The 1994 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 1994 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 Keith John Austin Asche For service to the law, to tertiary education and to the community, particularly the people of the Northern Territory Eva Evelyn Burrows, For service to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the community and to social justice as the world leader of the Salvation Army Guy Stephen Montague Green, For service to the law, to the community and to education James Peacock For service to science, particularly in the field of molecular biology and to science education Thomas Smith Reeve, For service to medicine and to academic and clinical surgery, particularly in the field of endocrinology Graeme Bruce Ryan For service to science and to higher education, particularly in the fields of medical research and medical educationNoel John Tanzer For service to public sector reform, particularly through the commercialisation of Government enterprises, to the development of social welfare policies and to the community
Military Division Recipient Citation Notes John Murray Sanderson, For eminent service and exceptional performance of duty to the Australian Defence Force, particularly as the Commander United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
Officer (AO) General Division Recipient Citation NotesPatricia Jean Adam-Smith, For service to community history, particularly through the preservation of national traditions and folklore and recording of oral histories John Henry Calaby For service to science, particularly in the fields of zoology and ecology and to Australian mammalogy John Craig Conde For service to business and commerce, particularly in the field of electricity generation and supply to the community William Alexander Crammond, For service to mental health care reform, to clinical psychiatry and to academic administration Lorraine Dennerstein For service to medical education and medical research, particularly in relation to women's health issues Angela Mary Doyle For service to hospital administration, to community health and to teaching health care services Raymund Marshall Golding For service to science and to university administration. Harold Norman Holgate For service to the Tasmanian Parliament Robert Henry Johnston For service to manufacturing particularly in relation to the automotive industry Elliott Frank Johnston, For service to the law, legal education and to the community Lorna Doone Pleasance Kennedy For service to local government and the community Gabrielle Kibble For service to urban and regional development and planning Donald Gordon Mackay For service to law and to commerce Barrie Patrick Marmion For service to medical research, particularly in the field of virology Lorraine Margaret Martin For service to business and commerce, particularly in the field of education and training Graeme Max Neutze For service to education, particularly in the field of urban research John Pryde Paterson For service to public administration, particularly water policy reform, and to the development and provision of social welfare services Colin Pearson, For service to conservation, particularly in relation to historical artefactsAlan Douglas Rose For service to public administration, particularly through service to the Attorney-General's Department Ian Gordon Ross For service to science, particularly in the fields of research teaching and administration Boyne Marie Russell For service to medicine and community health, particularly in relation to the care of aged people Donald Neil Sanders, For service to finance and banking Cheryl Anne Saunders For service to the law and to public administration Marian Sawer For service to women and to political science Norman Barnett Tindale For service to anthropology, particularly through the study of traditional Aboriginal society John Atherton Young For service to medical science, particularly in the field of physiology
Military Division None awarded
Member (AM) General Division Recipient Citation Notes Yvette Fay Amer, For service to the community, particularly the Crippled Children's Association of South Australia James Leslie Anderson For service to industry and commerce, the arts and the community Thomas William Carlyon Angove For service to the Australian wine and brandy industry Dorothy Howard Broom For service to women and women's health Tasman Brown For service to dental research and post-graduate dental education David Barrington Brownbill For service to medicine in the area of stroke research Graham George Clunies-Ross For service to education, particularly through early intervention programmes for young children with intellectual and physical disabilities Stanley Milton Collins For service to the timber industry William Bruce Conolly For service to medicine, particularly hand surgery Margaret June Craig For service to the community, particularly as National President of Save the Children Fund and to the Western Australian parliament Gordon Frederick Craig, For service to local government and to urban development Ivan Edwin Cribb For service to the visually impaired, particularly through the Royal Guide Dog Association and the Royal Blind Society Michael Crosby For service to the entertainment industry Kevin John Cullen For service to medicine, particularly in the Busselton region and to the wine industry Victor Henry Cumberland For service to medicine, particularly surgery and forensic science Norman Walter Daniel For service to blind sport as a competitor and administrator Michael Steven Diamond, For service to the Greek communityTrevor Raymond Eastwood For service to business and industry as Managing Director of Wesfarmers and to the community Peter Evans For service as Chairman of the Waterfront Industry Reform Authority Graeme Alexander Ewer For service to the community and to opera Penelope Jill Figgis For service to the environment and conservation Sylvia Gwendoline Fisher For service to the arts, particularly opera Harold Arthur Ford For service to the law Stanley Bryan Furnass For service to health education and promotion Anthony Gerald Gould For service to the performing arts, particularly as Director of the Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane Patricia Annette Grantham For service to nursing administration William Leonard Grayden For service to the Western Australian parliament and to the community John Douglas Hampton For service to international telecommunications Denis Michael Hanley For service to business and to industrial research and development Harold Hanson For service to tourism, particularly as the chairman of Tourism Wollongong Anthony Geoffrey Hartnell For public service, particularly to the Australian Securities Commission William Charles Roy Harvey For service to local government and to the community Colin Sidney Hayes, For service in the field of industrial relations Thomas Henry Hoad For service to sport, particularly water polo Colin Leslie James For service to architecture and to the community Graham Ivor Jenkinson For service to the community, particularly through organising the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of the Coral Sea, and to the Greening Townsville Committee Joan Heather Johnson For service to aged people, particularly through the NSW Council on the Ageing Robert Harry Johnson For service to veterinary science, particularly in the fields of microbiology and virology David Campbell Jones, For service to the community Kandiah Kamalesvaran For service to the entertainment industry and to the community Bruce Raymond Kean For service to industry Colin Russell Leith, For service to the community, particularly aged people, and to the National Safety Council of Australia Richard Dutton Llewellyn For service to people with disabilities James Peile Love For service to the real estate and valuation profession and to the community Getano Belford Lui For service to the Torres Strait Islander community Heather Joy Martin For service to special education and to people with disabilities John Anthony McDonald For service to education, particularly in the areas of private and further education Thomas Arthur Albert McDonald For service to industrial relations, particularly through the Building Workers' Industrial Union Ian Stewart McNamara For service to the presentation and promotion of Australia's non-urban culture, through the radio programme Australia All Over Anthony Francis McSweeney For service to the community and to international relations, particularly as Superior-General of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation, Rome Malcolm Norman Meninga For service to rugby league football Donald Mentz For service to international relations, particularly as Director-General, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International Simon Richard Molesworth For service to conservation and the environment and to the Victorian Branch of the National Trust of Australia Brian Moss For service to the care of the aged, particularly persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders Paul Murphy For service to public broadcasting and to journalism Ian Provan Murray For service to medicine, particularly nuclear medicine Bernard William Neal For service to medicine, particularly paediatrics John Michael O'Dea For service to the care of aged people, particularly through the North Sydney Retirement Trust and the James Milson Nursing Home Edward Colston Osgood For service to aviation in the Northern Territory Sandra Parsonage For service to the Spastic Centre of New South Wales through the Grevillea Group Claude Alan Patching For service to gliding William John Patterson For service to industrial relations, particularly through the Meat and Allied Trades Association Ira John Pendrigh For service to the Australian wine industry Susan Margaret Pond For service to clinical pharmacology and toxicology Howard William Powell For service to business and to the information technology industry Walter Rose Riddell For service to the Cystic Fibrosis Association Mavis June Moten Robertson For service to the superannuation industry and to peace and disarmament Peter Mather Robinson For service to industrial development, particularly in the area of materials technology through research and development Edward Trevor Robinson For service to the information technology industry Jeffrey Milton Rushton For service to the broadcasting industry Trevor Reginald Russell For service to accountancy and to public administration William Hurtle Schmitt For service to veterans, particularly through the Prisoners of War Association Noel Julian Semmens For service to tourism in Western Australia Paul Terence Smith For service to young people, particularly through Boys Town and Kids Help Line Gordon Donald Spearritt For service to music Donald Spearritt For service to educationTimothy Austin Storrier For service to contemporary art Robert Kellar Todd For service to administrative law Douglas Vincent, For service to the ex-service community, particularly as defence adviser to the Returned and Services League Phyllis Joan Watson For service to medical records administration Douglas John Whalan For service to the law and to parliament, particularly as a parliamentary legal adviser Robin Jane Wilkinson For service to people with disabilities Dorothy Agnes Woolley For service to the Girl Guides Association Neville Clarence Young For service to business and to the promotion of technological development
Military Division