs, particularly to access to independent living
|
| Thomas Herbert Atterby |
For service to agriculture and to the Fitzgerald/Jerramungup community
|
| Anthony Thomas Atwood |
For service to the community, particularly through the Wentworth Falls Autumn Festival and other local organisations
|
| Bianca Baldassi |
For service to the Italian community, particularly the frail and elderly through the Association of Senior Italian Citizen's Clubs of VIC and the Italian Pensioners Club of Northcote
|
| Donald Barber |
For service to the community through fundraising projects and the support of health and aged care services
|
| John Barnett |
For service to the community, particularly through the Epilepsy Association of South Australia
|
| Ruth Barratt |
For service to the koala habitat of the Northern Rivers area, New South Wales through rescuing, caring for and financing the veterinary and other needs of sick koalas
|
| Neville William Bayfield |
For service to the Royal Life Saving Society and to raising standard and awareness of life saving education
|
| Graham Louis Benjamin |
For service to education as a teacher and administrator, particularly in relation to Aboriginal students
|
| Dr Vasilios Antonios Berdoukas |
For service to paediatric medicine, particularly the diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies
|
| Peter Francis Bergin |
For service to the community, particularly through the support of charitable organisations and the promotion of fund-raising events
|
| Frank Terence Berryman |
For service to the community and scouting
|
| Hazel Maude Beswick |
For service to the community and the aged
|
| Dr John Henry Winter Birrell, ISO |
For service to medicine and the community through the introduction of measures to reduce alcohol related road trauma and as an advocate of child abuse as a significant social problem
|
| Fabian John Blattman |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Rosslyn Lydia Mary Blay |
For service to the Parramatta community, to business and to women, particularly through Soroptomist International.
|
| Robert Blythe |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Robert Godier Bottom |
For service to the community and to journalism through the investigation and reporting of organised crime in Australia
|
| Arthur Edgar Woodfield Bowley |
For service to the community, particularly through music and fundraising projects
|
| Norman Braithwaite |
For service to the community, particularly through the arts and local history
|
| Paul Noel Brandy |
For service to the community, through improving Police/Aboriginal relations particularly as a member of the Aboriginal Friends Call Out Roster and the Aboriginal Police Liaison Sub Committee.
|
| Dawn Valerie Breden |
For service to the welfare of veterans and their families
|
| Allen Maxwell Brice |
For service to the community and veterans, particularly through the Honour Avenue Committee
|
| Alexander George Briggs |
For service to the community through the Balwyn Returned and Services League, Canterbury Memorial Homes and the Balwyn Community Centre
|
| Donald Leonard Brodie |
For service to the sport of athletics, particularly as a coach and to dog training as an instructor and founder of the Tracking and Rescue Dog Club of New South Wales
|
| Kirsty Margaret Brown |
For service to the community through the Scout Association, particularly as leader and trainer
|
| Margaret Uriel Brown |
For service to the community, particularly through the Canberra Youth Theatre and to motor sports
|
| Daphne Joyce Brown |
For service to the community through St John Ambulance Australia
|
| Denis James Buckley |
For service to four successive Governors of QLD as Lodgekeeper and Sergeant-at-Arms, and to the community through the Lyons Club and Cystic Fibrosis Association
|
| Kingsley Haldane Bugarin |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Brendan John Burkett |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Damien Alexander Burroughs |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Brian Paul Caddy |
For service to local government and to the community of the Riverland area of South Australia
|
| Joy Miriam Cairns |
For service to people with disabilities
|
| Beryl Carey |
For service to the community, particularly through the Wallamba District Show Society
|
| Melissa Paula Carlton |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Patricia Margaret Carr |
For service to occupational health and safety in the construction industry through the initiation and implementation of preventive and rehabilitation programmes
|
| Orfeo Cecconato |
For services to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Margaret Alison Chambers |
For services to the aged, particularly through the Harbison Memorial Retirement Village and to the community through church, school and welfare groups
|
| Jean Chambers |
For services to the community and the education of girls through the organisation of fundraising projects
|
| Iris Irene Chappel |
For service to the community, particularly in the areas of aged care, the delivery of health and welfare services and support for youth, church and women's groups
|
| Reuben Bernard Charles |
For service to apiculture through the Tasmanian Beekeepers' Association, The Australian Apiarists' Association and the Tasmanian Honey Committee
|
| Margaret Alice Charles |
For service to education, particularly in the area of speech and drama and to the community through Soroptomist International
|
| Joan May Cheetham |
For service to the aged through the NSW Pensioner's and Superannuants' Federation
|
| Shirley Ruth Chiller |
For service to women in sport, particularly through the Active Achievers Programme and the Australian Modern Pentathlon Union
|
| Dr Dorothy Laurel Pauline Chong |
For service to the community and to medicine, particularly in the field of general practice and care for the aged
|
| Ruth Chong, MBE |
For service to the community, particularly through charitable activities and the promotion of multiculturalism
|
| Josef Chromy |
For service to business and industry, particularly the meat processing industry
|
| Barden Thomas Claffey |
For service to the community through service clubs, sporting and church groups
|
| Francis Western Clark |
For service to local government and the community, particularly through the Copmanhurst Shire Council, the Clarence River County Council and the Shires Association of New South Wales
|
| Anthony Laurence Clarke |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Jessie Deakin Clarke |
For service to community health and welfare
|
| Albert Joseph Briton Cliff |
For service to the community through organisations including ex-service, church, women's senior citizens' and sporting clubs
|
| Damien Kevin Giuseppe Codognotto |
For service to the Motorcycle Rider's Association of Australia toy drives, blood donation campaigns and road safety promotion
|
| David Edward Coldbeck |
For service to the community through the Hamilton Regional Headquarters of the State Emergency Services, sporting and community groups
|
| Peter George Cominos |
For service to the community, particularly through the Far North QLD Youth Assistance Fund and as a philanthropist and fundraiser
|
| Beverly Joyce Cook |
For service to local government and to the community, particularly through school councils, health and welfare services
|
| Norma Kathleen Courtney |
For service to the community, particularly rural women through the Country Women's Association
|
| Emeritus Professor Kenneth Russell Cox |
For service to medical education and to the World Health Organisation through the Expert Committee on Human Resources for Health and the Regional Training Centre for Health personnel, Western Pacific Region
|
| Benjamin Richard Cox |
For service to veterans
|
| Ian David Craig |
For service to the sport of cricket as a player and administrator through the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust
|
| Constance Beatrice Craig |
For service to people with visual impairment through transcribing textbooks and novels into Braille
|
| Colin Eric Crawford |
For service to the community, particularly as a fundraiser for the NSW Spastic Centre, Rotary International and to sport
|
| Alva Jean Crebbin |
For service to the community, particularly the ACT Cancer Society and the Hospice Palliative Care Society
|
| Harold Joseph Creek |
For service to veterans and their families through the RSL and to the community through the 'Australia Remembers 1945-95' ceremonies
|
| Cecil Thomas Cripps |
For service to the sport of cycling as a competitor and administrator
|
| Henry James Cummings |
For service to the community through the Lions Club International, The White Cane Committee, the Safety House Project, Meals on Wheels and school committees
|
| Walter James Curran |
For service to the trade union movement, particularly through initiating improvements in health and safety standards for the meat industry workers and to the support and development of the arts
|
| Commander Geoffrey Edwin Curran |
For service to youth, particularly through the Naval Reserve Cadets in Western Australia
|
| Therese Catherine D'Arcy |
For service to education as a speech and drama teacher and examiner
|
| Dur-e Najaf Dara |
For service to the community and to promotional and fundraising activities for women's groups
|
| Joanne Mavis Dash |
For service to the sport of netball
|
| Gemma Joan Dashwood |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Neil Davidson |
For service to Fire and Emergency Services in the Mandurah area, and the development of training programmes in high schools
|
| Francis Joseph Davidson |
For service to the arts as an entertainer and to the support of charitable organisations
|
| Ernest Davis |
For service to sports administration and coaching of surf lifesaving
|
| Constance Anne de Dassell |
For service to the community through staging musical entertainments to raise funds for charitable organisations and sports clubs
|
| Ramon De Vere, MC |
For service to the veterans, particularly through the Queensland branches of the Returned and Services League of Australian and the Vietnam Veterans’ Association
|
| Warwick Michael Mortimer Deacock |
For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the Chakola Wildlife Refuge, Kangaroo Valley
|
| Michael Constantine Diamond |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Lylah Melrose Diamond |
For service to the people with disabilities, particularly in establishing work preparation schemes and facilitating independent living
|
| Dr John Grant Dickson |
For service to medicine and to the community, particularly as a surgeon and educator in the field of otolaryngology
|
| Anthony Dieni |
For service to the community through the St Paul's Drug Rehabilitation Centre for people with addictions to drugs and alcohol
|
| Louise Karen Dobson |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| David John Dodds, CMG |
For service to the community through sporting clubs, the Scouting movement and the Innisfail District Show Society
|
| Frances Evelyn Donnelly |
For service to aged care and to veterans in Queensland, particularly through the Ex-Australian Army Medical Women's Service Association, the Council of Ex-Servicewomen's Association and the War Widow's Guild
|
| Mary Stewart Douglas, OBE |
For service to veterans, particularly through the Royal Australian Army Corps Association and the 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995 celebrations
|
| Jeannette Dowda |
For service to the community, particularly through the fundraising projects of the Royal North Shore Hospital Ladies' Committee
|
| Alexander Davidson Dustan |
For service to the sport of cycling as a sports administrator for over 25 years
|
| Phillip Peter Dutton |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Leonard John Earley |
For service to the community and local government, particularly through the Meander Valley and Deloraine Councils and the Local Government Association of Tasmania
|
| Jenifer Edna Eddy |
For service to arts administration, through the management and promotion of opera and concert artists
|
| Evangelos Efstratiadis |
For service to the Greek community and to veterans, particularly through the Greek Returned and Services League Sub-Branch
|
| Maisie Wishart Enders |
For service to conservation through the care of injured, sick and orphaned native animals and birds
|
| Marjorie Lascelles Esler |
For service to the community, particularly through the Cobram District Hospital and Meals on Wheels
|
| David Martin Evans |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Stuart James Ewin |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Janelle Cherie Falzon |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Renita Maree Farrell |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Leonard Maxwell Fisher |
For service to veterans through the Tasmanian Branch of the Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Soldier's Association
|
| David Hay Fraser |
For service to the aged people by assisting residents in nursing homes in Canberra and as a narrator of audio books
|
| Jeffrey Douglas Fraser |
For service to veterans through the Doncaster RSL Sub-Branch and the 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995' celebrations
|
| Walter Donald Frater |
For service to the community, particularly as a member of the Sacred Heart Conference and Inverell Regional Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul Society
|
| Ralph Arthur Freeman |
For service to sport, particularly through Motorcycling Queensland and the community
|
| Andrew Balsillie Frizzell, OBE |
For service to the surf life-saving movement, particularly through the establishment and promotion of the junior movement
|
| Catherine Adelaide Marcelle Frost |
For service to the sport of lawn bowls at club, state and national levels and to the community
|
| William Robin Galvin |
For service to tourism through Tourism Training Australia, the Tourism Council of Australia, the Tourism Taskforce and the Catering Institute of Australia
|
| Neil Arthur Galwey |
For service to engineering and to energy research
|
| Rose May Jean Garside |
For service to the community through the St George Anglican Parish, Reservoir, for over 40 years
|
| Mary Ellen Gibson |
For service to the community through the Australian Red Cross Society, the local hospital's auxiliaries, the Legacy Widow's Club and the Combined Pensioner's Association
|
| Sonia Ann Gidley-King |
For service to the community as founder and co-coordinator of the project 'Wrap With Love' involving 20,000 people knitting scrap wool into wraps for people in need in Australia and war devastated countries overseas
|
| Drew Cameron Ginn |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Joan Mary Giumelli |
For service to education, particularly in the field of literacy development
|
| Joan Glennie |
For service to the Newtown United Co-operative Building Association Limited since 1960 and to the Panania Corps of the Salvation Army
|
| Keith Norman Glover |
For service to the community through the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, 3RPH (Radio Print Handicapped), the Masonic Homes for the Aged and the credit union movement
|
| Kerry Joan Golding |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Nikola Gotovac |
For service to the Serbian community
|
| David Ian Gould |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Jack Merton Gowen |
For service to the community and to the macadamia nut industry
|
| Charles John Grace |
For service to veterans through the Umina and District Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association
|
| Robert Douglas Grant |
For service to community through the Cerebral Palsy Association of Western Australia
|
| Ernest Hedley Green |
For service to the community, through sporting and service organisations including the fire brigade, school committees, the show society, the Parkes RSL Sub-Branch and the Australia Remembers 1945-95 Committee
|
| Dulcie Phyllis Hagan |
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross Society, the Maroondah Hospital and the Walmsley Residents’ Committee
|
| Mary Isa Hall |
For service to people with disabilities as president of the Handihome Sunnybank Management Committee responsible for a permanent residence for people with severe disabilities
|
| Noel William Hall, ED |
For service to veterans and to the community as president of both the 39th Battalion Association and Hawthorn Small Bore Club, as founder of the Victorian International Rifle Club and as an executive member of the Antique and Historic Arms Collectors’ Guild of Victoria
|
| Mary Galloway Handley |
For service to music, particularly to opera in South Australia
|
| Jeffrey Lewis Hardy |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Edward Roy Hargreaves |
For service to conservation of Australian native orchids and to the Native Orchid Society of South Australia
|
| Councillor Ronald Frederick Harris |
For service to the community, particularly through the Wagga Wagga City Council, and the Shire of Mitchell
|
| Dr Digby Ian Harris |
For service to community health, particularly as an executive committee member of the Nhill and District Intellectually Handicapped Persons’ Welfare Association, the Cooinda Day Care Centre, the Avonlea Old Folks’ Home and the Nhill Hospital Board of Management
|
| Brian Harry Harvey |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Juliet Haslam |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Roger Gerard Heagney |
For service to church music as an organist, harpsichordist, composer, choir master and director of music at St Francis’ Church, Melbourne
|
| William Murray Heck |
For service to primary industry as a sugarcane farmer/miller and as an executive member of the Australian Sugar Milling Council, and for service to the community
|
| Narelle Christine Henderson |
For service to youth through the Thorneside Kids’ Club and the Redlands Referral and Assessment Programme, and to young people with disabilities
|
| Terence Hennessy |
For service to the community through the Arthritis Foundation, the Nowra Music Club, the Nowra Returned and Services League Sub-Branch, the Historical Society and the Shoalhaven 'Australia Remembers 1945-95' Committee
|
| Gerard Benjamin Hewson |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996.
|
| John Whitefoorde Heyer |
For service to the media as a pioneer of documentary film in Australia and as a film producer and film director
|
| Alan Robert Hicks |
For service to tennis as a former state junior champion and as an executive member of club and state tennis organisations for 40 years
|
| Raymond Leslie Hill |
For service to the community through the Citizens Advice Bureau, the Australia-Japan Society of Victoria, the Lions Club, the Scout Association and the Uniting Church World Mission
|
| Dr Allan Barry Hogan |
For service to medicine in the Albury-Wodonga district for over 50 years and for service to the community
|
| Professor Brien Anthony Holden |
For service to optometry, for contact lens research and education
|
| John Frederick Blake Hollonds |
For service to the community through sporting organisations, the Graziers' Association, the State Emergency Service, the Scout Association and the Anglican Parish Council
|
| Clifford Henry Holloway |
For service to the community as founder of a branch of the Catenian Association for Catholic professional and businessmen in Western Australia
|
| Peter David Homann |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Squadron Leader Kenneth Moore Horler, (Ret'd) |
For service to international relations as president of the Ranfurly Library Service (Australia) which prepares and ships over 100,000 books annually to promote literacy in developing countries
|
| Cecelia Wynette Horne |
For service to community music as founder and director of the Waratah Girls' Choir and as a music educator
|
| Ronald Clive Hovey |
For service to Australian Rules football as a player for and administrator of the Geelong Football Club
|
| Ronald McKenzie Howells |
For service to surf lifesaving for over 50 years
|
| Maxwell Mountiford Hyde |
For service to veterans as president of the Returned and Services League, Mascot Sub-Branch since 1965
|
| Jack Hyett |
For service to conservation and the environment as an active member of the Bird Observers Club of Australia for 60 years and as the author of numerous publications on native fauna
|
| Ronald Keith Ireland |
For service to the community through the Cairns Port Authority, the Cairns Regional Gallery Fundraising Appeal, the Far North Queensland Youth Assistance Fund, and to the automotive industry
|
| Jean Aileen Jans |
For service to Aboriginal health and community services
|
| John Victor Johnson |
For service to Vietnam Veterans and their families, particularly through 'Carry On' Victoria
|
| Dorothy Alleyn Nellie Johnson |
For service to the community through the Combined Pensioners Association, the Senior Citizens Club and Meals on Wheels
|
| Emily Johnstone |
For service to the community through the Legacy Laurel Club the War Widows' Guild and the Australian Red Cross Society
|
| Lachlan Stuart Jones |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Derek Jones |
For service to local government and to the community through the City Council, the Senior Citizens Welfare Association and Hospital and Health Services
|
| George William Mansel Jones |
For service to community music as the conductor of the Toowoomba Choral Society senior and junior choirs for over 30 years
|
| June Jorgenson |
For service to veterans through the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women and the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service
|
| Janice Helen Joyce |
For service to the United Graziers' Association, The Graziers' Association of South-Eastern Queensland and the Cattle Council of Queensland
|
| The Reverend Father John Kapetas |
For service to the aged as chaplain and administrator of the Saint Basil Homes and through the establishment of an outreach care programme
|
| Henry Mervyn Kelly |
For service to the community through the Port Adelaide Central Mission
|
| David William King |
For service to people with physical disabilities, through the Northcott Society and the New South Wales Wheelchair Sports Association
|
| Dr Edward Phillip Kremer |
For service to medicine and to the community
|
| Jaromir Jan Kusnik |
For service to the arts through the Ceramic Study Group of Western Australia, and as a lecturer in ceramic chemistry and technology
|
| Edna Laing |
For service to the arts and literature through the Creativity Centre, Brisbane
|
| Robert Hunter Fairbairn Landale |
For service to the community through the Yanco Creek and Tributaries Advisory Council and the Deniliquin Council
|
| Ann Mary Larkins |
For service to paediatric nursing, the aged and the community
|
| Alan Douglas Larsen |
For service to the community, particularly through youth and sporting organisations
|
| Kathleen Annie Laurie |
For service to the community, particularly the aged, through Twilight House Hostels for the Aged
|
| Betty Lawrie |
For service to community health through the support of oncology after-care services in Geelong
|
| Clive Touzeau Le Page |
For service to the community through involvement with the local council, church and sporting organisations
|
| Rosa Florence Lee |
For service to the community of Balnarring and Hastings, particularly through the Country Women’s Association, the Senior Citizens Club and the Australian Red Cross Society
|
| Jean Dorothea Lehmann |
For service to music as a violin teacher, examiner and adjudicator
|
| Linton Roy Lethlean |
For service to the community through involvement in the restoration of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, and as Chairman of the Victorian Horticultural Export Council
|
| Lisa Christina Llorens |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Arnold Dew Lockyer |
For service to the community as a member of St John Ambulance South Australia for over 50 years
|
| Lesley Ann Lowth |
For service to the community as local coordinator of the Queensland Cancer Fund’s Nurse of the Year campaign since 1974, and as chairman of the Ingham Branch
|
| Jessie Sheila Luckman |
For service to the community and to music as a performer and broadcaster
|
| William Patrick Ludwig |
For service to industrial relations through the Australian Workers’ Union
|
| Dr Rodney Hugh Lumer |
For service to the arts through the promotion and publication of works by Australian playwrights
|
| Hamish Anderson MacDonald |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Jack Hamilton Mack |
For service to St Andrew’s Hospital and to the insurance industry
|
| Clement Francis MacMahon |
For service to community health through cancer education programs and to adult education as principal of Sutherland Shire Evening College for 19 years
|
| Charles Douglas Macrae |
For service to the Dorrigo district through numerous community and service organisations
|
| Ruth Mainsbridge |
For service to the community and to education, through home economics at secondary and tertiary levels
|
| Clover Maitland |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Timothy Ian Maloney |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Dorothy Jean Malouf |
For service to the Central Council of Lantern Clubs and the Cronulla Lantern Club
|
| Richard Eric Mann |
For service to sport and to youth as trainer of Goulburn Valley Schoolboys Football Association for 32 years, and as trainer of the Katandra Football Club for 40 years
|
| Russell Andrew Mark |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Karen Elizabeth Marsden |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
|
| Eunice May Marshall |
For service to the community through the Girl Guides Association of Western Australia for over 50 years
|
| Merle Honor Marten |
For service to the community through involvement and support for charities and community service organisations
|
| Dulcie Elizabeth Martin |
For service to the community, particularly through the Coffs Harbour Australia Day Committee, the Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, the Museum Committee and the Historical Society
|
| Irene Emanuel Maskell |
For service to the performing arts, to education and to youth
|
| Zoran Matic |
For service to sport through the South Australian Soccer Federation and the Adelaide City Soccer Club
|
| Timothy Shaun Matthews |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Cathy Ann Matthews |
For service to the community, particularly in the area of support for the victims of abuse
|
| Dr Charles Prince Mattner |
For service to community health, particularly in the area of general practice in the Woodside and Onkaparinga districts for over 30 years
|
| (Eileen) Marjorie Maughan, CBE |
For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women's Association of Western Australia for over 60 years
|
| Marie Josephine Evans McCann |
For service to the community through the Australian Church Women, the Melbourne University Alumni and the New South Wales Council for Children’s Film and Television
|
| Marion Betty McCarthy |
For service to education through the Health in Schools Parent Reference Group, the Department for Education and Children’s Services and the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia
|
| Harold Mervyn McCowen |
For service to the local community, particularly through the Tenterfield Shire Council, the New South Wales Farmers’ Association and the Bolivia Progress Association
|
| Stewart Alfred McDonald |
For service to the community, particularly coordinating civic projects using community-based workers
|
| Colin Wellington McIntyre |
For service to local government as a councillor on the Beaudesert Shire Council since 1976, and to the community as a visitor to the Palen Creek Correctional Centre, and as president of the Rathdowney Area Development and Historical Association for many years
|
| James Alexander Smith McKenzie |
For service to the community and the arts as a painter and illustrator, particularly through the Eden Killer Whale Museum
|
| Gordon McNaughton |
For service to surf-lifesaving at club, branch and state levels
|
| Walter Nicholas Miles |
For service to the community and to veterans, particularly through the Doncaster Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League and the Carry On Club
|
| Marjorie Miller |
For service to the community as founder member and treasurer/financial adviser of the Wanneroo Employment Skills Training Network
|
| Peter James Minturn |
For service to the community, particularly through the Hawkesbury State Emergency Service, and to local government as a councillor on the City of Hawkesbury Council
|
| Eugenia Mitrakas |
For service to the Greek community through the Australian Greek Society for the Care of the Elderly since 1985, the Australian Greek Welfare Society and the Hellenic Studies Forum
|
| Kieran John Modra |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
|
| Joan Bradley Moore |
For service to the community, particularly as a pharmacist for over 50 years, and to the aged through the St Andrew’s Nursing Home “Olunda”
|
| Bernice Constant Moore |
For service to children with disabilities at the Regency park School, and to the community through Meals On Wheels and Trees for Life
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| Dorothy Faye Morgan |
For service to the community of Rossmoyne and to the Palliative Care Unit, Hollywood Hospital and the Cottage Hospice, Shenton Park
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| Jennifer Lyn Morris |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Nicholas Hugh Morris |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Major Hilton Wilfred Morris |
For service with the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association of Queensland
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| Major Wilga Ruth Morris |
For service to the community through the Salvation Army in rural Australia and the Northern Territory
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| Dr John Egan Moulton |
For service to surgery and medical education, particularly in relation to sports medicine through the New South Wales Institute of Sports Medicine at Concord Hospital
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| Dr John Stuart Newlinds |
For service to medicine in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology for over 40 years, and to the Medical Benevolent Association of New South Wales
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| Mary Helen Newport |
For service to the community through the National Catholic Media Office and the Newman Graduate Association, and for public service
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| Donald Andrew Nicolson |
For service to conservation and the environment as an advocate and practitioner of Landcare programmes, as a contributor to arid land ecology, and to the community
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| William George Nixon |
For service to local government in the City of Kingston, and to the community
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| Julie Dawn Nykiel |
For service to basketball as a player representing Australia on over 150 occasions, and to netball
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| Melia Helen O'Donnell |
For service to youth, particularly through the Girl Guides movement and Ascham School
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| Elizabeth Groves O'Keefe |
For service to the community, particularly through the St Patrick’s Festival Ball Committee, local charities and community organisations
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| Hugh Ian O'Loan |
For service to local government through the Mid-North Local Government Region Inc. and to the community
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| Susan O'Neill |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Richard Alden Oliver |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Geoffrey William Olsen |
For service to the Dungog community through service, health and welfare organisations
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| Kevin John Owens |
For service to the community through welfare and sporting organisations including the Society of St Vincent de Paul and the Northern Metropolitan Football League
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| Henry Nan Hung Pan |
For service to the community, particularly through the Chinese Australian Services Society and the Elderly Australian Chinese Homes Co-Operative Ltd
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| The Reverend Noel Roy Park |
For service to the community, particularly as director of Lifeline in the Darling Downs and South West Queensland
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| John Neil Parker |
For service to local government
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| Gordon Holroyd Parker |
For service to veterans through the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Japan Association
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| David George Walter Parkinson |
For service to local government through the Richmond River Shire Council, the Northern Regional Organisation of Councils and the North Eastern Local Government Association
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| Peter Parr |
For service to chess as a player, including six times Australian Olympic Captain, and as an administrator, tournament organiser, columnist and international arbiter
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| Michael Pate |
For service to the performing arts as an actor, producer and writer for the Australian film, radio and television industries
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| Douglas Morley Patrick |
For service to the community, particularly in the area of aged care and in the development of youth programmes
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| Hugh Archibald Patterson |
For service to the community through the Society of St Vincent de Paul for over 50 years as a prison, nursing home and hospital visitor
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| Francis William Payne |
For service to pharmacy through the New South Wales Pharmacy Board, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the Australian Pharmacy Examining Council
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| Noel Donald Pearce |
For service to the community through executive membership of sporting organisations and various commemorative celebration committees
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| Harold George Pearce |
For service to the community through fundraising for and maintenance of the M.V. Centaur Memorial and the Walk of Remembrance, Point Danger
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| Morley Asquith Fredrick Pereira |
For service to the community through the Sri Lankan organisations in Victoria and the Council of Australian Sri Lankan organisations
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| Nova Maree Peris-Kneebone |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| John Morley Phillips, RFD, ED |
For service to international relations as chairman of the Rotary Kokoda RSL Project Committee responsible for the provision of health facilities in Papua New Guinea
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| Reginald Ernest Philpott |
For service to veterans through the Blacktown, Epping and Kogarah Sub-Branches of the Returned and Services League
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| William Beith Pierce |
For service to music as an organist and choirmaster
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| Teresa Hilda Poole |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| John Porter |
For service to the furniture industry for over 30 years through the South Australian Guild of Furniture Manufacturers and the Confederation of Asian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Furniture Council
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| Lisa Josephine Powell |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Katrina Maree Powell |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Dr Anthony Swee-Leong Pun |
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Chinese Association and the Australian Chinese Forum
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| John David Andrew Punch |
For service to the community through the Gold Coast Tourism Bureau, the Surfers Paradise Chamber of Commerce, the Real Estate Institute of Queensland and the Salvation Army
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| Thomas Norman Quinn |
For service to education, particularly in the field of vocational education and training as inaugural president of Group Training Australia
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| Alwyn Darley Quoy |
For service to the community as foundation president of the Kittyhawk Squadron’s Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force Association for over 40 years and as president of the 77 Squadron Association
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| Sharon Margaret Rackham |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Thomas Bentley Ransom |
For service to the community through the Dorset Municipal Council and to the review of local government in Tasmania
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| Robert Lindsay Rennick |
For service to the community and to veterans, particularly through the Chincilla Returned and Services League Memorial Club
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| Dr Keith Reye |
For service to the community as a rural medical practitioner for over 50 years in North-West Queensland and the Shires of Kolan and Mount Perry
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| Annie Reynolds |
For service to the community, particularly through the Terrigal Senior Citizens and Community Centre, the Gosford District Hospital and the Terrigal-Wamberal Entertainment Group
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| Eric Alexander Richardson |
For service to the beef industry through the Cattleman’s Union, to local government and to the community
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| Bruce John Gray Robertson |
For service to the credit union movement, particularly the establishment of the Institute of Credit Union Directors and to the Esso Employees’ Credit Union, and the Association of New South Wales Credit Unions
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| Danni Roche |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| George Daniel Rose |
For service to the Aboriginal community at Walgett, particularly through the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service Co-operative, the Barwon Aboriginal Community Ltd and the Aboriginal Legal Service
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| Irene Agnes Rose |
For service to the community of Lake Macquarie, particularly through the Australia Day committee, the Clean Up Lake Macquarie committee, the Toronto Wetlands Group, and to children with visual impairments
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| John Rowe |
For service to the community through visiting and assisting patients in the psychiatric ward at Concord Repatriation General Hospital
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| Richard Rozen |
For service to chess and bridge and to the community, particularly through the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
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| Ellen Lola Russell |
For service to the arts and to education in the areas of drama and theatrical production
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| The Reverend Father John Ryan |
For service to the Catholic Church and to the community as a priest of New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland for over 70 years
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| Troy Sachs |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Wendy Lynn Schaeffer |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Christopher Ian Scott |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Sister Genevieve Secker |
For service to people with disabilities and to the establishment of Ain Karim, an independent residential community
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| David Thomas Selby |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Udo Sellbach |
For service to art as an artist, to the development of printmaking and to art education
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| Thomas Otto Semsei |
For service to business through marketing in the tyre industry.
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| Pasquale Sergi |
For service to people with disabilities through the Italian Affair Committee which raises funds for the Spastic Centre of New South Wales
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| Ian Eric Seymour |
For service to local government through the Muswellbrook Shire Council and the Local Government Association of New South Wales
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| Heather Gladys Shakespeare |
For service to the community through the Arthur Shakespeare Foundation for Scouting, Soroptomist International of Canberra, and involvement with other local organisations
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| Ronald Hempton Sides |
For service to the development of a new breed of sheep, the Elliottdale, which produces wool suitable for carpet manufacture
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| Major Doreen Hilda Sigley |
For service to the development of community health programmes and vocational training for women in three South African countries for over 25 years while serving with the Salvation Army
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| Veronica Sladdin |
For service to charity, the community and the Catholic Women’s League of South Australia for over 60 years.
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| Kate Elizabeth Slatter |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Sandra Narelle Smith |
For service to sport as gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Elsie Joy Smith |
For service to the community, particularly through local government and the promotion of tourism
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| Dora Margaret Spencer |
For service to community health through research work in the area of malaria entomology and mosquito-borne diseases
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| Brigadier John Anthony Springhall, MBE RFD ED (ret’d) |
For service to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance Australia, and to tropical veterinary science
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| June Stacey |
For service to women diagnosed with breast cancer and to the development of the Breast Cancer Support Service Volunteer Programme in Queensland
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| David George Stafford |
For service to junior rugby union football, and to sports administration
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| Kate Starre |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Mavis Doreen Stevenson |
For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women’s Association, ‘The Land’ cookery committee, the Australian Red Cross Society and the Albion Park Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Show Society
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| Megan Leanne Still |
For service to sport as gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Betty Esther Stirton |
For service to the community through St John Ambulance Australia for over 50 years and as chairman of the Community Care Branch
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| Judith Stokes |
For service to the Aboriginal community on Groote Eylandt as a missionary and linguist
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| June Stone, BEM |
For service to veterans, particularly through the Council of the Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations of New South Wales and the Royal Australian Air Force
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| Geoffrey Kenneth Stonehouse |
For service to veterans and the associations that represent them, and to the development of community awareness about young people with physical disabilities
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| Allan Dean Stringer |
For service to floriculture through promoting knowledge and appreciate of rose cultivation, and to community health as a member of the Board of Management of Modbury Hospital
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| Helen Vivienne Strutt |
For service to the Scout Association of Australia, New South Wales Branch, particularly in the formation of the Joey Scouts
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| Ross Collin John Swayne |
For service to the community through the Keep South Australia Beautiful and the Tidy Towns programmes
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| Kathleen Jean Swift |
For service to the Mount Isa branch of the Leukaemia Foundation, particularly through serving as secretary, treasurer and quest coordinator
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| Kenneth John Graham Tandy |
For service to the communities of Mudgeeraba and Springbrook through the School of Arts Memorial Hall, the Progress Association and the Lions Club
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| Bradley James Thomas |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Dr John Robert Thompson |
For service to medicine and hospital administration through the Port Augusta Hospital for over 35 years
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| Hugh Thomson |
For service to the community of Warracknabeal and district for over 50 years in a wide range of activities, including serving on the Anzac Park Trust and the establishment of an aerodrome and aero club and the Australian Rules football club committee.
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| Geoffrey Francis Trevor-Hunt |
For service to veterans, particularly as National Secretary of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia
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| Sydney John Trigellis-Smith |
For service to military history as a researcher, author and publisher of several unit histories of campaigns of World War II
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| Owen Hobart Tuckey |
For service to the community of Mandurah through the Peel Inlet Management Authority and sporting and commercial organisations
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| Kemarre Margaret Mary Turner |
For service to the Aboriginal community of Central Australia, particularly through preserving language and culture, and interpreting
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| William Russell Tyson |
For service to the community through the support of many charities, including the Queensland Society for Crippled Children, the Aid and Recreation Association for the Disabled, the Endeavour Foundation and the New South Wales Blind and Deaf Society
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| Albert Henry Ullin |
For service to the promotion of children’s literature in Australia and overseas
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| William Robert Watkins |
For service to the community and to local government, through the Kapinnie Country Fire Service, sporting clubs, church and school committees
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| Betty Mitchell Watson |
For service to the development of Women’s Basketball in Australia, particularly as an administrator with the Australian Women’s Basketball Council and the Victorian Women’s Basketball Association
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| Katrina Lea Webb |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Belinda Joy Webster |
For service to the music industry through the establishment of the record company ‘Tall Poppies’ which promotes the work of Australian composers and musicians
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| Douglas Bruce Weller |
For service to the community, particularly through the support and sponsorship of local charities and sporting groups for the past 30 years
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| Bruce Wemyss |
For service to community health through the support of oncology after-care services in Geelong
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| Laurus Vant Westende |
For service to the community and to business and commerce, particularly through the ACT Legislative Assembly, the ACT Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Rotary, and the National Gallery of Australia
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| Edna Madge White |
For service to the community through the Manning Senior Citizens Association, assisting with fund-raising projects
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| Donald Victor Whitehouse |
For service to education, particularly as the principal of Marsden State High School, and to the community
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| Berniece Louise Whitson |
For service to the community, particularly through sporting activities for young people at the Ulinga Park Complex
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| Trevor Henry Wholohan |
For service to cricket administration for over 40 years at club, district and state levels
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| John Charles Wieland |
For service to the community and to veterans, particularly through the Kogarah Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia for over 40 years
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| John Cecil Williams |
For service to the community, particularly through the Naval Association of Australia
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| Robert Ian Wilson |
For service to the community and to local government, particularly as mayor of Parkes Shire Council since 1985
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| Councillor Keith James Wilson |
For service to the community of Whyalla and to local government, particularly as Whyalla City Council mayor, 1970-1973 and again since 1994
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| Robert Wilson |
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Services Union since 1969
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| Brigadier Colin David Francis Wilson, RFD, ED (Ret'd) |
For service to the Australian Light Horse Association
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| Herbert George Winders, MBE |
For service to the Tweed Heads and district community through the initiation of fundraising projects by the Twin Towns Service Club to assist educational, sporting and community organisations
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| Roy Charles Winsted |
For service to the community for over 50 years, assisting organisations including the Mount Victoria Fire Brigade, the Queen Victoria Hospital Auxiliary and the Blue Mountains Food Services
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| Amy Louise Winters |
For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Atlanta Paralympic Games, 1996
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| Todd Andrew Woodbridge |
For service to sport as gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Mark Raymond Woodforde |
For service to sport as gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996
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| Dorothy Margaret Godwin Woodger |
For service to the community in the area of aged care as a volunteer at the Lady Gowrie Nursing Home, Gordon, for over 35 years
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| Dr Gwendolyn Marion Woodroofe |
For service to women through the ACT Association of the Australian Federation of University Women and UNICEF-ACT
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| Philip Greatrex Woods |
For service to the community through music for over 50 years, particularly the Wahroonga District Music Club and the Federated Music Clubs of Australia
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| Mieczyslaw Zurek |
For service to the Polish community through the Polish Sport, Recreation and Community Association
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| Ronald Frank Zwar |
For service to veterans, particularly through the Ex-Prisoners-of-War Association at State and Federal levels since 1946
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