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THEY stood up for the abused, the voiceless, for SA’s regional areas. They are sporting and entertainment legends. They broke down barriers, forged new paths, and relentlessly championed the unheard. Here are their stories — SA’s 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients. SEE THE FULL LIST
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THEY stood up for the abused, the voiceless, for SA’s regional areas. They are sporting and entertainment legends. They broke down barriers, forged new paths, and relentlessly championed the unheard. Here are their stories — SA’s 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours recipients.
Anne Wills, OAM
SHE’S as Adelaide as frog cakes, Farmers Union and the Mall’s Balls. Now Anne Wills, known to thousands of South Aussies simply as Willsy can add OAM to her name.
“I got the letter this week and I haven’t slept since,” Willsy said. “I had to keep it quiet! That’s the hard part. I’ve been wanting to sing it to everybody and ring everybody I know.”
With a record nineteen Logie Awards to her name, Willy’s status as TV legend is cemented and her Order of Australia medal honours her service to the broadcast media in South Australia.
It’s a career that has spanned over fifty years, but almost didn’t even get off the ground in those early days.
“I had entered the Miss Telethon Quest in 1964 and didn’t win but the boss of Channel 9, Rex Heading, remembered that I was quick with the jokes and so called asking if I would come in and audition for the weather girl,” said Willsy.
“I just thought it was a joke so I didn’t go to the audition and then he called back the next day wondering where I was.”
Heading’s persistence paid off and eventually Willsy would make her TV debut in July of 1965.
From there she appeared in countless television productions including In Adelaide Tonight with Ernie Sigley, A.M. Adelaide, Movie Scene and Close Up With Willsy.
Live performance highlights include opening the Festival Theatre in 1973 and two tours to Vietnam performing with her sister Susan Wills during the war in 1969 and 1970.
“It was a memorable time but of course very scary as well,” she said recalling one night in Ben Hoi when that conflict came a little too close.
“When we went to bed that night around 8pm there was a soldier who came in shouting ‘Hit the bunker!’,” said Willsy.
“We had no idea what ‘hit the bunker meant’ or where the bunker was so we ended up cuddled up in our nighties.”
Nowadays Willsy is as busy as ever regularly appearing on stage around South Australia with Sunday Mail columnist Peter Goers, hosting weekly nostalgia movie sessions for Wallis Cinemas as well as her weekly movie reviews on Sundo’s Big Breakfast on 5MU in Murray Bridge.
She says a lot of her success is thanks to being here in Adelaide.
“It would never have happened if I’d been in Victoria or Sydney. Adelaide is my home and it’s been so good to me and I thank people every day”
And now with OAM after her name, Willsy has her sights on an even bigger goal.
“I think now the only logical step is to become Governor,” she joked.
— Matt Gilbertson
Dawn Fraser, AC
OLYMPIC golden girl Dawn Fraser is among 10 super achievers appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday honours.
It is in recognition of her “eminent service to sport, through ambassadorial, mentoring and non-executive roles with a range of organisations at all levels, and to the community through roles in conservation and motoring associations”.
Fraser, who was born in Sydney, lived for a time in Adelaide and now resides in Queensland, said she was thrilled with the AC.
She had previously been made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1998 and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1967.
“When I opened the letter, the feeling was amazing. It was like winning my first gold medal,” she said.
“I’m so grateful and it’s a great pleasure and honour.”
Fraser — who won eight Olympic medals, including the 100m freestyle gold at three successive games — has been a champion for a range of groups, including disabled sportspeople and female athletes.
She has never been far from the spotlight, always willing to speak her mind and take a stand to highlight issues close to her heart.
When accepting her Australian of the Year award in 1964, she said: “I have always been involved in a lot of controversy with officialdom, but I have always fought for something I believed in.”
Fraser was delighted to learn that there had been a significant increase in the number of women recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list.
“I have been fighting for a number of years for women to get the acknowledgment they deserve, so this is absolutely fantastic,” she said.
She said such awards made her reflect on how big a part her parents played in shaping her future.
She said athletes could not succeed without the help of family and she wanted to thank the mums and dads of Australia who did the hard yards for their kids.
“No athlete can get through life today without the help of parents and they also ensure athletes keep a level head through their careers,” she said.
Fraser maintains an active lifestyle on the Sunshine Coast, riding bikes and her jet ski, and says she loves spending time with grandson Jackson, 14.
— Peter Hall
Arman Abrahimzadeh, OAM
THE murder of his mother set a “fire in the belly” of Arman Abrahimzadeh which has driven him to make Australia safer for other women and their children.
For his tireless advocacy and willingness to share the most painful period of his life he is being awarded an OAM for “service worthy of particular recognition”.
Zahra Abrahimzadeh was stabbed to death by her estranged husband at the Adelaide Convention Centre in 2010.
Mr Abrahimzadeh, now 30, said the shocking culmination of years of family abuse understandably made him angry but “when you do get angry you do get this energy”.
Every day since he has directed that energy to fighting domestic violence.
“The reason I would get out of bed was I kept telling myself my mum couldn’t be killed in vain,” he said. “I had this fire in my belly, it was like drinking 10 cups of coffee in a minute and then you’re off.”
Mr Abrahimzadeh began as a White Ribbon Ambassador and was named Young South Australian of the Year in 2016.
He and his sisters Atena and Anita have also established Zahra Foundation Australia in their mother’s honour.
It provides emergency assistance to women and children escaping violent households and runs financial literacy and empowerment courses to help them rebuild their lives.
Mr Abrahimzadeh thanked the “army of people” who help run the foundation and support his family.
He conceded that advocating on an issue so close to his personal experience could be draining.
“You have to be careful how much you push yourself and how much you expose yourself,” he said. “There’s only so much you can do and only so long you can do that sort of advocacy.
“I’d like to be involved as long as I can but I know if I don’t slow down or maybe take a break I won’t be able to keep going forever.”
— Lauren Novak
Catherine Conway, OAM
DURING her first time in a glider, scared out of her wits, Catherine Conway thought there was no way she’d be getting in one for a second time.
Little did she realise she would captain her country at the World Gliding Championships and receive a Medal of the Order of Australia for her remarkable services to her sport.
“I was absolutely terrified the first time I sat in a glider as a passenger,” the engineer and pilot said this week. “Fortunately I was brave enough to try again and soon began to love it.”
She began flying with the Adelaide University Gliding Club in 1986 and is still heavily involved with them, again as President since last year and has held roles as secretary, treasurer and chief flying instructor.
Her most famous student turned out to be one her best friends, technology entrepreneur and computer whiz kid Simon Hackett, co-founder of internet provider, Internode Pty Ltd.
After University, Ms Conway headed off to work for the Defence Department on the JORN Radar project but in 1997 she and Hackett co-founded Internode’s sister company Agile Communications, responsible for design, build and operation of telco infrastructure, both fibre and wireless.
“Agile built a telecommunications network in rural SA to bring broadband into places it was not available, that’s still working today,” she added.
For the past six years Ms Conway, one of two regional technical officers for airworthiness in SA, has worked as a pilot and maintenance engineer for Airborne Research Australia, a not-for-profit research entity with a team of six based at Parafield Airport.
“Our work sees us dealing with people from across the globe and brings in International funding to Australia,” she said. “It’s important work and we receive backing from Australia Research Council but in truth this country doesn’t back scientific research as perhaps it should.”
Ms Conway, who has an ambition to make Australia’s team for the 2020 Gliding World titles, to be held at Lake Keepit in NSW, is surprised to have been awarded an honour.
“It’s possibly a little embarrassed … there are probably a lot more deserving people,” she said. “I consider the most important thing I’ve done is raising two boys.”
— Craig Cook
Dick Butler, AM
DICK Butler was rejected by the Basketball SA board the first time he proposed the formation of Adelaide’s second NBL club.
But in the determined fashion which typified his three decades of service to the sport, the influential administrator refused to take no for an answer.
“I thought it was unfair that the only players from South Australia that could play in the NBL had to play for West Adelaide,” Butler, 85, recalled.
“So I took a proposal to the board to set up another team and they knocked it back on the grounds that they couldn’t finance a team against one of their constituents (West).
“It was a case of ‘do it yourself Dick’. I got the presidents of all the other (state league) clubs together and we put together a club … It grew into what is the 36ers today.”
Butler masterminded the entry of the Sixers, initially as Adelaide City Eagles, into the NBL in 1982 after the demise of Forestville’s national team.
His dedication to basketball is recognised today when he is made a Member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday honours list.
“It was a bit out of the blue,” Butler, of Oaklands Park, said. “It certainly is an honour and quite an unexpected.”
Butler did not play basketball as a youngster at Prince Alfred College in the late 1940s as “they didn’t offer it as a sport”.
His involvement began when his sons Michael, who later refereed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, David and Scott, a future Opals assistant coach, played at Forestville.
Butler became the Eagles’ junior co-ordinator in 1970 and spent 12 years on the club’s committee, before serving the Basketball SA board, eventually as president from 1986-91.
“My wife (Helen) and I have always had a belief that if our children got involved in some organisation and we’re asked to bog in and do some work for it, we’ll do it. We took them (his children) out there, they enjoyed it and we certainly got plenty of encouragement to do things like sweeping the courts and all the menial tasks.
“But I became a basketball administrator by accident — I never set out to be one.” The pharmacist of 60 years held senior management roles with the NBL, Basketball Australia, the Oceania Basketball Federation and the International Basketball Federation.
But his proudest achievement came while president of the Australian Junior Basketball Council from 1981-1986.
Frustrated by the lack of junior national championships for girls, he set about introducing under-14 and under-20 age groups for females, laying the foundation for future success.
— Rob Greenwood
James Siviour, OAM
JAMIE Siviour is passionate about the health of his community.
The Eyre Peninsula farmer has been chairman of the Lock Community Health and Welfare Advisory Committee for the past 18 years.
“We only have a doctor who visits Lock one day a week and we want to keep our community healthy because our nearest doctor is 80km away,” Mr Siviour said.
The 50-year-old joined the committee when he was 32, thinking he “would give it a go for a few years”. “I’m still here.”
Mr Siviour, a justice of the peace, has also chaired the Lock Community Events Committee and participated in a number of other community, church and sports groups. He has been a volunteer firefighter since 1993.
The committee holds annual men’s and women’s health nights and has organised a services such as supermarket nutrition tours, defensive driver training courses for youth and outdoor fitness equipment.
For his services to the Lock community, the father of two has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.
He is humbled to receive the honour. “It’s just part of living in a rural community,” he said. “I think there’s probably dozens of other people in our community that could be equally recognised.”
— Jordanna Schriever
Catherine Branson, AC
AS a young articled clerk, Catherine Branson QC was told by a senior member of one of Adelaide’s oldest law firms that “someone has certainly wasted a lot of money on your education”
That lawyer had learned that Ms Branson was not a secretary, but held a law degree.
“I hope that, were he still alive, he would feel justified in revising his opinion about the value of educating women and girls,” she has told The Advertiser.
That young articled clerk would go on to be South Australia’s Crown Solicitor, head the Attorney-General’s Department, become a Federal Court judge and president of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
And today, she has been appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia.
She said she felt honoured to be given the appointment, which is the highest recognition for outstanding achievement and service.
“I think of my career as having three major highlights,” she said. “First, my appointment, shortly before I turned 36 years of age, as crown solicitor of South Australia and permanent head of the Attorney-General’s Department.
“I suspect that my later career was greatly influenced by this courageous appointment.”
Ms Branson said Dame Roma Mitchell later told her she never expected a woman to be appointed as a crown solicitor anywhere in Australia within her lifetime.
“Secondly, my appointment a decade later to the Federal Court of Australia and finally my appointment as president of the Australian Human Rights Commission in late 2008,” she said.
After graduating from the University of Adelaide with law and arts degrees, Ms Branson spent 12 months doing voluntary legal aid work in Pontiac, a town in the US state of Michigan. She worked mostly with extremely disadvantaged African-Americans.
Once she had returned to South Australia where she worked in private practice and the public sector, discrimination became one of Ms Branson’s specialty areas of law.
Her career moved in leaps and bounds — she was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1992 before becoming a Federal Court judge two years later.
More recently, Ms Branson has retired from full-time work but has returned to the University of Adelaide as a council member. She was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the judiciary as a Federal Court judge and her advocacy for human rights and civil liberties.
— Meagan Dillon
Kathryn Harby-Williams, AM
South Australian netball great Kathryn Harby-Williams has confessed to being blown away reading the letter to confirm her Member of the Order of Australia award.
The former Australian captain and Adelaide Thunderbirds hero described the title as an honour and she was overwhelmed by the recognition.
“It has come out of the blue and I was quite emotional when I got the letter,” Melbourne-based Harby-Williams said. “It is something you don’t think about, but now it is a chance to reflect where you have been and where you have come to, the role netball has played in my life.
“Netball has given me a fulfilled and wonderful life and it has been a great ride, I’ve loved every minute of it and I owe the sport.”
Harby-Williams’ resume is among the most impressive in netball. There are the 95 appearances for the national team and four years as captain, two Commonwealth Games gold medals, two world crowns and two national league premierships with the Thunderbirds.
It all started as a seven-year-old when her late father Keith took her to the Anzac Highway courts and told a coach his daughter wanted a game, telling her she was special.
That coach then moved to Contax and took Harby-Williams with her. That was the birth of her illustrious career at the state league powerhouse when the battles against Garville took sporting prominence.
Harby-Williams claims she was lucky to play for the Thunderbirds and recalls the 1999 premiership triumph, the same year the Crows, 36ers and Lightning were triumphant and the respective captains stood before thousands of fans in King William St.
“Netball gave me so much and that is why I am still involved,” she said. Harby-Williams was a Netball Australia board member before taking on her current role as players’ association boss.
— Warren Partland
Ian Smith, AM
FOR someone who has been surrounded by prominent business and political figures for years, Ian Smith has kept a comparatively low profile.
Married to former Australian Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja, Mr Smith has been a business partner of former Liberal foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer and former Labor immigration minister Nick Bolkus.
An Englishman who was a journalist at The Advertiser and Wagga Wagga’s Daily Advertiser, Mr Smith has forged one of Australia’s most formidable business, political and media networks since migrating in 1986 and becoming an Australian citizen in 1988.
The managing partner of Adelaide-based lobbying firm Bespoke Approach, his former roles include as an adviser to the-then Victorian premier Jeff Kennett and leading strategic communications firm Gavin Anderson.
But it is for “significant service to the community of South Australia through not-for-profit organisations, and to Australia-United Kingdom relations” that Mr Smith is today honoured with a Member of the Order of Australia.
The South Australian Honorary Consul to the UK, Mr Smith’s roles in medical research, civic policy leadership and indigenous development include founding member of the Committee for Adelaide; board member of Developing East Arnhem; director of Melbourne-based Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; and co-founder and chairman of Barefoot to Boots providing sporting, health and education equipment for youths in refugee facilities.
“I’ve been inspired by so many — from the brilliant young medical researcher seeking cures, or a refugee simply seeking safety from conflict for their family,” he said.
“I’ve been so lucky in life, in contrast to so many people. My parents always taught me the importance of giving back and not distinguishing people from different backgrounds.”
— Paul Starick
Margaret Ford, OAM
MARGARET Ford has had a great deal of trouble slowing down. At 71, the former teacher, turned volunteer, remains dedicated to education and the pursuit of history.
Last week, she remarried. This week, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) as part of the Queen’s Birthday honours.
That honour was in recognition of her decades of work with children and the community.
Not that she ever thought she was doing anything extraordinary. She just loved sharing her love of learning, in particular maths, and especially when it came to girls.
“Lots of mothers say to their girls, ‘I wasn’t any good at maths’,” Ms Ford, of Craigburn Farm, said. “I despair of people taking that negative attitude.
“When I went to school a long time ago, girls didn’t need maths or science. You were told you’d leave school, get married and waste your education, so if anyone tells me I can’t do something, I get stubborn and decide I can do it really well.”
And so she did. But she knew she had to pass it on.
“There’s no point learning about it if you don’t know where it comes from. I’ve enjoyed setting up situations where kids, especially girls, go ‘Oh, now I know what that’s all about’,” she said.
“It cuts off their options later in life if they stick to just the humanities, which they seem to.”
She worked as a teacher for 27 years, serving as deputy principal at Modbury West, Burnside and Birdwood primary schools and principal at Mt Pleasant and Springton.
She could not stay away from schools after leaving teaching. St Dominic’s Priory College took her in as a volunteer.
These days, Ms Ford volunteers with the National Trust and is a tour guide at Beaumont House.
— Caleb Bond
Peter Routley, AM
HUMANITARIAN Peter Routley does not seek the limelight but, once you get to know him, you can call him Chief Otunba Saydero.
That is the title the Nigerian Government bestowed upon Mr Routley in recognition of his years of support to the west African nation.
“I was blown away by that,” Mr Routley, 84, of Leabrook, said.
Mr Routley moved to Nigeria in 1962 after seeing a job advertisement in UK newspaper The Times calling for teachers to work at an English school.
A then 28-year-old Mr Routley, who had worked as a teacher at Woomera, Orroroo and Brighton high schools, turned down local jobs to take up the opportunity in Africa.
All up, he spent more than 30 years in Nigeria, and was the founding director of the English Language Training Centre in Lagos in 1992.
He also spent time in Papua New Guinea, opening the first high school in the port town of Kimbe, West New Britain, in the early 1970s — something he regards as the proudest moment of his teaching career.
But Mr Routley attributed his success to former prime minister Gough Whitlam.
“Whitlam scrapped the aid programs which were run by the Department of Territories and gave the programs independence to be run by individual countries,” Mr Routley said. “I was 10 years into a 15-year contract so I ended up getting five years’ salary … because the government had broken my contract.
“That helped set me up, virtually for life.”
Mr Routley was this week named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of his significant service to the international community through the leadership and administration of foreign aid programs.
He has also been a project manager with World Vision in Mauritania, Cambodia and Mali, a volunteer with Cathedral Relief Services in Calcutta, and a project co-ordinator with World Families Australia.
“Thanks to Gough, it gave me the freedom to do what I did,” Mr Routley said.
— Gordon Armstrong
Mark Carroll, APM
FOR the past 27 years Mark Carroll has spent each working day ensuring the welfare of our police officers is paramount.
His passion for the state’s police started as a Police Association delegate for city patrol officers — and for the past decade it has continued while leading the state’s most influential union as its president.
And along the way, Mr Carroll took on a national role in the same sphere becoming vice president and finally national president of the Police Federation of Australia representing the interests of 60,000 officers.
In recognition of his efforts over almost three decades Mr Carroll has been awarded the Australian Police Medal.
“I already feel so fortunate to fulfil a role that allows me to serve our hardworking police officers, so to receive the APM in addition to that is such an honour, and I’m truly thankful,’’ Mr Carroll said.
“I do, however, think of the award as recognition of members and delegates and all those who have committed themselves to the Police Association over more than a century.
“While I’ll certainly treasure the APM bestowed on me, I will think of it — as I hope others will — as less about me and more about the Police Association.’’
Two other recipients of the Australian Police Medal are Detective Senior Sergeant John Garde and Sergeant Taryn Trevelion.
— Nigel Hunt
Gillian Aldridge, OAM
“THIS must be a hoax” were Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge’s first words when she opened a letter revealing she was being awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Ms Aldridge said.
But when a second letter arrived in the mail confirming the prestigious accolade, it was tears that flowed.
“I just cried and cried,” she said.
“I never expected this. It is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me and I am still crying about it.”
Ms Aldridge, 71, was recognised for her service to the community of Salisbury and to local government. But the Mawson Lakes resident has no idea who put her name forward for nomination.
“It blows my mind to receive something like this and I am so humbled,” she said.
“I have been working in the Salisbury community for the past 30 years alongside some of the most amazing people I have ever had the privilege to meet.
“I love the people of this city. They inspire me so much every single day to work harder, to give them a quality of life they deserve and to continue to make this city the absolute best it possibly can.”
Ms Aldridge has been Salisbury Mayor for 10 years. From 2001 to 2008 she served as deputy mayor and was a councillor for 20 years before that.
She lists some of her greatest achievements in local government as helping Salisbury transform into a thriving city, the major development of council-owned land and the approval of a $43.8 million community hub on John St.
Pooraka resident Robert Hussey was also awarded an Order of Australia for service to athletics.
— Ben Harvy
Alitya Rigney, AO
NARUNGGA elder Alitya Rigney was a pioneering warrior of education and indigenous languages who taught more than 5000 children at the edge of society and whose mobile phone became a request hotline for speeches and welcome to country ceremonies until her sudden death last year.
Today she has been posthumously honoured with the Order of Australia (Officer in the General Division) for her service to education and young people and her promotion and protection of indigenous languages, culture and heritage.
“She was a strong, fierce Aboriginal woman and lived by her actions,” Dr Rigney’s daughter Tracy Rigney, a director in the Department for Child Protection, said.
“She connected and strengthened the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and that was evident through the diversity of people at her funeral and state memorial service.”
Dr Rigney passed away in May aged 74 — less than 24 hours after her husband Lester died from illness.
Born and raised in the Port Pearce Mission, on Yorke Peninsula, Dr Rigney, the eldest of 18 children, became a teacher and later set up the nation’s first urban indigenous school — the Kaurna Plains School in Elizabeth. She became Australia’s first indigenous female principal in 1986.
Her son Dr Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Professor of Education at UniSA, said his mother made a significant contribution to the conservation of the Kaurna language and estimates she taught more than 5000 Aboriginal children in her lifetime.
“She was impressive; a real stalwart and a great leader — the tip of the spear for the Narungga people,” Dr Rigney said. “She was a pioneer for all Australian children.”
— Rebecca Digirolamo
Robert Brown, OAM
HE is skilled with the flute, but that’s not the end of Robert Brown’s talents.
Mr Brown, one of the state’s pre-eminent flautists, has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his service to the performing arts, particularly through music. It’s another tick of approval in a packed list of achievements.
Mr Brown, of Toorak Gardens, has held numerous senior roles at the Australian Flute Society, the Flute Society of SA and Adelaide Eisteddfod Society in a career of service of more than 40 years.
He has edited South Australian Flute News since 1979, Music Stand since 2014 and contributed to five flute and music publications.
As secretary of the Eisteddfod’s important development fund committee, he has helped to give young South Australian musicians a spotlight to shine. “It’s great to give opportunities to young performers, so that means a lot to me,” he said.
The member of numerous Adelaide orchestras has also done plenty of teaching.
But Mr Brown’s most cherished achievement was bringing a flute convention to Adelaide in 1998. “We had people come from overseas to it — a lot went into organising it.”
— Simeon Thomas-Wilson
Allan Suter, OAM
AMONG achievements listed on Allan Suter’s Wikipedia page are national and South Australian game fishing record holder.
The 69-year-old says he never looks at that “nonsense” but confirms he holds the record for a 31.2kg mulloway caught on 6kg line and a 270kg bronze whaler landed on a 15kg line. The records set at Ceduna have remained unbeaten for more than 30 years.
The town’s outspoken mayor says his decision to enter local government was never about accolades — rather it was instigated by a campaign to stop a kingfish farm.
“You don’t get too many awards, you get a lot of barbs,” the former commercial fisherman said.
Mr Suter, who is retiring from local government this year after 12 years as mayor and 15 on council, has been awarded an OAM for his service to local government and his community.
He said the deaths of six Aboriginal people in Ceduna between 2004 and 2009 drove his desire to tackle rough sleeping and alcohol-related deaths in the community.
“It’s improved out of sight,” he said. “There are lots of services in Ceduna that weren’t there before.”
— Renato Castello
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