| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
| Cordelia May Allen | For service to women through community health and church organisations. | [1] |
| Richard Andrew Anderson | For service to people with visual impairments and to fundraising for the arts. |
| Dr Peter Edward Andry | For service to music, particularly through the Australian Music Foundation. |
| John Leo Armati | For service to the newspaper industry in rural New South Wales and to the community. |
| Sydney Atkins | For service to the community of the Illawarra region, particularly through public health organisations. |
| Christopher Lawrence Austin | For service to the community. |
| Colin George Parker Ayres | For service to agriculture, particularly through the potato industry, to local government and to the community. |
| James McKinley Baker | For service to the community through organising celebrations to explore and promote a sense of national identity. |
| The Reverend Bruce Albert Ballantine-Jones | For service to the Anglican Church and to the community. |
| George Michael Barbouttis | For service to people with hearing impairments, particularly through the Deaf Society of New South Wales, and to the Greek community. |
| Malcolm Wentworth Barker | For service to veterans, particularly through the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion. |
| Emeritus Professor Weston Arthur Bate | For service to the study of history and the preservation of Victoria's heritage. |
| Reginald John Bateup | For service to veterans, particularly through the Temora Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Frank Belan | For service to the trade union movement, particularly through the National Union of Workers. |
| Walter Allan Bishop | For service to veterans, particularly through the HMAS Perth Association. |
| Rodney David Blackmore | For service to the welfare of children through the judicial system and to the community. |
| Dr William Henry Blair | For service to tertiary education and business, particularly through the Queensland University of Technology Foundation, and to the community. |
| The Reverend Dr John Francis Bodycomb | For service to the promotion of religious freedom and to fostering ecumenicism. |
| Olive Joyce Bowly | For service to people with disabilities and their families, particularly through the Gold Coast Family Support Group, and to the community. |
| Gordon Douglas Boyd | For service to the welfare of veterans and their families. |
| Thomas Briggs | For service to Aboriginal people in Armidale and surrounding areas, particularly through community development programmes. |
| Karoline Brodaty | For service to the community, particularly through the Australian Friends of the Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Children. |
| Edwin Allan Bryant | For service to community organisations in Dubbo. |
| Thelma Doreen (Poppy) Burgess | For service to the community, particularly through the South Australian Branch of the Australian Red Cross. |
| Reginald Joseph Butler | For service to surf lifesaving, particularly through the establishment and promotion of the junior movement. |
| Edward Thomas Byrne | For service to the community, particularly through fundraising activities supported by the Merrylands Returned and Services Club, and to veterans. |
| Viola Joyce Carr | For service to the Cactus and Succulent Society of South Australia. |
| Courtney Patricia Clark | For service to the food and catering industry. |
| Leonard Prospere Coleman | For service to the community, particularly through the Society of St Vincent de Paul. |
| Robert James Cornish | For service to the community of Cobram and to the soft fruits industry. |
| Francis Aloysius Costa | For service youth and to the community of Geelong. |
| Harry William Craber | For service to veterans, particularly through the 6th Division AIF, and to the community. |
| Albert George Cunningham | For service to the community, particularly Vietnam Veterans. |
| Anthony Bowen Daniels | For service to the manufacturing industry, particularly through microeconomic reform. |
| Lewis Ross Davis | For service to industry, particularly through the Australian Foundry Institute. |
| Kenneth George (Mick) Day | For service to the community of Bundaberg. |
| Bulent Hass Dellal | For service to multicultural organisations, the arts, and the community. |
| Elizabeth Marjorie Delzoppo | For service to the community, particularly in the Gippsland region. |
| Roger Norman Dickson | For service to hospital management and to the community. |
| Colin Wauchope Dodd | For service to the community of Warwick and to education, particularly as Deputy Principal of Warwick State High School. |
| Sister St Jude Doyle | For service to social welfare, particularly through the Sisters of Charity Outreach Programme, and to rural committees. |
| Alan Edgar Druery | For service to education, particularly through the Queensland Catholic Education Commission. |
| William Duncan | For service to veterans, particularly through Mt Lawley-Inglewood Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| John Edward Ralph Dunkley | For service to the community through the Salvation Army Emergency Services, South Australia. |
| Leo Matthew Dunne | For service to families through the Federation of Parents and Friends Associations of Queensland. |
| Mignon Laurenti Ellicott | For service to the community as benefactor of the Laurenti Ellicott Awards for Excellence in Public Relations in South Australia, and as a donor to charitable and other organisations. |
| John Locke Estens | For service to the community and to amateur astronomy. |
| Moya Rachel Evans | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through music therapy programmes. |
| Raymond Thomas Fahey | For service to veterans, particularly through the HMAS Canberra-Shropshire Association in Tasmania, and to the community. |
| Geoffrey William Falkenmire | For service to education, particularly literacy programmes, and to veterans. |
| Claude Augustus Fay | For service to the community, particularly through 'Kidsafe', the church, education, retirement villages and sporting organisations, and to the environment. |
| Robin Heath Fildes | For service to sport as an administrator. |
| Colin Murray Fisher | For service to the Parliament of New South Wales, local government and the community of the Hunter region. |
| Margaret Anne Fisk | For service to people with disabilities and their families as founder of the Defence Special Needs Support Group. |
| Dr Stephen Paul Gatt | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of obstetric anaesthesia. |
| Albert Beau Edward Gerring | For service to boxing, particularly as a coach for Olympic and Commonwealth Games events. |
| The Venerable Edward George Gibson | For service to the community, particularly through the Anglican Church. |
| Francis Hugh Xavier Gillen | For service to veterans, particularly through the 2/6th Battalion Association, and to the community. |
| Stanislaw Gotowicz | For service to the Polish community in South Australia, and to multiculturalism through cultural and social activities. |
| Tasman Thomas Gower | For service to aged care, particularly through the Lady Clark Geriatric Centre. |
| John Spencer Graham | For service to the development and implementation of sport and recreation programmes in Western Australia. |
| Noel Francis Granger | For service to the community, particularly through the Victorian Taxi Association. |
| Noella Maisie Greenham | For service to amateur athletics in South Australia as an administrator and official. |
| Reginald John Gregor | For service to charitable organisations through the painting and auctioning of 'charity tents'. |
| John Gully | For service to youth, particularly through Lord Somers' Camp and Power House, and to the community. |
| Michael Cyril Hall | For service to veterans through the Western Australia Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Dorothy Alice Hamilton | For service to the community as an entertainer for service groups and retired people for over 50 years. |
| Jan William (John) Hartgerink | For service to the aged, particularly through the Northaven Retirement Village. |
| June Joy Hayes | For service to community health, particularly through the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales. |
| Lesley Alfred Hemley, MBE | For service to local government, the cattle industry and the community of Wickepin. |
| Edna Beatrice Hertrick | For service to sport, particularly women's softball. |
| Frank Hesman, BEM | For service to the community, particularly through multicultural organisations in Tasmania. |
| Harold Neil Hewitt | For service to the community, particularly through the St George's Hospital, Kew. |
| John Percy Holroyd | For service to the retail book trade and to the recording of its history in Australia. |
| Kevin Frederick Hoskins | For service to the surf lifesaving movement for over 40 years. |
| Jocelyn Houghton | For service to the community, particularly through the Canterbury Group of Community Aid Abroad. |
| Reginald John Howard | For service to veterans and to the community of Dungog. |
| Diana Winifred Humphries | For service to people with disabilities, to support groups for women and to music education. |
| To Ha Huynh | For service to culturally based welfare organisations including the Indo-China Chinese Association. |
| Frederick Harold Hyde | For service to child welfare and international relations through the CO-ID (Co-Operation In Development) Programme in Bangladesh and to the community of Warwick. |
| Alison Jean Ide | For service to veterans' tennis as a player, administrator and selector. |
| Marjorie James | For service to the community, particularly through the United Hospitals Auxiliaries of New South Wales and to Manly Hospital through the Balgowlah-Seaforth Auxiliary. |
| Barrington Noel Jarman | For service to sport as a cricket player, coach and international cricket referee and to horse racing in South Australia. |
| Gwenyth Rita Jenkinson | For service to people with visual impairments, particularly glaucoma. |
| Kathleen Mary Jennings | For service to the community through many voluntary organisations including Australian Red Cross, CWA and church groups. |
| Mavis Annie Judd | For service to the community as a fundraiser through the Leura Gardens Festival Committee. |
| Zetta Karay | For service to the community through the South Australian Branch of the National Council of Women, and Soroptimist International. |
| Brother James Antoninus Kelly | For service to education in the field of mathematics. |
| Winifred Maisie Kingston | For service to the community, particularly through the Glenview Nursing Home Ladies Auxiliary and the War Widows Guild, Tasmania. |
| Dr Elsie Koadlow | For service to the medical and allied professions as a psychotherapist and educator, particularly in the fields of sexual and relationship therapy. |
| The Reverend Monsignor John Barry Lennon | For service to the Catholic Church and to education. |
| Warren Lomas Leo | For service to the community, particularly South Sea Islanders, and to sporting groups. |
| Dr Sydney Levine | For service to dentistry, particularly in the fields of periodontics and dental history. |
| Helen Ling | For service to the community through the Dodges Ferry Division of St John Ambulance. |
| Penelope Ann Little | For service to the community, particularly through the Westmead Hospital Arts Society. |
| Philip Loffman, ED | For service to veterans through recording the history of the 2/28th Battalion and the 24th Anti-Tank Company. |
| Robert Russell Longmire | For service to the community, particularly through the Ryder Cheshire Foundation of South Australia. |
| Victor Samuel Ludwig | For service to the Australian rules football, particularly in the Northern Territory. |
| Ronald James Macadam | For service to sport as an administrator, umpire, coach and player. |
| Alan McConachie | For service to people with visual impairments, particularly through the Queensland Blind Soldiers of St Dunstan's Association and the Queensland Blind Bowlers Association. |
| Mary McCracken | For service to nursing by assisting with the rehabilitation of people with poliomyelitis. |
| Monteith William McDonald | For service to veterans' golf as a player, promoter and administrator. |
| Ross McGlashan | For service to motor sport as Australian land speed record holder. |
| Jean McGrath | For service to youth through the guide movement and to the community of Coffs Harbour. |
| Alasdair McGregor | For service to the law and the community in the Northern Territory. |
| The Reverend Malcolm Donald Macleod | For service to the community, particularly through the Uniting Church, and to theological education. |
| Conrad Wilfred Mader | For service to music, particularly as a conductor of performances for schools, churches, and retired people. |
| Beverley Vickery (Judy) Major | For service to the community, in particular to Barnardo's Canberra and Sydney. |
| Dr Owen Francis Makinson | For service to dentistry in the fields of dental materials, instruments and equipment and to education. |
| Geoffrey William Maley | For service to people with hearing impairments, particularly through the Western Australia Deaf Recreation Association. |
| Bernard Francis Malouf | For service to the aged community of Coffs Harbour, particularly through the Society of St Vincent de Paul, and to local government. |
| Donald McLeod Marles | For service to education as the Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Kew. |
| Heather May Martin | For service to the community as music director of the Murwillumbah Philharmonic Society and related groups and to music education. |
| Montague Thomas Martin | For service to the community of Mackay, particularly through Rotary International. |
| Kathleen Margaret Marvell | For service to the community of Wyong and surrounding districts. |
| Douglas Mathews | For service to the community, particularly through the United Protestant Association of New South Wales. |
| Dr Roger Gregory Mauldon | For service to public administration through the Industry Commission and to the community. |
| Dorothy June Meagher | For service to conservation and the environment, particularly through the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Visitors Education Centre. |
| Doris Jessie Miles | For service to the community, particularly through hospital auxiliaries in Central Victoria. |
| Leonard Victor Miles | For service to the trade union movement through the Tasmanian Branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. |
| Lorna May Morrison | For service to the community through service clubs, particularly Lions International. |
| Eileen Daphne Murphy | For service to sport through the Queensland Athletic Association Limited. |
| Lillian Mary (Mollie) Newbold | For service to the community, particularly youth, through scouting, fundraising and craft works. |
| Ronald Leslie Newitt | For service to the community through the RAAF Reserve and No. 23 Squadron Association (Qld) RAAF. |
| Edward Andreas Nilsen | For service to the community of Broken Hill as a member and supporter of charitable organisations. |
| The Reverend Father Gabriel Arthur Nolan | For service to the Catholic Church and to education. |
| Patricia Mildred O'Brien | For service to the aged, particularly through the Society of St Vincent de Paul. |
| Patricia Joan O'Hara | For service to the community of Cairns, particularly as a human rights campaigner for social justice. |
| Barry Joseph O'Mara | For service to the building and construction industry through the Master Builders Association of New South Wales in the areas of arbitration and mediation. |
| Dell Ann O'Sullivan | For service to people with disabilities and the aged in the community, particularly through music programmes. |
| Patricia Irene O'Sullivan | For service to child welfare, particularly through the Meerilinga Young Children's Foundation. |
| John Patrick Orbansen | For service to the community of Coolangatta-Tweed Heads through service clubs, ex-service organisations and the pony club movement. |
| Ralph Berger Orth | For service to the community through the Brisbane Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. |
| Irwin Royd Palmer | For service to the community, particularly through the Salvation Army's crisis, rehabilitation and music programmes. |
| Betty Olive Peters | For service to nursing as a clinician and academic and to veterans and their families. |
| Mavis Claire Pirola | For service to youth, particularly in establishing the Antioch Youth Movement. |
| Professor Romano Cesare (Ron) Pirola | For service to youth, particularly in establishing the Antioch Youth Movement. |
| Trevor William Plumb, MBE | For service to adult education, particularly through the University of the Third Age. |
| Clive William Price | For service to conservation and the environment through forest management and tree planting programmes and to the community. |
| Kenneth Maxwell Randall | For service to journalism and public affairs, particularly through the National Press Club, and to the community. |
| Dr Akkinepalli Badri Narayan Rao | For service to medicine as an ear, nose and throat specialist in the Northern Territory. |
| Phillip Herbert Renkin | (Ret'd). For service to the community, particularly through ex-service and sporting groups. |
| Joan Margaret Richards | For service to music, particularly through the Opera Singers of Canberra and the ACT Lieder Society. |
| Alan Charles Richmond | For service to youth, particularly through the Baden Powell Scout Association, and to the community. |
| Lynn Marie Ritchie | For service to the community, particularly through Citizen Radio Emergency Teams (CREST) in the SouthernHighlands. |
| Ronald Bernard Robson, AFSM | For service to the community of Kilmore, particularly through the development of water and sewerage services. |
| Joy Roggenkamp | For service to contemporary art in the medium of watercolour and as a judge. |
| Robert Alfred Ross | For service to the community as an educator and counsellor by devising programmes to support students, particularly Aboriginals, during periods of educational transition. |
| Stanley Clifford Sadleir | For service to the racing industry, veterans, sport and the community. |
| Dr Nouria Sultana Fazel Salehi | For service to human rights, particularly through the Afghan community, and to refugees and women's support groups. |
| Dr Joseph Natalino Santamaria | For service to community health, particularly in the fields of alcohol and drug addiction. |
| Adrian Scott, MBE | For service to the media as a rural broadcaster and to the community. |
| John Hendry Shaw | For service to the community, particularly as an advocate for improving mental health services, and to education. |
| Ronald William Shepherd | For service to hospital administration in an honorary capacity for many years and to the community. |
| Kathleen Lois Short | For service to the community of Katherine and to local government. |
| Albert George Shute | For service to veterans, particularly through the Lidcombe Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Socrates Socratous | For service to the Greek community through church, education and sporting groups. |
| Dorothy Jean Softley | For service to the community, particularly the aged. |
| Chief Petty Officer Glenn William Spilsted | For service to the community through the Clearance Diving Association. |
| Nicole Dawn Stevenson | For service to swimming as a representative at state, national and international levels. |
| Leslie Tapp | For service to tennis administration at club and state levels for many years. |
| Peter Frederick Taylor | For service to surf lifesaving as an administrator at club, state and national levels. |
| Arthur James Thompson | For service to veterans, particularly through the Coolamon Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, and to the community. |
| Canon Ronald Desmond Tyson, ED | For service to veterans, particularly as an honorary chaplain for ex-service organisations. |
| Roger Stuart James Valentine | For service to the community through honorary appointments and in the area of public administration. |
| Robert John Veall | For service to veterans, particularly through the Tamworth Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Therese Mary Von Samorzewski | For service to the Catholic education system in Tasmania. |
| The late Edna Helen Vukmirovic | For service to the arts through the Dandenong Festival of Music and Art for Youth. |
| Mavis Waldegrave | For service to youth through theGuide movement in New South Wales. |
| Christine Margaret Walters | For service to the community, particularly through the Tamworth Aboriginal Respite Care Centre. |
| Alfred Robert Warner | For service to children as a volunteer worker through the Camp Quality programme. |
| Sonia Dorothy Watts | For service to people with disabilities, particularly through the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Queensland. |
| Joyce Catherine Webster | For service to the community of Bundaberg through local organisations including the RSPCA. |
| Rosemary Janet Webster | For service to the community, particularly through the Schizophrenia Fellowship of Victoria by improving services for people with mental illness and their carers. |
| Ivan Grattan Wheaton, RFD, ED | For service to regimental and military history and to the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. |
| Kathleen Marjorie Williams | For service to the development of community health care programmes and services on Kangaroo Island as Director of Nursing of the local hospital. |
| Charles James Neville Wilson | For service to the community of Mount Gambier, particularly through social welfare, veterans' and learning programmes. |
| Stephen James Wilson | For service to ornithological research, bird banding and to the community. |
| Dr Ronald Richmond Winton | For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of medical publication, history and ethics. |
| The late John Woodhead | For service to the community through programmes sponsored by Rotary, particularly SHINE ON Awards. |
| Harold Richard Yeend | For service to veterans through the Rose Bay Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia. |
| Christina May Yeomans | For service to the rural community, particularly through the Gold Coast based Save the Farm Fund. |
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