1982 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)

The 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 13 June 1982 in Australia.[1][2]

The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.

Order of Australia

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Knight of the Order of Australia (AK)

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General Division

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Recipient Citation Notes
The Honourable Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, KCMG OBE For service to politics and local government [1][2]

Companion (AC)

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General Division

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Recipient Citation Notes
Professor Robert John Walsh, AO OBE For service to medicine [1][2]

Officer (AO)

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General Division

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Recipient Citation Notes
John Gosman Allwright For service to primary industry [1][2]
Richard Austen For service to the coal industry
Dr Robert Francis Brissenden For service to literature
Dr Joan Helen Bryan For service to medical research
Emeritus Professor Gilbert James Butland For service to education
Evonne Fay Cawley, MBE For services to the sport of tennis
John Edmund Duggan For service to parliamentary and local government services
The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Andreas Evatt For service to law
Frank Randall Harris For public service
Lloyd James Hartigan For service to industry
Frank Colin Hassell For service to architecture
Associate Professor Donald Richmond Horne For service to literature
John Barry Humphries For service to the theatre
The Honourable Justice Samuel Joshua Jacobs For service to the community
Henry Frederick Jensen For parliamentary and local government service
Raymond John Kirby For service to industry
Dr Kenneth David Muirden For service to medicine
The Reverend Arthur William Preston, OBE For service to the community
Phillip Lovett Ridings For service to the sport of cricket
Captain Robert James Ritchie, CBE For public and community service
Henry Edwin Rossitor For public service
Professor Alan George Lewers Shaw For service to education
Roy McCowan Simpson For service to architecture
Professor Ralph Owen Slatyer For service to science
Kenneth Wilberforce Tribe, AM For service to the arts, particularly in the field of music
Carlo Valmorbida For service to ethnic welfare
John Sampson White, CMG For public service
David George Druce Yencken For service to conservation and history

Military Division

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Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Rear Admiral Rothesay Cathcart Swan, CBE For service as Director General of the Natural Disasters Organisation and as Controller of Establishments in the Department of Defence [1][2]
Air Force Air Vice Marshal James Hilary Flemming, AM For service to the Royal Australian Air Force

Member (AM)

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General Division

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Recipient Citation Notes
Brother Oswald Stanislaus Adams For service to education [1][2]
Reverend Ronald William Allardice For service to religion
Alan Jack Antonio For service to local government
Bert Frederick George Apps For service to the community
Professor John Bloomfield For service to sports medicine
William Henri Bowen For service to the community
Raymond Burkitt For service to the community and industry
Eugene Allan Norbert Byrne For service to the sport of Rugby Union
Mervyn James Callaghan For service to the community and trade unionism
John William Callow For service to medicine
Kenneth Livingstone Carr For service to the community and the welfare of youths
The Reverend Canon Ivor Frederick Church For service to religion
Audrey William Conn For service to the public
Professor John Douglas Correll Crisp For service to engineering
Charles Philip Cullen For service to education
James Bartholomew Cummings For service to the sport of horse racing
Alderman Ronald Edward Davis For service to the community and local government
John Edward Delaney For service as a hospital administrator
Colin Boyd Dunlop For service to the community
Keith Stacey Edmunds For service to the public
Samuel Fisher For service to the community
Dr The Honourable Derek David Freeman For service to dentistry
Maurice Desmond Frost For public service
Neil William Hunt Furness For service to commerce and education
Ronald Malcolm Gibbs For service to education
James Wallace Goulter For service to the community
Commander James Stewart Guest, OBE For service to medicine
Professor Leslie Keith Humble For service to music
William George Solomon Huxley For services to conservation
Dr Roger John Ingham For service to education
Dr Owen Francis James For service to medicine
George Joseph For service to local government and to the community
William Herbert Kenworthy For service to local government and to the community
Darani Lewers For service to craft and the manual arts
Dr Kathleen Rachel Makinson For public service
The Honourable Peter McMahon For service to trade unionism and community
John West McMaster For service to surf life saving
Brigadier Ernest George McNamara, OBE ED RL For public service
Diana d'Este Medlin For service to education
William Waldron Goss Meecham For service to commerce and industry
Bernard Grant Mitchell For service to education
Ernest Edward Morris For service to the building industry
The Right Reverend Cecil Emerson Barron Muschamp For service to the community and to religion
John William O'Neill For service to agriculture
Thomas James Perrott For service to the community
Thomas Mansergh Pickering For service to jazz music and to librarianship
Harold Edward Porter For service to literature
Dr Corrie Reye For service to medicine
Frederick John Roberts For public service
Lincoln Gordon Rowe For service to industry and commerce
Major Madge Rush For service to the community
Harry Stickland For service to local government
Gladys Evelyn Tanner For service to nursing
Arthur Grahame Taylor For service to the community
Dr Marjorie Ruth Walker For service to medicine
Peter Lindsay Weir For service to the film industry
Frank Wickham For public service

Military Division

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Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Captain Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss [1][2]
Captain Daryl Robin Osmond Shaw Fox For service to the Royal Australian Navy
Commander Brian Lee Spark For service to the Royal Australian Navy
Army Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Gerard Curtis, MC For service to the SAS Regiment
Colonel John Talbot Dunn, MBE For services to the Australian Army in the field of medicine
Colonel John Garth Hughes For service to the Australian Army
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bentley Knight For service to the Australian Army
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Donald Knight For service to the Australian Army
Lieutenant Colonel James Baildon Potter, ED For service to the Army Reserve
Air Force Wing Commander John Herbert Dunn For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Number 5 Squadron
Wing Commander James Keith Gray Moore For service to the Department of Defence (Air Force Officer)
Wing Commander Brian O'Connell For service to the Royal Australian Air Force
Wing Commander Harold Ernst Adam Pfeffer For service to the Royal Australian Air Force

Medal (OAM)

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General Division

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Recipient Citation Notes
Claire Patricia Airey For service to the community and nursing [1][2]
Roger Quilter Allen For service to disabled children
Raphael Apuatimi For service to the Aboriginal art culture and arts
Cuthbert Milne Ayling For service to the community
Agnes Cecilia Bailey For service to the community
Ronald Keith Baker For service to the community and local government
Royston William Baldwin For service to sport in the fields of cricket and Australian Rules football
Irene Mary Therese Barry For service to the community and music
Edith Emma Beasley For service to disabled children
Harry John Beauchamp For service to the community
Dawn Bennett For service to the disabled
Charles Findlay Bentley For service to adult education
William Frank Bird For service to Aboriginal welfare
Bernard Abraham Boas For service to the community
Douglas Gordon Bowd For service to the community
Marie Antoinette Boyers For service to education in the field of speech and drama
Sister Mary Alexius Boyle For service to education
Alexander William Boyne For service to the community
Emily Susan Brimfield For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Susanne Janet Douglas Broad For service to the community
Harold John Brown For service to life saving
Janet Mary Browning For service to the community
Helen Ruth Burmester For service to the community
James Henry Butler For service to the community and local government
Eric Charles Butler For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Geoffrey Harold Cambridge For service to commerce
John Emile Ferdinand Cannot For service to the community and to surf life saving
Albert John Carlisle For service to the community
John William Chamberlain For services to the Public Service
John Parker Bua Chapman For service to the timber industry
Royl Francis Chardon For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community
Robert Donald Christsen For public service and service to the community
Sydney Ernest Churchill For service to the fruit and vegetable industry
Frank John Clark For service to the community
David Michael Cockburn For service to optometry
Muriel Frances Cohen For service to music
Arthur Edward Cole For service to the community
Arthur James Collins For service to band music
Peter Gordon Cooper For service to the sport of badminton
Basil Creedy For service to the community and local government
Malcolm Carlyle Crosbie For service to the community
Brian Cross For service to youth welfare
Eileen Daniel For service to the sport of softball
Lionel Ray Daniel For service to the community and local government
Inspector Robert William Davis For service to the public
Eva Edna Dennis For service to the disabled
Muriel Alice Dickinson For service to the community
John Bernard Dillon For service to the community and trade unionism
Robert Arthur Donald For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Colin George Duke For service to the community and to local government
Clive Watson Elliott For service to education
Elsie Agnes Erwen For service to the community
Louis Nicholas Fleyfel For service to ethnic welfare
Douglas James Fullston For service to local government and to the community
Ivan Thomas James Gates For service to the community
George Geddes For service to the community
Albert William James Giddings For service to the community
Ernest William (Joseph) Glascott For service to journalism
Kevin Francis Gould For service to the community
Herman Gutman For service to the community
Councillor Robert George Halliday For service to local government and community
Guy Ronald Hamlyn-Harris For service to the community
Bernhard Hammerman For service to ethnic welfare
Lieutenant Commander John George Hampson For service to youth welfare
John Joseph Hanley For service to the cattle industry
Evelyn Pauline Harding (Queenie Paul) For service to the theatre
George Walter Harman For service to local government and community
Ronald Francis Harrison For service to the community
Hilda Florence Heinrich For service to the community
William Hickey For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
The Reverend Monsignor Barry James Hickey For service to the community
Senior Sergeant Colin Robert Hodder, QPM For public service
Ralph Frederick Holden For service to the community
Eleanor Phoebe Holmes For service to the community
Edward William Robert Howard For service to the community
Ruth Hilda Harrison Hurn For service to nursing
Albert Charles Jackson For service to local government
Edward John (Ted) Jackson For service to the community
Clarence Roy James For service as hospital administrator
Francis Edwin Johnson For service to the sport of Rugby League Football
Neville Raymond Johnson For service to the sport of squash
George Johnstone For service to the sport of horse racing
Muriel Valerie Ryan (Mrs Johnstone-Need) For service to medicine
Lorna Marjorie Jolly For service to the sport of womens hockey
David Penry Jones For service to the community
Richard Oscar Jones For service to the community
Eileen Margaret Kane For service to ballroom dancing
Milan Karamarko For service to the Croation community
Henry O'Connor Kennedy For service to local government and community
Marie Helene Kentwell For service to child welfare
Elizabeth Caroline Killinger For service to the community and religion
William Geoffrey Kinsman For service to the community
Michael Kiprioti For public service
Frederick John Kittle For service to the community
Barbara Alison Knezevic For public service
Assistant Commissioner Richard Carlile Knight For public service
Djoli Laiwonga For service to Aboriginal culture and arts
Raymond Stanley Lambert For service to the community
Joseph Arthur Langton For service to the community
Harold Francis Lashwood For service to the entertainment industry
Brian Layland For service to optometry
Kenneth James Leal For service to the printing industry
Enid Bosworth Lorimer For service to the performing arts
Mary Vera Loveday For service to the community
James William Mackey For service to the community
Liyapidiny Marika For service in the field of Aboriginal health and welfare
Patricia June Martin For service to youth welfare
Frederick Percy McCallum For service to the sport of Australian rules football
Phyllis Emily McDonald For service to the community
Betty Jean McDonald For service to the community
Rawdon Townshend McDouall For service to local government and community
Ian Stuart McKenzie For service to the community
William Harold Mitchell For public service
Domenico Morizzi For service to ethnic welfare
Mabel Joyce Mossemenear For service to the disabled
Henry Eric Mullen For public and community welfare
Kenneth Claude Murchison For service to equestrian sport and community
Robert Frank Neander For service to the welfare of members of the Defence Force
Colin Odgers For service to the community
Madge Blackmore (Lesley) Oldershaw For service to the community
Olive Nell Oxlee For public service
Peter Pan Quee For public service
Norma McNeel Paterson For service to the community and music
Lawrence Alfred Payne For service to local government and community
Albert Edward Pearce For service to the community
Barry Thomas Pengelly For service to the community
George Harnett Phillips For service to the community
Agostino Domenico Pietracatella For service to the community
Nicholas Polites For service to ethnic welfare
Clarence Donald Pretty For service to the community
William John Puregger For service to the community
Alexander Daniel Rice For service to the community
Thomas Alexander Roberts For service to equestrian sport
John James Robertson For public service
Bruce Arnold Robson For service to the community
Karel Rodny For service to the sport of soccer
Thelma May Rowatt For public and community service
John Patrick Savage For service to trade unionism
Otto Rex Schroeter For service to sport in the fields of bowls and Australian rules football
Wladyslaw Kazimierz Sikorski For public service
Sergeant John Smith For community service
Cyril Thomas Stafford For service to the community
Leonard John Stone For service to the sport of cricket
Kevin John Sullivan For service to the community
Kenneth John Summerhill For service to the community, particularly with pony clubs
Dr Jack Sunderman For service to medicine
James William Fletcher Sweet For service to the sport of rifle shooting
John Kenneth Thistlethwaite For service to education
Albert Leslie Thomas For public service
James Andrew Thompson For service to the sport of gymnastics
Dorothy May Thorne For service to Aboriginal welfare
Roy Leo Patrick Turner For service to the sport of cricket
Reverend Johannes Frederick Hermanus Vanderbom For service to religion and community
Dr Demetrios George Varvaressos For service to ethnic welfare
Wilfred Douglas Verco For service to the community
Pearl Voller For service to the community
Margaret Evelyn Walker For service to the performing arts
Herbert Edgar Ward For service to the sport of cricket
Edward Charles Wesley For service to education
Leslie Sydney Wickham For service to the community
Laurel Jean Willis For service to the community
Margaret Hannah Wilson For service to the community
David Worobin For service to music
Edward Athelstan Wrightson For service to the community
Victor George Yaxley For service to local government
Zuzanna Zarebska For service to ethnic welfare

Military Division

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Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Warrant Officer Robert Theodore Caplice For service to the Royal Australian Navy [3][4]
Warrant Officer Peter Andrew Lewis Eley
Warrant Officer Gordon Lawrence Miller
Warrant Officer Colin Trevor Rowley
Army Warrant Officer Class Two Grahame Donald Anderson For service to the Australian Army
Warrant Officer Class One Reginald Martin Hind For service to the Army Reserve
Warrant Officer Class Two Brian Kent London, DCM For service to the Australian Army
Warrant Officer Class One George Robert Townsend For service to the Royal Australian Engineers
Warrant Officer Class One Kevin Stanley Wendt, BEM For service as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Warrant Officer Class Two Trevor John Williamson For service to the Australian Army
Air Force Warrant Officer Barry Redshaw For service to the Royal Australian Air Force

Knight Bachelor

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "The List". The Canberra Times. Vol. 56, no. 17, 059. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 12 June 1982. p. 12. Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Government Gazette Notices". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S118. Australia. 12 June 1982. p. 1. Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "The List". The Canberra Times. Vol. 56, no. 17, 059. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 12 June 1982. p. 12. Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Government Gazette Notices". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S118. Australia. 12 June 1982. p. 1. Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.