| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| Mehrban Barney Allam | For service to the community, particularly through Wesley Mission, and to the residential building industry. | [1] |
| John Henry Anderson | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the No. 31 Squadron Beaufighter Association. |
| Jeffrey Samuel Angel | For service to conservation and the environment as a member of a range of organisations and committees concerned with environmental protection and preservation. |
| Associate Professor Francis Leo Archer | For service to medicine, particularly in the development and delivery of education programs for ambulance officers and paramedics. |
| Valencia Ruth Ashbourne | For service to the community, particularly through the Newcastle Lake Macquarie Foster Care Association. |
| James Joseph Atkins | For service to the horse racing industry in Queensland, particularly as a trainer. |
| Savas Augoustakis | For service to the multicultural community through a range of educational, welfare, social and cultural organisations. |
| Joan Backwell | For service to the community, particularly through the Vision Australia Foundation. |
| Bruce Warren Bagley | For service to the pharmacy profession, particularly through the development of education programs for pharmacy students, and to the community. |
| Ronald Hedley Baker | For service to the community, particularly through the Coolangatta Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade Committee and ex-service organisations. |
| Russell Irving Baker | For service to the community, particularly through the South Australian Division of the Australian Red Cross. |
| Ronald George Bannerman | For service to the community as a fundraiser for the Hunter Haematology Research Group. |
| Dr Paul Edward Bannon | For service to medicine as a general practitioner in the Eurobodalla Shire. |
| Alexander Barnett | For service to the community of Ballarat through the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park Committee. |
| Betty Louise Beaton | For service to the community through a range of church, social support and educational organisations. |
| Airlie Florence Bell | For service to the community, particularly through Australian Red Cross and the Hear and Say Centre. |
| Dr Teri Ann Bellamy | For service to veterinary science, particularly through contributions to the preservation of wildlife. |
| Marion Margaret Bertram | For service to the community of Yarram through a range of organisations, particularly the Yarram Uniting Church. |
| Errol Frank Berwick | For service to the community through the programs of the Rotary Club of Fortitude Valley, particularly the Metropolitan Senior Citizens Club. |
| Kerry Clive Berwick † | For service to local government and to the community of Devonport. |
| Kenneth Charles Bird | For service to surf lifesaving as an executive member, official and administrator. |
| Kenneth John Bird | For service to the community of Coonabarabran through a range of social support, veteran and rural organisations. |
| Robert John Birkill | For service to the community, particularly as an administrator in the residential aged care sector. |
| Phoebe Estelle Bischoff | For service to the community, particularly through organisations addressing issues affecting women and families. |
| Carol Betty Bishop | For service to the community, particularly through a range of breast cancer support organisations and initiatives. |
| Yvonne Blackman | For service to the community of Caloundra, particularly through the Caloundra Branch of the Australian Red Cross. |
| Gavin Ross Blakey | For service to the community, particularly through Toastmasters International. |
| Allan Blankfield | For service to the preservation of Australian military history and heritage and to the community. |
| Margaret Nicol Blieschke † | For service to local government and to the community of Port Pirie. |
| Marcelis Martinus Boersma | For service to the international community through the humanitarian assistance programs of Rotary International. |
| Marjorie Teresa Boland | For service to the community as a fundraiser for health related organisations, particularly the Bone Marrow Donor Institute. |
| Terence Bryan Bone | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Coorparoo and Districts Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Jill Bowen | For service to the community through the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre. |
| Maureen Mary Boyle | For service to netball as an administrator and umpire. |
| Constance May Bramley | For service to the community of Edithburg, particularly through the women's choir The Wonkanas. |
| Archimandrite George Branch | For service to the Russian community of Melbourne, particularly through the support services of the Russian Catholic Centre. |
| John Brands | For service to the community, particularly through the Norah Head Search and Rescue Boat Club. |
| Patrick Brennan | For service to the community, particularly through the Queensland Irish Association. |
| Peter John Bridge | For service to the community through the publication of historical records of outback pastoral and mining regions of Western Australia. |
| Dr Franklin Herbert Bridgewater | For service to the community, particularly through the development of ambulance services in South Australia and the charitable activities of St John Ambulance. |
| Patricia June Brien | For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women's Association of New South Wales. |
| John Briggs | For service to the paper industry, particularly through the introduction of environmentally sustainable manufacturing techniques. |
| Kenneth Broadhurst | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families through the Western Australian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Lois Brock | For service to the community, particularly through the National Council of Women of South Australia, Zonta Club of Noarlunga/Southern Vales and World Education Fellowship. |
| Dr David John Browning | For service to medicine, particularly as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and to the community of Bowral and the surrounding district. |
| Dr Lexia Roma Bryant | For service to medicine, particularly through support for women in rural and remote practice. |
| Cheryl Anne Buckland | For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Church. |
| Leo Patrick Callinan | For service to the community of Ballarat, particularly to people with disabilities. |
| Dr Lennox Lyle Callow | For service to parasitology, the cattle industries and veterinary science internationally through research leading to improved tick fever vaccines. |
| Thomas Alexander Cameron † | For service to the community, particularly through the Lions Eye Institute of Western Australia. |
| Donald Ross Carter | For service to the community of Menai, particularly through the Menai Bush Fire Brigade, and to local government. |
| Henry Maxwell Catchpole | For service to the community of the north-west region of Tasmania, particularly through a range of health, aged care, educational, media and church organisations. |
| William Bruce Chambers | For service to the wine industry as a wine maker and judge. |
| Janice Lesley Chapman | For service to music as an operatic singer and teacher of voice, and as a contributor to research into human sound production and vocal health. |
| Sheelagh Murielle Clark | For service to the community, particularly to children with hearing and sight disabilities through the Cronulla Lantern Club. |
| Michael Joseph Clarke | For service to boxing by providing an insight into and recording of the history of the sport. |
| Muriel Frances Clemens | For service to the community of Tullamore through a range of service, rural show and church groups. |
| Roger Climpson | For service to the media, particularly through the Christian Broadcasting Association, and to the community through a range of service groups. |
| Lynette Mary Clough | For service to the community, particularly through the Old Northcotian's Association. |
| Robert David Coates | For service to the Scouting movement and to the community of the Illawarra region. |
| Crystal Condous | For service to tertiary education as an administrator. |
| Aune Onerva Cooper | For service to the community of Bungan Beach. |
| Beryl Cooper | For service to the community of Ulverstone through a range of service organisations. |
| Lawrence Percival Cooper | For service to the community of Chapman Valley, particularly through local government and a range of service and sporting groups. |
| Joan Cottrell | For service to the community, particularly as a supporter of the Children's Hospital at Westmead. |
| Mary Bobs Cox | For service to community health in north Queensland, particularly through the provision of physiotherapy services. |
| Ronald Frederick Coxon | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the South Australian Branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia. |
| Arthur Charles Crapp † | For service to dental technology, particularly as a practitioner and teacher. |
| Barbara Beatrice Crawford | For service to the entertainment industry as a vocalist, and to the community as a fundraiser for charitable organisations. |
| Dr David Robert Crompton | For service to community mental health through the development of programs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, and alcohol and drug disorders. |
| Joan Wilson Crook | For service to the community of Merredin, particularly through aged care. |
| Kevin John Crowe | For service to Rugby Union football as a player, referee and administrator. |
| John Kirkwood Curdie | For service to the surveying profession as an administrator and educator, and to the community. |
| Judith Margaret Curphey | For service to music, particularly through the Australian Girls Choir. |
| Mary Elliott Cushnan | For service to the community of Townsville through women's, ex-service and social support groups. |
| Professor Geoffrey Wyatt Dahlenburg | For service to medicine as an educator and administrator. |
| Nancy Rachael Dalton | For service to the community, particularly women's groups, and as a fundraiser for charitable organisations. |
| John Arthur Dance | For service to the community of the Huon Valley, particularly through the St Vincent de Paul Society. |
| Donald William Dann | For service to the community, particularly veterans and their families through the Burnie Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Dace Darzins | For service to the Latvian community of South Australia, particularly through multicultural education programs. |
| Dr Llewellyn Maitland Davies | For service to medicine, particularly as a general physician, and to medical education. |
| The Reverend Canon Bernard Rex Davis | For service to international relations through the promotion of cultural interests between Australia and Britain, particularly through the Lincolnshire Branch of the Britain-Australia Society. |
| George Stanley Davis | For service to the community, particularly through the National Parks and Wildlife Foundation of New South Wales, and to the finance sector. |
| Janet Elizabeth De Boer | For service to the development and promotion of textile arts, particularly as Executive Director of Australian Forum for Textile Arts. |
| Paul Demetriou | For service to education, particularly through the introduction of second language teaching, to local government and to the Greek community. |
| Constantine Leo Diamond | For service to the community of Parkes through support for health, aged care and social support groups. |
| Harold James Diflo | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Queensland Branch of the Partially Blinded Soldiers Association of Australia. |
| May Doon | For service to the community of Tumut through a range of aged care, church, cultural and service organisations. |
| Margaret Watson Douglas | For service to arts and crafts through the practice, teaching and promotion of embroidery. |
| Harold Ramsay Down | For service to the community through Lions International. |
| Anthony Henry Downer | For service to the food industry, particularly through the development of food standards and regulatory systems. |
| The Reverend Father Victor Joseph Doyle | For service to the community, particularly through the social welfare programs of the Catholic Church. |
| Nancy Merle Drew | For service to women's golf and to the community, particularly as a volunteer with Australian Red Cross. |
| Philip Wellesley Dulhunty | For service to international trade through the design, manufacture and export of equipment for large high voltage electric systems, and to aviation, particularly through the Seaplane Pilots Association of Australia. |
| Wilma Rae Dunne | For service to international humanitarian aid through Operation Rainbow. |
| Dr Edward Adrian Duyker | For service to the community through the preservation and documentation of Australian history, particularly that of the early European explorers and Mauritian immigrants. |
| William Howarth Eady | For service to the community, particularly through the surf lifesaving movement. |
| Dr Ernst H Ehrmann | For service to dentistry, particularly in the field of endodontics, and to the Jewish community. |
| Hamilton Nelson Eustis † | For service to philately, aerophilately and aviation history, particularly through the Australian Airmail Society and as an author. |
| Peter McKenzie Falconer | For service to agriculture, particularly as a farm management consultant, and to the community. |
| Heather Jean Farren | For service to the community, particularly through the Townsville Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia Women's Auxiliary and the Townsville Branch of the Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association. |
| Edna May Farrow | For service to the community, particularly as a fundraiser for health and palliative care organisations and for people with disabilities. |
| Sharon Lee Fellows | For service to the community through the organisation of a bowling league for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. |
| Dr Barbara Rose Ferguson | For service to the community, particularly through the development of programs to meet the health, education and recreation needs of migrants, refugees and overseas students. |
| Robert Fitz | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Launceston Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Cathryn Lorraine Fitzpatrick | For service to women's cricket as a player and promoter of the sport to young girls. |
| Keith Archibald Flanagan | For service to the community, particularly through establishing public educational tours to the Burma-Thailand Railway. |
| Maxwell George Foot | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, particularly through the Goombungee Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Peter Ronald Francis | For service to the community, particularly through the Melbourne Citymission. |
| Dr Edward Alan Freeman | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of severe brain injury. |
| Wladyslaw Frelek † | For service to the community of Northern Tasmania. |
| Donald William French | For service to the preservation and maintenance of steam locomotives. |
| Thomas John Gates | For service to veterans’ golf as a player and administrator. |
| Dr Tomislav Gavranic | For service to medicine as a general practitioner and through his commitment to addressing the health needs of Aboriginal people and people with alcohol dependency, and to the Croatian community. |
| Kaylyn Mary Geeves | For service to botany and conservation, particularly through the Australian Plant Society Tasmania. |
| Wing Commander Robert Henry Gibbes | For service to aviation and to tourism, particularly in Papua New Guinea. |
| John Ernest Gibbons | For service to local government, and to the community of Werribee. |
| Patricia Margaret Gibson | For service to local government, and to the community of Shepparton. |
| Gail Antoinette Giuliano | For service to the community, particularly through a range of dance, theatre and music groups. |
| Dr Elizabeth Gaye Gleeson | For service in the field of child and adolescent psychology, and to the community through the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. |
| Grace Margaret Goode | For service to horticulture through the culture and hybridization of bromeliads. |
| Mary Julienne Grant-Owens | For service to the community of Hurstbridge and the surrounding region, and to local government. |
| Dr Christopher Green | For service to medicine, particularly family health, and to the community by providing advice on parenting. |
| Judith Green MBE | For service to the community through the New South Wales Meals on Wheels Association and to the community of the Southern Highlands. |
| Denis Charles Gregory | For service to the rural community of New South Wales, particularly as a journalist. |
| Errol Frederick Grieve | For service to the community of Mudgee, particularly through emergency services and sporting groups. |
| Evan Lloyd Griffiths | For service to the surf lifesaving movement, and to the community of Helensburgh. |
| Frederick William Guy | For service to the community of Hamilton, and to the international community through humanitarian aid agencies. |
| Joan Alexandrina Guymer | For service to the arts, particularly through the Shepparton Performing Arts Association, to education, and to the community of Shepparton. |
| Helen Ann Hall | For service to the community of the Hunter region, particularly as a contributor to the development of health services and strengthening the volunteer network to support the services. |
| Beryl May Halpin | For service to care of the ageing people of the North Bellarine Peninsula, and to the community of St Leonards. |
| Howard Townsend Halsted | For service to the community, particularly through the Mosman Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Dr Ronald Francis Hambleton | For service to the community through the St Vincent de Paul Society and internationally through the provision of voluntary dental services. |
| Donald MacFarlane Hamilton | For service to equine sport, particularly through the Australian Saddle Pony Association and the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. |
| Derrick Windsor Hand | For service to the administration of justice, particularly in the coronial jurisdiction, and to the community. |
| Major Leonard Oswald Hansen | For service to the community of Mackay, particularly the ex-service community. |
| Gwenneth Jean Harden | For service to botany as a researcher, publisher, conservationist and educator. |
| Kerrie Nicole Harding | For service to the community through the organisation of a bowling league for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. |
| Ronald Clyde Hardman | For service to the community of Moree. |
| Edna Ellen Hardman | For service to the community of Moree. |
| William Harris | For service to the transport industry, particularly through the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics. |
| Gerrald Francis Harrison | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, and to the community as a participant in programs developed to educate children about Australia's military history. |
| Raymond Oswald Hartley | For service to the Australian community in New York and to charitable groups in Australia as a concert pianist. |
| Noel Hugh Harvey | For service to local government, regional Victoria and to the community of Kyneton. |
| William James Haskell | For service to the community, particularly through establishing public educational tours to the Burma-Thailand Railway. |
| George Raynor Hayhow | For service to the community of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. |
| Elizabeth Mary Higgs | For service to the community, particularly through the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. |
| Dr Michael Samuel Hirshorn | For service to medical technology through the development of strategies for product commercialisation. |
| Nancy Jean Hodgkinson | For service to the community, particularly through support for the veteran community. |
| Dr Denis Hoffmann | For service to veterinary science, particularly in the area of virology. |
| Captain David John Hogan | For service to the community of South Australia through the State Rescue Helicopter Service. |
| Eliza Nellie Hogan | For service to the community of Shellharbour through a range of organisations providing care for ageing people. |
| Ivan Grenfell Holliday | For service to the environment, particularly as a researcher, educator and promoter of Australian flora. |
| Una Wallace Hollingworth | For service to the performing arts through the staging of theatre productions and as a stage and costume designer. |
| Jack Hollingworth | For service to the performing arts through the staging of theatre productions and as a director. |
| Haldane Sinclair Holman | For service to the arts as a designer and sculptor. |
| Horace Holt | For service to the community, particularly as a performer and teacher of music. |
| Peter Leonard Holt | For service to the community, particularly through Lions International. |
| Laurence Mark Howarth | For service to the communities of Roseville, particularly through the Roseville Branch of the Australian Red Cross. |
| Garry George Hulme | For service to the community, particularly through the Canterbury City State Emergency Service. |
| Patrisha Marylynn Hurley | For service to the community, particularly through the Country Women's Association of New South Wales. |
| Maurice Hurst † | For service to architecture. |
| Catherine Ireland | For service to conservation and to the environment, particularly in the Blue Mountains region. |
| Enid Susette Isaacs | For service to the community of Armidale, particularly through the production of audio books for the Australian Listening Library. |
| Gilbert Jan | For service to the Chinese community, particularly through historical and cultural activities on behalf of Australian ex-servicemen and women of Chinese descent. |
| William Donald Jane | For service to the community through fundraising for charitable organisations, particularly to the Austin Breast Cancer Research Foundation. |
| Michael John Janes | For service to the community, particularly through the Vision Australia Foundation, and through involvement with the Catholic Church. |
| Joy Christine Jeffes | For service to the community of the Peel region, particularly through environmental rehabilitation projects and support for aged care services. |
| Hazel Eileen Jenkins | For service to the community, particularly through the Norparrin Centre for Children with Special Needs, and to the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria. |
| Clive Noel Johnson | For service to the community and to rural land conservation in the Central West region of New South Wales. |
| Byram Thomas Johnston | For service to the development of Australian motor sport, to the community as a fundraiser for health service and research organisations, and to the accountancy profession. |
| Kathleen Therese Johnston | For service to the community through training programs to enhance the delivery of services provided by Justices of the Peace. |
| Steven Norman Johnston | For service to the community, particularly residents and travellers in remote locations, through the Australian National Four Wheel Drive Radio Network. |
| Ellen Mary Jones | For service to the community of Sandgate. |
| Eric Stanley Jones | For service to people with an intellectual disability, particularly through the establishment and administration of the Ovens and Murray Region Special Olympics, and to the community. |
| Jennifer Anne Jones | For service to chemistry education through professional development of science educators, and through the advancement of science education in primary and secondary schools. |
| Richard Thomas Jordan | For service to the community of the Georges River district, particularly through aged care, youth and sporting organisations. |
| Carole Anne Juric | For service to the community of Wollongong, particularly through the Wollongong Australia Day Committee. |
| Dr Milan Kantor | For service to the Czech Republic community, particularly through the promotion of cultural and social activities and the establishment of aged care accommodation. |
| Edmond Henry Keir | For service to people with a hearing or visual impairment and their families, particularly through the Deafblind Association, and to the advancement of the field of audiology. |
| Prudence Elizabeth Kellaway | For service to the community, particularly through fundraising for the Children's Medical Research Institute. |
| Lynette Moira Kellow | For service to the community, particularly through the Queensland Writers Centre, the Older Women's Network, and the establishment of OWNWRITE. |
| Shane John Kelly | For service to cycling as a competitor and through support for the development of junior riders. |
| Alan Patrick Kennedy | For service to the community of Armidale, particularly to people with drug and alcohol dependencies through Freeman House and the St Vincent de Paul Society. |
| Martin John Kennedy | For service to music, particularly to the preservation of jazz music history through the Victorian Jazz Archive, and to the community. |
| The Reverend Doctor Cornelius Brendan Keogh | For service to the community, particularly through rehabilitation support for people with a mental illness as co-founder of GROW. |
| Lee Raymond Kernaghan | For service to remote and regional communities through the 'Pass the Hat Around' fundraising concerts, and to country music as an artist and performer. |
| Pastor Trevor Kenneth King | For service to people with alcohol and drug dependencies by providing rehabilitation support, particularly through the Westside Mission. |
| Marie Terese Krygsman | For service to the community, particularly to children in need of crisis care, as a Barnardos foster carer. |
| Esther Lakis | For service to the community, particularly to the Greek community through the Australian Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, and to the arts through the Brisbane Eisteddfod Committee. |
| William Kenneth Lane † | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Gunnedah Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Heather Law | For service to softball as a player, coach, umpire and administrator, and to the community of Cairns. |
| Dorothea Maria Lechner | For service to the community, particularly through the Blue Ladies volunteer group at Campbelltown Hospital, and through fundraising support for charitable organisations. |
| Francis Yuen-Fai Lee | For service to the Chinese community through a range of media, cultural and social organisations. |
| Kenneth Newton Lyttle | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Tamworth Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Miriam Ann Macartney | For service to the community, particularly through the Brotherhood of St Laurence Auxiliary Opportunity Shop. |
| Paul Frederick Macphee | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Veterans Support and Advocacy Service. |
| Robert Charles Manning | For service to the community of the Cairns region through the development and promotion of the tourism, maritime and aviation industries. |
| Clarence Ray Marquardt | For service to the cattle industry, particularly through the development of the Illawarra breed and as a show judge, to the dairy industry, and to the community. |
| Clifford Marriott | For service to the community, particularly people with an intellectual disability through the Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home. |
| Gloria Marshall | For service to the community, particularly through fundraising and support for the Australian Red Cross. |
| John William Martin | For service to Rugby Union football as a player, coach and administrator, and to the community. |
| William Alexander Martin | For service to the community of Crookwell. |
| Robert Leonard Maughan | For service to the community through wildlife protection, education and health care organisations, and to the automotive industry, particularly through the International Car Distribution Program Australia. |
| Neil Yager Maxwell | For service to the community, particularly through the Vision Australia Foundation. |
| Brenda Gordon Mazzucchelli | For service to the community, particularly through education and welfare organisations associated with the Anglican Church of Australia. |
| Stanley David McAndrew | For service to the veteran community, particularly through the 'N' Class Destroyer Association. |
| Robert McCarron | For service to the Australian film, television and stage industries, particularly in the fields of make-up and special effects, and to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance Australia. |
| Brother Paul Dean McGlaughlin | For service to the development of Catholic education in South Australia. |
| Peter James McMillan | For service to the community, particularly in the field of church music. |
| Cynthia McMorran | For service to the community and to local government in the Shire of Moora. |
| Millicent Anne McNeill | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross in Victoria. |
| Phillip James Medcalf † | For service to the community as a supporter and promoter of the interests of people living with HIV/AIDS. |
| Irene Meeuwissen | For service to the community, particularly through Cystic Fibrosis Victoria. |
| Jean Isobelle Melzer | For service to the community and to education, particularly through the University of the Third Age, and to environmental conservation in the Cape Paterson area. |
| Harry Michaels | For service to the Greek community, particularly in the field of multicultural media, and to soccer. |
| Jim Mitcho Milanko | For service to multiculturalism in South Australia, and to the Macedonian community. |
| Kenneth John Milbourne | For service to the community, particularly through St John Ambulance Australia, and as a contributor to the preservation of maritime and railway history in Tasmania. |
| Paul Ashton Mitchell | For service to the community, and to environmental resource management and planning. |
| John Munro Moller RFD | For service to the community of the Sandringham district, through a range of family support, health, sporting and ex-service groups. |
| John Morrison Monteath | For service to the surveying profession in New South Wales, and to the community of Newcastle. |
| Bertram Peter Moore | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, and to the community of Toukley. |
| Olive Gwenne Moore | For service to the community, particularly as a contributor to genealogical studies, and to mathematics education. |
| Suzanne Morey | For service to nursing, particularly through the care of patients with respiratory disease. |
| Chadwick William Morgan | For service to country music. |
| Dorothy Bertha Morgan | For service to the community of Albany, particularly through organisations associated with the arts. |
| Dr Robert G B Morrison | For service to conservation and the environment, and to the fields of science education and communication. |
| Joan Mary Muir | For service to the community of Grafton through ex-service, service and aged care organisations, and as a contributor to the development of special education services in the area. |
| Keith William Muir | For service to nature conservation, particularly through the Colong Foundation for Wilderness. |
| Nicholas John Murphy | For service to the community as a contributor to the preservation of history relating to the Gippsland region. |
| Dr Richard Wingfield Murray | For service to veterinary science, particularly in the field of urban animal management. |
| Florence Annie Napier | For service to the community of Forbes. |
| Giuseppe Narduzzo | For service to the Italian community of Melbourne. |
| Dr David Charles Neesham | For service to water polo as a player, coach and administrator. |
| Brenda Frances Nettle | For service to education through the Australian Federation of University Women (SA) and the Mathematical Association of South Australia. |
| Barbara Eileen Newman | For service to the community of Launceston, particularly through aged care and craft organisations. |
| Corinne Nicolson | For service to the community of the Sapphire Coast, particularly in the field of aged care. |
| Arthur James Nightingale | For service to the community of the Evans Shire, particularly through the Rural Fire Service and the Rockley Lions Club. |
| Sister Patricia Margaret Nolan | For service to tertiary education, particularly as an administrator. |
| William Norris | For service to the ex-service community of the City of Blacktown. |
| Group Captain Neil Leslie Northeast | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Air Force Cadets. |
| Christopher Arnold O'Brien | For service to lawn bowls, particularly through the Royal Victorian Bowls Association. |
| Gregory Reginald O'Brien | For service to the community of Mansfield and as a supporter of people with Motor Neurone Disease. |
| Walter Patrick O'Connell | For service to Rugby League football, particularly as a player and coach. |
| Norris Hayward O'Leary | For service to the community of the Australian Capital Territory, particularly through Lions International, and to veterans’ hockey. |
| William Oatey | For service to table tennis as a player, coach and administrator. |
| Major John Paul Opie | For service to the community, particularly through the Military Museum of Tasmania. |
| Professor Robert Arthur Ouvrier | For service to medicine through research in the field of paediatric neurology. |
| Beryl Elizabeth Owen | For service to the community, particularly through a range of organisations providing support for amputees in New South Wales. |
| Dr Peter Packer | For service to medicine in the field of otology. |
| Charles Terrence Parker DCM | For service to the sport of shooting, particularly through the development of firearm safety training programs through the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia. |
| Patricia Hazel Parker | For service as a contributor to community cultural development through the administration of a range of regional arts and community organisations. |
| Joan Eileen Paroissien | For service to nursing as an administrator, and to the community through the Order of St Lazarus. |
| Major Brian Martin Parsons | For service to the community through the Vision Australia Foundation. |
| Dr Robert Paton | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of vascular surgery. |
| The Reverend Canon Alan Reginald Patrick | For service to youth, particularly through Mission Australia, and to Anglican education. |
| Harry Pearce | For service to the sport of harness racing as a journalist. |
| Joy Lenore Pegg | For service to the community, particularly through the Cystic Fibrosis Association of New South Wales. |
| Francis Shane Perram | For service to the community of Manly-Warringah through a range of charitable and sporting organisations. |
| Eric Louis Philips | For achievement in polar exploration, and for service to the community by promoting outdoor activities, particularly to young people. |
| John David Phillips | For service to the environment through Keep South Australia Beautiful, and to the community, particularly through Apex Australia. |
| Laura Harriet Philp | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Women's Auxiliary of the Inverell Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Maxwell Milton Philpott | For service to the community of Coonamble. |
| Thomas Joseph Picot | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| George Warren Pinfold | For service to the community of Penrith through environmental rehabilitation, particularly as the proponent of the Penrith Lakes Scheme. |
| The Reverend Kaye Pitman | For service to the Anglican Church of Australia, particularly in the field of education. |
| Hans Pomeranz | For service to the film industry, particularly as a supporter of emerging film makers, and to the community. |
| Peter Neville Porter | For service to literature as a poet, reviewer, broadcaster and essayist. |
| The Reverend Heinrich Friedrich Proeve | For service to the Lutheran Church of Australia, and to the community of the Barossa Valley as an historian. |
| Joseph Puglisi | For service to the tuna fishing industry, particularly through fisheries management, and to the community of Port Lincoln. |
| Betty Vivian Pybus | For service to women, particularly through the Hobart Women's Centre and the Older Women's Network. |
| Una Mae Radloff | For service to the community, particularly as a volunteer with the Moreton Bay Nursing Care Unit. |
| The Very Reverend Archpriest Petar Rados | For service to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia. |
| Joy Randall | For service to the community of Primrose Sands. |
| Rale Rasic | For service to soccer as a player, coach and administrator. |
| Verna Dorothy Rathmann | For service to nursing in South Australia as an administrator, and through the development of nursing skills and knowledge to ensure quality patient care. |
| Shirley Jean Reavill | For service to the community of the Henley and Grange area. |
| Gordon George Reeds | For service to the veteran community of the Central Coast. |
| Hazel Mary Reid | For service to the community of Mount Isa, particularly through aged care organisations. |
| Kevin James Rice | For service to architecture as a practitioner and through the professional association. |
| Lachlan McEachan Rick | For service to the community of the Cardwell Shire through a range of health, emergency services and school groups. |
| Alexander James Ritchie | For service to tourism in the Glen Innes region. |
| Gloria Elizabeth Robbins | For service to the community through veteran, business and educational organisations. |
| Lynette Anne Robertson | For service to the community, particularly through the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre. |
| James Malone Robson | For service to the community of Lithgow, particularly through church, aged care and health service groups. |
| Peter George Rockliff | For service to the fishing industry, particularly through fisheries development, aquaculture and seafood processing. |
| Una Margaret Rockliff | For service to the fishing industry, particularly through fisheries development, aquaculture and seafood processing. |
| Dr William Norman Roebuck RFD | For service to education through technical industrial training programs and apprenticeships, and to the community. |
| Raymond Dean Roesler | For service to horticulture through the cultivation and promotion of cymbidium orchids. |
| Dr Ian Leonard Rowe | For service to medicine, particularly through the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and to the community through Rotary International and the Western Hospital. |
| Peter Ridgeway Rowland | For service to the community as a benefactor to a range of public and private organisations, and to the catering industry. |
| Rysia Maria Rozen | For service to the Jewish community of Victoria, particularly through the National Council of Jewish Women. |
| John Michael Rudd | For service to eco-tourism in the Snowy Mountains region. |
| Professor Michael Radford Sage | For service to radiology as a clinician, researcher and educator. |
| Demetre Samios | For service to the community of Warwick, particularly through the Warwick Community Training Centre. |
| Beryl Jean Schaeffer | For service to the community of the Bega Valley Shire, particularly through the agricultural show movement and the Country Women's Association. |
| David William Scholes DFC | For service as an author and authority on fly fishing, particularly in Tasmania. |
| Leon Maxwell Scott | For service to the community of Bendigo, and through support for Rotary's international humanitarian aid projects, particularly in East Timor. |
| Sister Mary Catherine Sellen | For service to the community, particularly people with disabilities, through the Holy Cross Mercy Centre. |
| Edward Robert Seltin | For service to the community of Camden Haven. |
| Agnes Josephine Shea | For service to Ngunnawal people by contributing to the improvement and development of services for the Indigenous people of the Australian Capital Territory and region. |
| Effat Shehata | For service to the Arabic community of Western Sydney. |
| John Rupert Shoobridge | For service to the communities of the Derwent Valley and Central Highlands. |
| Lynette Silver | For service to veterans and their families, particularly as an organiser of battlefield tours and commemorative services. |
| John Grant Simmons | For service to botany, particularly through the identification, documentation and promotion of Australian acacias. |
| Marion Helen Simmons | For service to botany, particularly through the identification, documentation and promotion of Australian acacias. |
| Mark Stephen Skaife | For service to motor racing and to the community, particularly through fundraising activities for Ronald McDonald House Charities. |
| Major Annie Jean Smart | For service to the community, particularly as an honorary chaplain with the Victoria State Emergency Service. |
| Major Walter Keith Smart | For service to the community, particularly as an Honorary Chaplain with the Victoria State Emergency Service. |
| Laurence Gordon Smith | For service to the community through the provision of voluntary service for major sporting events and through the 'Aunties and Uncles' youth assistance program. |
| Lindsay Edward Smith | For service to wildlife preservation through the Southern Ocean Seabird Study Association. |
| Betty Selina Smith-Gander | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Red Cross. |
| Daryl Paul Somers | For service to the television and entertainment industries, to charitable organisations and to the community. |
| Walter Heinrich Sommer | For service to the building and construction industry through the development of industry-based training programs. |
| Lois Ann Speed | For service to the community through the aged care programs of the Queensland Country Women's Association. |
| Annette Joy Stilwell | For service to the arts in Tasmania, particularly in the area of music. |
| Rozalia Stopic | For service to the Hungarian community of Sydney. |
| Helen Katherine Strange | For service to the community of Toowoomba, particularly the welfare of veterans and their families. |
| Leonard William Streets | For service to the community, particularly through the Frankston Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Elizabeth Mary Strothers | For service to the community, through the aged care programs of Baptist Community Services - NSW and ACT. |
| Kevin Francis Sullivan | For service to the community, particularly through the North Parramatta Branch of the St Vincent de Paul Society. |
| Glenorchy Cumming Summors | For service to the community, particularly through the Pan Pacific South East Asia Women's Organisation, the Guiding movement and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. |
| Joy Surrey | For service to lawn bowls as a player, administrator and umpire. |
| Dr Ian Alexander Tait | For service to medicine as a general practitioner. |
| Albert William Taylor | For service to the preservation and maintenance of steam locomotives. |
| Alexandra McGilvray Terdich | For service to the community of Frankston through the Peninsula Ostomy Association Inc. |
| Theresa Testoni | For service to the community of the Macarthur region, particularly through the tourism and hospitality industries, and to local government. |
| Norma June Thomas | For service to the community of Coraki. |
| Ann Marie Thompson | For service to music, particularly through the Medici Concert series. |
| Barbara Marion Thompson | For service to the community, particularly as a fundraiser for and supporter of a range of health research, women's and cultural organisations. |
| Stephen John Tonkin | For service to local government and to the community of the Shire of Menzies. |
| The Reverend Noreen Margaret Towers | For service to homeless people, particularly through the Wesley Mission. |
| Major Peter McDonald Trebilco ED | For service to the community through a range of health, social justice and welfare organisations. |
| Demetrios Tsingris | For service to the Greek community as an author and through cultural activities. |
| Cynthia Myrtle Turner | For service to the community through the Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group (Australia). |
| Peggy Turner | For service to the community of Peakhurst. |
| Dr William Rowe Twycross | For service to the community of Mansfield. |
| David William Wake | For service to the communities of Darke Peak, Cleve and Port Lincoln. |
| Deborah Ruiz Wall | For service to the community in the areas of social justice, reconciliation and multiculturalism. |
| Eric George Watson | For service to country music. |
| Dr Alan Charles Watts | For service to medicine as a general practitioner and through the implementation of Q fever vaccination programs, and to the community of Carcoar. |
| Fabian Paul Webb | For service to the community and to local government in the Shire of Kilkivan. |
| Marion Jane Webster | For service to community and philanthropic organisations as an adviser and through the provision of administrative support. |
| Margaret Olwyn Weir | For service to the community of Gerringong, and to children through the Gerringong Committee of the Children's Medical Research Institute. |
| Gregory John Welch | For service to the sport of triathlon as an athlete, advisor, coach and commentator. |
| Douglas Leslie Wenham | For service to the community of Edwardstown. |
| Herbert James White | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families, particularly through the City of Sydney Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| William Graham Whittaker | For service to thoroughbred horse racing as a journalist. |
| Lorraine Jeanette Willetts | For service to the community, particularly through the Shellharbour Hospital Auxiliary. |
| Herbert Angus Williams | For service to the community, particularly through the Warringah Toy Repair Group. |
| Lyn Adrienne Williams | For service to the arts as founder and Director of the Sydney Children's Choir and Gondwana Voices. |
| The Reverend Patricia Aitken Williams | For service to the community of Darwin, particularly through the provision of chaplaincy and counselling services. |
| Brett Duncan Williamson | For service to sports administration, particularly through Surf Life Saving Queensland. |
| Cheryl Margaret Wilson | For service to the Guiding movement in Tasmania, and to junior athletics. |
| James Clarence Wilson | For service to the community of Geeveston. |
| Kenneth Albert Wilson | For service to children undergoing treatment for cancer as a volunteer with the Oncology Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. |
| Marlene Anne Wilson | For service to the community of North West Tasmania through the Guiding movement. |
| Graham Edward Wiltshire | For service to the Tasmanian wine industry. |
| Silas George Wood | For service to veterans and their families, particularly through the Windsor Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Nancy Elizabeth Wood | For service to the community, particularly through the Port Pirie Branch of the National Trust. |
| Peter Francis Wood | For service to the community of Traralgon. |
| Dorothy Ada Wooll | For service to the community of Sydney. |
| Ronald Samuel Workman | For service to the community, particularly through the Currumbin Palm Beach Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Keith William Young | For service to the preservation and recording of Australia's military history. |