1978 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)

Order of Australia

Dame (AD)

General Division

• Alexandra Margaret Martin, Lady Hasluck – For pre-eminent achievement in the fields of literature and history and for extraordinary and meritorious public service to Australia.

  Companion (AC)

General Division

• Emeritus Professor William Macmahon Ball – For eminent and meritorious service to education and learning, particularly in the field of political science.
• The Honourable William Arthur Neilson – For eminent and meritorious service to politics and government.
• Alfred Moxon Simpson – For eminent and meritorious service to business and industry.
• The Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam – For eminent and meritorious service to politics and government and to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

  Officer (AO)

General Division

• Professor John Beveridge – For distinguished service in the field of medicine, particularly as a clinical paediatrician.
• Robert William Brack – For distinguished service to industry, commerce and education.
• Major General Paul Alfred Cullen – For distinguished service to the community and to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women and their dependents.
• The Honourable Frederick Michael Daly – For distinguished service to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Dr Louis Walter Davies – For distinguished service to science and industry.
• John Berkely Fitzhardinge – For distinguished service to yachting and to urban planning.
• Emeritus Professor Ronald Cecil Gates – For distinguished service to urban and town planning.
• The Reverend George Arthur Jenkins – For distinguished service to the community.
• Maxwell John Jillett – For distinguished public service and for service to the community.
• The Honourable Patrick John Kennelly – For distinguished service to the Parliaments of the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Victoria.
• Alan Alfred Campbell Lind – For distinguished service to the community.
• Professor Richard Robert Haynes Lovell – For distinguished service to medicine, medical research and medical education.
• Alan McCrae Moorehead – For distinguished service to literature.
• Emeritus Professor William Matthew O'Neill – For distinguished service to education and learning.
• Professor Sydney Arthur Prentice – For distinguished service in the field of electrical engineering.
• Dr Alfred Gordon Rowell – For distinguished service to the dental profession.
• Douglas William Stride – For distinguished service to banking.
• Brother Martin Boniface Sullivan – For distinguished community service, particularly to youth welfare.
• Reverend Thomas Henry Timpson – For distinguished service to education.

  Military Division

• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Stephen John Lloyd – For distinguished service to the Medical Branch of the Royal Australian Navy.

• Brigadier Ernest Laurence Palmer – For distinguished service to the Ordnance service of the Australian Army.
• Brigadier John Hancock Studdert – For distinguished service as the Deputy Chief of Army Materiel.

• Air Commodore Ronald Arthur Hargreaves – For distinguished service to the Engineering Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force.
• Air Commodore Geoffrey Gordon Michael – For distinguished service to the Royal Australian Air Force.

  Member (AM)

General Division

• Donald Leslie Judson Aitchison – For public service and for services to the community.
• Nigel Andrew Winter Ashton – For services to town planning.
• Ronald Barassi – For services to the sport of Australian Football.
• Walter Edward Victor Boud – For public service, particularly in the field of aviation safety.
• Kathleen Audrey Bourke – For services to the community, particularly in the field of welfare services.
• Gordon Craig Brown – For services to the community and in providing architectural services to hospitals and welfare organisations.
• Allan James Campbell – For services to the community.
• John William Hurtle Coumbe – For parliamentary service and for services to local government.
• Dr John Bice Day – For services to the dental profession.
• Samuel Bowcher Denton – For services to education and the community.
• The Reverend James Hay Downing – For services in the field of Aboriginal welfare.
• Raymond Keith Dunn – For public service, particularly as Director-General, Public Buildings Department, South Australia.
• The Very Reverend Richard Owen Dykes – For services to religion and the community.
• Robert Anders Footner – For services to the rubber manufacturing industry.
• William Thomas Stephen Frost – For services to local government and the community.
• Dr Nigel John Gray – For services to medicine, particularly in the field of cancer.
• Livingstone Ralph Grey – For services to local government and to the community.
• Keith Victor Hateley – For services in the field of conservation.
• Mary Bridget Holmes – For services to the community.
• Gordon Douglas Johnson – For services to local government.
• Dr Gordon Kerridge – For services to the community.
• Frederick Albert Roland Killick – For services to local government and the community.
• Stephen Henry Knight – For services to local government and the community.
• Anthony Sylvester Luchetti – For parliamentary service and for services to local government.
• Edgar Metcalfe – For services to the performing arts.
• Peter Owen Miller – For services to the building industry.
• Sidney Muller – For services to the Jewish community.
• James Angus Nelson – For services to the welfare of handicapped persons.
• Jack Oatey – For services to the sport of Australian football.
• Raymond Fitzgerald O'Halloran – For services to the community.
• Norman Cyril Osborn – For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen.
• Thomas Lenton Parr – For services to the arts and to sculpture.
• Betty Rayner – For services to children's theatre.
• Joan Rayner – For services to children's theatre.
• Norah May Renney – For services to the community, particularly to the welfare of the young and the aged.
• Mabel Joy Cowens Richardson – For services to the community, particularly the care and welfare of animals.
• Robert Baddeley Simpson – For services to the sport of cricket.
• Geoff Forbes Sorell – For services to sport and the community.
• Peter Gerald Spillett – For services to the community.
• Anthony Gerald Steel – For services to the arts and as Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
• James Philip Toohey – For services to trade unionism and to politics.
• Angus Roy Tasker Tuck – For services to the community.
• Arthur Augustus Weir – For services to the sport of hockey.
• The Reverend Henry Thomas Wells – For services to religion.
• Geoffrey Gordon Collins Wolley – For services to the community

  Military Division

• Captain Nigel Richard Benbow Berlyn – For exceptional performance of duty as Project Director of the Guided Missile Frigate acquisition programme.
• Commander Jeremy Nicholas Lattin – For exceptional service and performance of duty at the Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station.
• Superintending Sister Eileen Harrison Lawrie – For exceptional performance of duty in the Royal Australian Navy Nursing Service.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur James Fittock – For exceptional performance of duty as the Commanding Officer of 1st Field Engineer Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald George Lange – For exceptional service to the Australian Army.
• Colonel Kevin Lachlan MacPherson – For exceptional and dedicated service to the Australian Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Kristian Raymond Schlyder – For exceptional performance of duty as Commanding Officer of 2/4 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Graeme Skelton – For exceptional performance of duty as Commanding Officer of 2 Signal Regiment, Watsonia, Victoria.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Victor Windeyer – For exceptional service to the Army Reserve in New South Wales.

• Group Captain Reginald Ronald Yeoman Candy – For exceptional service to the Equipment Branch of the Royal Australian Air Force.
• Wing Commander Peter Richard Degotardi – For exceptional service as an anaesthetist specialising in intensive care and aeromedical evacuation procedures.
• Wing Commander Desmond Joseph Gordon – For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Air Force Staff College, Fairbairn A.C.T.
• Wing Commander Carl Peter Ring – For exceptional performance of duty as Commanding Officer of No. 5 Squadron, Fairbairn, A.C.T.

  Knight Bachelor

• Richard Kingsland – For distinguished public service.
• Colonel Malcolm McArthur – For distinguished service to the meat industry.
• Robert Porter – For distinguished service to local government and the community.
• John Proud – For distinguished service to the mining industry.
• Kenneth Vial – For distinguished service to transport.
• Senator the Honourable Reginald Wright – For distinguished public and parliamentary service.