24 Greater Brisbane residents who earned top Australia Day honours
From doctors and artists to advocates to athletes these are 24 Greater Brisbane residents who earned OAMs this Australia Day.
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More than 20 people, including doctors, artists, advocates and athletes from across Greater Brisbane have been awarded top honours this Australia Day.
Recipients from Redcliffe to Redlands and Logan to Ipswich were all honoured for their tireless work in their communities.
They included family advocates, youth workers, former politicians, doctors, scientists, refugees advocates, researchers, athletes and teachers.
BRISBANE SOUTH AND LOGAN
Cath Bartolo
Logan
One of the most prestigious appointments this year was to well-known Logan identity Cath Bartolo.
The long-serving community advocate was one of 155 people made a Member of the Order of Australia, for her significant services to youth, social welfare, and Logan.
The appointment follows more than 30 years working as a teacher, disability co-ordinator and chief executive officer of YFS, a not-for-profit community organisation in Logan.
It provides services including; housing; domestic and family violence support; children, family and relationships services; youth services; legal; and financial counselling.
Ms Bartolo is known for being passionate about building independence and helping those who need support to meet everyday challenges.
She was recognised for her work as a member of the Logan Together Cross Sector Leadership Table and as the chair of the Logan Housing and Homelessness Strategy Group and the Not Now, Not Ever in Logan Reference Group.
Ms Bartolo has been an active member of many community partnerships with First Nations Elders, Queensland Police, government and Logan City Council.
YFS board chair Helen Sharpley said she was delighted that Ms Bartolo’s contribution was acknowledged.
“While Cath never seeks recognition for her work, this is a fitting testament to her commitment to Logan and the community services sector in Queensland,” she said.
“Cath’s contribution to improving the lives of the most vulnerable members of society has been extraordinary.”
Ms Bartolo said she was humbled by the appointment.
“It represents the overall YFS story,” she said. “I am proud to lead a team of dedicated professionals at YFS who are backing people not just to overcome adversity, but to thrive.”
Along with being YFS chief executive officer since 2002, Ms Bartolo has also served on organisations including the Logan Youth Connections Coordinator from 1996-2001.
She was manager of the Logan Youth Connections from 1995-1996 and also juggled posts as the co-ordinator of the Centre Education Program at The Centre from 1993-1994.
Prior to that, she was a teacher from 1982-1992.
She has also been a board director of the Queensland Council of Social Service from 2005-2013 and was a founding member of the Leadership Team of the Logan City of Choice group from 2013-2019.
Dr Cuong Trong Bui
Carindale
Prominent southside resident Dr Cuong Trong Bui, who has played a major role advocating for refugees, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
Dr Bui has taken on an advocacy role for refugees since he arrived in Brisbane in 1975.
He was a member of the Australia Refugee Advisory Council during the Fraser federal government from 1978-1981, working with three Immigration Ministers to solve the Indo-China refugee problems in the 1970s and 80s.
He also played a seminal role in establishing the World Victims of Communism Association of Australia in 2018 which was incorporated in 2019.
The association includes Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Croatian, Ukranian, Cambodian, South-Korean and Vietnamese members.
The association has successful lobbied for a monument to be built in Roma Street Parklands following awaited approval from the state government.
Dr Bui, who practises at his clinic on Logan Rd at Holland Park, received a medical degree from Saigon University and served as a doctor in the Republic of Vietnam Army during the war. He requalified in Queensland in 1976 graduating with an MBBS.
Passionate about providing holistic medical care, he trained at top-tier clinics, gaining an in-depth insight into all aspects of general practice.
With more than 40 years of valuable experience, Dr Bui’s main areas of interest as a doctor in Holland Park include travel medicine, acupuncture, cardiology, and skin cancer.
He is an expert at handling complex and intricate cases and is respected among his patients for his impassioned professionalism.
The prestigious appointment was made for his significant services to multiculturalism, and the Vietnamese community.
He was the inaugural president of the Queensland Multicultural Council from 2007-2009 and is the current president of the Queensland Chapter of the Vietnamese Community in Australia.
He has also played major roles as president of the Vietnamese Community in Australia from 1981-1991 and as a doctor and member of Vietnamese Health.
His appointment is not the first time he his community work has been recognised.
He was awarded the Pride of Australia Medal in 2015 and named Queensland Disaster Hero in 2010-2011.
He was also the recipient of the prestigious Paul Cullen Award for service to refugees in 1992 and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1985.
Sam Doumany
Southside
Retired state politician Sam Doumany was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1983, serving as Attorney-General, Minister Justice and Minister Welfare.
He was appointed for his significant service to parliament and politics in Queensland, and to the community.
Since leaving parliament, he has played a large role in the Queensland Liberal Party and in community organisations including Rotary International as President of the Rotary Club of Hope Island from 2013-2014.
He has also been a vocal advocate against Malaria and was on the inaugural Malaria Vaccine Project.
He is a patron and former trustee of the Rotary Human Brain Research Project, since 2013 and a former director of Disaster Aid International.
He was also a member of Bravehearts Investment Fund and a former Queensland chairman of Keep Australia Beautiful Council and former patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Queensland.
His reach extends to Dutton Park State School, where the Sam Doumany Ball Games Shield was named in his honour.
Shayne Joan Wilde
Southside
Shayne Wilde was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to the LGBTQIA and differently-abled communities through a range of roles and reforms.
She was the founding member of Brisbane Pride Collective in 1990 and a Pride organiser from 1990 to 1995.
Ms Wilde and her twin grew up in Wilston before she moved to the southside and became involved in the trade union movement through the Queensland Workers Health Centre after she was injured at work.
She was shop steward and an executive member of the Federated Clerks Trade Union throughout the 1980s and played a crucial role on the Queensland Trade and Labor Council Women’s Committee.
She is a founding member of the Australian Council of Lesbian and Gay Rights and the group’s industrial relations spokesman from 1993-2000.
She was also a founding member of the Queensland International Lesbian Day Committee and has been a significant lobbyist for the Queensland Association for Gay Law Reform.
In the 1980s, she made headlines as the organiser of Reclaim the Night Collective and was an active supporter of Children by Choice and Abortion on Demand.
Her love of all things alternative resulted in her taking up a role as a volunteer for the Maleny Folk Festival from 1988-1993 and later the Woodford Folk Festival from 1994-2007.
In 2019, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award through the Pride Queens Ball Awards, for her role promoting the Brisbane Pride Festival.
She has also been awarded the Chris Carter Memorial Award from the The Australian Democrats.
Peter Geiger
Canungra
Peter Geiger was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community of Canungra.
He has played vital roles with the Canungra Auxiliary Fire and Rescue and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and was the group’s inaugural captain from 1979-2015.
He is a fire warden with the Canungra (Volunteer) Rural Fire Service which he joined in 1982.
A passionate fisherman, he is also a member of the Canungra RSL Fishing Club.
He is well known in the rural area was the proprietor and director of Geiger Motors for 38 years and was named Scenic Rim Regional Council Citizen of the Year in 2009.
His other passions include the Lions Club of Canungra and he was the inaugural president of Moriarty Park Sporting Complex Canungra in 1986.
He is also passionate about helping youth and has been involved with Canungra Rural Youth s president in 1972.
He was recognised in 2010 with a QDES Diligent and Ethical Service Medal and 1st Clasp, and has also received a National Medal For Service 2nd Clasp.
Logan Martin
Logan and southside
BMX rider Logan Martin was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
The BMX supremo won gold in the Freestyle event in the Olympics inaugural BMX competition.
His stellar rise followed years of hard work winning prestigious events including the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series in 2015 and again in 2016.
He also won the Rainbow Jersey at the UCI World Championships in France last year.
Martin was crowned BMX Freestyle world title winner and UCI Urban World Championship winner in China in 2017.
The young dad has been a dual gold medallist at the X Games in 2019 and a silver medallist in the World Championships in 2019.
He took out the Australian National Champion titles in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and has become a patron for BMX riding in his home city of Logan.
The Marsden State High School alumni has his brother Nathan and his supportive parents to thank for helping him on his road to becoming an Olympian.
He learned his craft after following his brother Nathan to the Crestmead skate park when he was aged 12 or 13 years.
Izaac Stubblety-Cook
Southside
Izaac Stubblety-Cook was awarded a medal for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympic Games, where he won the 200m Breaststroke event.
He also won a bronze medal in the mixed 4x100m Medley Relay.
The athlete is well liked in the Australian team and has also won silver at the Pan Pacific Championships in 2018.
Jasmina Joldic
Rochedale South
Jasmina Joldic was awarded a Public Service Medal for her outstanding service and delivery of critical functions and health policies in Queensland during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ms Joldic was appointed Associate Director-General of Queensland Health last week after being Assistant Director-General, Policy, Portfolio and Government Services for seven months.
She has had an extensive career in the public service, predominantly in Queensland, but also in the federal government and Victoria.
After migrating from Bosnia during the war, via Germany, with her parents and sister, she now calls Australia home.
“I consider myself a proud Queenslander and bettering public and social services for all Queenslanders is what drives me,” she said.
“My most memorable and satisfying time has been working side-by-side with the now Queensland Governor-General, Dr Jeannette Young in the fight against COVID-19.
“I am so grateful to my parents for having the courage to start a new life here and I hope they are proud to see their youngest daughter become a respected public service professional.”
For the past five years, she has been dedicated to improving the health of Queenslanders via her role as the Head of the Office of the Director-General and System Strategy Division.
This role was critical to the Queensland Health Covid response and Ms Joldic worked closely with the Director-General, chief health officer and 16 Health and Hospital Services to deliver an integrated pandemic response across Queensland Health, Queensland Police Service and the State Emergency Centre with community safety and public health at the centre.
Under her leadership, critical enabling functions and infrastructure were rapidly established to support the government’s pandemic response.
She was pivotal in connecting and co-ordinating the decision making and the flow of information across government.
Her work throughout the pandemic has had a significant impact across the Queensland public service and has also impacted the lives of all Queenslanders.
The functions she established meant Queensland stayed at the forefront of COVID-19 policy development, both across the state and nationally.
Dr Gordon Guymer
Queensland Herbarium
Dr Gordon Guymer was awarded a Public Service Medal for his outstanding leadership at the Queensland Herbarium over the past 26 years.
As the Queensland Herbarium director, he has achieved national recognition in scientific investigations, botanical research, policy reform relating to biodiversity conservation and natural resource management.
He is the chief botanist for the Queensland government and as director of the Herbarium, is responsible for managing scientific teams in discovering; describing; monitoring; surveying; naming, and classifying plants and plant communities.
Dr Guymer provides the scientific leadership for research on the state’s unique plant biodiversity, plant communities and regional ecosystems, including assessment and monitoring of vertebrate fauna.
His expertise and depth of knowledge is central to the management and mapping of regional ecosystems, vegetation, threatened species, including koala habitat in Queensland, and the provision of public services including support to Queensland Health (poisons information) and the Queensland Police Service (forensic botany).
Dr Guymer has published more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers and reports, described three new plant genera and over 100 plant species new to science.
Paul Martyn
Tarragindi
Paul Martyn received a meritorious Public Service Medal for outstanding work in the areas of Queensland export, global investment opportunities and leading the state government’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task force.
He is Director-General of the Department of Energy and Public Works and has been an exemplar senior executive within the public service for 15 years.
For the past three years, Mr Martyn has been the chief executive of Trade and Investment Queensland, a global business agency for the government.
Through this role, he has assisted Queensland businesses to export their products and encouraged global investment.
In 2020, Mr Martyn undertook a leadership role as CEO of the state government’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task force, leading a multidisciplinary team of more than 60 staff representing 17 government agencies. In addition to the health response, the Task force supported the development of Queensland’s Economic Recovery Plan: Unite and Recover, economic recovery strategies, and developed the Covid Safe Business Framework.
IPSWICH AND WEST BRISBANE
Mollie O’Callaghan
Ipswich
Popular sportswoman Mollie O'Callaghan received a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The member of St Peters Western Swimming Club at St Peters Lutheran College, won her gold as a heat swimmer in the pool for the Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay.
She also won gold in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay after swimming in the heats and bronze in the Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay.
The Ipswich swimmer made her name winning many events at the state level including gold in the Women’s 50m Backstroke; gold in the Women’s 100m Backstroke; gold in the Women’s 200m Backstroke; and gold in the Women’s 50m Butterfly at the Queensland State Titles 2020.
She was also silver medallist in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay, Junior World Championships, in 2019.
Elizabeth Helen Pullar
Ipswich
Elizabeth Pullar, known to family and friends as Helen, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the performing arts, particularly to theatre.
She has had a long-running association with the Ipswich Little Theatre Society as secretary, since 2004, 1987-1990 and from 1968-1969.
She was also president from 1991 to 1996.
Among other roles, she was co-ordinator and presenter of Heritage Tours of the Burley Griffin Incinerator, since 2007.
As the Co-Director of Ipswich Little Theatre, she oversaw productions including A Day to Remember, 2015; Light Bites, 2012; Time and Time Again, 2010; Scene but Briefly, 2008; One Day After Another, 2007; Take a Wild Shot, 2004; A Piece of Cake, 2018; and Boeing Boeing, in 2019.
She has also been an honorary archivist at Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School since 2013 along with artistic director of annual drama competitions from 1983-2002.
Her association with the school now extends to being Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School Old Girls’ Association honorary co-president.
Her love of Ipswich and the area prompted her to co-Author, 120 Years: Our Stories, Our Memories – Ipswich Girls Grammar School History, in 2012 and Burning brightly: an update of ‘Rising from the Ashes’ – a history of Ipswich Little Theatre 1996- 2009, in 2009.
She also was co-author of Queenie’s Diary: a schoolgirl’s life: 1914-1915, published by Agneau Press in 2005.
Her skills have also been put to use as the artistic director of the Soldier Settlements Around Stanthorpe – Centenary Celebration for the Amiens History Association in 2020 and she was a judge on the Australia Day Award Panel for Ipswich City Council in 2019.
Ms Pullar has also been the co-ordinator of the Centenary of Federation Celebration, which was then known as the Ipswich Events Corporation.
She was also a founding member of the Association of Little Theatre Groups in the 1970s.
Julie Steel
Ipswich
Springfield’s Julie Steel was recognised in the Australia Day Honours list for outstanding public service through court innovations for Queensland.
Ms Steel is the executive director of the Supreme, District and Land Courts Service and has excelled in the role over the past decade.
She has been at the forefront of court innovations and her leadership has allowed the courts to manage their workloads efficiently, while greatly improving accessibility to the public.
Her talent lies in system organisation and staff leadership, resulting in vastly improved registry services to the benefit of the judiciary, the legal profession and the public.
Her ingenuity has enabled the higher courts, with very limited means, to advance some way into the digital age.
Importantly, her efforts have ensured the courts have been able to cope with existing conditions, while anticipating and evolving.
Ms Steel has formed a highly skilled team which is strategically focused and delivers outcomes for court users. These skills were particularly evident during the Covid years of 2020 and 2021 when, in collaboration with the heads of jurisdiction, she put extensive strategies in place to ensure the continued operation of the courts.
Ms Steel is known for being innovative, resilient and flexible and works tirelessly to adjust to changing circumstances. During the entire Covid period she ensured the courts have been open for users in a suitably adjusted environment.
Jason Daniels
Ipswich
Jason Daniels has provided distinguished service to the community through the State Emergency Service since 1997. He assists the community during storms, flooding events, bushfire events and search and rescue.
Mr Daniels is an influential member of the Ipswich City SES Unit who embodies the qualities of the SES and exemplifies the ethos of volunteerism and commitment to the community.
He was instrumental in the planning and establishment of an Emergency Operation Centre upgrade and design and build of a portable field-based emergency operation centre ensuring emergency service members had access to planning, mapping, printing and communication tools.
He was also involved in the implementation of the SES Communications On boarding project for the Government Wireless Network.
Mr Daniels’ extraordinary devotion to duty and overall distinguished service emanates through his interaction with the members of the Ipswich Unit and the greater South Eastern region of Queensland.
His skills also extend to his selfless dedication to the training of old and new members, the development of new volunteer members who have joined the organisation, unit equipment maintenance, and his commitment to the many SES operations performed each year.
Mr Daniels’ outstanding involvement in the SES has had countless impacts on both emergency service volunteers and victims of natural disasters.
His passion for operational excellence and service to the community of Queensland is well recognised.
MORETON AND NORTH BRISBANE
Dr Simon Hooton (OAM)
Narangba’s Dr Simon Hooton was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to swimming, and the community.
His love of swimming was apparent when he took on the role of Swimming Queensland director from 2005-2011 and again in 2013-2015.
During his time with the organisation, he served as treasurer; former chair, and oversaw finance, awards and technical sub-committees.
He was also a dedicated examiner and assessor of technical officials and became a life member of the organisation in 2011.
He started out at Gladstone South Swimming Club, where he was president for eight years and a member for 20, also becoming a life member.
His skills were also used at Gladstone Gropers Masters Swimming Club where he was the Vice-President in 1986 and a former club captain and coach.
Over the years, his love of swimming drew him to the Gladstone District Swimming Committee and as a chief referee for swimming meets in Central Queensland.
He was also a technical official for the Central Queensland Swimming Association and later a technical official for the Brisbane Swimming Association.
He even acted as a technical official with the Wide Bay Swimming Association and many other events including Australian Championships; Commonwealth Games; Junior Pan Pacific Games; Goodwill Games; FINA World Cup; and FINA Masters World Championships.
He rose to a Level 3 Australian Referee and a Level 2 State Starter and was a Regional Referee (now Level 1), during the 1990s.
Dr Hooton’s community service also extended to him being president of the Gladstone Lions Club and Lions International.
He was Inducted into Swimming Queensland’s Hall of Fame in 2015 and won the John Keppie Queensland Technical Official of the Year Award for Swimming Queensland in 2015.
Wellsley Thomas Darby
Redcliffe
Mr Wellsley Thomas Darby is being recognised for providing a lifetime of community service to the community of Redcliffe.
He is well known for his community service and ongoing volunteer positions.
Mr Darby currently serves as the treasurer for the Independent Living Units Residents’ Committee at the Azure Blue Retirement Village in Redcliffe.
From 2008 to 2021 he was a volunteer ambassador for the ambassador program at the Brisbane Airport.
He’s been a commissioner of declarations at the Redcliffe Hospital since 2017, and a commissioner of declarations at the Redcliffe Library since 2020.
He also served as a local justice of the peace from 1969 to 1994.
Mr Darby was the Treasurer of the Chermside Kedron Community Church, Uniting Church in Australia, from 2001 to 2007.
He’s also a former parishioner.
From 1993 to 2001 Mr Darby volunteered as the treasurer of the Middle Ridge Uniting Church, Toowoomba, Uniting Church in Australia
Mr Darby has previously been recongised for his community service and won a long service award award, for 50 years of community service through the Justices of the Peace Branch and Department of Justice and Attorney-General in 2020.
Doctor Robert Leslie Edwards
Camp Mountain
Doctor Robert Leslie Edwards is being recognised for providing service to medicine as a thoracic physician in Brisbane.
Dr Edwards has been a thoracic consultant and sleep physician at the Wesley Hospital since 1977, and a visiting respiratory physician at the Royal Darwin Hospital since 2009.
He is currently a Physician partner at GenesisCare and at Queensland Respiratory Services.
Dr Edwards has also been a thoracic physician at Lung and Sleep Specialists Pty Ltd since 2014. He was a senior consultant at the Royal Brisbane Hospital from 1977 to 1994.
Thoracic Physician, Lung and Sleep Specialists Pty Ltd, since 2014.
Dr Edwards has been a member of the Silicosis Medical Reference Group with Queensland Health since 2019.
He’s also a certified independent medical examiner and investigator for the Wesley Dust Diseases Research Centre, and a former medical advisor for Queensland Parliament’s Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis Select Committee.
From 1993 to 2012 Dr Edwards served as the president of the Lung Foundation of Australia, which he co-dounded back in 1990. He was made an honourary life member in 2012.
He has been an inaugural fellow of the thoracic society of Australia and New Zealand since 2013 and is a member of special interest groups including Occupational & Environmental Lung Disease/Population Health, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Lung Cancer. He’s currently still a member of the Queensland branch.
Dr Edwards has been a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians since 1977, and is now a Life Member.
He’s also a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and has been since 1976. He is now a life member.
Previously he has won the society medal for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand in 2008.
Donald Thomas Gore
Warner
Mr Donald Thomas Gore is being recognised for his service to the community through social welfare organisations in Queensland.
Through the St Vincent de Paul Society in Queensland he has been the chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee since 2015, the president of the Northern Suburbs Regional Council since 2017, the president of the St Rita of Cascia Conference, since 2017, the president of the Aspley Conference from 2017-2018, the president of the Albany Creek Conference, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Queensland from 2013 to 2017 and the vice president of the Brisbane Diocese, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Queensland since 2017.
Sister Rosalie Anne Hetherington
Aspley
Sister Rosalie Anne Hetherington is being recongised for her service to the Catholic Church of Australia.
On the Sisters of Mercy, Brisbane she was a board member of Mercy Works from 2004 to 2009, chair or the Mercy Heritage board from 2004 to 2010, a board member of Mercy Disability Services from 1999 to 2001, a board member of Mercy Family services from 1996 to 2001, the governing body member of the Mercy Aged Care Services from 1992 to 2013, a member of the Ministry Council from 1993-1998, and a member of the Finance Committee from 1985-1986.
Sister Hetherington was Principal of All Hallows’ School from 1975 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1988.
She was also secretary of the Hallows’ Past Pupils Association from 1958 to 2017.
As a part of the Brisbane Catholic Historical Society, Sister Hetherington was a member of the management committee from 2012 to 2021 and the secretary from 2016 to 2021.
She was a member of the Catholic Education Commission from 2000 to 2001, 1983 to 1985, and from 1977 to 1980.
She was a member of the advisory board for St Vincent’s Youth and Family Centre from 1994 to 1996.
Sister Hetherington was a member of the Mater Hospital Governing Board from 1994 to 2001 and from 1987 to 1989.
She was also president of the association of Catholic Secondary Schools Queensland from 1985 to 1987, and chair of the Mercy Partners Council from 2010 to 2014.
Irma Howell
Clayfield
Mrs Irma Howell is being recongised for her service youth through Scouts Queensland.
Through Scouts Queensland, she has been an adult member of the Queensland Branch Heritage Team from 2020, the assistant district commissioner of the youth program at the Redcliffe District from 2017 to 2019, the district commissioner for the Redcliffe District from 2016 to 2017, a council member of the state branch from 2003 to 2016, the region commissioner for the Queensland branch from 2008 to 2016, the region commissioner for the near coast and country region from 2003 to 2008, the district commissioner for the Murrumba District from 1994 to 2003, the assisstant area commissioner for the Brisbane North Region from 1987 to 1994, the assistant district commissioner of the Charles S. Snow District from 1981 to 1987, and the group leader for the Kalinga Scout Group from 1976 to 1981.
Mrs Howell’s awards and previous recognition include a 50-year service award with Scouts Australia back in 2019, a silver kangaroo with Scouts Queensland in 2007 and a silver emu with Scouts Queensland in 2003.
James Robert McClelland
Wooloowin
Mr James Robert McClelland is being recongised for his service to the Royal Life Saving Society.
Through the Royal Life Saving Society (Commonwealth), Mr McClelland has been recongised as a foundation member for the Commonwealth Heritage Working Group since 2017.
Through the Royal Life Saving Society Australia, he has been a member of the National Honours Committee since 2016, a member of the Audit and Finance Committee since 2017, a companion since 1991, and was awarded a meritorious service medal in 2019.
Through the Royal Life Saving Society Queensland Mr McClelland was a member of the board of directors since 2019, a chair of the honours committee since 2016, a chair of the heritage committee since 2017, a member of the Life Members Audit/Review Committee since 2012, a member of the Finance Committee since 2018, the state magazine editor from 1980 to 1985, the treasurer from 1982 to 1984, a state bord member in 1981 and since 2019, a member of the Biennial Queensland Royal Life Saving State Team from 1981 to 1983, the treasurer of the Combined Clubs Committee from the 1970s to 1981, assistant treasurer in the last 1970s, and a life member since 2002.
As a part of the Ithaca-Caloundra City Life Saving Club at Bulcock Beach, Mr McClelland has been an auditor since 2001, a present of Grey Medallion courses since the mid 2010s, involved in the establishment of ‘Life Saving Support Services’ from 2015, editor of the annual report since 1978, treasurer from 1983 to 1998, chief instructor from 1979 to 1985, club captain from 1975 to 1979, a volunteer patrol member since 1971, and a life member since 1984.
He has also written numerous books including:
- Numismatic History of the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia, Self-published, 2017;
- The Bronze Medallion and Lifesaving Story, Self-published, 2016; and
- Two history books on the Ithaca-Caloundra Life Saving Club for their 50th (2004) and 60th (2014) anniversaries.
Professionally Mr McClelland has been the principal/director of Accountants United (formerly McClelland and Associates) from 1993.
His previous awards and recognition include:
- Service Cross and Bar, Royal Life Saving Society (Commonwealth);
- Bravery Medal, 2019;
- Iris Cribb Bursary, Royal Life Saving Society Queensland, 1978 and 2019; and
- Diploma, Commonwealth Committee, Royal Life Saving Society, 1993 and 2017.
William Michael Martin
Virginia
Mr William Michael Martin is being recongised for his service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020.
During the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2020, Mr Martin won a gold medal for the Men’s 400m Freestyle S9, for the Men’s 100m Butterfly S9, for the Men’s 4x100m Freestyle 34-point, and a silver medal for the Men’s 4x100m Medley 34-point.
He also worked as a learn to swim teacher at Nudgee College Swimming Club in North Brisbane from 2018 to 2021.
Lindy Jane Milburn
Toowong
Ms Lindy Jane Milburn is being recongised for her service to fashion sustainability.
She established Textile Beat as a purpose-driven business in 2013, at Brisbane Australia, to inspire a creative approach to the way we dress, to embrace natural fibres and upcycling for pleasure, reward and sustainability.
Through out her work with Textile Beat Ms Milburn has created the ‘sew it again project’ in 2014 and the ‘slow clothing project’ in 2016.
She’s also the author of ‘Slow Clothing: finding meaning in what we wear’, 2017.
She was the president of the Rural Press Club, Queensland, from 2006 to 2008, the vice president and secretary from 200 to 2005, and has been a life member since 2009.
In the media she has served as:
- Vice-President, Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists, 2009-2010;
- Director and Principal Consultant, Milburn Media, since 2002;
- Member, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance;
- Communications Manager, Diabetes Queensland, 2010-2012;
- Communications Manager, AgForce Queensland, 2007-2010; and
- Media Advisor, Office of the Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries, The Hon Henry Palaszczuk, 2000-2001.
She’s also served as:
- Fellow, Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, since 2010;
- Fashion Revolution Australia, committee member;
- Eco Fashion Week Australia, sustainability advisor; and
- UQ International House board member and honorary secretary 2011-2016.
Her past awards and recognition include:
- Churchill Fellowship, 2019 (to investigate how upcycling can help reduce textile waste and enhance wellbeing);
- Social Media Category Winner, Excellence in Rural Journalism Awards, Slow Clothing, 2018;
- Social Media Category Winner, Excellence in Rural Journalism Awards, Sew it Again campaign, 2015;
- AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award, Queensland runner-up, 2010;
- Fairfax Agricultural Media open scholarship for Australian Rural Leadership Program 2009; and
- Queensland Primary Industries Awards’ Media Award, 2005.
Pam O’Neill
Bracken Ridge
Mrs Pam O’Neill is being recongised for her service to horse racing as a jockey.
She has been the director of the Australian Jockeys Association since 2001, the secretary of the Queensland Jockeys Association since 1997 and a licensed jockey in Australia from 1979 to 1997. She has won more than 400 races in her time.
Queensland Racing Doomben Cup Day was named in her honour back in 2019 and she was inducted into the Queensland Racing Hall of Fame in 2010.
Her previous awards and recognition include:
- Inductee, Queensland Sport Hall of Fame, 2020; and
- Recipient, Lord Mayor’s Australia Day Sports Award, Brisbane City Council, 2019.
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