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Abbreviations
ARRC - The Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)

BEM(C) - The Order of the British Empire (Civil)

BEM(M) - The Order of the British Empire (Military)

CBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Civil)

DBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander

GM - George Medal

ISM - Imperial Service Medal

KPFM - King's Police Fire and Services Medal

MBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil)

MVO5 - The Royal Victorian Order - Members of the Fifth Class

OBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil)

RRC - The Royal Red Cross

ABBOTT, Joan Stevenson - RRC, 1943
Australian Army Nursing Service
ABBOTTS, Margaret Minna - BEM(C), 1979
Youth
A'BECKETT, Ada Mary - CBE(C), 1935
President of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria
ABEL, Emily Agnes - MBE(C), 1936
Secretary - Western Division of the Red Cross
ABELL, Elizabeth Anne Stuart - OBE(C), 1985
Nursing
ABELL, Vera Lillian - BEM(C), 1967
British & Foreign Bible Society
ABOUD, Lorna May - OBE(C), 1974
Community
ACKLAND, Irene - BEM(C), 1976
Medicine
ACKROYD, Joyce Irene - OBE(C), 1982
Education (Mrs Speed)
ACTON, Prudence Leigh - OBE(C), 1981
Fashion (Mrs Treloar)
ADAMS, Ann Frances Ellen - OBE(C), 1953
Matron of the Lachlan Park Mental Home, Tasmania
ADAMS, Madeline Grace - MBE(C), 1952
Social welfare services in Tasmania
ADAMS, Margaret Hypatia - MBE(C), 1960
President of the Anzac Fellowship of Women
ADAMS, Mary Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1936
Charities
ADAM-SMITH, Patricia Jean - OBE(C), 1980
Literature
ADAMSON, Gwen - MBE(C), 1972
Community
ADAMSON, Helen Francis - ARRC, 1977
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
ADAMSON, Helen Francis - RRC, 1981
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
ADAMTHWAITE, Vera May - BEM(C), 1976
Red Cross Society
ADCOCK, Alice - ARRC, 1947
AANS - South West Pacific
ADDERLEY, Vera May - MBE(C), 1978
Nursing (Mrs Jones)
ADDISON, Vera Minnie Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1968
Community of Kangaroo Ground in Victoria
ADELBURG, Janeen - BEM(C), 1969
GALLANTRY: Rescue sister from tower fall
AGLAND, Thora Isabella - ISM, 1970
NSW Railways - Special Class Guard
AH MAT, Ellen Mary Rosa - BEM(C), 1981
Community
AHWAN, Cuijeta - MVO5, 1981
Awarded after the visit of the Queen for CHOGM 1981. MVO Fifth Class. Royal Visit Coordinator in South Australia -Department of the Premier and Cabinet - Executive Manager of Protocol Unit.
AITKEN, Kathleen May - MBE(C), 1964
Community
AITKEN, Margaret Ellen - OBE(C), 1975
Girl Guide movement
ALAM, Therese - MBE(C), 1965
Community in New South Wales
ALCOCK, Dorothea - BEM(C), 1980
Community
ALCORN, Norma Cicely - MBE(C), 1979
YWCA in Queensland
ALCOTT, Ivey Mary - BEM(C), 1974
Community
ALDER, Mary Wilson - MBE(C), 1967
Red Cross Society
ALDOUS, Ailsa Barbara - BEM(C), 1980
Community
ALDOUS, Alice Mabel - MBE(C), 1971
Community
ALEXANDER, Alice Emma - ISM, 1972
NSW Health - Sister
ALEXANDER, Ivy Grace - ISM, 1966
Immigration Department - Clerical Assistant
ALEXANDER, Jane - MBE(C), 1939
Social welfare
ALEXANDER, Jean Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1975
Disadvantaged children
ALLAN, Barbara - BEM(C), 1980
Public service in the South Australian Police
ALLAN, Margaret Theodore - BEM(C), 1968
Community
ALLAN, Ruby Emma - BEM(C), 1972
Community in Marborough in Victoria
ALLDRIFT, Margaret Adele - MBE(C), 1964
Charities
ALLDRITT, Margaret Adele - OBE(C), 1969
Social welfare
ALLEN, Daphne Gladys - ISM, 1972
Concord Repatriation Hospital - Senior Sister
ALLEN, Edith May - BEM(C), 1986
Tasmania
ALLEN, Edith Muriel - BEM(C), 1972
Nursing Sister in the Commonwealth Health Dept
ALLEN, Margaret Veronica - BEM(M), 1969
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
ALLEN, S M - ISM, 1942
N/A
ALLEN, Sylvia Mildred - ISM, 1942
NSW Mental Hospitals - Charge Nurse
ALLEY, Diane Bernice - OBE(C), 1981
Women's affairs
ALLISON, Bette Lyla - BEM(C), 1978
Netball
ALLITT, Olive - MBE(C), 1967
Social Services Secretary of the Salvation Army
ALLNUTT, Marion Ellan Lea - MBE(C), 1951
Social welfare services In South Australia
ALLT, Grace Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1965
Ex-servicemen & women
ALPHEN, Elizabeth Ann - MBE(C), 1937
Social welfare
ALSTON, Joyce Rosalind - OBE(C), 1969
Handicapped persons
ALTON, Joyce Margaret - BEM(C), 1978
Postmistress
ALWILL, Annie - ISM, 1979
Queensland Justice - Stenographer
AMES, Ethel Alice - MBE(C), 1969
Ex-servicemen & women
AMIES, Geraldine Christein - OBE(C), 1976
Medicine
ANDERS, Ellen - MBE(C), 1955
Charities
ANDERSON, Annie May - BEM(C), 1970
Community
ANDERSON, Doris Lillian - ISM, 1970
PMG - Exempt Postal Officer
ANDERSON, Edith Blanche - MBE(C), 1951
Matron of the Northfield Mental Hospital, SA
ANDERSON, Edith Marian - BEM(C), 1979
Arts & community
ANDERSON, Edith Muriel - DBE(C), 1937
Public service in New South Wale
ANDERSON, Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
ANDERSON, Francis Margaret - DBE(C), 1960
For services as an actress (Judith Anderson)
ANDERSON, Helen Agnes - MBE(C), 1920
Services during the war
ANDERSON, Ida Charlotte - ISM, 1949
NSW Public Health - Senior Nurse
ANDERSON, Ida Roxanna - BEM(C), 1976
Community
ANDERSON, Iris Eleanor - BEM(C), 1971
Preservation of fauna in Western Australia
ANDERSON, Kathleen Pauline - BEM(C), 1976
Community
ANDERSON, Madge Martha - MBE(C), 1960
Community
ANDERSON, Margaret - RRC, 1918
Australian Army Nursing Service
ANDERSON, Margaret Irene - GM, 1942
AANS: Bravery when ship attacked by enemy aircraft
ANDERSON, Marjorie - ISM, 1972
NSW Health - Charge Nurse
ANDERSON, Marjorie Dora - BEM(C), 1987
Community
ANDERSON, Marjorie Jean - ARRC, 1948
AANS - Japanese Prisoner of War
ANDERSON, Mary - MBE(C), 1956
Major in the Salvation Army
ANDERSON, Mary Noreen - ISM, 1968
NSW Public Health - Sister
ANDERSON, Melva Hazel Susie - BEM(C), 1982
Community
ANDERSON, Phoebe Fall - MBE(C), 1951
Social welfare services in Victoria
ANDERSON, Rene - BEM(C), 1976
Community
ANDREW, Joan Nancy Lister - BEM(C), 1985
Community of Mackay in Queensland
ANDREWS, Clarice Kathleen - MBE(C), 1956
War veterans
ANDREWS, Esme Edith - BEM(C), 1977
Community
ANDREWS, Gertrude Jessie - ARRC, 1919
Australian Army Nursing Service
ANDREWS, Kathleen May Foster - BEM(C), 1978
Community
ANDREWS, Lilian Ellie - MBE(C), 1971
Mental health
ANDREWS, Marjorie Adelaide - BEM(C), 1979
Community
ANDREWS, Marjorie Matilda H - ISM, 1969
NSW Registrar-General - Tracer
ANGLIN, Adeliade Claire - ISM, 1971
PMG - Telephone Supervisor
ANGLIN, Adelinde Claire - ISM, 1971
N/A
ANGLISS, Elizabeth May - MBE(C), 1962
Secretary - Victoria Children's Welfare Assn
ANGLISS, Jacobena - CBE(C), 1949
President of the Victorian Child Welfare Association
ANGLISS, Jacobena Victoria Alice - DBE(C), 1975
Community and welfare services
ANGUEY, Norma Enid - BEM(C), 1979
Community
ANGUS, Vinetta Kathleen - ISM, 1949
NSW Public Health - Matron
ANNAND, Isabella Julia - OBE(C), 1955
Charities
ANNAT, Isobel Mary - MBE(C), 1977
Nursing
ANSET, Myrtle Phoebe - BEM(C), 1971
Charities in Dingee in Victoria
ANSTEY, Olive Eva - MBE(C), 1969
Nursing
ANSTEY, Olive Eva - CBE(C), 1981
Nursing
ANTHONY, Julie - OBE(C), 1979
Entertainment industry (Mrs Natt)
ANTILL, Mary - CBE(C), 1918
Organiser of the War Chest Fund during the war
APPLEFORD, Alice Ross - RRC, 1945
AANS - Unverified (Was AR King in WW1)
ARAM, Eunice Mercy St Clair - BEM(C), 1968
OIC Melbourne Females Office in the Labour Dept
ARAM, Eunice Merey StClair - ISM, 1970
PMG - Employment Officer
ARCHER, E P - ISM, 1965
N/A
ARCHER, Marjorie Iris Lawry - BEM(C), 1979
Civil Service Association
ARCHER, Mary Ellinor Lucy - MBE(C), 1956
Chief Librarian CSIRO
ARDILL-BRICE, Katie - OBE(C), 1941
Philanthropy & welfare work in New South Wales
ARENS, Maria Theodoritis - MBE(C), 1975
Health & nursing in Papua New Guinea
ARKINS, Moya Hilda - MBE(C), 1974
Community
ARLOM, Gladys Thelma - MBE(C), 1974
Community
ARMFIELD, Lillian May - KPFM, 1946
New South Wales Police
ARMFIELD, Lillian May - ISM, 1951
New South Wales Police
ARMOUR, Constance Winifred - ISM, 1971
NSW Public Health - Sister
ARMSTRONG, Dora Mary - BEM(C), 1973
Stenographer in the Public Works Department
ARMSTRONG, Elaine - BEM(C), 1971
GALLANTRY: Westgate Bridge disaster
ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth - ISM, 1958
NSW Public Health Department - Charge Nurse
ARMSTRONG, Ethel Una - BEM(C), 1974
Stenographer to the Victorian Director of Finance
ARNOLD, Joan Letitia - OBE(C), 1982
Music (Mrs Thompson)
ARNOLD, Marjorie Victoria - BEM(C), 1979
Community
ARNOLDT, Louisa Moutray - BEM(C), 1973
Community
ARNOT, Jean Fleming - MBE(C), 1965
Community services in Sydney
ARONSON, Zara Baer - OBE(C), 1936
Red Cross Society
ARROWSMITH, Jessie Louise - BEM(C), 1968
Community in Gloucester, NSW
ARTHUR, Ina Lillian - BEM(C), 1960
Research into artificial respiration
ASHBY, Alison - MBE(C), 1960
National Trust in South Australia
ASHE, Alice Maude - MBE(C), 1935
Founder -NSW Home of Peace for the Dying
ASHTON, Helen - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
ASHTON, Jessie Francis - BEM(C), 1971
Community
ASTON, Elizabeth Margaret - MBE(C), 1976
Education
ATHERDEN, Gwendoline Mary - MBE(C), 1982
Community
ATHERTON, Honoria Christina - OBE(C), 1960
President - Qld Country Women's Association
ATHERTON, Kathleen Gertrude - MBE(C), 1981
Teaching & sport
ATKINS, Bessie May - ISM, 1973
Primary Industry - Typist-in-Charge
ATKINS, Rose May - BEM(C), 1974
Community
ATKINSON, Lorna Grace - BEM(C), 1979
Community
ATKINSON, Margaret Shirley McPhie - BEM(C), 1979
150th Anniversary Celebrations in WA
ATKINSON, Sailie - BEM(C), 1978
Public service with the CSIRO
ATTEWELL, Iris Eileen - BEM(C), 1976
Community
ATTWOOD, Audrey Jane - MBE(C), 1978
Aboriginal education
AUSTIN, Fanny May - MBE(C), 1957
Charities
AUSTIN, Jean Phyllis Mary - MBE(C), 1978
Law
AUSTIN, Mary Valentine Hall - DBE(C), 1979
Community and welfare services
AUSTIN, Mary Valerie - OBE(C), 1953
Political & public service
AUSTIN, Vera May - BEM(C), 1971
Private Secretary to the Chief Justice of Victoria
AVELING, Valda - OBE(C), 1982
Music
AXELSEN, C - ISM, 1960
N/A
AXELSEN, Clara - ISM, 1960
Eventide Aged Home - Matron
AYERS, Edna Gwendoline - OBE(C), 1965
Community