The Queen’s Birthday honour roll runs longer than a Senate ballot paper so forgive us the time taken to fully parse it.

One whose gong had, until now, unhappily escaped us is Peggy O’Neal, Richmond Football Club president and director of both Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation and National Australia Bank’s super trustee, Nulis Nominees. The naturalised seppo was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to Australian rules football, to superannuation and finance law, and to the advancement of women in leadership roles”.