King's Birthday Honours

A significant number of our alumni have been recognised for contributions to their field and their community through the King's Birthday Honours, formerly known as the Queen's Birthday Honours.

King's Birthday Honours 2024

  • Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

    Professor Katina D'Onise
    Current titleholder
    For significant service to public health through translational research, and policy and legislative reform.

    The late Professor Arnold Gillespie
    Former staff member
    For significant service to medicine, particularly as an advocate for voluntary assisted dying.

    Amanda Gordon 
    B A 1977, B A (Hons) 1978
    For significant service to psychology, and to the multicultural community.

    Dr Geoffrey David Higgins 
    M B B S 1977, Ph D (Med) 1992 
    For significant service to medicine through clinical virology testing technology, and to microbiology.

    Dr Colin Croft Twelftree
    B D S 1967, B Sc (Dent)(Hons) 1974, M D S 1976
    For significant service to orthodontics, to education, and to professional associations.

    Alexander James Ward
    LL B 1985
    For significant service to the legal profession, and to the arts.

  • Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)

    Gregory Lawrence Aldridge
    Grad Dip App Psych 1989
    For service to community health.

    Alan Kimber Field
    B A 1956, Dip Sec Ed 1958
    For service to the community through music, and to education.

    The late Graydon Read Henning
    B Ec 1961, B A (Hons) 1964
    For service to maritime history, and to tertiary education.

    Major Kevin John Heyne 
    M Proj Mgmt 2004
    For meritorious service in the fields of safety, logistics and modernisation within the Australian Army Cadets.

    Dr Richard David Johnson
    Former University titleholder 
    For service to medicine, and to hospital administration.

    Rosemary (Rosie) Liston Johnston 
    Grad Dip Psych 2021
    For service to the arts, and to the community.

    Raymond Hunter Kidd 
    R D Oen 1949
    For service to the arts as a patron, and to oenology.

    Dr Pauline Margaret Morgan 
    B Sc 1972, B A 1985, B A (Hons) 1987
    For service to the Catholic Church of Australia, and to education.

    Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio
    B A (Jur) 1989, LL B 1991
    For service to the Jewish community, and to interfaith organisations.

    Joy Nugent 
    Grad Cert Ber & Pall Couns 1999
    For service to nursing, particularly to palliative care.

    Reginald Ernest Palmer 
    B A 1967, Dip Prim Ed 1967
    For service to primary and secondary education.

    Dr Jonathan Percy Howard Rogers
    B D S 1976, Grad Cert Dent 1997
    For service to dentistry in a range of roles.

    Nanette (Nan) Gwendoline Sharp 
    B Ed 1989, M Ed (Dis) 1992
    For service to the community of southern Adelaide.

  • Public Service Medal (PSM)

    Caroline Mary Mealor
    B A (Jur) 1991, LL B (Hons) 1993
    For outstanding public service in providing strategic leadership and reforms in the Attorney-General’s Department.

    Andrew Robert MacDonald 
    Grad Cert Mgmt 2011, Grad Dip Bus Admin 2011, M B A 2012
    For outstanding public service in local government providing strategic leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Dr Stephanie Davis 
    M B B S 2004
    For outstanding public service through sustained leadership in supporting Australia’s primary health care system throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

    William Arthur Whitford 
    M B A 2003
    For outstanding public service in the financial sector.

  • All 2024 Recipients

    View the full list of 2024 recipients.

King's and Queen's Birthday Honours