Queen's Birthday Honours 2014

General Division 

Dame

Her Excellency The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AC AD CVO 

For extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit in service to the administration, public life, and people of New South Wales, to medicine, particularly as an advocate for improved mental health outcomes for the young, marginalised and disadvantaged, to international relations, through the promotion of collaborative health programs, and as a leader in tertiary education.

Officer of the Order of Australia

Mr Robert Leece AO, RFD

For distinguished service to the community of NSW through the development and guidance of major infrastructure projects.

Member of the Order of Australia

Professor Michael Aitken  AM

For significant service to the business and finance sector, particularly to market surveillance and fraud detection technologies, and to education.   

Emeritus Professor Helen Armstrong AM

For significant service to landscape architecture as an academic, particularly to the study of cultural, heritage and migration environments.

Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM

For significant service to education in the field of politics and history as an academic, and to community and public health organisations.

Professor James Isbister AM

For significant service to medicine in the fields of haematology and transfusion medicine, and to professional organisations.

Associate Professor Michael Johnson AM

For significant service to the blind, to education, and to the community.

Professor Michael Levy AM

For significant service to medicine in the field of public health as a clinician, academic and educator.

Mr Peter Mattick AM

For significant service to the community through philanthropic contributions, and to business and commerce.

Dr Robert Meyer AM

For significant service to architecture and urban planning, particularly through the development of infrastructure in Sydney, and to professional associations.

Dr Gabriel Shannon AM

For significant service to medicine as a consultant physician, particularly as a clinical innovator.

Medal of the Order of Australia

Mr Jose Aguilera OAM

For service to nursing, and to professional organisations.

Dr Peter McInnes OAM

For service to primary industry.

Mr Ronald Spithill OAM

For service to business, particularly to the telecommunications sector.

Dr Rajesh Subbiah OAM

For service to rural and remote medicine.

Mr Paul Tracey OAM

For service to the community of Randwick through volunteer and local government roles.

Ms Virginia Walker OAM

For service to the community through human rights organisations.

Mrs Susan Walton OAM

For service to community health, and to people with a disability.

Professor Minoti Apte OAM

For service to medicine, to tertiary education, and to the Indian community of Sydney.

Mr Peter Blundell OAM

For service to the community, particularly through support for indigenous students and Rotary International.

Mr Michael Clarke OAM

For service to engineering, and to the conservation of Australian heritage.

Professor Warwick Giles OAM

For service to medicine, particularly in the field of maternal fetal medicine, and to professional associations.

Ms Anne Harvey OAM

For service to music education.

Mr Philip Hele OAM

For service to tourism, and to the community of the Hunter Valley.

Mr Peter Lewis OAM

For service to optometry, particularly eye care in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Public Service Medal 

Mr Colin Nicholson PSM

For outstanding public service to the quality of water and wastewater services.

 

Military Division

Officer of the Order of Australia

Rear Admiral Timothy Barrett AO CSC RAN

For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Navy as Director Naval Officers' Postings and as the Australian Navy Aviation Force Element Group Commander.  

Major General John Caligari AO DSC

For distinguished service as Head Modernisation and Strategic Planning-Army and Head Systems Capability Development Group.

Member of the Order of Australia

Brigadier Stephen Porter AM

For exceptional service to the Australian Army as the Assistant Commander (Training), 2nd Division and Commander of the 11th Brigade.

Brigadier Marcus Thompson AM

For exceptional service as Commanding Officer 3rd Combat Signals Regiment, a defence representative while seconded to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Director-General Special Operations Capability.

The Bar to the Distinguished Service Cross

Major General Michael Crane AM DSC

For distinguished command and leadership in warlike operations as the Commander of Joint Task Force 633 on Operation Slipper.

Distinguished Service Cross

Colonel Simon Stuart DSC

For distinguished command and leadership in warlike operations as the Commander Combined Team Uruzgan on Operation Slipper.

Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Wells DSC

For distinguished command and leadership in warlike operations as the Commanding Officer of the 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment Task Group on Operation Slipper.

Distinguished Service Medal

Commander Paul O'Grady RAN CSM DSM

For distinguished leadership in warlike operations as the Commanding Officer of HMAS Newcastle on Operation Slipper.

Captain Robert Slaven RAN DSM

For distinguished leadership in warlike operations as the Director of Operations, Coalition Maritime Forces, and Maritime Operations Adviser, Joint Task Force 633, on Operation Slipper.

Commendation For Distinguished Service

Major Charmaine Benfield

For distinguished performance of duty in warlike operations as the Operations Officer of the Force Support Unit on Operation Slipper.

Lieutenant Colonel Dean Commons

For distinguished performance of duty in warlike operations as the Senior Intelligence Analyst in Headquarters International Security Assistance Force Joint Command on Operation Slipper.

Commodore Charles McHardie AM RAN

For distinguished performance of duty in warlike operations as the Commander Combined Task Force 150 on Operation Slipper.

Commander Brendon Zilko RAN

For distinguished performance of duty in warlike operations as Commanding Officer HMAS Toowoomba on Operation Slipper.

Conspicuous Service Cross

Captain Katherine Richards RAN CSC

For outstanding achievement in the performance of duties as the Commanding Officer HMAS Cerberus and Director Training Authority - Engineering.

Lieutenant Colonel James Davis CSC

For outstanding achievement as Staff Officer Grade One, The Army Plan in Army Headquarters.

Colonel Anthony Hambleton AM CSC

For outstanding achievement as the Director Personnel Policy and Director-General Personnel - Army within Personnel Branch - Army, Army Headquarters. 

Lieutenant Commander Phillipa Hay RAN CSC

For outstanding devotion to duty as Staff Officer Grade Two Maritime Planner, Headquarters Joint Task Force 639 - Operation Resolute in support of border protection operations.

Colonel Andrew Hocking CSC

For outstanding achievement as Branch Chief for Functional Contingency Plans and Policy while on exchange within the headquarters of US Pacific Command.

Lieutenant Colonel Damien McLachlan CSC

For outstanding achievement as a Staff Officer Grade One - Equipment Management in the Directorate of Logistics - Army. 

Group Captain Brendan Rogers CSC

For outstanding achievement in airborne electronic warfare capability development and delivery.

Brigadier Nagy Sorial CSC

For outstanding achievement as Director-General Land Vehicle Systems Branch, Defence Material Organisation.

Conspicuous Service Medal 

Major Emmet O'Mahoney CSM

For meritorious achievement as Staff Officer Grade Two Personnel Policy Conditions of Service in Army Headquarters.

Squadron Leader Adam Bowler CSM

For meritorious devotion to duty as the Officer-in-Charge of Servicing and Structural Integrity Flight in the Maritime Patrol Systems Program Office. 

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gibson CSM

For meritorious achievement as the Staff Officer Grade One Career Management Support, Directorate of Reserve Soldier Career Management - Army. 

Flight Lieutenant Nadia Harrison CSM

For meritorious achievement as the Staff Officer Grade 3 Satellite Communications for the Directorate of Information and Communications Technology Capability Co-ordination, Chief Information Officer Group.

Lieutenant Colonel David Jenkins CSM

For meritorious achievement as the Staff Officer Grade One Communication, Information Systems and Electronic Warfare, within the Directorate of Logistics - Army.

Commander David Landon CSM RAN

For meritorious achievement as Commanding Officer of the Royal Australian Navy Recruit School. 

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Moss CSM

For meritorious achievement as a career adviser at the Directorate of Officer Career Management - Army.