1984 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)

The 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 11 June 1984 by the office of the Governor-General.[1][2]

The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.

Order of Australia[edit]

Companion (AC)[edit]

General Division[edit]

Recipient Citation Notes
Neil Andrew Smith, CMG For service to the community, particularly through administration of the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal (1983) Trust Fund [1][2]

Military Division[edit]

Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Vice Admiral David Willoughby Leach, AO CBE MVO For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Chief of Naval Staff [1][2]
Air Force Air Marshal Selwyn David Evans, AO DSO AFC For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief of Air Staff

Officer (AO)[edit]

General Division[edit]

Recipient Citation Notes
Professor Kenneth John Campbell Back For service to education [1][2]
Dr Alexander Boden For service to the community and science
Professor Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton For service to education
Harrison Bryan For service as a librarian
Leslie William Ralph Cave For services to commerce and industry
Dr David Owen Crompton For service to medicine, particularly in the field of ophthalmology
Professor Graeme Reade Anthony Ellis For service to science, particularly in the field of radiophysics
Michael Gleeson-White For service to commerce and to the arts
Albert Keith Johinke For public service, particularly in the field of public transport
James Bolton Leslie, MC For service to the aviation industry and to community and cultural affairs
Neville John McCarthy For public service, particularly as Director Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, and for service to the community
Dr Ian Gordon McWilliam For service to science and technology
Robert Lyndhurst Piesse For service to primary industry, particularly in the development of fencing techniques
The Most Reverend Donald William Bradley Robinson For service to religion
Ernest James Lyle Turnbull For service to media
Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, CBE For service to ethnic welfare

Military Division[edit]

Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Rear Admiral Michael Wyndham Hudson For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty's Australian Fleet [1][2]
Army Major General Raymond Jack Sharp, RFD ED For service to the Army Reserve
Brigadier Raymond Alan Sunderland For service to the Australian Army
Air Force Air Vice Marshal John William Newham For service to the Royal Australian Air Force
Air Commodore Ian Traill Sutherland For service to the Royal Australian Air Force

Member (AM)[edit]

General Division[edit]

Recipient Citation Notes
Claudio Piperno Alcorso For services to the arts, education and to ethnic welfare [1][2]
Ida Lessing Faith Bandler For service to Aboriginal welfare
Elizabeth Lorna Bartlett For service to the community, particularly in the field of women's and children's welfare
Marina Berezowsky For service to ballet
Dr Peter Bernard Botsman For service to the arts and education
Geoffrey Wilfred Bottrill For service to the accountancy profession
Nancy Fotheringham Cato For service to Australian literature
Emeritus Professor Avon Maxwell Clark For service to education, particularly in the field of biological science
Harold Spencer Cottee For service to the community
The Reverend Dr David Ray Cox For service to ethnic welfare
Brother Quentin Michael Duffy For service to education and to religion
Margreta Ann Enid Elkins For service to opera
Giuseppe Emanuele For service to the building industry
John Edward Ferris For service to the building industry and to the community
Maxwell Raymond Finlayson For service to local government
Jack Lovett Fitzgerald For service to the community, particularly with the Salvation Army
Eugene Kenneth Foreman For public service, particularly in the development of statistical methods in Australia and PNG
Gordon David Geeves For service to the welfare of people with dissibitities
John Meighen Gibbs For service to children's welfare
John Clifford Hamilton For service to the sport of Australian football
William Howard For public service, particularly in the field of defence science
Raymond Barraclough Jennison For service to local government and to the community
Stanley Patrick Kelly, DFC For service to banking
Dr Ernest Joseph Kirby For service to the community
Professor Kwong Chiu Lee Dow For service to education
Faye Lo Po For service to education and to the community
Ronald Grant Lyon For service to architecture
Denis James Martin For service to the Australian manufacturing industry
Dr Ian Haig McConchie For service to medicine, particularly in the field of thoracic surgery
Kathleen Louise McCredie For service to education
Regis Maria McKenzie For service to nursing
Stephen Hamar Midgley For service to the conservation of freshwater fish species
Dr Roy Markham Mills For service to thoracic medicine
Dr Reginald Mills For service to education and to science, particularly in the fields of physical and electro-chemistry
Milton Moon For service to ceramic arts, particularly pottery
Ian Kenneth Morton For service to rural development, particularly through the Rural Finance Commission
Cyril Joseph Nethery For service to the welfare of the ageing
Geoffrey Malcolm Oscar For service to the pharmacy profession
Professor Beverley Raphael (Rickarby) For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry
Dr William David Lindsay Ride For service to science and education, particularly in the fields of zoology and biology
Judith Mary Roberts For service to the community, particularly women's affairs
Amedeo Filiberto Sala For service to the electronics industry
Max Edmund Schubert For service to the wine industry
Vernon John Schuppan For service to the sport of motor racing
Francis Joseph Sweeney For service to accountancy and to commerce
Maximilian Sean Walsh For service to journalism
Alexander Storry Walton For service to the Australian film industry, particularly as director of the Australian Film and Television School
Frederick William Whitby For service to trade unionism
Ronald Thomas White For service to local government and to the community
Mary Alice Whitehead For service to the community, particularly women's affairs
Lindsay Gordon Wilson For service to primary industry, particularly vegetable growing and marketing
Professor Dianne Yerbury For service to education, particularly in the fields of industrial relations management and public administration

Military Division[edit]

Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Lieutenant Commander Michael Victor Butler For service to the Royal Australian Navy [1][2]
Commodore Donald Morton Coulson For service to the development of Naval Supply Support
Lieutenant Commander William Warland Farrell For service to the Musician Branch of the Royal Australian Navy
Captain Peter Ian Murdoch Ferguson For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Director of Naval Training
Army Lieutenant Colonel Peter William Brooks, ED For service to the Army Reserve
Major Sidney Harold Cheeseman For service as Officer Commanding 1st Watercraft Workshop
Lieutenant Colonel Peter John Fitzpatrick For service as Commanding Officer 2nd Signal Regiment
Major Geoffrey Thomas Hawker For service to workshop equipment and facilities engineering in the Australian Army
Colonel David Robert Lawrence For service as the Commandant of the Army Apprentices School
Lieutenant Colonel Robert William McLeod, RFD For service as Commanding Officer 10th Battalion, The Royal South Australian Regiment
Major Neil Colin Smith For service to the Australian Army in the field of explosive ordnance disposal in the Solomon Islands
Major James John Arundel Wallace For service as Officer Commanding 1st Special Air Service Squadron
Brigadier Ian Rignold Wills For service as Commander 2nd Supply Group
Air Force Wing Commander Richard John Campbell For service as Senior Engineering Officer, No 5 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
Wing Commander Leo Francis James For service as Commanding Officer, Number 1 Operational Support Unit, Royal Australian Air Force
Flight Lieutenant James Graham Kelley For service to the joint exercise planning staff, Exercise Kangaroo 83
Wing Commander Anthony Edward Lowe For service as a staff officer at Headquarters Operational Command, Royal Australian Air Force
Squadron Leader Barbara Ann Fillery McKeown For service as a nursing officer in the Royal Australian Air Force
Wing Commander Richard James Pavey For service as the Director of Computerised Supply Systems, Air Force Office

Medal (OAM)[edit]

General Division[edit]

Recipient Citation Notes
Arthur Peter Acton For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly in the field of packaging [1][2]
Ernest Ross Alcorn For services to primary industry and to the community
Kenneth Robert Alexander For services to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Major Raymond Ernest Allen For service to the community, particularly with the Salvation Army
Genevieve Louise Batterham For service to people with disabilities
Harold George Berry For service to the community, particularly in the Melbourne Ambulance Service
Dr Arthur Bruce Biggs For service to the community and medicine
John Henry Penn Blick For service to the fruit growing industry
Ruth Bontschek For service to people with disabilities
Hazel Irene Boyle For service to the community, particularly in the welfare of the hearing impaired
James Brennan For service to Aboriginal welfare
Kenneth Idwal Brine For service to the building industry and to education
Fred Philip Bromley For service to the community, particularly welfare of people with disabilities
Thomas Francis Brooks For service to the sport of cricket and baseball
Bertie Brownlow For service to sport, particularly cricket and hockey
Christine Ann Burton For service to the sport of netball
Ernest David Carey For service to public service to the Northern Territory
Michael Cecil Claybourn For service to the sport of surf lifesaving
May Clifford For service to music
Alexander Gerald Colley For service to conservation
Richard Walter Condon For service to soil conservation
John Conochie For service to the community, particularly the welfare of the ageing
Elsie Reid Coutts For service to the community
Dr Clare Alice Cunningham For service to medicine, particularly the welfare of children with disabilities
John Patrick Cusack For service to the dairy industry
Kenneth Roy Davis For service to the community, particularly the welfare of the ageing
Francis Albert Di Blasi For service to the community, particularly migrant welfare
Winifred Hilda Dickinson For service to the sport of croquet
Raymond Mills Durie For service to the sport of athletics
Tom Efkarpidis For service to the Greek community in Australia
Joan Lora Ellice-Flint For service to the community and to education
Pauline Jean English For service to sport, particularly in relation to people with disabilities
Robert Wilford Farr For service to local government and to the community
Harveline Featonby For service to education, particularly children with disabilities
Councillor Robert William Fell For service to local government and the sport of yachting
Robert Bruce Ferguson For service to the community and to local government
Charles Douglas Fielder For service to the sport of surf lifesaving
Marjorie Miriam Fitz-Gerald For service to the community and to local government
Norma Vere Fletcher For service to welfare through the Riding for the Disabled Association
Maureen Freer For service to Australian literature
John Andrew French For service to the community
Clarence George Garnsworthy For service to the community
Harry Hans Gerstle For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Queensland Bush Children's Health Scheme
Cedric Frederick Godden For service to the community, particularly the welfare of people with disabilities
Robert William Gotts For service to the furniture manufacturing industry
Edward Raymond Graham For service to athletics
Kenneth Dunstan Grant For service to the sport of rowing
Dorothy Green For service to Australian literature
Helen Margaret Hanrahan For service to the community
Betty Hargreaves For service to the community
Ralph Nicholas Harris For service to education, particularly in relation to those with impaired hearing
Jane Ann Hennessy For service to the community
Victor Herman For service to trade unionism and to the community
Raynham Ross Holloway For service to local government
Leslie John Howard For service to the sport of rugby union football
John Henry Hudswell For service to the community
Winifred Humbley For public service, particularly with the Department of Foreign Affairs
Edwin Charles Hyland For service to local government and to the community
Louisa Agnes Ingram For service to Aboriginal welfare
Stephen John Jani For service to ethnic welfare
Frank Milton Jeffree For service to welfare of the ageing
David Gordon Jones For service to local government and to the community
Elsie Rose Jones For service to education, particularly in relation to Aboriginal culture
Eric Lloyd Jory For service to the community
Nancy Monica Joyce For service to nursing
Samuel Karpin For service to the Jewish community in Australia
David Harold Kemp For service to the community
William Kidston For service to the community, particularly in relation to co-operative societies
Alfred Charles King For service to the community
Jean Ruby Lashbrook For service to the community, particularly as a member of the Country Women's Association
Julia Lawrence For service to the community
Arthur Geoffrey Lee For service to scouting and to the community
Conrad Augustus Lembke For service to forestry
Reginald Lenaghan For service to local government and to the community
Edward James Long For service to the community, particularly in relation to co-operative societies
Margaret Annette Rose Mack For service to the welfare of people with disabilities
Margaret Davidson Mackie For service to education
Neville Patrick Maguire For service to the community
William George Manly For service to local government and to the community
Jack Louis Maver For service to the scouting movement
Klaus Wilhelm Mayer For service to the German community in Australia
Naomi Ruth Mayers For service to Aboriginal welfare
Alderman Raymond Cousins McCormack For service to local government
Richard Bede McCosker For service to the sport of cricket
Henry George McDermott For service to local government to the community
Heather May McDonald For service to education, particularly in relation to children with disabilities
Norman Thomas McMahon For service to the sport of cricket
Neil William McNamara For service to local government
Ernest Edward McQuillan For service to the sport of boxing
The Reverend Canon Alfred Ernest Miller For service to the community, particularly in relation to welfare service
John Stewart Murray For service to Aboriginal welfare
Percival George Nash For service to the community
Margaret Jean Newson For service to the community, particularly through the Bendigo Art Gallery
Stanley Linton Nicholls For service to sport, particularly athletics
Edward Moses Obeid (rescinded 2014)[3] For service to ethnic welfare
Reverend Brother Joseph Felix O'Connor For service to education and to religion
John Edward O'Grady For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Kevin O'Mahoney For service to the blind
Leslie Norman O'Neill For service to the community and to education
James Douglas Omond For service to the community
Walter George Parr For service to education, particularly in relation to those with impaired hearing
Alice Sadie Parsons For service to the community
Philemon Pearson For service to Aboriginal welfare
Mervyn George Nicholas Pentreath For service to the community
Nina Phillips For service to the community
William Rorke Pullar For service to the welfare of people with disabilities
Garnet Keith Putland For service to the sport of lawn bowls
Captain Douglas Orry Quayle For service to religion
Harry Rankine For service to the dairy industry, to local government and to the community
Noel Lanceter Rawson For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Kevin Francis Riordan For service to local government and to the community
James Galway Riordan For service to the community
Barbara Winifred Robertson For service to the welfare of people with disabilities
Sarah Helen Robinson For service to the welfare of the ageing and to the community
Roland Edward Robinson For service to literature, particularly in the preservation of Australian Aboriginal mythology
Irene Dorothy Robinson For service to the community
Maureen Roebuck For service to the community
Joseph Stanley Russell For public service
David William Ruston For service to floriculture
Dr Gordon Francis Saggers For service to the community
Dr Gordon Edgecombe Sanders For service to the community
Herbert Joseph Sawbridgeworth For service to the welfare of the ageing
Reginald Arthur Shaw For service to the community, particularly to the Volunteer Fire Brigade
Pamela Yvette Moxey Sheppard For service in the field of occupational therapy
Ernest Maurice Silverton For service in the sport of lawn bowls
Ronald Edwin Slaughter For service to the egg production industry
Sydney John Snell For service to the sport of lawn bowls
Henry Leopold Speagle For public service
Gregory Michael Stadtmiller For public service, particularly to the welfare of seamen
Herbert Geoffrey Stevens For service to athletics
Zbigniew George Sudull For service to the Polish community in Australia
Evelyn Margaret Thompson For service to music
Patricia Thomson For service to trade unionism, particularly the welfare of working men
Marjorie Isabel Enever Todd For service to the Armidale community for over 50 years
Eric James Tremethick For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel
Marjorie Alice Trewin For service to the community
George William Harry Turnbull For service to the sport of lifesaving
John Joseph Roy Turner For service to medical techniques, particularly in the field of anaesthetics
Captain Ernest Victor Watkins For service to the community
Roy William Whalan For service to the community and to horticulture
Graham Ross White For service to sport
David Williams For public service in maintaining lighthouse equipment
Betty Norma Wilson For service to medical laboratory technology

Military Division[edit]

Branch Recipient Citation Notes
Navy Chief Petty Officer Phillip Leslie Davis For service to the Naval Stores Department HMAS Hobart [1][2]
Chief Petty Officer Brian Lawrence Eagles For service as Assistant to the Defence and Naval Attache, Paris
Chief Petty Officer Brian James Furner For service to the Clearance Branch Royal Australian Navy
Chief Petty Officer Robert John Jeffreys For service as a senior physical training instructor in the Royal Australian Navy
Warrant Officer Kenneth John McMiles For service to the Royal Australian Navy
Chief Petty Officer Paul Prince For service as Barrack Master HMAS Creswell
Warrant Officer Robert Edgar Sanders For service as the Marine Engineering Officer HMAS Kimbla
Army Warrant Officer Class Two Warren Herbert Bradd For service as an instructor to Junior Leaders in the Australian Army
Warrant Officer Class One Warren John Burns For service to the Royal Australian Regiment as Regimental Sergeant Major
Warrant Officer Class One Allan Cordwell Burrows For service as Warrant Officer Coordination in the Office of the Chief of the General Staff
Warrant Officer Class Two Janet Fay Capper For service as Chief Clerk, District Unit Brisbane
Warrant Officer Class Two Peter James Greenbury For service as Quartermaster Sergeant, 106 Field Workshop
Warrant Officer Class One Eric Barry Neville Hampson For service as Master Gunner, Field Force Artillery
Warrant Officer Class One Ian Peter Hartshorn For service as the Artificer Sergeant Major, 16 Air Defence Regiment Workshop
Warrant Officer Class Two Allan Stephen Hill For service as movements supervisor Canungra Transport Unit
Warrant Officer Class Two Neil John Jamieson For service as Supervisor Technical Communication, 6th Signal Regiment
Warrant Officer Class Two Frank Frederick Bastiaas Mallee For service to the Australian Army in the field of clerical administration
Warrant Officer Class One Alec Kevin Mead For service as Divisional Pay Liaison Officer, 1st Division
Warrant Officer Class One Ross Edward Smith For service as Regimental Sergeant Major, 1st Aviation Regiment
Warrant Officer Class Two James Brenton Willshire For service to the Special Air Service Regiment
Warrant Officer Class Two Kenneth John Wilson For service as Caterer, 2nd Field Supply Battalion
Sergeant Richard William Wilson For service to the Royal Australian Corps of Transport Pipes and Drums
Air Force Sergeant Alan James Coyte For service as an electrical fitter at No 486 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
Warrant Officer Reginald Harry Robert Manners For service in the field of explosives ordnance disposal in the Royal Australian Air Force
Warrant Officer Charles William Eric Marney For service to communications security in the Royal Australian Air Force
Warrant Officer Ian Reginald McKellar For service to technical publication support in the Royal Australian Air Force
Sergeant Maurice Gordon McPhillips For service as an electrical fitter in the Royal Australian Air Force
Warrant Officer Michael Gerald Page For service to the School of Photography, Royal Australian Air Force
Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Rawlins For service as an electrical fitter at Base Squadron, Darwin
Warrant Officer William James White For service as a general fitter at No 2 Aircraft Depot, Royal Australian Air Force

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "NATIONAL ORDER OF AUSTRALIA LIST". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 788. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 June 1984. p. 8. Retrieved 6 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1984 HONOURS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S212. Australia. 11 June 1984. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Cancellation of award of the Order of Australia in the General Division made to Mr Edward Moses Obeid". Government Gazette: C2014G02071. Commonwealth of Australia. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2020.