Queen's Birthday 2008 Honours List
OFFICER IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (AO)
The Most Reverend Archbishop John Alexius BATHERSBY
For service to the Catholic Church in Australia, particularly as Archbishop of Brisbane, and to the community through the promotion of ecumenical dialogue.
Professor Michael Francis GOOD
For service to medical research, particularly in the fields of infectious disease immunology and vaccine technology, through leadership roles at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and contributions to education.
MEMBER IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (AM)
Mr Gerald Anthony BARRY
For service to the community through a range of executive and support roles with ostomy associations.
Mr Brian Joseph BERTWISTLE
For service to the transport and logistics industry, particularly through support for educational programs and driver and vehicle safety initiatives.
Mr Michael Peter BERWICK
For service to conservation and the environment through initiatives supporting the preservation of the Daintree Rainforest and far north Queensland, to local government, and to the community of Douglas Shire.
Sister Mary Denise COGHLAN
For service to international humanitarian aid as Director of the Jesuit Refugee Services, Cambodia.
Ms Sue Margaret CUMMING
For service to the community, particularly in the field of social work as a clinician and through administrative roles with a range of professional associations.
Mr John Kelvin DAWSON
For service to business, particularly the banking and finance sector and to the development of relations between Australia and Britain.
Emeritus Professor David Michael DODDRELL
For service to science in the field of magnetic resonance as an academic and researcher.
Mr Arthur George FRAME
For service to the performing arts and to the community through administrative and advisory roles with a range of organisations in Queensland and support for artists in rural and regional areas.
Dr Robert Stirling GREENHILL RFD
For service to public sector dentistry, particularly through the development of specialist orthodontic services and interdisciplinary management of patients with cleft lip and palate and craniofacial anomalies, to dental education, and to professional organisations.
Mr Malcolm John GRIERSON
For service to the community, particularly through contributions to the development of major infrastructure and public works facilities in Queensland.
Dr Janet Mary HAMMILL
For service to the community through health services for Indigenous women and children and research into the effects of foetal alcohol syndrome.
Mr Edward William HOWARD OBE OAM
For service to the community through executive, advisory and leadership roles with a range of health, tenancy, church and social welfare organisations.
Professor Sandra Vianne McLEAN
For service to higher education as an administrator, academic and leader, and to the development of national standards for the teaching profession.
Professor Patrick Joseph O'KEEFE
For service to the protection and repatriation of cultural property and heritage, to the law as a lecturer and author, and to legal education.
Mr Justin Francis O'SULLIVAN
For service to the law through a range of roles with professional legal organisations, particularly the Queensland Law Society, as a practitioner, and to the community.
Professor Anthony Wilfred PARKER
For service to sports medicine and exercise science as an academic, researcher and author and through executive and advisory roles with professional organisations.
Dr Glen David POSTLE
For service to education through the design and introduction of flexible learning programs for disadvantaged youth in rural and remote areas, and to professional development.
Dr John Frank ROULSTON
For service to education, particularly through administrative and teaching roles in the independent schools sector, to the development of schools-based drug prevention programs and contributions to professional organisations.
Dr Marie Gabrielle SIGANTO
For service to the arts and education through contributions to artistic, cultural, educational and multicultural organisations, and as a benefactor and supporter of professional development programs.
Mr Anthony Eric SOUTH OAM
For service to the community as a campaigner for people with a disability and through contributions to the development of spinal injury prevention and research programs.
Professor Russell William STITZ RFD
For service to medicine in the field of colorectal surgery, to the development of surgical education and training programs, and through leadership roles in professional organisations.
Mr Barry THORNTON
For service to the manufacturing and transport industries, to the development of infrastructure reform projects, and to the community through support for educational, arts and charitable organisations.
Mr Bruce Gilmore WILSON
For service to transport planning, infrastructure development and reform, and to land management policy, particularly in Queensland, and through contributions to advisory bodies.
CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS (CSC)
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Brigadier Barry Neil McMANUS
For outstanding achievement as the Chief Staff Officer Personnel and Logistics (J1/4) Headquarters Joint Operations Command.
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Philip SPIERS
For outstanding achievement in providing medical support as Commanding Officer 2nd Health Support Battalion.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (DSM)
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Major Micah BATT
For distinguished leadership in action as the Officer Commanding Security Detachment XI in Baghdad.
Major Simon William MOORE-WILTON
For distinguished leadership in action as the Officer Commanding, Security Task Group of the 2ndReconstruction Task Force during Operation SLIPPER in Afghanistan.
Lieutenant Glenn Leon NEILSON
For distinguished leadership in action while commanding 12 Platoon, Security Task Group, 2nd Reconstruction Task Force under enemy fire at Musazai on the 8th and 10th August 2007.
PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL (PSM)
AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE
Ms Andrea Louise FLANAGAN
For outstanding public service in the provision of advice and assistance to veterans and their families, particularly in instances of death or major injury to members of the Australian Defence Force.
Mr Damian Francis MILEY
For outstanding public service in managing projects under the Land and Sea Management Strategy for Torres Strait.
QUEENSLAND PUBLIC SERVICE
Mr Dennis Wayne BIDGOOD
For outstanding public service to the housing sector by streamlining administrative processes and delivering significant cost savings.
Mrs Susan Lynette RAINBOW
For outstanding public service to education, mentoring and program development for the Indigenous community of the Wide Bay Burnett region.
Mr Terence Joseph SKEHAN
For outstanding public service to Queensland particularly in the field of special education.
Mr Gary John STEVENSON
For outstanding public service and leadership within local government, particularly through local government reforms.
Mr Allan William WELSH
For outstanding public service to the development of arts and cultural infrastructure in Queensland.
AUSTRALIAN POLICE MEDAL (APM)
Sergeant Arthur William BRENNAN
Detective Superintendent Peter CRAWFORD
Detective Sergeant Kathryn Clare DORGE
Superintendent Peter GUILD
Assistant Commissioner Brett Michael POINTING
AUSTRALIAN FIRE SERVICE MEDAL (AFSM)
Mr Ilikena DABEA
Mr John Frederik van KLAVEREN
AMBULANCE SERVICE MEDAL (ASM)
Dr Eric Desmond ELKS
Mr Leslie Joseph STEEL
MEDAL IN THE GENERAL DIVISION (OAM)
Mr John MacDonald ALLEN
For service to community music, particularly through brass and concert bands, and as a mentor of young musicians.
Mr Giovanni ANTONAGLIA
For service to the Italian community of Brisbane, particularly as a supporter of a range of charitable, social welfare, cultural and religious organisations.
Mr Henry Owen BARKER
For service to the community, particularly through Lions International and a range of ex-service organisations.
Mr Douglas James BOULTON
For service to the surf lifesaving movement as a competitor, official and administrator, and to the community of Caloundra.
Dr Grahame BROWN, deceased
For service to dentistry as an educator in the speciality of endodontics and through the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps, and to gemmology.
Mrs Diane Margaret BURKE
For service to the community particularly through the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland and to veterans' welfare programs as a fundraiser.
Mr Alan Clive COCHRANE
For service to the preservation of the marine environment.
Sister Monica Josephine CRAWFORD
For service to the community through the establishment and development of the Mater Health Services Archives, and to health care as an administrator and a nurse.
Mrs Gloria May DAVEY
For service to the community of Wynnun through service, music and sporting organisations.
Mrs Gay FETHERSTONHAUGH
For service to the community of Queensland, particularly through the Country Women's Association and agricultural and horticultural societies.
Mr Reginald Harold FITZPATRICK
For service to the communities of Rockhampton and Yeppoon through health education, aged care welfare and the encouragement of photographic achievement.
Mrs Robyn Hope GINN
For service to the arts of quiltmaking and needlecraft.
Mr Vincent John HABERMANN
For service to sport, particularly cricket, and to the community of Bundaberg.
Mrs Margaret Rose HICKEY
For service to the community, particularly through roles with the Samford District Historical Museum.
Mr Errol Norman JORGENSEN MM
For service to veterans through the preservation of military history and support of ex-service organisations, and to the community of Toowoomba.
Mr Percival John KEPPIE
For service to swimming through a range of executive, technical and managerial roles.
Mr James Humphrey LUCEY
For service to education through leadership, teaching and rugby coaching roles.
Mr Alan Alexander McCRAY
For service to the community, particularly with Rotary International, and to business through a range of roles with export, freight and food manufacturing organisations.
Mrs Sandra Mary McGRADY
For service to the community of Mount Isa through charitable, service and cultural organisations.
Colonel Kenneth Stuart McKENZIE DSM (Retd)
For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and their families through roles with the Returned and Services League of Australia.
Mr Tom Walker McLUCAS BEM
For service to the community of Bundaberg, particularly through the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the sport of cycling.
Mr John Alexander MILLROY
For service to the horseracing industry, to tourism, and to the community.
Associate Professor David Allan MORGAN
For service to medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon, particularly through the establishment of the Queensland Bone Bank.
Ms Judith Ann MUNDAY
For service to the welfare of ex-servicewomen, and to the community.
Ms Susan Anne NORRIE
For service to the nursing profession, and to the community through a range of leadership and advisory roles.
Mr Colin Duncan PACE
For service to the community of the Rollingstone district, and through leadership in the pineapple growing industry.
Mr Kenneth PETERS
For services to the community, particularly through the Lions Club of Mooloolaba and the Maroochydore Branch of The Cancer Council, Queensland.
Mrs Delphine Patricia ROWLEY
For service to rural health through a range of administrative nursing roles, and to the community of the Mount Morgan region.
Ms Carolyn Jean SANTAGIULIANA
For service to the community of Redland Shire through a range of welfare, health, sporting and cultural organisations.
Mr Arthur Roland SQUIRE
For service to the community of Chinchilla, particularly in the area of aged care.
Mr Richard Andrew STEVENS
For service to the fishing industry, particularly through fisheries management.
Mrs Tracy Anne STOCKWELL
For service to sport as an administrator and proponent of sporting opportunities for women.
Mr Thomas Raymond SULLIVAN
For service to local government and to the community of the Goondiwindi Shire.
Mr David George THOMAS
For service to youth through the Scouting movement, the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards scheme and organisations that support young people with a disability.
Miss Shirley TREACY
For service to dance, particularly through the establishment of the Queensland Dance School of Excellence, and as an examiner and teacher.
Mrs Dorothy Mae TRUSCOTT
For service to the community through the Bundaberg Blind and Vision Impaired Persons' Friendship Club and fundraising for organisations supporting children with a hearing impairment.
Mr Robert Henry TRUSCOTT
For service to the community through the Bundaberg Steam Tramway Preservation Society and fundraising for organisations supporting children with a hearing impairment.
Ms AnneMarie WHITE
For service to the promotion of women's sport, particularly through journalism and advisory roles.
Mr Peter John WHITE
For service to the community through contributions to veterans, youth and civic organisations, and to the foundation construction industry.
Mrs Margaret Aitken WILKE
For service to women through the Queensland Country Women's Association.
Dr Neville Beaumont WILMER
For service to medicine and to the community of Gympie, particularly through the development of medical services and the Returned and Services League of Australia.
MEDAL (OAM) IN THE MILITARY DIVISION
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Warrant Officer Class One David Charles CROSS
For meritorious service to Army Aviation as Regimental Sergeant Major, 5th Aviation Regiment, and Regimental Sergeant Major, Army Aviation Training Centre.
Warrant Officer Class One Lynne FOSTER
For meritorious service as the Transport Warrant Officer Class One of the Headquarters 3rd Brigade, the Regimental Sergeant Major of the 9th Force Support Battalion, and the inaugural Regimental Sergeant Major of the Force Level Logistic Asset - Middle East Area of Operations.
Warrant Officer Class One Kenneth Charles MORRIS
For meritorious service as the Regimental Sergeant Major of 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (Commando) and the Special Forces Training Centre.
CONSPICUOUS SERVICE MEDAL (CSM)
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Corporal Ryan John INGOLD
For meritorious achievement as a Rifle Section Commander of Alpha Company, the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment.
Sergeant Juliet Nehi PAYNE
For meritorious achievement to the Australian Army as the Operations Sergeant at Headquarters 11th Brigade in support of Operations RELEX II, RESOLUTE and ANODE.
Warrant Officer Class Two Mark John RETALLICK
For meritorious achievement as the Company Sergeant Major of First Class at the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
Warrant Officer Class One Phillip Andrew SYMMANS
For meritorious achievement as the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the 3rd Combat Signals Regiment, the 5th Aviation Regiment, the 1st Signal Regiment, and Headquarters 1st Division.
COMMENDATION FOR GALLANTRY
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Private Trent OLLIS
For gallantry in action in hazardous circumstances while acting as Lead Scout of 12Platoon, Security Task Group, 2nd Reconstruction Task Force under enemy fire at Musazai on the 8th August 2007.
COMMENDATION FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Private Steven Andrew HALL
For distinguished performance of duties in warlike operations as a Rifleman, 12Platoon, Security Task Group, 2nd Reconstruction Task Force during Operation SLIPPER.
Sergeant Wade James McFARLANE
For distinguished performance of duties in warlike operations as the Troop Sergeant of 3Troop, Security Task Group, 2nd Reconstruction Task Force during Operation SLIPPER.