2020 Australia Day Honours
The 2020 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2020 by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley.[1]
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.[2]
Professor , AO – For eminent service to tertiary education through leadership and innovation in teaching and learning, research and financial sustainability.
Margaret Elaine Gardner
The Hon. Chief Justice – For eminent service to the judiciary, notably to criminal, administrative, and mental health law, and to the community of Queensland.
Catherine Ena Holmes
Professor , AM – For eminent service to medical research, and to national healthcare, through policy development and reform, and to tertiary education.
Bruce Gregory Robinson
Professor – For eminent service to scientific education and research, particularly in the field of nuclear and particle physics, through academic leadership roles.
Anthony William Thomas
Nguyen Thi Thanh An – For outstanding public service in fostering the Australia-Vietnam bilateral relationship in agricultural research.
Karen Jacqueline Binnekamp – For outstanding public service to health, particularly through improvements to listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and subsidy of breakthrough medical treatments.
Penny Damianakis – For outstanding public service through leading the provision of Centrelink services to vulnerable customers and refugee communities.
Michael James Druce – For outstanding public service to nuclear medicine production.
David Roland Fredericks – For outstanding public service through supporting the Government in achieving fiscal and budget policy objectives, and significant reforms in the Attorney-General's Department.
Associate Professor Matthew Roland Hill – For outstanding public service to materials development for industry and the Australian Defence Force.
Dr Dale Austin Lambert – For outstanding public service in the use of artificial intelligence in surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, intelligence and autonomous platforms.
Dr Adam Lewis – For outstanding public service through the application of geospatial information.
Helen Maree McDevitt – For outstanding public service through social policy innovation to improve the lives of disadvantaged Australians, particularly young persons and people with a disability.
Mark Patrick O'Connell – For outstanding public service through leading engagement with communities affected by PFAS contamination from legacy Defence firefighting activities.
Nico Padovan – For outstanding public service in program and policy delivery, including supporting the recovery and reconstruction of the livestock industry in North Queensland.
Julie Anne Roberts – For outstanding public service through exceptional delivery of executive support services to the national security community.
Dr Albin Frank Smrdel – For outstanding public service in reforming the corporate arrangements of the federal courts, and structural reform for the Australian family courts system.
Robert Sturgiss – For outstanding public service through the development of a world class inventory for greenhouse gases, and to accurate measuring and reporting of emissions for Australian companies.
Damian John Voltz – For outstanding public service through efforts to protect Australian sport from the threat of match-fixing, corruption and criminal exploitation.
Lesley Watson – For outstanding public service through contributions to agency organisation and functioning, and to Australia's national security.
Brigadier John William Shanahan, , AM, OBE – For distinguished command and leadership in warlike operations as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Resolute Support Headquarters Chief of Operations and as the Commanding General Train Advise Assist Command – South in Afghanistan from September 2017 to February 2019.