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:
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. |