| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| Diane A'Beckett | For services to the Community, particularly through the Girl Guides Association | [1][2] |
| Keith Roy Adams | For service to local government administration and to the community |
| Robert Neville Alderslade | For services to the band music |
| Dr Joseph Ernest Aldred | For services to the public service in Victoria |
| Margaret Ann Angove | For service to the sport of netball, particularly in the development of coaches and coaching programmes |
| Brierley Bailey | For service to the Australian Ju-Jitsu Association |
| John Paterson Bailey | For service to the community and to the welfare of veterans |
| George Ballas | For service to the Greek community and to the Geelong Ethnic Communities Council |
| Martha Margaret Zsuzsanna Barany, BEM | For service to the Hungarian community |
| Nanette Barbour | For service to the aged and to people with disabilities through the Horticultural Therapy Society of New South Wales |
| Donald Alexander Barnett | For service to conservation, particularly as founder of the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens |
| Mervyn Henry Norman Beitz | For service to the community, particularly through local history research |
| Aldred Ivy Bell | For service to the United Hospital Auxiliaries of New South Wales and to the community |
| Commander Anthony John Todd Bennett | For service to the community |
| Noel Bertie Beswick | For service to people with disabilities through the provision of employment, training and residential services |
| Maurice Alfred Bevington | For service to the community, particularly through Lifeline |
| Constance Ada Eldwyne Bleeze | For service to the community, particularly through Meals on Wheels and the Nurses Memorial Foundation of South Australia |
| Donald Wallace Bletchly | For service to the plywood and timber industry and to the 15th Battalion Australian Military Forces Association |
| George Arthur Bond | For service to people with visual impairments, particularly through the Association for the Blind |
| Bette June Boyanton | For service to the community |
| William Brace, BEM | For service to veterans, particularly the Returned and Services League Southern Eastern District of Queensland |
| Richard Brady | For service to veterans, particularly through 'Carry on' Victoria |
| Fiona Elizabeth MacDonald Brand | For service to conservation and the environment through the National Parks Association of the Australian Capital Territory |
| Donald Britton | For service to music and music education |
| Stanley Marcel William Brogden | For service to aviation journalism |
| Pauline Anderson Ellison Brooks | For service to community health and fitness, particularly through the Arthritis Foundation of South Australia |
| Robin Wallace Brown | For service to journalism |
| Doris Mary Bruce | For service to the community |
| Madeleine Ruby Irene Brunato-Arthur | For service to Australian writers, particularly through the Fellowship of Australian Writers in South Australia |
| Peter Barry Buckmaster | For service to the rural community of the Australian Capital Territory |
| Malcolm James Bugg | For service to the welfare of veterans and to the community |
| Joan Case | For service to the community |
| William James Alexander Chalmers | For services to the community through the Scout Association and the Queensland Ambulance Service |
| John Stanley Chaplin | For service to the community and to people with physical and intellectual disabilities, particularly through the Flagstaff Group Employment Service |
| Julia Christina Charlesworth | For service to the community |
| Brian Edmund Chong Wee | For service to the aged |
| Nicola Cirocco | For service to the South Australian Bocce Federation and to the Italian community |
| Helen Mary Clark | For service to the community, particularly through the Canberra Blind Society and the YWCA |
| Dennis Antill Cowdroy | For service to the Returned and Services League of Australia, to the community and to the practice of law |
| Caroline Mary Robinette Cromarty | For service to the community |
| Dr Mervyn John Cross | For service to orthopaedic and sports medicine |
| Dorothy Maurene Crouch | For service to swimming as a teacher and coach |
| Phillip Samuel Curry, MC | For service to veterans through the 2/33rd battalion Association and to the community |
| Cora Emily Daly | For service to aged people, Meals on Wheels and the community |
| Bruce Davidson | For service to the community, particularly through St Luke's Anglican Church and the Luke's Association |
| His Honour Judge Colin Peart Davidson | For service to the Australia Day Regatta Committee |
| Betty Mereworth Davy | For service to the community |
| Charles Pearson Daws | For service to the community and local government |
| Olga Edith Daws | For service to the community |
| Captain Peter William John Dawson | For service to the community, particularly through the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol |
| Carol Margaret Day | For service to the Western Australian Youth Orchestra Association |
| Esther Charlotte Deans | For service to the aged and disabled |
| Ada Florence Devereaux | For service to the aged in the Pullenvale and Kenmore areas |
| Mollie Adeline Dinham | For service to education and to the teaching of aeronautics |
| Phillip William Dodds | For service to the community |
| Henry Victor Drew | For service to the community, particularly through the fundraising project 'Cans for Kids' |
| Robert Dunlop | For service to cabinet making and woodcarving and to the community |
| Eric Leonard Dunn | For service to the practise of property valuation and to the community |
| Timothy John Gerard Dwyer | For service to showjumping and equestrian events nationally and internationally |
| Councillor Kevin Joseph Hibberson Dwyer | For service to local government and to the community |
| Jean Marjorie Edgecombe | For service to conservation and the environment and to the Australian Red Cross Society |
| The Reverend Campbell Edward John Egan | For service to the aged and to the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia |
| Bernard Marie-Joseph Elias | For service to the Australian Embassy, Paris as senior Protocol Officer |
| Ena Joan Elliott | For service to the community, particularly through parents and citizen's organisations |
| Dr Malvin Leonard Eutick | For service to biotechnology |
| Kenneth McRobert Evans | For service to mathematics education and to the community |
| Elido Fachin | For service to the aged |
| Patricia Fagan | For service to cultural educational and community organisations |
| Charles Graham Francis | For service to the community and to local government |
| James Albert Frazier | For service to wildlife cinematography |
| Kathleen Mary Gibson | For service to the community and to veterans |
| Dr Lionel Arthur James Gilbert | For service to the community as a researcher and curator of local history in the New England region |
| Lynette Laura Gillam | For service to the community through the organisation, 'Compassionate Friends' |
| Claire Alberta Gledhill | For service to the community |
| Michael John Gloster | For service to conservation and the environment |
| Ross Roy Goode | For service to the welfare of prisoners and ex-prisoners and to the rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts |
| Georgina Mary Gough | For service to health and fitness and to music |
| Winifred Emma Graham | For service to the community through providing support to patients and their families at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide |
| Colleen Mary Stella Green | For service to local government and to the community |
| Kyrra Grunnsund | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through sport |
| Erika Inge Haas | For service to community music, particularly as a fund raiser |
| Kenneth Lindsay Hall | For service to badminton |
| Kenneth Maxwell Hall | For service to the legal profession |
| John Vincent Hancock | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through the Riding for the Disabled Association of Australia |
| Francis Thomas (Bill) Hanley | For service to the development of the Queensland Irish Association |
| Rosemary Helen Harding | For service to aged people, particularly through the Gold Coast Alzheimers Association |
| Valma Joyce Hardman | For service to the performing arts and to the community |
| Kenneth Francis Harvie | For service to the Sri Lankan community |
| Robert Ho | For service to the community, particularly the Chinese community associations and to business |
| Philip Kenneth Hockney | For service to the road transport industry |
| Kevin Patrick Hogan | For service to the community |
| Brian Sydney Hollingsworth | For service to water safety education |
| Clifford Houghton, EM | For service to veterans |
| Ena (Dorothy) Hulme-Moir | For service to the Mothers' Union and to the Anglican Church |
| Terrence John Imrie | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Councillor Antoine (Tony) Issa | For service to local government and to the Lebanese community |
| William George Jenkins | For service to veterans |
| Margaret Eva Johnston | For service to youth particularly through the Girls Brigade |
| Edward Joseph Jowett | For service to veterans |
| Eric Stanley Jupp | For service to music |
| Aileen Kadison | For service to the welfare of children and families in crisis |
| Warren Davenport Keats | For service to the community through preserving the maritime history of the Tweed Heads area, particularly as Chairman of the Centaur Commemoration Committee |
| Patricia Catherine Keill | For service to rural women particularly through the Country Women's Association |
| Peter David Kempster | For service to music, particularly as an instrument maker |
| Dympna Paredes Escober Kimmorley | For service to the Filipino community |
| William Barre King | For service to veterans and to the community |
| Maureen Hyne Kingston | For service to the community particularly through the Association of Independent Retirees |
| Andrew Kleeberg | For service to the community and to Polish veterans |
| Herbert Knowles | For service to veterans and to the community |
| Daniela Cecylia Kowalczuk | For service to the Polish community, particularly aged people |
| Jaakko Sakari Laajoki | For service to the Finnish community |
| Wasyl Labaz | For service to the Ukrainian community |
| Isabelle Ferguson Lee | For service to the Australian Red Cross and to the community |
| Hazel May Lee | For service to community arts organisations |
| Dulcie Emily Martha Lenton | For service to the arts, particularly music and drama |
| Maria Anna Maryla Leweczko | For service to the Polish community |
| Glen Arthur Lewis | For service to the community |
| Stanley Clifford Lohse | For service to the community to local government and to the building industry |
| Ronald James Lynch | For service to the community, to agriculture and to the bushfire service |
| John Richard Mackay | For service to the community |
| Gwen Mackey | For service to the arts as a teacher of dance |
| Jean Fletcher Omand MacLaren | For service to nursing |
| Barbara Anne Madew | For service to the community, particularly through the YMCA |
| Francis Fabian Maher | For service to the community |
| John Vincent Maley | For service to local government and to the community |
| Ronald William Mallett | For service to the community through the teaching of music |
| Gwenda Alison Susan Martin | For service to children, youth and aged people through the People's Junior League and the Allspots Hospital Entertainers |
| Derek Edward Martin | For service to the Scout Association of Australia, Western Australia Branch |
| Kevin Ronald Peter Maskell | For service to the community |
| David Claude McCarthy | For service to photography |
| Valerie Rodeena McDermott | For service to the community, particularly as a fundraiser for charity |
| Dr Lorna Lorraine McDonald | For service to the Rockhampton and District Historical Society and to historical research |
| Father Kevin Bartholomew McKelson | For service to the Aboriginal community |
| Frank McNamara | For service to art, particularly as a watercolour artist |
| Juris (George) Mellens | For service to the Latvian community |
| Dennis Lionel Merchant | For service to the advertising industry and to the community |
| Elaine Doreen Miller | For service to local government and to the community |
| Clarence Vincent Millington | For service to the community |
| Jerzy Stanislaw Misiak | For service to veterans through the Polish Ex-Servicemen's Association |
| John Lawrence Moffatt | For service to surf lifesaving |
| Aldo Aloysius Moretto | For service to the community |
| Major Stanley Sylvester Morton | For service to the Salvation Army and to veterans |
| Hans Mueller | For service to the Jewish community |
| The Very Reverend Father Mina Labib Nematalla | For service to the Coptic Orthodox Church |
| Dr Donald Alfred Nicholls | For service to scouting |
| Geffery Noblet | For service to cricket |
| Elizabeth Mary Nolan | For service to the State Emergency Service and to the community |
| Lance Thomas Norman | For service to local government and to the community |
| Barbara Hillier O'Brien | For service to badminton |
| George Edward O'Brien | For service to the community |
| The Reverend Monsignor John Senan O'Shea | For service to the community, particularly as Port Chaplain for Fremantle |
| William Frederick Ottley | For service to the community through the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association of New South Wales |
| Dr Seweryn Antoni Ozdowski | For service to the Polish community and to furthering Australian Polish relations |
| George Thomas Palmer | For service to aged people |
| Aubrey Imrie Panton | For service to ballroom dancing |
| Richard John Paterson | For service to the media as a radio broadcaster and to the community |
| Stanley Mcvey Paul | For service to local government |
| Thomas Ackroyd Pettit | For service to the community |
| Keith William Phipps | For service to the community, to local government and to the arts |
| Barbara Rutherford Pollett | For service to nursing and community health |
| Roman Potocki | For service to the Polish community |
| Harold Jeffreys (Jeff) Prell | For service to primary industry, to rural organisations and to the community |
| Maitland Keith Quartermaine | For service to the mining industry and to historical research |
| Edward Royce Ramsamy, BEM | For service to the community |
| George Ernest Richardson | For service to the Australian stockhorse breeding industry and to the community |
| Herbert Richmond | For service to the community |
| Ronald William Riley | For service to hockey |
| Barbara Joan Roberts | For service to the community and to local government |
| Daphne Olive Robins | For service to the community through music and drama |
| Ronald Robson | For service to business and commerce, particularly as an advocate of best practice and workplace reform |
| Celia Elizabeth Rosser | For service to botanical art |
| Yvonne Alice Mary Rowse | For service to local government and to the community, particularly through the United Hospital Auxiliaries of New South Wales and the Anglican Church |
| James Richard Runham | For service to people with disabilities |
| Mary Lorraine Sallmann | For service to women through the Queen's Fund |
| Nellie Blanche Sansom | For service to the preservation of the site of the first Government House |
| Loris Francis Sartori | For service to the Italian community, particularly the care of aged people |
| Elizabeth Burnett Cameron Escolme Schmidt | For service to the community |
| Richard Sedgwick | For service to the apple and pear industry and to local government |
| John George Seed | For service to conservation and the environment |
| Abraham Isaac Segal | For service to the community through music organisations, particularly the Australian Musicians Academy |
| Dr James Selby | For service to aged people |
| Alfred Raymond Settree | For service as a builder and restorer of wooden boats and to the community |
| Albert Shield | For service to the community |
| David John Shinnick | For service to the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide and to the community |
| Jan Siejka | For service to the Polish community and to the building industry |
| Joseph Benjamin John Smith | For service to the community in rediscovering and marking the historic McMillan Track |
| Rosa Catherine Smith | For service to the community, particularly through the Brotherhood of St Laurence |
| Dr Geulah Solomon | For service to Jewish women and to the Jewish community |
| Keith Spong | For service to the community and to Australian rules football administration |
| John Patrick Aloysius Sprouster | For service to business and commerce through promotion of Total Quality Management principles and practice |
| Josephine Maree Moore Staughton | For service to the community, particularly aged and invalid people |
| David John William Stevens | For service to athletics administration, particularly through the Queensland Athletics Association |
| Pauline May Stevens | For service to athletics administration, particularly through the Queensland Athletics Association |
| Peter Robert Swan | For service to the community as a member of the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association |
| Dr Adelheid Elisabeth (Heide) Taylor | For service to the community, particularly through women's organisations and to medicine |
| Erna Marlienne Thomson | For service to nursing through the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India |
| Edward Walter Tobin | For service to sports administration |
| Ian Stockdale Tolley | For service to horticulture, particularly the citrus industry |
| William Roy Tonkes | For service to lawn bowls |
| Joan Trewern | For service to the community, particularly through the Women's Electoral Lobby |
| Margaret Shirley Turnbull | For service to the welfare of people with visual impairments |
| Michael Thomas Patrick Tynan | For service to local government and to the community |
| Norman George Vaughan | For service to pipe and brass bands |
| Detective Senior Sergeant John Kenneth Wakefield | For service to the community |
| Sister Ann Veronica Walsh | For service to people with impaired hearing |
| Violetta Johanna Walsh | For service to the community |
| Gladys Aitken Walters | For service to the community, particularly through the Scout Association of Australia |
| Ivon Alfred Wardle | For service to the South Australian Parliament, to the community through the Uniting Church in Australia and to aged care |
| David John Waters | For service to veterans and to the community |
| Bevilie Rae Watson | For service to education, particularly to children and adolescents with poor coordination, learning difficulties and developmental difficulties |
| William Stanley Watson | For service to the community, particularly through the Scout Association of Australia |
| Kenneth Arthur Watts | For service to the community, particularly through health service organisations |
| Brian Frederick Gilbert Webb | For service to the community |
| Keith George Westerweller | For service to the community, particularly aged people |
| Mary Dunbar White | For service to conservation and the environment |
| Dr Francis Charles Hayden Whitebrook, MC | For service to higher education and to sport and fitness |
| Harold Douglas Whitehurst | For service to the welfare of veterans through the Korea and South East Asia Forces Association |
| Esther Wieselmann | For service to the Jewish community, particularly the care of aged people |
| Eunice Agatha Wilkes | For service to the community, particularly by training choirs and organising concerts |
| Marilyn Selina Willey | For service to the community and to nursing |
| Suzanne Elizabeth Williams | For service to judy as a competitor, coach and administrator |
| Dr Martin John Williams | For service to medicine and to the community |
| James Maitland Willox | For service to the community, particularly through the Swan Hill Pipe Band |
| Dr John Robert Wilson | For service to the recording and preservation of nursing history |
| Councillor Peter Robert Woods | For service to local government |
| Linda May Wright | For service to horticulture |