Australia Day 2005 Honours List
AO
Mr Steve Arthur KARAS OAM
For service to the community as a contributor to the development of multicultural media and to migrant assistance organisations in Australia, and through public sector roles, particularly in the portfolio area of immigration.
Ms Elizabeth Ann NOSWORTHY
For service to business through contributions to major development, energy and infrastructure projects, to the legal profession, particularly in the area of legal education, and to the community.
AM
Councillor Paul Vincent BELL
For service to local government, particularly through the Queensland and Australian Local Government Associations, to regional development and tourism, to vocational education and training, and to the community.
Associate Professor Victor Ian CALLANAN
For service to medicine through the improvement and expansion of medical services in north Queensland, particularly in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain management and hyperbaric medicine, and to surf lifesaving.
Professor William Barry COMAN
For service to medicine in the fields of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery and through professional organisations.
Professor John de JERSEY
For service to science education, to research in the field of enzyme biochemistry and molecular biology, and to academia.
Mrs Lynette Josephine DENNY
For service to the performing arts through administrative roles with state and regional arts organisations, as a teacher of dance, and as a choreographer.
Mr Peter Sydney FARDOULYS
For service to the building and construction sector through industry association roles in Queensland and nationally, and to the community through arts, medical, children's and church organisations.
Mr Graham James HART
For service to business and finance, and to the community through organisations related to medical research, the arts, education and agriculture and industry.
Mr William (Bill) HAURITZ
For service to the community, particularly through the establishment of the Woodford Folk Festival and leadership roles in organisations that provide a forum for the promotion of cross-cultural and artistic awareness.
Dr Dick Peter HENRY, deceased
For service to veterinary science through the development of disease-free piggeries and environmentally sound waste management practices, and the breeding of pathogen-free livestock.
Mr Anthony Kyle IRVINE
For service to conservation and the environment, particularly rainforest ecology, and to the recording and preserving of Indigenous knowledge of flora and fauna.
Mr John Fouhy KEARNEY QC
For service to the community as an adviser and benefactor to education and church organisations, and through the preservation of a number of architecturally significant buildings in the City of Melbourne.
Professor Errol John MAGUIRE RFD
For service to medicine as a surgeon, educator and administrator, and to the Army Reserve.
The Honourable Warwick Raymond PARER
For service to the Australian Parliament, particularly through policy development and broadening of export opportunities for the mining industry, to energy market reform and to education.
Mr Kevin Will SEYMOUR
For service to business, to the racing industry, and to the community through the Brisbane Housing Company.
Mrs Joan Mary SHELDON
For service to the Queensland Parliament, to support for a range of cultural organisations, and to issues affecting women.
Professor Peter SWANNELL
For service to higher education, particularly through the advancement of distance education and on-line learning opportunities, to engineering as a researcher and teacher, and to the community.
Dr Penelope Estelle TRIPCONY
For service to the Indigenous community, particularly in the field of education as an administrator, policy adviser, researcher and educator.
AM(Mil)
Colonel Stuart Lyle SMITH
For exceptional service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and Commanding Officer AUSBATT VIII East Timor.
CSC
Colonel Wayne Anthony FLEMING
For outstanding achievement as the Commander of the Australian National Command Element to the United Nations Mission in Support of Timor Leste during Operation CITADEL.
PSM
Dr Sandra Ann BAXENDELL
For outstanding public service and leadership, implementation of innovative processes and development of a supportive and productive work environment.
Mr Edward Anderson (Ted) GARDNER
For outstanding public service in the fields of water renewal, rural and urban water use efficiency and water cycle sciences.
Mr James Patrick GOTT
For outstanding public service to local government through exemplary leadership and commitment to fostering high quality institutions and infrastructure in rural Queensland.
Mr Pietro Ettore (Peter) TONELLO
For outstanding public service as an Agronomist and Extension Officer in the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, and in developing and using innovative extension processes.
Mr Kenneth Thomas TOOGOOD
For outstanding public service as Principal Registrar of the Supreme and District Courts of Queensland and for enhancing service delivery by Queensland Court Registries.
APM
Detective Senior Sergeant Gregory Joseph DANIELS
Chief Superintendent Alan George DAVEY
Mr Michael Anthony HUDDLESTONE
Senior Sergeant Michael James PEARSON
Assistant Commissioner Ian Duncan STEWART
AFSM
Area Director Bruce Raymond BYATT
Area Director Peter William DAWSON
Assistant Commissioner Stephen John ROTHWELL
Dr Graham Keith THOMPSON
ASM
Mr Russell John BOWLES
Mr John Christopher MURRAY
ESM
Mr Michael John KINNANE
Mr Kevin John LOTZ
Ms Fiona Gaye McKERSIE
Mr Ronald George MELTON
OAM
Mr John Harry BRACKEN
For service to the community through a range of social welfare and church organisations, particularly through the provision of emergency accommodation.
Mr Clive BUBB, deceased
For service to business and industry through the development of workplace health and safety programs, vocational training for young people, and business advocacy organisations.
Mr Graham Russell BUCHNER
For service to the community of Warwick through support for tourism, road safety initiatives and local events and activities.
Mr David Andrew BURROWS
For service to international relations through support for the community of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, particularly through projects to provide fresh water in rural areas.
Mr Dean William BUTLER
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Ms Kim Patricia BUTLER
For service through the provision of assistance to victims in the immediate aftermath of the bombings which occurred in Bali on 12 October 2002.
Miss Sara Maree CARRIGAN
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr Salvatore (Sam) COCO
For service to the community through support for medical research, social welfare, arts and conservation organisations, and to the fresh food industry.
Sergeant Stephen Mark COOK
For service as part of the police joint Bali bombing investigation and victim identification process, known as Operation ALLIANCE.
Mr John Andrew CUMMINS
For service to the Queensland police community, particularly as an advocate for the welfare of officers and their families.
Miss Moya Therese DAVIES
For service to the aged community of the Gold Coast, particularly through musical entertainment.
Mrs Beryl Joan DAVIS
For service to the arts, particularly through the establishment and management of the Queensland Performing Arts Museum.
Miss Virginia Belle DAY
For service to the community of the Caboolture Shire, particularly through the establishment of support services and respite accommodation for carers.
Mr Liam Andrew DE YOUNG
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mrs Rita Maude DIXON
For service to people with disabilities, particularly through the Gold Coast Branch of House With No Steps.
Mrs Doris Helen (Dot) DONALD
For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross and the Rockhampton Girls Grammar School Old Girls Association.
Ms Patricia Mary DONOVAN
For service to the community of the Caboolture Shire, particularly through the establishment of support services and respite accommodation for carers.
Mr Darryl Charles DRIVER
For service as a teacher, guidance officer and advocate for people with special education needs, particularly students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Mrs Donna Karen DUNCAN
For service to the community of Childers through raising awareness of occupational health and safety, providing support in times of emergency, and as a foster carer.
Mr Gilbert Clifford (Gil) DUREY
For service to the community of Toowoomba through church and sporting organisations.
Mr Jamie Raymond DWYER
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Superintendent Ross Michael DWYER
For service as part of the police joint Bali bombing investigation and victim identification process, known as Operation ALLIANCE.
Mr Raymond George EVANS
For service to the community of the Redcliffe Peninsula, particularly to veterans and their families.
Mr Grahame Colin GINN
For service to education, particularly through the promotion of educational opportunities in Hervey Bay.
Mrs Myrtle GREEN
For service to the community through a range of health, education, law and women's organisations.
Mrs Violet May GROUNDWATER
For service to local government and to the community of Hinchinbrook Shire.
Mr Michael Thomas GUNN
For service to the community, particularly through ex-Service welfare organisations.
Mr Robert Rodney HAMMOND
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mrs Nancy Margaret HANCOCK
For service to women living in rural and remote areas of Queensland and to the communities of Warwick and Killarney.
Mr Kenneth Walter HEARD
For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, particularly through the Logan and District Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia.
Mr Gregory Edward HEIDKE
For service to education, particularly in the development of middle schooling practice in Queensland, and by promoting excellence in arts and sports.
Miss Jodie Clare HENRY
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr Derek Herman HUNT
For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Church in Australia and the Mission to Seafarers, and through the Wynnum Manly Eisteddfod.
Mr Barry William JOHNSON
For service to the welfare of ex-Service personnel and their families, and to the community.
Mr Graham Charles JONES
For service to the insurance industry, particularly through the Insurance Council of Australia, and to the community.
Miss Leisel Marie JONES
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr Donald Winston JOWETT
For service to sport, particularly athletics, as an administrator, technical official and coach, and to the community through church and welfare organisations.
Mrs Suzanne Helen KAVANAGH
For service to nursing and to the community of the Bauhinia Shire.
Mrs Dorothy Dawn KOEHLER
For service to the community of Maroochydore, particularly veterans and their families.
Mr Alan James KOHLER
For service to the community through a range of aged care, service and church groups.
Mrs Marguerite KURSCHNER
For service to people with disabilities through the Riding for the Disabled Association; to physiotherapy as practitioner and teacher; and to the community, particularly through aged care organisations.
Ms Lisbeth Constance (Libby) LENTON
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr Edward Whitmore (Rub) LOGAN
For service to the community of Forest Hill, particularly veterans and their families through the Laidley Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia.
Mr Geoffrey Patrick McGIBBON
For service to lifesaving at international, national and local levels through the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia and Austswim.
Sergeant Scott Andrew McLAREN
For service as part of the police joint Bali bombing investigation and victim identification process, known as Operation ALLIANCE.
Mr Donald Bruce McPHERSON
For service to recreational fishing, particularly as a supporter of junior competitions through the Queensland Junior Anglers Association.
Mr Arthur Joshua MARSHMAN
For service to the community as a supporter of initiatives assisting people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to settle in Australia and through contributions to the development of aged and palliative care services.
Miss Anna Maree MEARES
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Dr John Stanton (Stan) MELLICK ED
For service to the community, particularly through the restoration of St Paul's Presbyterian Church, and to Australian cultural studies.
Mrs Lilian Ada MILLER
For service to the communities of Camooweal and Mount Isa through a range of cultural and historical organisations, particularly the National Trust of Queensland and the Country Women's Association of Australia.
Miss Alice Mary MILLS
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr Alec Henry MORRIS DCM
For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, particularly through the Kedron-Wavell Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia.
Mrs Chantelle Lee NEWBERY
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mr William Wightman O'BRIEN OBE
For service to the community of Toowoomba through a range of organisations, including the Australia Day Celebrations Committee, the Cobb and Co Museum and the St Vincent de Paul Society.
Mrs Meryl Ellen PAPAS
For service to rhythmic gymnastics as a coach, choreographer and judge, and to the community.
Mr Noel Andrew PAYNE
For service to the welfare of veterans through the Naval Association of Australia.
Mrs Cecily Mackney PRIMMER
For service to the community of Rockhampton, particularly through service, aged care and educational organisations.
Mr Garth George PROWD
For service to sport through marketing and organising events, particularly triathlons.
Senior Sergeant Kenneth Renald RACH
For service as part of the police joint Bali bombing investigation and victim identification process, known as Operation ALLIANCE.
Mrs Geraldine Mary REARDON
For service to the community of Roma, particularly through cancer support and church organisations.
Mr Norman Colin REID
For service to the community through the Anglican Church of Australia, the independent schools sector, and the completion of St John's Cathedral Brisbane.
Mr Lewis John ROBERTS
For service to natural history and the documentation of biodiversity in north Queensland.
The Reverend Dr Dennis Cecil ROBINSON
For service to the community of Queensland through the Uniting Church in Australia.
Mr Joseph Alexander (Lex) ROWLAND
For service to the community through the Hinkler House Memorial Museum.
Mr Sebastiano SAITTA
For service to the community of the Burdekin region through a range of aged care, health, service and welfare organisations.
Mr William Ralph SAWREY
For service to the community of Nambour, particularly through ex-Service organsiations.
Miss Jessicah Lee SCHIPPER
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mrs Lynette Valmay STEWART
For service to people with intellectual disabilities, particularly through involvement in the establishment of respite and accommodation services in the Ipswich region and the formation of the Down Syndrome Association of Queensland.
Mrs Dorothy STRINGER
For service to the community as a fundraiser for a range of charitable organisations, particularly in support of brain injured children.
Mrs Barbara Anna TAYLOR-CHANTLER
For service as a nursing administrator with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.
Mr Gaven Gerald THURLOW
For service to the community, particularly through the Jimboomba Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and the Jimboomba Branch of the Veterans' Support and Advocacy Service Australia.
Mr Thomas Michael TRESTON
For service to the community as a fundraiser for and supporter of social welfare, school and sporting groups.
Dr Pamela Mary TURNOCK
For service to rural medicine and to the community of St George as a general practitioner.
Mr Vincent John VANDELEUR
For service to the law and to the community of Innisfail, particularly through educational, church and cultural organisations.
Mr Matthew Wayne WELLS
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Mrs Teena WILCOCK
For service to the arts, particularly in the regional and rural communities of Queensland, and to the community through the pony club and rural show movements.
Miss Chantel Louise WOLFENDEN
For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games.
Mrs Florence Ethel YAPP
For service to the community as a fundraiser for St Luke's Nursing Service.
OAM(Mil)
Warrant Officer Class 1 Alan Bruce GILLMAN CSM
For meritorious service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of the Royal Military College of Australia and as Regimental Sergeant Major of 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Brett Douglas PATES
For meritorious service to the Australian Army as Company Sergeant Major of the Battalion Support Group East Timor, Company Sergeant Major Supply Company, 3rd Combat Service Support Battalion, and as the Regimental Sergeant Major, 7th Combat Service Support Battalion.
Captain Michael Andrew PERT
For meritorious service to the Australian Intelligence Corps, particularly as an Instructor in the Human Intelligence Wing at the Defence Intelligence Training Centre.
CSM
Warrant Officer Class 1 Phillip Johannes BETTIENS
For outstanding service as the Australian Project Officer - Tonga, managing Australia's Defence Co-operation Program infrastructure projects in the Kingdom of Tonga.
Corporal Jeremy Richard BROWN
For outstanding service as the acting Troop Sergeant, 2nd Troop, A Squadron, 5th Aviation Regiment.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Steven Mark CULLEN
For outstanding service as the Section Sergeant Major of Warrant Officer Section, Command Staff and Operations Wing, Headquarters Regional Training Centres.
Warrant Officer Class 2 Tony Scott HERRMANN
For outstanding service as the Warrant Officer Caterer of the 51st Battalion, the Far North Queensland Regiment.
Warrant Officer Peter Jon RYTER
For outstanding service as the Deputy Flight Engineer Leader and Assistant Squadron Warrant Officer at Number 38 Squadron Detachment B.
Flight Sergeant Daniel Patrick STACK
For outstanding service as a Career Manager in the Directorate of Personnel Airmen.
Chief Petty Officer Peter Mark STONE
For outstanding service as the Staff Officer Grade 4 Personnel Operations and Administration for Headquarters Australian Theatre during Operations SLIPPER, BASTILLE, FALCONER, CATALYST and CITADEL.
CSM and Bar
Major David John RUTHERFORD CSM
For outstanding service to Regional Force Surveillance Units, the 51st Battalion, the Far North Queensland Regiment, and the Vanuatu Mobile Force, as Officer Commanding Training Company of the 51st Battalion.
Commendation for Distinguished Service
Major Douglas Craig CUMMING (Ret'd)
For distinguished performance of duties in warlike operations as the Chief Instructor of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team in Kirkush, Iraq, during Operation CATALYST.
Major Mark Leslie HORN
For distinguished performance of duties in warlike operations as the Officer Commanding the Baghdad Security Detachment, Iraq, in 2003 during Operation CATALYST.
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