1982 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
# 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)

The 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations and were announced on 13 June 1982 in Australia.

The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.

## Order of Australia

### Knight of the Order of Australia (AK)

**General Division**

| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| The Honourable Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, KCMG OBE | For service to politics and local government | |

### Companion (AC)

**General Division**

| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Professor Robert John Walsh, AO OBE | For service to industry | |

### Officer (AO)

**General Division**

| Recipient | Citation |
| - | - |
| John Gosman Allwright | For service to primary industry |
| Richard Austen | For service to the coal industry |
| Dr Robert Francis Brissenden | For service to literature |
| Dr Joan Helen Bryan | For service to medical research |
| Emeritus Professor Gilbert James Butland | For service to education |
| Evonne Fay Cawley, MBE | For services to the sport of tennis |
| John Edmund Duggan | For service to parliamentary and local government services |
| The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Andreas Evatt | For service to law |
| Frank Randall Harris | For public service |
| Lloyd James Hartigan | For service to industry |
| Frank Colin Hassell | For service to architecture |
| Associate Professor Donald Richmond Horne | For service to literature |
| John Barry Humphries | For service to the theatre |
| The Honourable Justice Samuel Joshua Jacobs | For service to the community |
| Henry Frederick Jensen | For parliamentary and local government service |
| Raymond John Kirby | For service to industry |
| Dr Kenneth David Muirden | For service to medicine |
| The Reverend Arthur William Preston, OBE | For service to the community |
| Phillip Lovett Ridings | For service to the sport of cricket |
| Captain Robert James Ritchie, CBE | For public and community service |
| Henry Edwin Rossitor | For public service |
| Professor Alan George Lewers Shaw | For service to education |
| Roy McCowan Simpson | For service to architecture |
| Professor Ralph Owen Slatyer | For service to science |
| Kenneth Wilberforce Tribe, AM | For service to the arts, particularly in the field of music |
| Carlo Valmorbida | For service to ethnic welfare |
| John Sampson White, CMG | For public service |
| David George Druce Yencken | For service to conservation and history |

**Military Division**

| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Navy | Rear Admiral Rothesay Cathcart Swan, CBE | For service as Director General of the Natural Disasters Organisation and as Controller of Establishments in the Department of Defence | |
| Air Force | Air Vice Marshal James Hilary Flemming, AM | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force | |

### Member (AM)

**General Division**

| Recipient | Citation |
| - | - |
| Brother Oswald Stanislaus Adams | For service to education |
| Reverend Ronald William Allardice | For service to religion |
| Alan Jack Antonio | For service to local government |
| Bert Frederick George Apps | For service to the community |
| Professor John Bloomfield | For service to sports medicine |
| William Henri Bowen | For service to the community |
| Raymond Burkitt | For service to the community and industry |
| Eugene Allan Norbert Byrne | For service to the sport of Rugby Union |
| Mervyn James Callaghan | For service to the community and trade unionism |
| John William Callow | For service to medicine |
| Kenneth Livingstone Carr | For service to the community and the welfare of youths |
| The Reverend Canon Ivor Frederick Church | For service to religion |
| Audrey William Conn | For service to the public |
| Professor John Douglas Correll Crisp | For service to engineering |
| Charles Philip Cullen | For service to education |
| James Bartholomew Cummings | For service to the sport of horse racing |
| Alderman Ronald Edward Davis | For service to the community and local government |
| John Edward Delaney | For service as a hospital administrator |
| Colin Boyd Dunlop | For service to the community |
| Keith Stacey Edmunds | For service to the public |
| Samuel Fisher | For service to the community |
| Dr The Honourable Derek David Freeman | For service to dentistry |
| Maurice Desmond Frost | For public service |
| Neil William Hunt Furness | For service to commerce and education |
| Ronald Malcolm Gibbs | For service to education |
| James Wallace Goulter | For service to the community |
| Commander James Stewart Guest, OBE | For service to medicine |
| Professor Leslie Keith Humble | For service to music |
| William George Solomon Huxley | For services to conservation |
| Dr Roger John Ingham | For service to education |
| Dr Owen Francis James | For service to medicine |
| George Joseph | For service to local government and to the community |
| William Herbert Kenworthy | For service to local government and to the community |
| Darani Lewers | For service to craft and the manual arts |
| Dr Kathleen Rachel Makinson | For public service |
| The Honourable Peter McMahon | For service to trade unionism and community |
| John West McMaster | For service to surf life saving |
| Brigadier Ernest George McNamara, OBE ED RL | For public service |
| Diana d'Este Medlin | For service to education |
| William Waldron Goss Meecham | For service to commerce and industry |
| Bernard Grant Mitchell | For service to education |
| Ernest Edward Morris | For service to the building industry |
| The Right Reverend Cecil Emerson Barron Muschamp | For service to the community and to religion |
| John William O'Neill | For service to agriculture |
| Thomas James Perrott | For service to the community |
| Thomas Mansergh Pickering | For service to jazz music and to librarianship |
| Harold Edward Porter | For service to literature |
| Dr Corrie Reye | For service to medicine |
| Frederick John Roberts | For public service |
| Lincoln Gordon Rowe | For service to industry and commerce |
| Major Madge Rush | For service to the community |
| Harry Stickland | For service to local government |
| Gladys Evelyn Tanner | For service to nursing |
| Arthur Grahame Taylor | For service to the community |
| Dr Marjorie Ruth Walker | For service to medicine |
| Peter Lindsay Weir | For service to the film industry |
| Frank Wickham | For public service |

**Military Division**

| Branch | Recipient | Citation |
| - | - | - |
| Navy | Captain Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss | Captain Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss |
| Navy | Captain Daryl Robin Osmond Shaw Fox | For service to the Royal Australian Navy |
| Navy | Commander Brian Lee Spark | For service to the Royal Australian Navy |
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Gerard Curtis, MC | For service to the SAS Regiment |
| Army | Colonel John Talbot Dunn, MBE | For services to the Australian Army in the field of medicine |
| Army | Colonel John Garth Hughes | For service to the Australian Army |
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bentley Knight | For service to the Australian Army |
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel Peter Donald Knight | For service to the Australian Army |
| Army | Lieutenant Colonel James Baildon Potter, ED | For service to the Army Reserve |
| Air Force | Wing Commander John Herbert Dunn | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Number 5 Squadron |
| Air Force | Wing Commander James Keith Gray Moore | For service to the Department of Defence (Air Force Officer) |
| Air Force | Wing Commander Brian O'Connell | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force |
| Air Force | Wing Commander Harold Ernst Adam Pfeffer | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force |

## Knight Bachelor

* George Kneipp — For service to education and to the community.
