Australia Day 2020: South Australian Order of Australia recipients

From a nuclear physicist and children’s entertainer to police, firefighters and military personnel, these are the South Australians given citations in this year’s Australia Day Honours List.

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South Australians who received the Order of Australia and other distinctions in the Australia Day Honours List for 2020.

AC COMPANION IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Professor Anthony William Thomas, North Adelaide

For eminent service to scientific education and research, particularly in the field of nuclear and particle physics, through academic leadership roles.

Professor Anthony Thomas.

AO OFFICER IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Ms Jacqui Elizabeth McGill, Underdale

For distinguished service to the minerals and mining sector, and to gender equity and workplace diversity.

Jacqui McGill. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

The Honourable Amanda Eloise Vanstone, North Adelaide

For distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, to the people of South Australia, and to the community.

Amanda Vanstone. Picture Simon Cross

AM MEMBER IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Professor Mohamad Abdalla, Magill

For significant service to education in the field of Islamic studies.

Professor Mohamad Abdalla.

Mrs Melanie Grace Champion de Crespigny, Gilberton

For significant service to youth through charitable organisations.

Robert Champion de Crespigney (left) with wife Melanie. Photo: Tony Lewis.

Mrs Glenise Maxine Coulthard, Port Augusta

For significant service to Aboriginal health in South Australia, and to emergency response organisations.

Ms Jane Selby Covernton, Adelaide

For significant service to the literary arts as a publisher of children’s books.

Publisher Jane Covernton at her city home for SAWeekend. Photo: Calum Robertson.

Ms Judith Margaret Cross, Lockleys

For significant service to community health through social welfare organisations.

Ms Lynette Gwenyth English, Findon

For significant service to mental health and consumer support organisations.

Mr Terence Charles Evans

For significant service to higher education, to health organisations, and to the law.

Dr Sanghamitra Guha, Norwood

For significant service to medicine, and to medical education.

Mrs Jennifer Ruth Hurley, Fullarton

For significant service to the community through charitable organisations.

Ms Helen Louise Leake

For significant service to film, and to professional organisations.

Helen Leake. Photo: Jennie Groom

Dr Helen Diana McLean, Kingswood

For significant service to dentistry, and to professional associations.

Ms Jennifer Mary Richter, Glenunga

For significant service to medical administration, and to community health.

Dr Walter John Russell

For significant service to medicine in the field of anaesthesia, and to medical health standards.

Mr Vincent Tremaine, Henley Beach

For significant service to shipping infrastructure and freight transport.

Vincent Tremaine. Photo: Mark Brake / AAP Photo.

Emeritus Professor Roderick Tucker Wells, Flagstaff Hill

For significant service to education, and to the biological sciences.

Flinders University associate professor and SA megafauna expert Rod Wells with one of the megafauna fossil skeleton specimens.

Ms Tracey Whiting

For significant service to the museums and galleries sector.

Tracey Whiting.

OAM MEDAL IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Ms Joanna Geraldine Agius

For service to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to the Indigenous community.

Joanna Agius (Pictured right)

Ms Eve Barratt, Mt Gambier (deceased)

For service to the community through social welfare organisations.

Mr Albert Bensimon, Malvern

For service to business, and to the community.

Albert Bensimon with wife Nyra, at home in Parkside. Picture Dean Martin

Mr William Hugh Biscoe, Angaston

For service to the community of the Barossa.

Mr Mark P S Bourchier, Adelaide

For service to the community of South Australia.

Mark Bourchier. Picture Roger Wyman

Mrs Judy Charlotte Burke, Daw Park

For service to community health.

Mr Donald Percival Cant, Somerton Park

For service to the community through a range of organisations.

Mr Peter James Carter, Lockleys

For service to canoeing.

Mr Peter Combe, Glenside

For service to the performing arts, particularly music for children.

Children's entertainer Peter Combe.

Mrs Ruth Adelaide Daws, Burnside

For service to netball, and to the community.

Mr John Dring, Ashford

For service to the rail transport industry.

Ms Christine Joyce Egan (deceased)

For service to the Indigenous community of South Australia.

Mr Stephen (Mark) Gilbert, North Adelaide

For service to engineering, and to the community.

Mrs Annette Massie Gillen, North Adelaide

For service to the community of South Australia.

Mrs Promilla Gupta

For service to the Indian community, and to multiculturalism.

Mr Brian Douglas Hern, Walkerville

For service to the Uniting Church in Australia.

Brian Hern. Photo: Noelle Bobrige.

Mr Graham William Hobbs, West Beach

For service to youth, and to lacrosse.

Mr Giuseppe (Joe) Ienco, Mt Compass

For service to the community through charitable and multicultural organisations.

Ms Diana Betty Laube, Tiatukia

For service to conservation and the environment.

Dr Anthony John Lian-Lloyd, Quorn

For service to medicine, and to the community.

Dr Sadanand Limaye, Walkerville

For service to medicine, and to the multicultural community.

Mr John Mitchell Little

For service to the community of the Barossa Valley.

Mr John Francis Lynch, Grange

For service to the community through emergency response organisations.

John Lynch at the Adelaide Airport base, Monday. Photo: Brenton Edwards / AAP.

Dr David John Marshall, Crafers

For service to orthopaedic medicine.

Mr Roger Wilfrid McCauley, Moonta

For service to the Uniting Church in Australia, and to the community.

Ms Anne McEwen, Eden Hills

For service to the Parliament of Australia, and to the community of South Australia.

Mr Andrew John (Hank) Middleton, Aberfoyle Park (deceased)

For service to Australian rules football in South Australia.

Mrs Heather Motteram, Fullarton

For service to the community through a range of roles.

Mrs Barbara Janine Mullan, Norwood

For service to the creative arts.

Mr Neil Mullard, Uraidla

For service to the community of Uraidla.

Associate Professor Maria Parappilly

For service to science education, and to women.

Associate Professor Maria Parappilly.

Mr Andrew Guy Peake, Dulwich

For service to community history.

Andrew Peake. Picture Roger Wyman

Mr Ken Murray Potts, West Lakes (deceased)

For service to Australian rules football, and to the community.

Ms Karen Jeanne Redman, Mt Barker

For service to music through concert bands.

Dr Andrew Kenneth Rollond, Glenelg

For service to medicine, and to local government.

Dr Andrew Ken Rolland pictured at the Brighton Beach annual art exhibition. Picture Dean Martin

Mrs Barbara Elaine Sax, Findon

For service to the community.

Mr Gary Schulz, Tea Tree Gully

For service to education, and to the community.

Ms Jan Sutherland, Semaphore Park

For service to sport in South Australia.

Jan Sutherland

Dr Robin Katherine Uppill, Hawthorndene

For service to orienteering.

Mr Peter James Wallace, Henley Beach

For service to education, and to the community.

Ms Emma Webb, Port Adelaide

For service to the performing arts, particularly in Port Adelaide.

Emma Webb. Photo: Keryn Stevens / AAP.

Mr Garry Keith Wellington, Tarlee

For service to veterans and their families.

Mr Bruce Anthony Wilson, Seacliff Park

For service to conservation and the environment.

Ms Helen Patricia Oxenham, Cumberland Park (Honorary)

For service to the community through social welfare initiatives and advocacy.

Helen Oxenham. Photo: Mike Burton / AAP.

Ms Brenda Jean Rayner, Kingswood (Honorary)

For service to music.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL

Australian Army

Bombardier Michael Richard Cobb

For distinguished leadership in warlike operations as the Australian Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems Detachment Commander within Headquarters Joint Task Force 633, while deployed to the Middle East Region from October 2017 to June 2018.

CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS

Royal Australian Navy

Captain Daniel John LeRaye

For outstanding devotion to duty as the inaugural Class Lifecycle Engineering Officer in Collins Class submarines.

Royal Australian Air Force

Squadron Leader Craig Geoffrey Keane

For outstanding devotion to duty in AP-3C aircraft electronic warfare capability development for the Australian Defence Force.

CONSPICUOUS SERVICE MEDAL

Royal Australian Navy

Warrant Officer Class One Craig Cutts

For meritorious devotion to duty in administrative and logistic support to Australian Defence Force operations and training assistance in the Republic of the Philippines.

PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL

Dr Dale Austin Lambert

For outstanding public service in the use of artificial intelligence in surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, intelligence and autonomous platforms.

Mrs Jan Marie Cornish, Flinders Park

For outstanding public service to asset management in local government in South Australia.

Professor Edward (Ted) Tuckseng Mah, Medindie

For outstanding public service to public health in South Australia.

Professor Edward (Ted) Mah, pictured left.

Ms Deborah Ann Pearce, Woodcroft

For outstanding public service to people with a disability, and to South Australia Police.