1991 Australia Day Honours

The 1991 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 1991 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 NotesSir Emil Herbert Peter Abeles For services to Industry to Government and to the community Lionel Frost Bowen For service to the community and politics Michael Henry Codd For service as Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Sir John Warcup Cornforth, For service to science, particularly in the field of organic chemistry Sir Donald Beaumont Dunstan, For service to the Crown as Governor of South Australia Gerald Edward Fitzgerald For service to the law and to the people of Queensland Michael Donald Kirby, For service to the law, the law reform, to learning and to the community Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell For service to the law, to learning and to the community James Henry Muirhead For service to the community and to the lawSir Donald Henry Trescowthick, For service to the community, to the arts and to sport

Officers (AO) General Division Recipient Citation Notes Gordon Thomson Archer For service to medicine, particularly in the field of haemotology Kenneth Ivan Axton For service to educationHenry Bosch For service to industry, commerce and to government Geraldine Rose Briggs For service to the community, particularly the Aboriginal community William John Brown For service to industrial relationsCreighton Lee Burns For service to the media and to international relationsStuart David Challender For services to music Kenneth Henry Clarke For service to medicine, particularly in the field of medical biophysics Teresa Rita O'Rourke Cramond, For service to medicine, particularly in the field of anaesthesia and to the community William Allan Dick For service to public health and to education John Michael Dwyer For service to public health, particularly through the treatment and prevention of infectious diseasesRhonda Louise Galbally For service to the community Allan Kerr Grant, For service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology and to medical education Kathleen Athel Hockey For service to medicine, particularly through the care of people with disabilities and to medical education about the genetic implications of certain disabilities Alan Robert Jackson For service to business, to industry and to governmentMalcolm Alexander Kinnaird For service to engineering and to the communityRobert Broughton Lansdown, For service to communications Francis (Thomas) Moore For eminent services to the tourist industry and to the community Victor Berkeley Pullar For service to civil engineering and to education David Marshall Sadleir For service to international relations Rodney Phillip Shearman For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of obstetrics, gynaecology and neo-natal welfare Kenneth Charles Stone For service to industrial relations and to the community Michael John Terlet For service to business and commerce and to exportation Gordon Walgrave Trinca, For service to road safety and to medicine, particularly through the treatment of road accident casualtiesDerek Volker For public service Kevin William Walsh For service to neuropsychology Colin Peter Wendell-Smith For service to public health Henry Malcolm Whyte For service to clinical science and to the community

Military Division Branch Recipient Citation NotesNavy Kenneth Allan Doolan For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Assistant Chief and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Development) Ian Donald George Macdougall For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Maritime Commander Army Arthur James Fittock, For service to the Australian Army as Commander of the 1st Division John Cedric Grey For service to the Australian Defence Force as Assistant Chief of Defence Force Logistics John Murray Sanderson, For service to the Australian Defence Force, particularly as Assistant Chief of Defence Force — Development Air Force Peter Graeme Newton For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff — Supply

Member (AM) General Division Recipient Citation NotesMarshall Berkeley Addison For service to the Australian Red Cross Society and to youth David Ernest Allan For services to the legal education Laurie Alsop For service to people with disabilitiesDarrel John Baldock For service to the Tasmanian parliament and to Australian Rules Football Peter Leonard Barnett For service to public communication, particularly through Radio Australia George Ernest Beard For service to the community and veterans Allan Montgomery Beech For service to medicine as a surgeon John Patrick Bennett For service to the dairy industry Evelyn Livingston Billings For service to public health John James Billings For service to public healthMaude Rose Bonney, For service to aviation Dirk Willem Bonouvrie For service to the manufacturing industry Alan Dewane Brown For service to international relations Maxwell Allan James Cameron For service to the meat and livestock industry Dorothy Margaret Campion For service to education, particularly through the Sisters of Mercy in Australia Jean Kathleen Carman For service to the arts, through the study of natural eucalypt dyes, and to the community Giovanni Angelo Cattalini For service to the Italian community and local government Jeffery Wing Fai Cheung For service to the Chinese community Robert Lewis Clifford For service to public health as Chairman of the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science Council and to the community Michael Kevin Collins For service to education and to children with disabilities Rex Joseph Collins For service to local government and to commerce Clinton Edward Condon For service to primary industry Patrick John Conroy For service to broadcasting, particularly through children's programmes Neil Raymond Crane For service to communications Gilbert Currie For service to industrial relations and to the community Bernadine Daly For service to the Aboriginal community Robert Davies For service to the trade union movement William Rivers Dickinson For service to education Andrew Leslie Elek For service to international relations Catherine Joan Ellis For service to music education and ethnomusicology, particularly Aboriginal music Francis Xavier Falzon For service to the Maltese community Raymond Bernard Finnegan For service to the Public Service Alan Eric Fisher For service to medicine as a general practitioner and to the community Edgar Noel Fitzpatrick For service to agricultureJohn Dunbar Fowler For service to constructionPatrick John Galvin For service to heritage, the arts and the Public Service Trevor John Garland For service to nursing in Australia and overseas Daryl Stephen George For service to industry Freda Glynn For service to broadcasting and to the Aboriginal community Ardino Gosatti For service to exportation and to the Italian community Francis Walter Graham For service to psychiatry and to psychotherapy Lachlan Hardy-Wilson For service to gynaecological oncology and to the arts Joan Harris (Mrs Parslow) For service to the performing artsSteven Anthony Heathcote For service to ballet Henry Alfred Jenkins For service to the Australian parliament and to the community Margaret Joy Kartomi For service to ethnomusicology particularly south east Asian music John Stirton Kinross For service to dentistry Ken Laing For service to music and to the community Mari Ann Lewis For service to art and to the community Jack Frederick Loneragan For service to education, particularly in the field of biology Constance Elizabeth Longworth For service to the community, particularly to children with disabilities Alan Hamilton Loxton For service to education and to the law William Richards Lumley For service to the community, particularly in the field of ambulance servicesBeatrice Louise Maddock For service to art and to art education George Winnington Martin For service to construction and engineering Beverley McKay For service to Australian-British relationsAlexander McDonald McLachlan For service to engineering Percival Clarence Millar For service to the Australian Parliament John David Moir For service to the community, particularly in the areas of medical research and youth Neil Wighton Naismith For service to pharmacy Graeme Harrison Neilson For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiology James William Nixon For service to the community, particularly in the field of child health educationMaxwell Charles Olding For service to music and to music education Eric Gordon Osboine For service to people with disabilities Hubert George Osborne For service to veterinary science George Nicholas Pappas, For service to the Greek community Robert Lyons Pearce, RFD For service to community health Douglas Humphrey Perry For service to forestry and to entomology John Francis Pilbeam, For service to sport administration, particularly through the Australian Deaf Sports Federation, and to the community Edward Robert Pocock For service to international relations Julian Stanley Carrington Punch For service to the community, particularly in the area of homeless and disturbed youth Graham Robert Ratcliff For service to amateur radio organisations Phyllis Mary Reid For service to nursing, particularly the provision of health services to the Aboriginal community Thomas Reynolds For service to conservation and the environment, and to international measures against chemical warfare Peter Netherton Richards For service to applied science and technology John Lester Roach For service to local government and to the community Robert John Robb For service to primary industry and to the community John Percival Robertson For service to the community Dorothy Dickson Ross, For service to women's affairs and to the community Kenneth Leslie Rowell For service to the performing arts, particularly in the area of stage and costume design Philip James Ryan For service to the community and to sport Irving David Saulwick For service to the dairy industryPatricia Scott For service to children's literature Michael John Sharpe For service to accountancy Kenneth William Shugg For service to architecture James Robert Smith For service to community health and to education Allan Trevor Sorell For service to community health and to education Donald Edward Stewart For service to the community, particularly to aged people Owen William Sturgess For service to primary industry, particularly the sugar industry George Svéd For service to education, particularly in the field of engineering Francis Graham Swain For service to education, particularly in the field of agriculture Eric Gay Chee Tan For service to international relations and to the community Alexander Donald Taylor For public service and service to the Western Australia Parliament Margaret Rose Timpson For service to women's affairs and to the community Marie Celeste Van Hove For service to music Allan Raymond Vosti For service to industrial relations Christine Avis Walsh For service to ballet William Fielding Fearn Wannan For service to literature, particularly to Australian folklore Arthur John Watson For service to local government William George Wells For service to scoutingMawuyul Yanthalawuy For service to education and to Aboriginal culture

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