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2026 King's Birthday Honours

The Governor-General has announced the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours List, recognising 142 exceptional Queenslanders for their outstanding contributions to the community, public service, the professions, emergency services and the Australian Defence Force.

The Honours include appointments and awards in the Order of Australia (General and Military Divisions), along with meritorious and distinguished service awards, reflecting the breadth and depth of service across Queensland.

The 2026 Queensland Honours List includes recipients of:

  • Awards in the General Division of the Order of Australia, from Companion (AC) to Medal (OAM)
  • Awards in the Military Division of the Order of Australia, recognising meritorious performance of duty in the Australian Defence Force
  • Meritorious and conspicuous service awards, including the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) and Conspicuous Service Medal (CSM)
  • Distinguished service awards across policing, emergency, correctional and public service sectors, including the Australian Police Medal (APM), Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM), Ambulance Service Medal (ASM), Emergency Services Medal (ESM), Australian Correctional Service Medal (ACM), and Public Service Medal (PSM)

Queensland recipients will attend a series of Investiture Ceremonies to receive the insignia of their award from the Governor.

Her Excellency congratulates the following Queenslanders on their recognition as recipients of the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours:

 

Award  Title/Rank First Name Surname Citation
AO Emeritus Professor Leo Carney For distinguished service to optometric and vision sciences through research and clinical practice, to academia, and to tertiary education.
AO Ms Katarina Carroll APM For distinguished service to law enforcement, to disaster management response and recovery, and to the community.
AO Mr Stephan Gollschewski APM For distinguished service to law enforcement, to counter-terrorism activities, and to the community.
AO Emeritus Professor Justin Kenardy For distinguished service to clinical psychology, to the understanding of traumatic stress, to governance roles, and to tertiary education.
AO Emeritus Professor Harold McIntyre For distinguished service to medicine as a clinician, to medical research and education, to policy development, and to allied health administration.
AO Emeritus Professor Michael Roberts For distinguished service to pharmaceutical science and medicine, to the advancement of topical drug delivery, and to clinical toxicology research.
AO Professor Hans Peter Soyer For distinguished service to dermatology, to the diagnosis of skin cancer, to medical research and development, and to governance roles.
AM Mr Matthew Ames For significant service to community health, to engineering, to business administration, and to corporate governance.
AM Mrs Faith Baisden For significant service to Indigenous language preservation and education.
AM Dr Robin Beaman For significant service to marine geology, to ocean mapping, and to geomorphology.
AM Dr Bianca Beetson For significant service to Indigenous art as an educator, curator and artist.
AM Professor Emerita Tracey Bunda For significant service to tertiary education and research, and to the Indigenous community.
AM Ms Debra Camden For significant service to the public relations and strategic communications industry.
AM Mr Bryce Camm For significant service to the beef cattle industry, to horse sports, and to the community.
AM Mr Spencer Grammer For significant service to trailer manufacturing, and to Defence capability.
AM Mrs Christine Grant For significant service to preserving Indigenous culture and heritage.
AM (Honorary) Mr Andrew Greig For significant service to the community through philanthropic initiatives.
AM Professor Noel Hayman For significant service to medicine, particularly to Indigenous health care and medical education.
AM Mr Howard Hobbs For significant service to the people and Parliament of Queensland, and to the community.
AM Professor Warwick Middleton For significant service to psychiatric medicine, and to research into and treatment of complex traumagenic dissociation.
AM Ms Yvonne Mullins For significant service to international sports administration, and to athletics.
AM Dr John North For significant service to orthopaedic medicine, to international surgery outreach, and to education and training.
AM Dr Hope O'Chin For significant service to the Indigenous community as an artist and educator.
AM Mr Robert Petie For significant service to industrial relations, to corporate governance, and to the community.
AM Mr Christopher Raine For significant service to community health, and to social welfare.
AM Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson For significant service to pharmaceutical medicine, to academic leadership, and to tertiary education.
AM Mrs Carmel Smith For significant service to golf through governance roles, and as a player and administrator.
AM Dr Shane Sondergeld For significant service to rural and remote medicine, to general practice, and to the community.
AM Dr Rebecca Spindler For significant service to conservation science, to wildlife reproduction research, and to biodiversity protection.
AM Mr James Stanton PSM For significant service to conservation, to wildlife ecology, and to wet tropics management.
AM Mr Jason Steinberg For significant service to the Jewish community in Queensland, and to historical commemoration.
AM Associate Professor Michael Steyn For significant service to anaesthesiology and peri-operative medicine, and to health leadership.
AM Professor Sean Tweedy For significant service to para sport, to adapted physical activity research, and to tertiary education.
AM Professor Balasubramaniam Venkatesh For significant service to critical and intensive care medicine, to infection control, and to tertiary education.
AM Professor Emeritus Ljubo Vlacic For significant service to control systems engineering, and to tertiary education.
AM Dr Raymond Weekes For significant service to business management and education.
CSC Lieutenant Colonel Richard Adamson For outstanding achievement in advancing tactical communications and developing warfighting-focused communicators.
CSC Lieutenant Colonel Jason Long For outstanding achievement in tactical logistics design and enabling 3rd Brigade’s transformation to an Armoured Formation.
CSC Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Mitchell For outstanding achievement as a senior Staff Officer in Joint Operations Command and Commanding Officer of Task Force 12 on Operation OKRA from January 2023 to November 2024.
CSC Lieutenant Colonel Justin Robinson For outstanding achievement in the development of capability in support of homeland defence.
CSC Major Joshua Clarke For outstanding achievement in command and space capability development as Officer Commanding Number 74 Squadron.
CSC Squadron Leader Emily Hartley For outstanding achievement in C-17A sustainment support for the Royal Australian Air Force.
PSM Mr Jamie Crew For outstanding public service in leadership and driving organisational reform in Commonwealth and state courts and tribunals.
PSM Mr Craig Gardner For outstanding public service in safety, wellbeing, and building capability across road and transport infrastructure for Queensland.
PSM Mr Nigel Greenup For outstanding public service to the protection and preservation of Australia’s unique natural environments, and to the people and communities who depend upon them.
PSM Associate Professor Helen Irving For outstanding public service to paediatric health care in Queensland.
PSM Dr Michael Walker For outstanding public service in transport safety, nationally and internationally.
PSM Mr Paul Walmsley For outstanding public service to the economic development of rural and regional Queensland.
PSM Dr Sandy Wilson For outstanding public service to child protection in Queensland.
PSM Ms Dalassa Yorkston For outstanding public service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and local government in Queensland.
APM Chief Superintendent Marcus Hill For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Detective Superintendent George Marchesini For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Chief Inspector Tyler Crosby For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Detective Inspector Lisa Scully For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Senior Sergeant Ritchie Callaghan For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Senior Sergeant   R For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
APM Sergeant Christopher Sullivan For distinguished service as a member of an Australian police force.
AFSM Mr Rodney Evans For distinguished service as a member of an Australian fire service.
AFSM Mr Justin Francis For distinguished service as a member of an Australian fire service.
AFSM Mr Daren Mallouk For distinguished service as a member of an Australian fire service.
AFSM Mr Stephen Malone For distinguished service as a member of an Australian fire service.
ASM Ms Sandra Osbourne (Gawn) For distinguished service as a member of an Australian ambulance service.
ASM Ms Vanessa Schafranek For distinguished service as a member of an Australian ambulance service.
ASM Ms Krystal Smith For distinguished service as a member of an Australian ambulance service.
ESM Mrs Cindel Richardson For distinguished service as a member of an Australian emergency service.
ESM Mr John Wallace For distinguished service as a member of an Australian emergency service.
ACM Ms Julie Inglis For distinguished service as a member of an Australian correctional service.
ACM Assistant Commissioner Samantha Newman For distinguished service as a member of an Australian correctional service.
ACM Mr Mark Spicer For distinguished service as a member of an Australian correctional service.
OAM Mrs Annabelle Alexander For service to the arts, and to the community.
OAM Mr Douglas Alexander For service to the arts, and to the community.
OAM Mrs Maxine Appo For service to tourism, and to the Indigenous community of Queensland.
OAM Mr Ross Augustine For service to the community of Frankston.
OAM Mrs Susan Bamford For service to netball.
OAM Mrs Silvia Brown For service to nursing.
OAM Mr John Browning For service to education administration, and to the community.
OAM Mr Christopher Burgess For service to veterans and their families.
OAM Mrs Christine Castley For service to the multicultural community, and to public administration.
OAM Mrs Usha Chandra For service to the Indian community of Queensland.
OAM Dr Thomas Condon For service to dentistry, and to the community of Southern Downs.
OAM Mrs Rachel Condos-Fields For service to youth, and to the community.
OAM Mr Marshall Cox For service to the community of Toowoomba.
OAM Mrs Judith Crighton For service to conservation and wildlife.
OAM Mr John Custance For service to surf lifesaving.
OAM Miss Deslee Daley For service to youth, and to the community.
OAM Mr Brian Downs For service to the community of Ashgrove.
OAM Mrs Florence Drury For service to the community through a range of roles.
OAM Mr Wayne Fossey For service to the Indigenous communities of southern Queensland.
OAM Ms Christine Fox For service to health administration, and to the community.
OAM Mr Ian Frame For service to youth, and to rugby league.
OAM Dr Dilipkumar Gahankari For service to plastic and reconstructive surgery.
OAM Associate Professor Alan Gale For service to cardiothoracic surgery, and to the community.
OAM Mrs Jacqueline Gasson For service to the arts as a ceramicist.
OAM The late Mrs Helen Gregory For service to community history.
OAM Ms Teresa Handicott For service to business, and to corporate governance.
OAM The Reverend Dr Timothy Hanna For service to the church, and to charitable organisations.
OAM Mrs Dawn Hay For service to the community through a range of roles.
OAM Mr Craig Holden For service to the community, and to surf lifesaving.
OAM Mr Deuk Rae Kim For service to boxing.
OAM Mr Nigel King For service to the community through a range of organisations.
OAM Dr Rodney Kirkpatrick For service to community history.
OAM Mr Ross Lee For service to the law, and to the community.
OAM (Honorary) Mrs  Wendy Lion For service to early childhood education.
OAM Mr William Lowis For service to local government, and to the community of the Burdekin Shire.
OAM Mr Neville Male For service to photography.
OAM Mr Lawrence Molachino For service to the community of Ingham.
OAM Mr Mark Neave For service to youth.
OAM Dr Robert Newby For service to conservation and the environment.
OAM Ms Kathleen Noonan For service to social welfare.
OAM Mrs Lesley Pryor For service to youth through foster care.
OAM Mr Geoffrey Robertson For service to baseball.
OAM Ms Tammy Robinson For service to the community, and to youth.
OAM Mr Kenneth Roma For service to veterans.
OAM Mr Colin Schulz For service to surf lifesaving.
OAM Mr Clarence Sheraton For service to the community through a range of roles.
OAM Mr Charles Sherrin For service to veterans and their families.
OAM Mr David Shields For service to surf lifesaving.
OAM Mrs Susan Skinner For service to youth with disability.
OAM The late Mr Ian Sobbe For service to palaeontology.
OAM Mr Clinton Stanley For service to people with disability through swimming.
OAM Mr Cornelis Steenland For service to youth, and to sailing.
OAM  Dr Colin Stewart For service to secondary media education.
OAM Mr Colin Strofield For service to the law.
OAM Mr Christopher Symonds For service to the community of Queensland.
OAM Mr William te Kloot For service to business governance and risk management.
OAM Mrs Anna Turetschek For service to gymnastics as a coach and administrator.
OAM Mrs Lynette Turner For service to the community through disaster relief roles.
OAM Ms Theano (Tina) Viney For service to the beauty and aesthetics industry.
OAM Ms Cecile Wake For service to the energy supply industry, and to education.
OAM Mrs Karen Wallwork For service to community history.
OAM Mr David Westlake For service to the community of Manly-Wynnum.
OAM Mr Craig Williams For service to surf lifesaving.
OAM (Mil) Lieutenant Commander Mohab Hanna RAN For meritorious performance of duty in the field of maintenance delivery services to the Royal Australian Navy.
OAM (Mil) Major Andrew Crook For meritorious performance of duty as a Regimental Sergeant Major and senior enlisted leader in the Australian Army.
OAM (Mil) Warrant Officer Class One Michael Beeton For meritorious performance of duty as the Regimental Sergeant Major of the Australian Army Band.
OAM (Mil) Warrant Officer Class One Wayne Davis For meritorious performance of duty as an Artificer Sergeant Major and as the Master Artificer Technician Electrical for the Australian Army.
OAM (Mil) Warrant Officer Class One Gregg Orlicki For meritorious performance of duty as the Regimental Sergeant Major within various units.
CSM Major Christopher Grimes For meritorious devotion to duty as a United Nations Military Observer deployed on Operation PALADIN from January 2024 to January 2025.
CSM Wing Commander Timothy Shaw For meritorious devotion to duty in the training and development of Papua New Guinea’s sovereign aviation capability.
CSM Flight Lieutenant Alexander Quitzau For meritorious achievement in the application of exceptional skills, and judgement in air mobility planning for the Australian Defence Force.
CSM Warrant Officer Class One Daniel Leatham For meritorious achievement as the Regimental Artificer Sergeant Major of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
CSM Warrant Officer Class Two Matthew Solis For meritorious achievement as the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Section Commander and Platoon Sergeant within the 31st/42nd Battalion, the Royal Queensland Regiment.