| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| Giuseppe Adamo | For service to the Italian community | [1] |
| Stephanie Ann Alexander | For services to the hospitality and the tourist industry and to the encouragement of apprentices |
| Harold Frank Anderson | For service to the community, particularly shipping and transport |
| Garth Bennett Andrews | For service to the community, particularly through the surf-lifesaving movement |
| Edna May Anstis | For service to the community |
| Janis Atrens | For service to the Latvian community |
| Gail Austen | For service to youth |
| Helen Joan Baber | For service to the community, particularly through organisations for people with disabilities |
| Chief Petty Officer Harold Leslie Bailey | For service to the community and to veterans |
| Alexander William Bathgate | For service to arts administration, particularly through the Marion Street Theatre |
| Richard William Bayly | For service to community music |
| Detective Sergeant John Bowering Bean | For service to the youth, particularly in the area of child protection |
| Edna Constance Becker | For service to the community |
| William George Belcher | For service to community music, particularly band music |
| Clive John Berghofer | For service to local government and to the community |
| Peter James Bermingham | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Glenroy Garfield Best | For service to the fruit and vegetable growing industry |
| Harold Edwin Bird | For service to the National Boys Choir |
| Percy Brian Blandford | For service to the Australian meat and livestock industry |
| Arthur James Blizzard | For service to motor cycle sport |
| Mavis Bock | For service to the community |
| Heather Birt Bonnin | For service to the arts, particularly through the Art Gallery of South Australia |
| Antony Gerard Booth | For service to track and field athletics |
| Slavko James Bosnjak | |
| Doris Ellen Boyle | For service to the hearing impaired |
| John Brown | For service to the community and veterans |
| Major George Brown | For service to the community and veterans |
| Maria Brzezinski | For service to the Polish community |
| Dr Terence Aubrey Bunn | For service to medicine and to the community |
| George Burlinson | For service to animal welfare |
| Elaine Heather Bussenschutt | For service to the community |
| Valda Else Byth | For service to women, particularly through the Women's Electoral Lobby |
| Priscilla Maurine Callard | For service to the community and nursing |
| William Reginald Cameron | For service to the performing arts and to arts administration |
| Douglas Frederick Campbell, QGM | For service to community health |
| Dorothy Jean Campton | For service to youth, particularly to those with disabilities |
| Ian Campbell Gordon Carpenter | For service to the community of Orange, particularly through service clubs and organisations |
| Tommy Francis Carter | For service to the community |
| Russell John Carvolth | For service to community health, particularly in the field of drug and alcohol prevention |
| Lorna May Charles | For service to education |
| Barry John Cheales | For service to the sport of gymnastics |
| Beryl May Chilton | For service to further education, particularly in the field of youth and adult training programmes |
| Andrew Christou | For service to the Greek community and to the trade union movement |
| John Douglas Clarke | For service to the sport of lawn bowls |
| Ernest Patrick Clarke | For service to social welfare |
| Thomas Ernest Cole | For service to community history |
| Margaret Dorothy Colebrook | For service to children with hearing impairments |
| Robert George Cooper | For service to music and music education |
| Lisa Gaye Curry-Kenny, MBE | For service to the sport of swimming |
| Jeanette Gertrude Curtis | For service as a foster parent to improving the quality of life for children with severe and multiple disabilities |
| Valerie Mae Davis | For service to children, particularly through 'Programme Two', St Kilda |
| Ethel Ann Deagan | For service to the physical and emotional care of people with disabilities through Kaddy Transport, Dee Why |
| Lieto Elia Donadelli | For service to the sugar industry and to the community |
| Stanley Clifford Donald | For service to the hearing impaired |
| Ian Keith McDowall Downie | For service to the community and local government |
| Roma Ward Drummond | For service to families caring for relatives with schizophrenia |
| Ida Winefred Duncan | For service to the community, particularly as Secretary of the 'Friends of the Botanical Gardens', Noosa Heads |
| Councillor Allan Albert Dunstan, OBE | For service to local government and to the community |
| Ellanor Durbridge | For service to conservation on Stradbroke Island |
| Jack Beaumont Earl | For service to yachting and to marine art |
| Cynthia Beauchamp Edwards | For service to the Australian printing and publishing industry |
| Eric Edwards | For service to the Australian printing and publishing industry |
| Laurence Edward Elliott | For service to youth as founder of the Far North Queensland Youth Assistance Fund |
| Douglas Raymond Ellis | For service to sport and recreation and to Australian university sports associations |
| Vera Ethel Evans | For service to the community |
| Albert Cyril Fairchild | For service to the scout movement |
| Lesley Yvonne Falloon | For service to the community and to local government |
| Joan Evelyn Fenton | For service to recording the history of the Central Coast region of NSW |
| Gordon Karl Fetterplace | For service to the community and to local government |
| William Harold Fife | For service to local government and to the RSL Wagga Wagga Sub-Branch |
| Dulcie Flower | For service to the community, particularly on the area of Aboriginal health worker training |
| Lorna Margaret Flux | For service to the child care movement and to child care licensing guidelines |
| Anthony Thomas Foley | For service to the community and to local government |
| Warwick Ian Forbes | For service to the sport of gymnastics |
| Kevin Gregory Ford | For service to education and to the community |
| The Honourable Norman Kenneth Foster | For service to parliament, the trade union movement and to ex-service organisations |
| Kevin Russell French | For service to the forest products industry, particularly in the area of marketing and promotion |
| Ruth Pauline Frith | For service to athletics |
| Pastor Frank Clive Fullwood | For service to the community through Questcare, Ipswich |
| Amy Gavin | For service to the community |
| Max Germaine | For service to the promotion of the arts and artists |
| Mary Lorraine Gibbs | For service to the community |
| Charles Philip Gilbert | For service to the blind and visually impaired |
| Hazel Joy Gilby | For service to the community and to the Red Cross |
| Charles Sidney Giott | For service to Local Government and the community |
| Joan Beatrice Golding | For service to people with the HIV/AIDS virus and to their families through the People Living with Aids programme |
| Desmond Gooch | For service to the Tasmanian probation and parole service particularly through administering the community service orders programme |
| Mary Good | For service to public health and to the community |
| Gwendoline Mavis Good | For service to the community |
| Judith Ann Gover | For service to nursing, particularly in the field of vascular ultrasound |
| Margaret Joyce Grant | For service to secondary education |
| Eunice Glenelg Grimaldo | For service to international relations, particularly as president of the Australia-New Zealand Society of New York |
| Richard Allen Guy | For service to the cold storage industry |
| Ethel May Guy | For service to the community |
| Margaret Hall | For service to women's cricket in the Australian Capital Territory |
| Maureen Elizabeth Hall | For service to community health and to improving the standard of Aboriginal health care on the far south coast of New South Wales |
| Muriel Fairbairn Hamlyn-Harris | For service to the community, particularly through the Ecumenical Coffee Brigade |
| Margaretha Anna Hanen | For service to the provision of aged care programmes for people from non-English speaking backgrounds |
| Mary Rueben Hargrave | For service to local government and to the community |
| Elsie Hargreaves | For service to the community, particularly through the Ladies Auxiliary of the Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association |
| Mervyn Edward Hart | For service to the community |
| Noeline Hartley | For service to the community in the areas of women's health and childcare policies, and to the environment and peace movements |
| Father Brian Matthew Healy | For service to the community through the Catholic Diocese of Darwin |
| John Anthony Heffernan | For service to the community through the provision of legal aid services in Victoria |
| Gwenyth Bevan Heinz | For service to the community, particularly in relation to the support and protection of youth at risk |
| Paul Warren Henry | For service to people undergoing drug and alcohol rehabilitation through the We Help Ourselves (WHO) organisation |
| Joan Herraman | For service to the community |
| Ivy Mary Hewitt | For service to the National Science and Technology Centre |
| Ronald Ernest Hewitt | For service to the National Science and Technology Centre |
| Jean Hibberd | For service to children with disabilities, particularly through the scout association and to the community |
| Bruce Samuel Hick | For service to rowing |
| William Alexander Higgie | For service to refugee resettlement through Austcare |
| Eugenia Hill | For service to the promotion of multiculturalism in the arts |
| Ronda Florence Hoare | For service to the Royal Adelaide Hospital Auxiliary |
| Heather Joyce Hoffman | For service to St Matthew's Child-care Centre, Rockhampton |
| Roy William Hosey | For service to the arts as a dance teacher and choreographer |
| Clifford William Houghton | For service to motor vehicle traders and to Australian Rules football |
| Dr Mary Neville Hughes | For services to medicine |
| Mona Humphreys | For service to the community, particularly through the Chatswood division of Legacy |
| Jack Edward Ireland | For service to local government and to the community |
| Jean de Courtenay Isherwood | For service to the arts as a painter in oils and watercolours |
| Arthur William James | For service to the support to jazz music |
| Ian David Jay | For service to civil engineering, particularly through the development of the Expo '88/South Bank Parklands projects |
| Shirley Estelle Johnston | For service to the community. |
| Arnold Wicks Johnston | For service to community health, particularly through the Epilepsy Association of Australia. |
| Emrys Morris Jones | For service to the Ipswich Hospital Board and to the community. |
| David Robert Kennedy | For service to the community. |
| Robert Rawdon Kennedy | For service to the print media, radio and television. |
| Sister Margaret Mary Kennedy | For service to education as principal of Genazzano College. |
| Florence Elizabeth Kennedy | For service to the Torres Strait Islander community. |
| Herbert Clement Kentish | For service to local government and to the community. |
| John Eliott Kilpatrick | For service to the community and to local government. |
| Iris Maureen King | For service to the Girl Guides Association, to the Southern Districts Horticultural Society and to aviculture. |
| Malcolm James Kinross | For service to the community, particularly through the United Grand Lodge of Queensland and to the care of aged people |
| Norman Alfred Klatt | For service to aged people through the Nundah Zion Lutheran Home and to the community |
| Christian Charles William Kohlhoff | For service to the community, particularly in providing facilities for aged people and people with disabilities |
| Robin John Langley | For service to performing arts, cultural and sporting organisations |
| Terry Lavender | For service to the community through the development of walking trails, particularly the Heysen Trail |
| Harold Sydney Le Bherz | For service to horse sports |
| Dr David Norrie Fleming Leake | For service to medicine as an ear, nose and throat surgeon and to Poll Hereford cattle breeding |
| Wellington Lee, OBE RFD | For service to the community, particularly the Chinese community |
| Wilfred Edwin Lehmann | For service to the performing arts as a violinist, composer and conductor |
| Ivor Lewis | For service to the community, particularly through the Glenelg Rotary Club |
| Eric Yuen-Ying Liao | For service to the Buddhist community |
| John Lorenzo Linard | For service to the community, particularly aged people, through the Society of St Vincent de Paul |
| Mae Olive Lingard | For service to aged people through the Miranda Returned and Services League's Captain Cook Daycare Club |
| Jean Forsyth London | For service to Scottish country dancing |
| Councillor Dominic Joseph Lopez | For service to local government |
| Clarence Edward Lowe | For service to veterans |
| Brian John Mackander | For service to the community |
| Margaret Patricia Mallon | For service to the community through Meals on Wheels |
| Gloria Edith Mangan | For service to judo |
| Zelma Coralie Manning | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross Society |
| Clive Hunter Mansell | For service to people with intellectual disabilities |
| Garth Lawrence Mansfield | For service to church music |
| Alexander Francis Marinos | For service to the performing arts as an actor, director and writer |
| Robert Jeffrey Mathews | For service to the control of chemical weapons |
| Nancy Edith Mattinson | For service to the arts through music |
| Beverley Margaret McAlister | For service to the community, particularly through the Dandenong Ranges Music Council |
| Adeline Emma McBryde | For service to youth, particularly through the Girl Guides Association of Queensland and to the community |
| Stephen Walter McDougal | For service to veterans through the New South Wales 2/3 Field Regiment Association |
| Adrian Gardner McEwin | For service to the life insurance industry and to the community |
| Gwenneth Frances McFarquhar | For service to youth, particularly through the Girl Guides Association and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme |
| Carol McGhee | For service to people with hearing impairments through Better Hearing Australia, Tasmanian branch |
| Noel Robert McGregor | For service to the Showmen's Guild of Australasia, and to regional festivals in Queensland |
| John Charles McKie | For service to Rugby League football as a referee |
| Thomas Francis Mead | For service to journalism and to the community |
| Dr Roger John Mecoy | For service to respiratory medicine and to the Asthma Foundation of Tasmania |
| Alexander Metropolis | For service to youth through the Samaritan Befrienders |
| Leslie Robert Milliken | For service to primary industry, to merino sheep breeding and to the community |
| Sister Margaret Patricia Mines | For service to the community as a palliative carer working particularly with people suffering from the HIV/AIDS virus |
| Jennifer Elizabeth Mitchell | For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women's Association of Australia |
| Dugald Scott Mitchell | For service to the life insurance industry and to the community |
| Freda Meryl Moore | For service to the community through music |
| Marjorie Jean Morgan | For service to the Victorian School for Deaf Children and to community history |
| Dorothy Letitia Morrison | For service to the Essendon Auxiliary of the Helping Hand Association for the Intellectually Disabled of Coburg and Districts, Inc. |
| Francis Anthony Mullins | For service to the community through the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Matthew Talbot soup van |
| Joan Margaret Munro | For service to the community, particularly through the Canberra Senior Citizens Club and to the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory |
| Reverend Father John Joseph Murphy | For service to the community as Director of the Catholic Immigration Office, Victoria |
| Kevin James Murray | For service to aged people |
| Reverend Father Hugh Edward Murray | For service to people with HIV/AIDS virus and their families |
| Jacob George Mye, MBE | For service to the Torres Strait Islanders community |
| Ralph Percival Neale | For service to conservation of the environment and to landscape architecture |
| James Julian Nevin | For service to cycling |
| Jeffrey William Newman | For service to charities and fund raising |
| Helen Catherine Noble | For service to dance education |
| Barry James O'Neil | For service as chief executive officer of the Australian Dental Association (New South Wales) |
| Claud Grenfell Odgers | For service to the community, particularly aged people |
| Cynthia Mary Parker | For service to education, particularly as headmistress of Frensham School |
| Jennie Hephzibah Parks | For service to music education |
| Dr Howard John Peak | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiology |
| Marita Margaret Joy Pearson | For service to the community as a foster parent |
| William Laidlaw Pearson | For service to the community as a foster parent |
| Marjorie Joan Phillips | For service to people with intellectual disabilities, particularly through the Community Visitors Programme |
| Dawson Robert Phipps | For service to local government and to the community |
| William Harold Pitman | For service to people with sight impairments, particularly through the preparation of audio cassettes |
| Joy Robin Poole | For service to polocrosse as a player, coach and umpire |
| Dr Conrad James Primmer | For service to the community |
| Martin Norfolk Punch | For service to youth, particularly through the organisation BUSY – Backing Unemployed Southport/Surfers Paradise Youth – and to the National Skillshare Association |
| Owen Ronald Purdon | For service to veterans, particularly through the Naval Association of Australia |
| Cuthbert Russell Raymond | For service to the North Perth Migrant Resource Centre and to the media |
| Fay Redhead | For service to the community |
| Pamela Joy Reece | For service as a foster parent to children with developmental disabilities |
| Mae Elizabeth (Paula) Reid | For service to the Department of Forestry Library at the Australian National University |
| John Colin Rhodes | For service to the United Protestant Association of New South Wales |
| Mark Richards | For service to Surfing |
| John Bertram Roberts, ISO MBE ED | For service to the National Trust of Australia (Western Australia) |
| Arthur Francis Robertson | For service to the community |
| Georgina Elizabeth Robertson | For service to the community |
| Charles Anthony Milne Robertson | For service to local government, the aged and sports administration |
| James Sandy Robertson | For service to ballroom dancing |
| Gillian Rogers | For service to youth with intellectual disabilities, particularly through the Get Together Club |
| Jessie May Russell | For service to the community |
| William Anthony Rutkin | For service to community health, particularly in the field of HIV/AIDS |
| Peggy Lorraine Ryan | For service to basketball |
| Thomas James Ryan | For service to local government, to the Municipal Saleyards Association and to sport |
| Rudolf Wilhelm Schuetze | For service to conservation and the environment |
| Jean May Searle | For service to the United Hospitals Auxiliary, Macksville Branch |
| John Cyril Selwood | For service to veterans |
| Matron Gwenda Shaw | For service to nursing |
| Eoin George Shearer | For service to fire safety, particularly through the Insurance Council of Australia and to the Australian Fire Protection Association |
| John Norman Shearer | For service to the community and to primary industry |
| Eve Sher, BEM | For service to the United Nations Association of Australia (Victorian Division) and to the community |
| Peter Joseph Sheridan | For service to the State Emergency Service |
| Isla Milne Shilton | For service to women, particularly through the Women's Agricultural Bureau, Sandalwood Branch and the Country Women's Association, Borrika Branch |
| Bryan Harold Sidgreaves | For service to the Australian Shopfitters Association (New South Wales) |
| William John Singleton | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Colin Robert Slocombe | For service to community health, particularly through the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Support Group |
| Jack Clive Smale | For service to the community |
| Dr Robert Walter Smethills | For service to rugby union football and to sports medicine |
| Mervyn Ashmore Smith | For service to the arts, to architecture and to town planning |
| Thomas Anthony Spezzan | For service to the ex-service community |
| Benzion Sternfeld | For service to the Jewish community and to sport, particularly through Maccabi Australia |
| Nancy Elver Stewart | For service to children with disabilities |
| Lucy Stirling | For service to women |
| Pamela Mary Stone | For service to local government and to the community |
| Richard LaMothe Stowell | For service to youth from isolated areas, particularly as director of Swanleigh |
| Irene Myrtle Stringer | For service to the community, particularly through Meals on Wheels (Osborne) |
| Carmel Edith Sullivan | For service to nursing and to international relations through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Kay Elaine Sullivan | For service to the community through the provision of voluntary nursing and emergency medical care |
| Ray Wilfred Sutton | For service to cricket |
| Elizabeth Anne Swain | For service to music education as Director of Music at Newington College |
| Kathleen Moira Tanks | For service to the community, particularly for service with the Society of St Vincent de Paul |
| Olga Irene Thistlethwaite | For service to the Royal Far West Children's Health Scheme (Port Macquarie Branch) |
| Virginia Gwendolen Thorley Phillips | For service as an author, counsellor and consultant on lactation and to the Nursing Mothers' Association |
| Robert William Tobias | For service to the arts, particularly through the Cladan Cultural Exchange Institute of Australia and to the Sydney International Piano Competition |
| Priscilla Ann Todd | For service to women, particularly through the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) |
| Mary Elaine Tranter | For service to the community and to the Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation |
| Frances Tree | For service to tourism and to the community |
| Cecil Jack Tree | For service to tourism and to the community |
| Lieutenant Commander Andrew John Tuft | For service to the Naval Reserve Cadets |
| Herbert Stanley Tutt | For service to the Landsborough Historical Society and to the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (Caloundra) |
| Dr Harry Danvers Tyer | For service to medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon |
| Royce Voss | For service to aged people |
| Thea Mary Waddell | For service to the Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| Marjorie Lydia Wane | For service as secretary/treasurer of the Bush Children's Education Foundation of New South Wales |
| Florence Warren | For service to education |
| James Rea Waters | For service to choral music and to the community |
| Valma Watson | For service as a foster parent and as an advocate for disabled and disadvantaged children |
| Nelly Eveline Weiss | For service to the Women's International Zionist Organisation, and to the Jewish Community |
| Robert Welch | For service as a sports administrator |
| Joyce Charlotte Whaley | For service to children with disabilities, particularly through the Uniting Church |
| John Dwyer Whitehouse | For service to the Australian Water Polo Association and to surf lifesaving |
| Neville Edward Williams | For service to education and to veterans |
| Norman James Wilson | For service to local government and to the community |
| Prue Elizabeth Wilson | For service to mental health |
| Ian John Wilson | For service to aged people, particularly through the Wesley Mission |
| Josephine Alice Woodgate | For service to the Australia Ballet |
| James McAlpine Woolley | For service to the education and promotion of dental health and to the community |
| Donald Neil Wray | For service to manufacturing |
| Dr Herbert Clifford Wright | For service to veterans |
| Councillor Robert James Yates | For service to local government and to the community |
| Mayse Young | For service to the community |
