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unusual facts about Officer of the Order of Australia



Aila Keto

Keto was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994 and was nominated as Queenslander of the Yearin 2000.

Allen Kerr

Allen Kerr AO, FRS, FAA (born 1926) was a Scottish-born Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide.

Andrew Robb

In 2003, Robb was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to politics, agriculture and the community.

Anne Summers

Anne Summers PhD AO (born 12 March 1945) is a writer and columnist, is best known as a leading feminist, editor and publisher.

1989: Australia Day honour of an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to journalism and to women's affairs.

Gregory Garde

Major General the Honourable Justice Gregory Howard "Greg" Garde AO, RFD, QC is a senior Australian lawyer and Army officer.

Henry Bosch

Henry Bosch AO (born 20 January 1931) is an Australian businessman, CEO, Chairman and Governance advocate.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1991 for services to industry, commerce and government.

Ivan Deveson

Ivan Deveson AO (born 18 February 1934) is an Australian businessman and the 100th Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1996 to 1999 after a period of Commissioners controlling the Melbourne City Council.

Jocelyn Newman

Jocelyn Margaret Newman, AO (born 7 July 1937) is an Australian former politician.

John Funder

He is a director of the Harold Mitchell Foundation and an Officer of the Order of Australia, and is one of the trustees of A & E Finkel Foundation.

John Hatton

John Edward Hatton AO (born 29 May 1933) is former Australian politician, and an National Trust of Australia nominated Australian Living Treasure.

John Lavington Bonython

Charles Warren Bonython AO (1916–2012) was a conservationist, author and, before he retired from business in 1966, a chemical engineer.

John Mulvaney

John Mulvaney AO CMG (born 26 October 1925) is an Australian archaeologist and known as the "father of Australian Archaeology".

Jon Stanhope

Jonathan Ronald (Jon) Stanhope, AO (born 29 April 1951) is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011.

Kate Carnell

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours list of 2006, for her services and contributions to the Australian Capital Territory.

Anne Katherine (Kate) Carnell AO (born 30 May 1955) is an Australian businesswoman and former Liberal Party politician, who served as the third Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) from 1995 to 2000.

Lisa Paul

In June 2011 Paul was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to public sector leadership in key policy and program implementation, particularly through driving reform in education, employment and workplace.

Michelle Grattan

In the Australia Day Honours in 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her long and distinguished service to Australian journalism.

Mike Hindmarsh

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 2008 for his distinguished service in that position.

Ralph Willis

Ralph Willis AO (born 14 April 1938), Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government.

Tony Eggleton

Anthony "Tony" Eggleton, AO, CVO (born 30 April 1932), is a former Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia.


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