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1990 Australia Day Honours
The 1990 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1990 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden.
The 1990 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 1990 by the Governor General of Australia, Bill Hayden.
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.
† indicates an award given posthumously.
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sir William Archer Gunn, KBE CMG | For service to primary industry | |
| Professor Sir John Carew Eccles | For service to science, particularly in the field of neurophysiology | |
| The Honourable Dr Thomas Weetman Smith, QC | For service to the law and to legal institutions | |
| Sidney Baillieu Myer | For service to business and commerce, to government and to the community |
| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Barrett, OBE | For service to banking and accounting | |
| Dr Kevin Bleasel | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of neurosurgery | |
| Allan Robert Border, AM | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Professor Bettina Cass | For service to social security policy and women's affairs | |
| William Harold Clough, OBE | For service to engineering and to the construction industry | |
| Michael John Cook | For service to the public service | |
| Professor David Miles Danks | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of paediatrics and birth defects | |
| William Duncan Ferris | For service to international trade and to industry | |
| The Honourable Francis Robert Fisher | For service to the law and to education | |
| Ronald Gordon Fry, MBE | For service to industrial relations | |
| John Gandel | For service to business, commerce and to the community | |
| Rosemary Goldie | For service to religion and to international relations | |
| Trevor William Haines | For public service | |
| Dr George Vincent Hall | For service to medicine, particularly as a cardiologist | |
| Ken Robert Handley, QC | For service to the law and to religion | |
| Professor William Samuel Calhoun Hare | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of radiology | |
| Peter Dunstan Hastings† | For service to journalism | |
| Professor John Basil Hennessy | For service to archaeology and to international relations | |
| Professor Harry Payne Heseltine | For service to education particularly in the field of Australian literature | |
| Professor Phillip William Hughes | For service to education | |
| The Honourable Ralph James Dunnett Hunt | For service to the Australian Parliament | |
| Daryl Sanders Jackson | For service to architecture | |
| The Honourable Mr Justice William Kaye, QC | For service to the law | |
| Dr Michael Stockton Keating | For public service | |
| Neal Francis Kent | For public service and service to transport | |
| Professor Paul Ivan Korner | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of research | |
| Colin John Lanceley | For service to art, particularly as a painter and sculptor | |
| Dr Peter Gordon Livingstone | For public service | |
| George Alfred Lloyd, OBE | For service to aviation and to international relations | |
| Robert Bernard Maybury | For service to finance, particularly through the building society movement | |
| Professor Isabel McBryde | For service to education, particularly in the field of Australian prehistory | |
| Roderick Duncan McLeod | For service to primary industry, particularly grain growing | |
| Dr Frank Harland Mills | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of cardiothoracic surgery | |
| Professor Gerald White Milton | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of malignant melanoma | |
| Grevor Chilton Molyneux, OBE | For service to the community, particularly in the field of health administration and fund raising | |
| Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, OBE | For service to music | |
| The Most Reverend Eric Gerard Perkins | For service to religion and to social welfare | |
| Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, OBE | For service to music | |
| The Honourable Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson, CMG | For service to government and politics and to the Victorian parliament | |
| Elizabeth Catherine Usher | For service as a speech therapist to people with disabilities | |
| His Honour Chief Judge Glenn Royce Donal Waldron | For service to the law | |
| Nancy-Bird Walton, OBE | For service to aviation, particularly the participation of women in aviation | |
| John Yeowart | For service to the coal mining industry | |
| The Honourable Michael Jerome Young | For service to the Australian parliament |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral David Guy Holthouse | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Logistics) | |
| Commodore Peter Clifford Mitchell AM | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Anzac Ship Project Director | ||
| Army | Major General Brian William Howard AM MC | For service to the Australian Army as Director General, Natural Disasters Organisation | |
| Major General John David Keldie | For service to the Australian Army, in particular as Commander 2nd Division | ||
| Air Force | Air Vice-Marshal Graham Wallace Neil | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff — Personnel | |
| Air Vice-Marshal Richard John Bomball | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Development |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Captain Rupert Anthony Christie RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Director of Surface Warfare and Command and Control | |
| Commodore Ian Fletcher Holmes RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Director General Fleet Maintenance | ||
| Commodore Robin Nyren Partington RAN | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Naval Officer Commanding North Australia Area | ||
| Lieutenant Commander Bryan Chisholm Rowland RFD, RD, RANR | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Control of Shipping Training Cell | ||
| Army | Colonel Richard Palmer Knox | For service to the Australian Army as Director of Financial and Management Support | |
| Lieutenant Colonel William Julian Andrew Mellor | For service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer of the 5th Aviation Regiment | ||
| Brigadier Errold Frederick Pfitzner | For service to the Australian Army as the Chief of Staff Joint Exercise Planning Staff | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Peter Neville Rule RFD | For service to the Australian Army as Commanding Officer Queensland Agricultural College Training Unit | ||
| Brigadier George Thomas Salmon | For service to the Australian Army in the field of new capital equipment procurement | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Ian Malcolm Stewart | For service to the Australian Army as Staff Officer Grade One Plans, Headquarters Land Command Australia | ||
| Major Ronald James Tattersall | For service to the Australian Army as an administrative staff officer in Army Office, Canberra | ||
| Major Gerald Anthony Thurnwald | For service to the Australian Army as Officer Commanding 19th Dental Unit | ||
| Air Force | Wing Commander Michael Brendon Birks | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer No 34 Squadron, Fairbairn ACT | |
| Air Commodore Colin Edward Bradford | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Director of Personnel Officers | ||
| Flight Lieutenant David John Green | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as an instructor in the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Wing at the Army School of Military Engineering | ||
| Wing Commander Jonathan Scott Hamwood | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer, Base Squadron, Tindal | ||
| Wing Commander Allan Grant (Angus) Houston | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as Commanding Officer No 9 Squadron and subsequently Officer Commanding A Squadron, 5th Aviation Regiment | ||
| Group Captain James Frederick George Kennedy | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the facilities manager of the RAAF Base Tindal development project | ||
| Squadron Leader Warren James Ludwig | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force as the tactical co-ordinator, Standards and Training Office No 10 Squadron, Edinburgh, South Australia |
| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Chief Petty Officer Frederick Ian Baker | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly in the maintenance of Guided Missile Destroyers | |
| Lieutenant Peter John Dermot Mitchell | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Senior Marine Technical Hull Sailor in HMAS Success | ||
| Warrant Officer Michael John Stubbs | For service to the Royal Australian Navy as the Administrative Staff Officer at the Supply School in HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Peter Mark Tyler | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Staff Officer Shipborne Lifesaving and Survival Equipment to the Directorate of Naval User Requirements | ||
| Army | Warrant Officer Class One Peter James Bruce | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of 8th/12th Medium Regiment | |
| Warrant Officer Class One Russell Don Campbell | For service to the Australian Army as RSM of 8th Brigade | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Graham William Docksey | For service to the Australian Army as the RSM of Logistic Command | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Roger Paul Gillis | For service to the Australian Army in the field of Electronic Warfare | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Bernard John Johnson | For service to the Australian Army as Squadron Sergeant Major 103rd Signal Squadron | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Kenneth Norman Johnston | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of Land Command Battle School | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Alan Raymond Kelb | For service to the Australian Army in the field of apprentice training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One David Meehan | For service to the Australian Army in the field of training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Roger Sidney William Payne | For service to the Australian Army as Supervisor Physical Training at the Infantry Centre | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Shane Bradley Purdon | For service to the Australian Army as the Warrant Officer Supervisor, Construction with Regional Engineer Liverpool | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Clem William Russell | For service to the Australian Army as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 31st Battalion, the Royal Queensland Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Keith Wayne Spence | For service to the Australian Army as a Training Development Warrant Officer at the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Centre, Directorate of Personal Computing, Personnel Branch, Department of Defence (Army Office) | ||
| Captain Anthony Charles Turner | For service to the Australian Army in the field of training | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Clarence Arthur Whitehorn | For service to the Australian Army in the field of communications and cryptographic accounting | ||
| Air Force | Flight Sergeant Joseph Anthony | For service to the RAAF as a technician with the Aircraft Engineering Division at HQ Support Command | |
| Warrant Officer Garry Edward Eldridge | For service to the RAAF as the technical supervisor at No 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit | ||
| Flight Sergeant Gary Edward Glazier | For service to the RAAF in the Technical Airmen Manning Cell, Directorate of Personnel Airmen | ||
| Warrant Officer John Murray Hansen | For service to the RAAF as the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of No.2 Airfield Defence Squadron, RAAF Base Amberley | ||
| Flight Sergeant Alexander James McCabe | For service to the RAAF as Assistant Caterer, Base Support Wing, Darwin | ||
| Pilot Officer David James McCann | For service to the RAAF as a Load-Master Instructor at No.5 Squadron, RAAF Base, Fairbairn |
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