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Ministers and departments are playing hot potato with the issue of whose responsibility it is to preserve the integrity of the Australia Day honours system.

South Australian under treasurer Rick Persse’s exemplary career shows what is possible with on-the-job training and a generalised skill set.

The executive director at the AIATSIS and Ngunnawal Elder feels “incredibly honoured” to be appointed an AO.

The 2022 Australia Day honours have named 60 public servants among 1040 Australians to be recognised this year.

All the 2021 Queen’s Birthday honour recipients inside.

Ex commonwealth Department of Agriculture secretary Daryl Quinlivan, Queensland’s former corruption commissioner Judith Bell, and the inaugural National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell have been recognised for their service to the community in this year’s Australia Day Honours List. While more than 840 Australians have been recognised in this year’s awards ceremony, just 36.78% of awards […]

Below are the latest public servants to be acknowledged in the Order of Australia honours, and the full list of Public Service Medal recipients.

We think of Gough Whitlam’s Government as the most radical in our post-war history, dedicated to its leader’s ‘crash through or crash’ style. (In the end, it crashed.) But Whitlam’s approach to Australian Honours was bold only on the surface. Imperial Honours were scrapped. So today it’s rare for Australia’s worthies to run round town […]

Australia Day has been plagued by controversies in recent years, and 2020 has been no different. Contentious issues include whether it is appropriate to celebrate on the day of mourning for our First Nation’s peoples and whether a dress code should be imposed on those attending citizenship ceremonies. The latest controversy centres on who should […]

City of Perth commissioner, the late Eric Lumsden, former senior Indigenous project officer at Housing New South Wales, June Lowe, and former secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet Kenneth Baxter were among the public servants recognised for their contributions in this year’s Australia Day Honours List. See the full list of public […]

Dennis Richardson, Martin Bowles and Nerida O’Loughlin are among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours.

Careers in Indigenous affairs have dominated among this year’s Public Service Medal recipients, while Australia’s first female public service commissioner joins oil executives, judges, sportspersons, researchers and philanthropists in receiving the top honours in the Australia Day honours list for 2019.

The Queen’s Birthday honours this year include 35 new Public Service Medals, awarded to high achievers working in vital jobs that typically have a very low-profile in the community.

Public servants, police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency services personnel once again figured highly in the Australia Day honours.