1999 Australia Day Honours – Wikipedia

Recipient Citation Notes June Patricia Adams For service to the community of the Tumut Shire [1] Sister Josephine Mary Agnew For service to nursing, particularly through the Mater Private Hospital John Anagnostou For service to the Greek community and to veterans through the Greek Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia Carmelita Bestil Anderson For service to women’s lawn bowls June May Angus For service to the community through the NSW Branch of the Presbyterian Women’s Association Henri Walter Aram For service to the community and to improving public awareness and understanding of the principles of finance and investment Haneef Badrudeen For service to Australian Asian relations through the Sri Lankan and Indian communities, and for services to the Australian Muslim community Dolores Ball For service to the community as founder of the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Support Group Phyllis Margaret Bannan For service to the care and support of people with intellectual disabilities in South Australia Roy Charles Barber For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the POW Association and the TPI Association in Tasmania Barbara May Barnes For service to the community and to youth through the Bankstown Youth Foundation Margaret Clare Barrie For service to youth through Guides Australia Charles Robertson Barton For service to the promotion of Australian classical composers and performers as programmer, on-air presenter and producer Reuben Roy Basham For service to veterans and to the community Peter Francis Batey For service to the arts as a producer and director, and to the community Reginald Ryan Baxter For service to the Lismore community, particularly through sporting groups and local government Janet Alison Beckman For service to the community, particularly through library services and animal welfare Christine Elizabeth Berry For service to animal welfare, particularly through the Donkey Society of New South Wales Kaye Lesley Birkbeck For service to the welfare of children as a foster parent Emma Marie Blackhurst For service to the community of Dunsborough Dr John (Hans) Bollig For service to the community, particularly in the areas of aged care and youth development Walter Spencer Bough For service to the community of Cheltenham Councillor Sylvia Janet Brandenburg For service to local government, to regional development, and to the community of the Lake Grace district Janine Minna Bravery For service to the visual arts William Brown For service to the community through the Victorian State Emergency Service Dr Anthony Roland Buhagiar For service to medicine in the field of general practice, and to the Maltese community Arthur William Bullen For service to youth, particularly through scouting and junior rugby union football Dianne Marie Burge For service to community health, particularly through the Arthritis Foundation of South Australia George Alfred Burne For service to the Australian film industry as a cinematographer Jack Butcher For service to the community through brass bands and choirs Doris Marjorie Byrne For service to the community of Allora and district Michael John Byrnes For service to surf lifesaving Ronald John Cahill For service to the community through charitable organisations, and to the law Dr Robert Norman Castle For service to the community of Stawell as a general practitioner Clifford Ernest Chamberlain For service to the community of Albury-Wodonga and to the preservation of local history Richard Thomas Chant For service to the community of North Queensland as a sports commentator Kevin Chapman For service to the media as a parliamentary broadcaster, and to the community Russell William Clark For service to the community through the Port Fairy Folk Festival, and to local government Dr Miles De Courcy Clarke For service to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance Alice Lillian Coleman For service to the community of the Atherton Tablelands Dr Stephen Clive Cox For service to oral health programmes through the United Mission to Nepal June Alison Craw For service to arts administration through the Queensland Theatre Company Elizabeth Martin Crichton For service to the community of Nyngan Aldo Arthur Crotti For service to the community as a philanthropist Charles Lawrence Curley For service to charitable organisations within Australia and overseas Gary John Cuthbert For service to youth through sport Captain Jack Kenneth Davenport For service to aviation safety Richard Hasse Davis For service to tourism, particularly through the Caravan Parks Association of South Australia Elizabeth Mary Davis For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Aris Egbertus de Jong For service to conservation, to environmental education, and to entomology Selby Verdon Dean, DCM For service to local government and to the community Lynda Susan Dean For service to the tea tree industry and to the community Kevin John Dent For service to the community, particularly through the New South Wales State Emergency Service Roslyn Marion Derrett For service to regional cultural development and to tourism Maurice George Dick For service to veterans and their families through the Limbless Soldiers’ Association of Australia Donald Charles Dickson For service to veterans, and to the community of Brunswick Heads Joan Ffoukes Doney For service to the conservation of Australian native plants Dorothy Marion Douglas For service to the community, particularly through the Salvation Army and St John Ambulance and various fundraising activities James William Dryden For service to youth through the Scout Association and Guides Australia Douglas George Dufty For service to marine rescue and boating safety William Henry Dunn For service to the Penrith community Henry William Dunn For services to the community and to veterans Dr Arthur James Dyer For service to amateur theatre Dr Bruce Berkeley Edelman For service to the community and to local government Alfred William Eden For service to the communities of Portarlington and the Bellarine Peninsula Bruce William Edmunds For service to sailing Stanley John Edwards For service to the community of Dunsborough Angelo Efstathis, CBE For service to the community as a philanthropist Ronald Charles Ellis For service to the Australian Red Cross Society, particularly through the development of fundraising services Dr Ernest Bert England For service to community health, particularly through the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund Francis Campbell Evans For service to the community of Cessnock, particularly through scouting and the Lions Club Miles Farmer For service to people with disabilities through the Riding for the Disabled Association Elaine Kaye Farmer For service to surf lifesaving Graeme Arthur Ferguson For service to people with visual impairments Gunhilde Leopoldine Ferris For service to classical dance as a teacher and performer Henry Leslie Firth For service to motor racing as a driver, team manager and engineer Helen Elizabeth Fletcher For service to people with disabilities through the Aid and Recreation Association for the Disabled Ruth Ann Fletcher For service to youth through Guides Australia Olive Jacqueline Jean Fowler For service to the community of Camden Michael William Fraser For service to local government and to the community Walter Robert Freeman For service to the community through establishing Probus Clubs, particularly in the Central North Coast Region John Edward Frost For service to the performing arts Kenneth Frederick Gardiner For service to the welfare of veterans and aged people Sidney Milton Garland For service to the community through the Canterbury Bankstown Leagues Club William Edward Gaynor, RFD For service to surf lifesaving Dr Laurence Edwin Georgeson For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross Dr Arthur Malcolm Gill For service to scientific research into bushfires and their effects on the environment Irene Stella Gillard For service to veterans, and to the performing arts Lyall Leslie Gillespie, ISO For service to the community, particularly through the research and documentation of the history of the Canberra region Leonard Matthew Gleeson For service to the grain industry in Western Australia, and to the community Bernie Gold For service to the Jewish community and to sport through Maccabi Australia Ethel Verna Goodman For service to the community of Albany, particularly through the preservation and restoration of the National Trust property “Old Farm Strawberry Hill” Lynette Beverley Gray For service to baton twirling as a coach and administrator Kenneth Donald Green For service to youth, particularly through the Naval Reserve Cadets Beverley Joy Greet For service to community health, particularly to women with HIV/AIDS Doris Lillian Gribble For service to the community, particularly aged people Clive Mayor Hall For service to the wool industry and futures trading, and to the community Reverend Dr Allen Harry Hall For service to bilingual education programmes and the translation of Aboriginal languages Lady April Felicity Hamer For service to the community through charitable organisations Harry Ronald Harborne For service to the community of Moree Warren James Harris For service to the community of Burnie, particularly through the Lions Club Clive Andrew Hartcher For service to the paint industry through the development of polymers and coatings for specific industrial use Barbara Jean Hebden For service to the promotion of music and the performing arts in Queensland James Haig Henderson For service to former members of No 10 Repair and Salvage Unit and their families Michael Conway Hendrikson For service to the craft of wheelwrighting Michael John Hennessey For service to the community, particularly through the Granville Train Disaster Memorial Committee Norman Hibbert For service as a fundraiser and supporter of community and charitable organisations Robert Martin Hitchcock For service to Rugby Union football, particularly as coach of the Australian Rugby Union Women’s team June Ellen Holdsworth For service to the community of Camden Richard Alan Holland For service to community health, particularly as a carer for people with HIV/AIDS Jessica Millicent Horder For service to people with disabilities through Riding for the Disabled Sister Mary Alphonsus Horgan For service to music education John Edward Hughes, APM For service to the community Stanley Hunt For service to the Chinese community Reverend Richard Warwick Hurford For service to the Grafton community through the Anglican Church James Husband, BEM For service to the welfare of veterans and their families through the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Association John Williss Hutchinson For service to the wool industry, particularly as a shearing instructor and coordinator of training Dr Elizabeth Rae Jane For service to medicine in the field of general practice, and to the community through Soroptimist International John William Johnston For service to the community of Scone Alwynne Beryl Jona For service to the community through the Victorian Association for the Blind Elaine Jones For service to the community of Narrabri Wlodzimierz Anthony Jucha For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Polish Ex-Servicemen’s Association and the 8th Battalion Association Despina Kalaf For service to the Greek community John Maxwell Kidd For service to the community, particularly youth, and to Rugby Union football Susanne Gay King For service to squash Dr Robert Peter Knight For service to the development of veterinary services in the community of Terang and Noorat Matti Allan Kolkka For service to surf lifesaving Maria Krupska For service to the Polish community Leonard Bruce Kubbere For service to the community and to tourism through the establishment of the Featherdale Wildlife Park Esme Lane For service to youth through the scouting movement Harold Murray Lang For service to local government and to the community John Harold Albert Lang For service to the community through charitable and service organisations Kevin Raymond Langdon For service to the community through the Motor Neurone Disease Association of New South Wales Betty Irene Lawrence For service to the community of Red Cliffs Sylvia May Le Marquand For service to youth through Guides Australia, and to the community Claire Elizabeth Lee For service to the St Mary’s Polio Rehabilitation Centre in Andra Pradesh, India, as a missionary and physiotherapist Philip Leong For service to the community of Townsville Basil Richard Lewers For service to recreational and sport fishing David Barton Lewis For service to Rugby Union football Robert Alfred Little For service to surf lifesaving Malcolm David Little For service to the community Malcolm Reid Lobsey For service to the community and to local government Jack Kingsley Looney For service to veterans and to the community Dr Peter Robin Macneil For service to rural medicine, and to community health John Richard Maidment For service to Australia’s cultural heritage through the Organ Historical Trust of Australia Tamara Makeev For service to the Russian Orthodox community, and to the Ethnic Communities Council of the ACT Marie Amy Manning For service to the development of community information services in South Australia Adrian Edward Mannix For service to the communities of Drysdale and the Bellarine Peninsula Stephen John Mason For service to veterans as editor of the Australian Special Wireless Group Association newsletter Linda Doone Mayne For service to people with disabilities through the Sunshine Welfare and Remedial Association John Anthony McAuliffe For service to junior surf lifesaving, and to lawn tennis George McBride For service to the community through the Lions Club and Meals on Wheels Bettine Patricia McCaughan For service to the arts, particularly as a teacher of voice Ronald David McClure For service to the sugar cane industry, particularly in the Mackay region Craig John McDermott For service to cricket and to the community Bevan John McDonald For service to the community through the Salvation Army and Rotary Albert Louis McDonell For service to veterans and to the community Graeme McGee For service to the community, particularly through Fire and Emergency Services, and to competitive long bore shooting events Shauna Fogarty McGilvray For service to the community through the Graffiti Alert Project and the Legal Arts Crew Annette Jean McGuiness For service to community health, and to the welfare of the people of Wedge Island Cleveland John (Toby) McLeish For service to the community, particularly as bandmaster of the Cowra Band Roslyn Anne McLeod For service to the tourism industry, particularly through the promotion of Australian venues and facilities for conferences and meetings Roy Anthony Peter Medich For service to the community through fund raising Robert John Meehan For service to Vietnam veterans and to the preservation of military history Giuseppe Gianfranco Merizzi For service to the Italian community Robert John Middleton For service to lawn bowls William George Dyer Middleton For service to conservation and the environment, and to land management Graeme Allan Millar For service to the community of Gisborne John Antill Millett For service to literature as editor of Poetry Australia Elizabeth Milnes For service to pioneering and facilitating the development and infrastructure of Alice Springs Ethel May Mitchell For service to the Uniting Church in Australia (Victorian Synod) and to the community Warren John Mitchell For service to surf lifesaving through the development and introduction of the inflatable rescue boat (IRB) Eric George Molyneux For service to veterans, particularly through the 2/43rd Battalion Association and the 10th Field Regiment Association Olive Marie Mulholland For service to the community through welfare organisations of the Catholic Church Jean Estelle Neilson For service to secondary education through the development of innovative programmes for girls, and to the community Gwendoline Newitt For service to the community of Sorrell Stanley Alfred Newman For service to the community, particularly through arts organisations, and to local government Jack Thomas Newman For service to the community through the St Giles Society, and to architecture Ann Elizabeth Nichol For service to aged care and to community health organisations Edna Louie Florence Norton-Baker For service to the community as a fundraiser John Charles O’Donnell For service to the performing arts, particularly through the Cairns Choral Society and the North Queensland Eisteddfod Council Richard Quin O’Neill For service to the community, particularly through the Murgon Local Ambulance Committee Alma Doris O’Rourke For service to nursing, particularly aged care Joseph Thaddeus O’Sullivan, OBE For service to the community, particularly through the Australian-Irish Heritage Association, the Perth Centre of International Pen and the W B Yeats Society Jillian Anne Munro Nivison Oppenheimer For service to heritage conservation and the environment, particularly through the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) Kenneth Paul Owens For service to the community of Redhead Daniel William Page For service to the community of Blanchetown Thelma Ann Parish For service to the community, particularly to children with intellectual disabilities and their families Albert Graham Parish For service to the community, particularly to children with intellectual disabilities and their families Frank Passalaqua For service to the community of Guildford Raymond Passmore For service to veterans and to the community Henry John Paternoster For service to cricket and to the community Francis William Pengelly For service to lawn bowls and to the community Rosemary Jean Penn For service to visually impaired people, particularly through the South Australian Blind Cricket Club Ann Penny For service to ex-servicewomen and to the community Shirley Dawn Penny For service to the community of Mildura and district Brian Neville Phemister For service to the community through the New South Wales Retired Commissioned Officers’ Association Richard Robert Phillips For service to the preservation of Australia’s military history and heritage Stanley Robert Ping For service to the community and to local government Sister Camille Poidevine For service to community health and to music education John Crichton Polack For service to the community, particularly to aged care The Reverend Joyce Sylvia Polson For service to the community through the Anglican Church Norman Geoffrey Poulter For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the Speleological Research Group of Western Australia Fofy Prouzos For service to the Greek community John Adrian Pulbrook For service to the community of Morawa Colleen Mary Pyne For service to education, and to the establishment of the North Australia Research Unit Mavis Irene Quartermaine For service to youth through Guides Australia, and to the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society Elaine Phyllis Quickenden For service to the environment through the Lamington Natural History Association Frederick Ernest Raffo For service to youth and to veterans Eileen Patricia Redrup For service to the community through charitable organisations Alan John Rees For service to youth, particularly through the Australian Services Cadet Scheme Dr Edgar Richard Reid For service to community medicine as a general practitioner, to veterans and to sporting groups George Percy Reid For service to the community, particularly through the Coleambally Rescue Service and the Murrumbidgee Shire Bushfire Service Richard David Richmond Rex, BEM For service to veterans and their families Joy Rice For service to the community, particularly through the Radar Air Defence Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force Association Lyal Gordon Richardson For service to local government and to the community Jean Ivy Lucy Roberts For service to women in South Australia through the National Council of Women and the Churches of Christ The Reverend Father John Brendan Rogers For service to the community, and to veterans and their families Robert George Romanes For service to the community through the Recreation Industry Council of Australia Russell Sidney Ronan For service to the community, particularly through Ballina Tidy Towns and Riding for the Disabled John Duncan Ross For service to tourism and to charitable organisations Francis Thomas Rowell For service to veterans Desmond John Rundle For service to cricket administration Douglas John Rymer For service to veterans and to the community Mavis Jean Salisbury For service to the preservation and recording of community history Evelyn Margaret Scott For service to children with intellectual disabilities, particularly through the ACT Down Syndrome Association Dr Dorothy Scott For service to the discipline of social welfare through research and education, and to the development of specialist support services in the areas of ante- and post-natal depression and child abuse and neglect Walter Batchelor Scott-Smith For service to youth through the Scout Association of Australia, and to the community John William Seager For service to veterans through the New South Wales section of the Naval Association and the Submariners’ Association of Australia Helen Audrey Ray Searle For service to athletics as a coach, administrator and competitor Christopher Sheed For service to conservation and to the preservation of old growth forests Donald Herbert Sheffield For service to the Institute of Municipal Engineering Australia Councillor Anthony John Sheridan For service to local government Caroline Elisabeth Oswald Simpson For service to the conservation of Australian heritage Bessie Sledge For service to conservation and the environment through the Cooleman Ridge Parkcare Group Gwendoline Betty Small For service to the community, particularly through the Raymond Terrace Ladies’ Bowling Club George Smith For service to the welfare of veterans through the 7th Australian Division Association and the 2/25th Field Regiment Association Harry Smith For service to aged people, and to sport Gavin John Staines For service to music education, particularly through school and community bands Giovanni (John) Stefanelli For service to the community through business and service organisations Margaret Frances Stevens For service to the community of Roebourne, particularly through the Pilbara Aboriginal Church David George Stevens For service to

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Maxwell Alan Wyndham Stone For service to the community of Broadmeadows, and to local government Philip Gordon Swan For service to the community, particularly children, as a Primary School Chaplain Mabel Dowling Taylor For service to the community of Ballarat Clifford Frank Theilley For service to cricket through the Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association Zillah Helen Thomas For service to the community of Katanning, particularly through the Good Samaritan Industries Enid Sydney Thompson For service to the community, particularly through the Schizophrenia Fellowship of Victoria Joseph Thomsen For service to veterans and to the community Moya Margaret Turner For service to the community of Penrith Leonard James Turner, MBE For service to veterans through the Western Australian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia Carole Turner For service to the community, particularly through the Fairfield Community Aid and Information Service Frank Samuel Van Straten For service to the performing arts as a historian, museum director and radio broadcaster Walter Rhodes Varley For service to veterans through the 2/1st Australian Armoured Brigade Reconnaissance Squadron Association Joan Margaret Vaughan For service to the community, particularly through surf lifesaving Peter Anthony Vodic For service to the mining industry, and to the community of Broken Hill Dr William Downing Walker For service to overseas medical aid programmes through Interplast John William Walker For service to local government and to the community Helen Jean Walker For service to the community, particularly aged people Jozef Waclaw Wasiel For service to the Polish community Agnes Irene Webb For service to the community, particularly through the United Hospital Auxiliaries Kim West For service to the community through Life Education Victoria Penelope Jane White For service to veterans as a physiotherapist Alexander Geoffrey Duckett White For service to the community through the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation Cynthia Joan Williams For service to the community of Guyra Mary Louise Willsallen For service to the sport of carriage driving, particularly through the Equestrian Federation of Australia and the Australian Driving Society Shirley Cameron Wilson For service to the community, particularly through art organisations Harold Woodward For service to youth through scouting, and to the community Bryan Aland Woolcock For service to veterinary science, and to the community Ernest Eric Zillmann For service to the observation, recording and promotion of Australia’s natural history