ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ National University (ANU) is proud to have had more than 34 people from our community of alumni, donors, staff & students recognised in the 2026 Australia Day Honours.
We congratulate all who received recognition in the Australia Day Honours, and we take great pride in their service to the wider community.
This year's recipients
This year's recipients
Mr William John Baker OAM
LLB'71
For service to the community of Queanbeyan.
Mrs Caroline Lindsey Bartlett OAM
MIntAff'04
For service to public administration.
Ms Noor Blumer AM
LLM'08
For significant service to the law, to the legal profession, and to the community.
Air Commodore Maria Josefina Brick AM
MMilDefSt'17; LLM'11
For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Air Force in military legal services and staff appointments.
Commander Joshua Wesley Clifford CSM RAN
MMilDef'17; MMilLaw'15
For meritorious devotion to duty in the delivery of operational intelligence as the Director of Maritime Intelligence.
Professor Peter John Cook AC CBE
MSc'66
For eminent service to science as an innovator, pioneer and international expert in the development of carbon capture and storage, to policy development, and to climate change mitigation.
Clinical Associate Professor Philip John Crispin PSM
PhD'21
For outstanding public service in patient blood management and transfusion medicine.
Ms Angela Hardwick AIM
BA'01
For distinguished service to the National Intelligence Community.
Lieutenant Colonel Sven Harris CSC
MMilDef'22
For outstanding achievement and the application of skills as Operations Officer, Headquarters 1st (Australian) Division.
Wing Commander Nadia Justine Harrison AM CSM
MMilDef'21
For exceptional service in development and realisation of expeditionary cyberspace provisioning capabilities for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Mr Ian Scott Holmes OAM
MMilDef'22
For service to football.
Ms Tanya Louise Hosch AM
For significant service to the community through social policy, and as an advocate for diversity and inclusion.
Mrs Viola Kalokerinos OAM
For service to the community of Canberra.
Group Captain Anthony Kay CSC and Bar
MMilDef'16
For outstanding achievement in the application of extraordinary skills and judgement in the development and control of Air Mobility capability for the Australian Defence Force.
Colonel Gerard Ryan Kearns CSC and Bar
MMilDef'16
For outstanding achievement as the Commander Australian Contingent on Operation PALADIN during the period September 2023 to October 2024.
Mr Derek Anthony Kettle PSM
GDipLegPrac'95, LLB'94, BEc'88
For outstanding public service in legal leadership and constitutional advice.
Mr Wen Yao Ko OAM
GCertMigLaw'09
For service to the Taiwanese community of Brisbane.
Dr Roger Vernon Lee OAM
BLitt'82
For service to history preservation.
Conjoint Professor Nicholas Lintzeris AM
PhD'02
For significant service as a clinical researcher in addiction medicine.
Mr Gareth William Meyer PSM
GDipA'98
For outstanding public service in leadership and economic security to Australia and beyond.
Ermeritus Professor Bruce Moore AO
For distinguished service to linguistics, to the scholarship of Australian English, to lexicography, to the history of language, and to tertiary education.
Dr William Joseph O'Malley OAM
For service to baseball, and to public administration.
Mr Brett James Odgers OAM
BA'68
For service to history preservation, to planning, and to the community of Canberra.
The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk AC
GDipLegPrac'06
For eminent service to the people and Parliament of Queensland, particularly as Premier, to educational equity, to multiculturalism, and to public health.
Group Captain Lucas Ricciardi CSC
MMilDef'20
For outstanding achievement as Commanding Officer of Air Warfare Engineering Squadron, Air Warfare Centre.
Mr Sebastian Robertson OAM
BEc'09, BComm'09
For service to community health, and to aerial science.
Mr Michael Ryan OAM
GDipLegPrac'13
For service to the community through a range of roles.
Wing Commander Estevan Samanes OAM
MMilDef'18
For meritorious service in sustainment, maintenance and upgrade operations in support of the F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Mr Peter George Seaman OAM
For service to the community through a range of roles.
Mrs Jennifer Reay Tyrrell OAM
For service to the community through a range of roles.
Emeritus Professor John Jay Wanna AO
For distinguished service to political and policy research, to tertiary education, to democratic innovation, and to the development of public administration frameworks.
Ms Elizabeth Harcourt Ward PSM
BEc'88, BAsSt'87
For outstanding public service to Australia?s trade and foreign policy interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
Air Commodore Brett Robert Williams OAM CSM
MMilDef'14
For meritorious performance of duty to the Australian Defence Force as Director of Strategic Design – Air Force and Officer Commanding Air Academy.
Dr Matilda House-WIlliams OAM
Hon PhD '17
For service to the Indigenous communities of the Canberra region.
Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Hume Minchin OAM
PhD'90; MA'83; BA'78
For service to tertiary education.