The 1990 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1990 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden.
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.
† indicates an award given posthumously.
Order of Australia Companion (AC) General Division Recipient Citation Notes William Archer Gunn, For service to primary industry John Carew Eccles For service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology Thomas Weetman Smith, For service to the law and to legal institutions Sidney Baillieu Myer For service to business and commerce, to government and to the community
Officers (AO) General Division Recipient Citation NotesLewis Barrett, For service to banking and accounting Kevin Bleasel For service to medicine, particularly in the field of neurosurgery Allan Robert Border, For service to the sport of cricket Bettina Cass For service to social security policy and women's affairsWilliam Harold Clough, For service to engineering and to the construction industry Michael John Cook For service to the public service David Miles Danks For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics and birth defects William Duncan Ferris For service to international trade and to industry Francis Robert Fisher For service to the law and to education Ronald Gordon Fry, For service to industrial relations John Gandel For service to business, commerce and to the community Rosemary Goldie For service to religion and to international relations Trevor William Haines For public service George Vincent Hall For service to medicine, particularly as a cardiologist Ken Robert Handley, For service to the law and to religion William Samuel Calhoun Hare For service to medicine, particularly in the field of radiology Peter Dunstan Hastings† For service to journalism John Basil Hennessy For service to archaeology and to international relations Harry Payne Heseltine For service to education particularly in the field of Australian literature Phillip William Hughes For service to education Ralph James Dunnett Hunt For service to the Australian Parliament Daryl Sanders Jackson For service to architecture William Kaye, For service to the law Michael Stockton Keating For public service Neal Francis Kent For public service and service to transport Paul Ivan Korner For service to medicine, particularly in the field of research Colin John Lanceley For service to art, particularly as a painter and sculptor Peter Gordon Livingstone For public service George Alfred Lloyd, For service to aviation and to international relations Robert Bernard Maybury For service to finance, particularly through the building society movement Isabel McBryde For service to education, particularly in the field of Australian prehistory Roderick Duncan McLeod For service to primary industry, particularly grain growing Frank Harland Mills For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiothoracic surgery Gerald White Milton For service to medicine, particularly in the field of malignant melanoma Grevor Chilton Molyneux, For service to the community, particularly in the field of health administration and fund raising Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, For service to music Eric Gerard Perkins For service to religion and to social welfare Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, For service to music Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson, For service to government and politics and to the Victorian parliament Elizabeth Catherine Usher For service as a speech therapist to people with disabilities Glenn Royce Donal Waldron For service to the law Nancy-Bird Walton, For service to aviation, particularly the participation of women in aviation John Yeowart For service to the coal mining industry Michael Jerome Young For service to the Australian parliament
Military Division Branch Recipient Citation NotesNavy David Guy Holthouse For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Logistics) Peter Clifford Mitchell For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Anzac Ship Project DirectorArmy Brian William Howard For service to the Australian Army as Director General, Natural Disasters Organisation John David Keldie For service to the Australian Army, in particular as Commander 2nd DivisionAir Force Graham Wallace Neil For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff — Personnel Richard John Bomball For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Development
Member (AM) General Division