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The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, January 26, 1984 -v. nm settlirs loyalty is gradually ftiired ISABEL LUKAS, herself a Polish-Argentine-Australian, talks to people who have made their new home here but still have strong attachments tdlhe land of their birth. -this society, which I regard as ray. society. For refugees who do not wish and cgn not return to countries which they haSe-' fled, such as Poland, the Soviet Unioh-lirf Vietnam, Dr Ozdowski explains a heightened determination to as well as a greater appreciation tf Australia's democratic system.

His own love for Australia was. the' result of a process that evolved as he-came into contact with local nature, "I changed my attitudes to Australia after I went to Queensland to dig' for sapphires and now I travel a lot to the bush and the seaside." rZL' It is easily comprehensible how people may adopt another, homeland; when they have escaped the horrorsnfef war, either political or economic oppression, or both, but when they have cottie-from a super power raging with national-pride, the answer is more obscure. Juliet Richter is one of the Americans to have migrated here aid not returned the number of people migrating from the United States to Australia is' small 2,349 in the last financial year, and a high proportion go back. She came, with her husband, in 1962 largely because of fear that the United. States could fight a war with the Soviet Union.

The cold war receded, but sfie found Sydney "beautiful and comfortable, cosmopolitan and relaxed." She decided, to stay. An arts graduate who majored political science, she decided to seek permanency in the Public Service arid found out that the rules then insisted on Australian citizenship. Having been granted her new citizenship, she had to return her American passport (the United States does not recognise dual citizenship), which was sent back to her stamped "Cancelled" together with a letter from the' US Consulate. "The letter stated you realise wBat you have done and that you probably endangered your American and suggested that I contact the consulate. 2' "So I rang them up and asked what they meant.

I was particularly puzzled by their use of the word, probably. "1 was asked again, 'Do you realise what you are "I said, 'Of course. "1 was asked, 'Do you realise the consequences of your act and that it is all over' and then, 'Why have you become an Australian "I explained the requirements to become a public servant and commented that I might have done the United States a favour by removing myself from their list. "I was told in a disapproving tone: "We would regard this as having put your career before your A Buddhist believer, but not a follow- er, Nguyen Anhtuan, of Mascot, treasures ancestral worship and sums up his attachment to Vietnam as being "more Born in North Vietnam, he graduated from Adelaide University as a mechanical engineer, returned to his homeland and in 1975 came back here as a refugee. "Vietnam is deep in my heart because that is where all my ancestors are, where I was born.

the place of my culture and my friends, who are suffering now," he says. "Towards Australia, I have a sense of gratitude "It is not simply thankfulness in the Western way, but a profound feeling and when tragedies, such as the cyclone in Darwin or Ash Wednesday happened, it hurt me inside. "For a foreigner, it would just be bad news, but I felt touched. "When I was overseas and I presented my Australian passport, people took second look at me, so I would say 'Yes, I am Australian and I am of Vietnamese origin." Nguyen Anhtuan maintains that for the majority of recently arrived Viet- -namese refugees Australia is only a temporary home until Vietnam is free of communist rule. "Any Vietnamese who leaves the country feels strongly indebted to the ones left behind." Sydney's ethnic radio station 2EA, which was launched by Al Grassby in 1975, is marking Australia Day with 16 hours of special broadcasts from 6 am until midnight today.

2EA was one of the Federal Government's first initiatives recognising Australia's multi-cultural population. Today 32 of 53 language groups will be presenting half-hourly segments, many of them in English. There will be segments about the -Maltese, Finnish and German contributions to Australian life: why the French have voted Australia as the Country of the Year and whether or not the Spanish really feel Australian after having been naturalised. From there is a two-hour celebration program in English, called Australia Today, which examines the issues confronting all Australians, irrespective of their origin or field of involvement. I mean it honestly, I am feeling it right at the guts level." Another person whp-asnot instantly enraptured with Australia is Dr Paolo Totaro, the chairman of the Ethnic Affairs Commission.

He believes it is completely compatible to become an Australian patriot and still love the of "It is just like what you feel towards your mother and your spouse, "You haven't chosen your, mother or 'your country of origin. "As a migrant youchdose the country where you live-, like.ypur spouse and you live with your spouse. "But you always love both. "One of the, most offensive questions which I am asked sometimes is 'If there was a war between' Australia and Italy, which side would you "I abhor war and I would be unable to take sides. "I would prefer to be shot.

"My view of patriotism is that it must not degenerate into narrow nationalism." Italian-born and educated (law and music), Dr Totaro came to Australia 20 years ago as an expatriate executive, and decided to stay because he felt that "in Europe everything had been said and done," while here there was a potential to make a contribution, expand and grow. He now regards himself as a "Balrriain boy" and quickly points out, "I do cry, because I am emotional." He observes that he has witnessed Australia changing from being "an island off the coast of Great Britain to a nation finding its own feet in the middle of Asia, becoming more tolerant to its neighbours and so-called aliens. "In fact, Australia is becoming one of the great tolerant nations of the world." Dr Seweryn Ozdowski, of the Australian Human Rights Commission, who is an outspoken supporter of the Polish movement Solidarity, stresses that while new settlers enjoy basic freedoms here, they are also making a significant investment. In his own case, Dr Ozdowski, 34, who has been just awarded the Harkness Fellowship to undertake further studies in the United States at such institutions as Harvard and Berkley, having made a "rational choice" to live here makes him a "committed" citizen. "I am an Australian despite my accent," he warns eight years after settling here.

"This is the country of my choice. It is my home. "I am not a passive citizen. "I am here to participate and shape with Dean in their Clockwise from left: Nada Roude at Randwick the Lakemba Mosque; Sophia and Alexander Catharious study; and Juliet Richter in the Botanic Gardens. VERY fifth person living in Australia was born The more than three million people who have settled here come front 140 different bapjfifounds, speak 90 languages and practise at least 80 religions.

Judging from numerous interviews, thesejettlers have largely become passion- ate pjtriots without a conflict of identity and without a conflict of loyalty. Foe most, it is clearly NOT love at first sight. Quite the contrary. "Aflhough I came with the determina-. tion to stay, the loyalty I have towards Australia is something that has grown bit by b3," says Greek-born Mrs Sophia Cathsgios, of Randwick.

Mrs Catharios singles out two events in hair life, which she believes emotionally strengthened her ties with Australia while she still regards Greece as her cijjtural homeland. "I was a ready-made imported product wSen 1 came here 15 years ago, but when3 gave birth to my second child in Austrflia, I felt I was making a creative contribution, that my son, would be an integral part of Australia," she recalls. "Also, when we bought a small piece of laod in the bush and came into contact with country folk and our neighbours helped me plant a tree, I felt that I belonged." After arriving here in 1971 as a schoolgirl, Nada Roude, of Greenacre, longed to return to Lebanon, but now she sajs have a feeling aboutabelonging to Australia. It is my home "FqJ instance, when Australia won the America's Cup, I felt fantastic It was a beautiful feeling. "Bui at First I was not accepted, not wanted.

"That was something which made me hate this place. "The fact that we looked different darkef I didn't even speak any English. It was hard." But'all that seems to have changed for the 34-year-old community welfare workef who is a Moslem. "I consider myself lucky. "I uess I have the best of Lebanon and Australia.

"Inifact, I am a bit spoilt because 1 have ihosen the good things from both cultures and 1 will always feel part of both countries. It becomes part of you and you can't separate it. "The war in Lebanon just breaks my heart.tbut if anything happened here, I would; feel the same. JMj" God, I would be mad if I didn't. Companions in the General Division of the Order or Australia (AC) Keith Rupert Murdoch, chief executive and group (nanaging director since 1959 of The News Corp: George Poiiies, CMC.

MBE, director-general Confederation of Australian Industry 1977-1983: Emeritus Professor Eric Aroha Rudd, chairman, Australian Mineral Foundation Inc. foundation Professor of Economic Geology, University of Adelaide 1949-70. Officers in the General Division of the Order or Australia (AO) David James Asimus, chairman, Australian Wool Corporation and International Wool Secretariat from 1979: Miss Ida Isobel Bennett, authority on marine biology, specialising in Australian marine life and the complex ecology of the Great Barrier Reef: Robert Lindsay Bienvenu. DFC, managing director. National Mutual Life Association of Australasia 1979-83: Reginald Bishop, Senator for South Australia 1962-81: Professor Ralph Beattie Blacket, foundation Professor of Medicine.

University of NSW 1959-1983: Alan Bond, executive chairman. Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd: Neville Thomas BonnerJ director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, senator for Queensland 1971-83. Officers in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) The Rev Professor Rolland Arthur Busch, OBE, Ch StJ, ED, national president of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, principal Trinity Theological College: Archbishop Edward Bede Clancy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney: Dr Henry Vernon 'Crock, senior orthopedic surgeon St Vincenfs Hospital, Melbourne: Alexander Thomas Dix, chairman, interim council, Museurh of Australia, chairman. Smiths Industries Australia Pty Ltd; Dr Arthur 'Fitzgerald, first Australian Ambassador t(J People's Republic of China 1973-76: Charles, Henry Fitzgibban, commissioner, Australian Shipping Commission, general secretary. Waterside Workers" Federation 1961-83; John Bryan Giles, GM, BEM, QPM, 'South Australian Commissioner of Police J981-83: Sydney Broadway Grange, OBE.

$lVO, president, Australian Olympic Federation since 1977; Cedric Edward Keid Hampson, president, Queensland Bar Association 1978-81; Emeritus Professor Arthur Maxwefr Horsnell, Professor and Head, Department of Dental Health, University of Adelaide 1959-77. Jamej; Charles Ingram, executive director UNFAO World Food Program. Rome, Australian Development Assistance Bureau' 1977-82: Charles Keith Jones, MHR I958-8i Minister for Transport 1972-75: Colin Frederick Madigan, architect, winner of two-Sulman Awards, whose firm won design com'pejtions for High Court and National Gallery buildings, Canberra: Louis Joseph Mangaa, managing director, Carlton and United Jreweries Ltd: Justin Hilary O'Byrne, senator for Tasmania 1947-1981, President 1974 1976: Professor William Robert Pitney.ldean, Faculty of Medicine, University of William Beat Pritchett, Secretary of DepaYrJient of Defence; Emeritus Professor Jackj; Cdwin Richardson, Commonwealth Omffli4man from 1977; James Scully; taryTDtpartment of Trade, 1978-83, ry. Department of Minerals and Energy 1975, Natibrgl Development 1976-77; Professor Donald Richard Stranks, vice-chancellor, UniveSity of Adelaide. Albert Lee Tucker, artist whose works are exKTbiJtd in galleries in the States, Mexico, all Australian States and the National Gallery; Raymond Stanmore Turner, CBE, director of Winston Churchill Memorial Trust since establishment in 1965; Emeritus.

"IT1 James Dutton, HMAS Lonsdale; Commodore Philip Graham Newman Kennedy, ADC, commandant, Joint Services Staff College. Australian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Beverley Joan Blanksby, ED, 3rd Division Field Forcer Colonel Robert Walter Fisher, Department of Defence; Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas John George, Commanding -Of-: ficerChief Instructor, School of Engineering: Major Ian Robert Hosie, 2nd Training Group: Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Granville Le Dan, Chief or Staff, Headquarters 5th Military District; Lieutenant-Colonel William Norman Lunn, ED; Captain Keith Aubry Plummer, Adelaide Workshop Company; Major Graeme Stanley Quarry, Camp Commandant, Army Office; Colonel Barry Anthony Smithurst, OSU, ED, Director-General, Army Health Services. Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader Robert Irvine Baird, Air. Force Office; Wing Commander William Bruce Byron, commander. Central Flying School: Group Captain William Macdoaald.

Collins, director of maintenance policy; Squadron Leader Vincent Paul Gordon, -Air, Force Office: Wing' Commander Bryan Douglas Harris, Air Force Office; Chaplain Clive Collingwood King: Medal of the Order of Australia in the Military Division (OAM) Royal Australian Nay Chief Petty Officer John William Balcbmb, HMAS Kuttabul; Chief Petty Officer Peter Mintern Brown, Melbourne Port Division of the RANR; Able Seaman Ian Robert Duffner, HMAS Jervis Bay; Chief Petty Officer Derek Brian Hampson, HMAS Chief Petty Officer Raymond James Tweedie, HMAS Albatross; Warrant Officer Eric Thomas Watson, HMAS Nirimba. Australian Army Sergeant Eric John Bardsley, Joint Services Staff College: Warrant Officer Class Two. Geoffrey Reginald Bateman, Infantry Centre: -Warrant Officer Class One Ronald Alexander Coleman, Training Command. Warrant Officer Class Two Stephen Leitch Collins, Melbourne Workshop Company; Captain Kevin John Dunnicliffe, 10th Battalion, The Royal South Australia Regiment: Sergeant Alan Forte, District Townsville: Warrant Officer Class One Douglas John Gammon, 2nd Electrical -and Mechanical Engineers Group; Captain Barry Alwyn John Hassall, Royal Military College; Corporal Eric John Leask, Melbourne Transport Unit; Sergeant Brian Edward Medcraft, Malaria Research Unit; Sergeant Keith Richardson O'Connor, Armoured Centre: Warrant Officer Class One Graham Maxwell O'Hearn, 3rd4th Cavalry'--Regiment; Captan Lindsay Ross Pyne, Headquarters 7th Military District; Warrant Officer Class One Trevor Albert Robson, Liverpool Transport Unit. Warrant Officer Class One Ola Sever' Stevenson, Parachute Training School; Warrant Officer Class One Federick John Titcume, 1st Port Construction and Repair Group.

Royal Australian Air Force Warrant Officer John Gilbert Chalmers, RAAF Base Pearce; Warrant Officer Graham David Copeland, East Sale. sergeant Dana Koss cussons, benool ot Technical Training; Sergeant Joseph Paul Kozey, Number 38 Squadron, Richmond; Flight Sergeant Norman Vincent Meechan, Base Squadron, Edinburgh; Sergeant Howard Vernon Moffat; School of Photography, East Sale: Flight Sergeant Harry William Park, No 2 Aircraft Depot Warrant Officer Donald James Stanley Smith, Transport Section, Richmond. Michael Fewster, crew member of Australia II; Mrs Jennifer Vivienne Filby, founder, Australian Rosny Choir 1965: Mrs Constance Dora Fogarry, director and life White City Tennis Club. State women's selector: Roy Bennett Fothergill Galpin, councillor, district council of Port Elliot and Goolwa since 1956; Richard Thomas Card, president and life member of the Mental Hospital After-Care Comforts Fund Association, Western Australia; Leslie Arthur Gardiner, active with SA Society of Chiropodists since 1933; Raymond Arnold Graetz, MC, president numerous community organisations, Kaniva, Victoria 1958-63, and in Warracknabeal 1963-83; Norman Mervyn Green, active in South Australian dairying industry affairs since 1958: James Edward Greening, Many years of active involvement with a variety organisations and institutions in the Burwood (NSW) district. John Vincent Groves, prominent in organising sporting activities in Mildura; Mrs Dorothea Hildegard Johanna Hamilton, charge sister, operating theatres Darwin Hospital 1963-1983; George Godfrey Hard, for services' to Queensland Prisoners' Aid Society; Mrs Betty Mildred Harding, welfare officer.

Sydney City Mission, Blacktown 1969-1976; Kenneth Edgar Haslingden, councillor, Esk Shire (Tas) from 1961; Edward Bonaventure Heffernan, services to Victorian art; Sister Mary Vianney Henry, administrator Cowper Children's Home 1932-83; Geoffrey Payne Hodge, Commonwealth Public Service since 1954; Frances Honor Hogan (Mrs Niall), member. Catholic Women's League -since 1958; Thomas William Holmes, member RSL since 1944; Mrs Thelma May Hoy, service to charity and service groups. Tarn worth; Stanley Edward Hummerston, active in Bush Church Aid Society (S A) 1957-70. Allan Marcus Huston, Active in Wondai community organisations; James James, former police tracker. 1983 South Australian Aboriginal of the Year; Kenneth Peter Judge, crew member of Australia II: Johnny Kalisperis, active in ethnic welfare in Victoria: John Charles Carew Laforest, general secretary.

Newsagents Association of NSW and ACT; Alfred Harrington Langdon, founded Welding Industries of Australia Pty Ltd 1962; Mrs Anita Josephine -Mary Le Tessier, teacher of speech and drama in Perth from 1916; Miss Lynley Jean Lewis, teacher of dance and ballet in Brisbane and outback Queensland: Cole Michael Lissiman, project manager for America's Cup 1987; Robert Campbell Llewellyn, active in volunteer fire brigade services since 1946 in Scoresby, Victoria; Ernest Lone, head lightkeeper, Low Isles since 1967; Rolfe Scott McAllister, crew, member of Australia If; Patrick Joseph' McCormack, Victorian State public servant-Arnold Robert McGill, ornithologist and -author; The Rev Dr Colin Anthony McKay, director, St John of God Institute -of William Patrick McNamara, chairman and director, McNamara group of companies; Ronald Charles Mackenzie, chair-' Victorian Recreational Fishermen's Council Mrs Joan Maclean, community work; William Forrester, Fisher MacLennan, 24th Australian Infantry Battalion Association and Scottish Clans-Council of Miss Theresa- Delores Maunder, ballet teacher; Mrs Maria Irena-: Mencinsky, Ukranian' community' work and Ukranian Women's Mrs Patri- cia June Moore, women's basketball: Colin Thomas Nicholas, cricket in ACT; Mrs Jacqueline Moya O'Brien, nursing. Bert Oliver, sports commentator with ABC since 1940; Mrs Mary Roberta Owen, ber of many groups concerned with women's issues; Neville George Perkins, work far the advancement of Aborigines and Torrestrait Islanders and member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territoryvand Deputy Opposition Leader, 1977-81 Jvliss Rosemary Ann Pirie, DietitianCaterer.jioyal North Shore Hospital, since 1964; Mrs irene Gwendoline Ramsay, community worjc on Gold Coast; George Rawnsley, chalfman, Arnhemland Progress Association tor. Aboriginal Financial Advisory "Son-sulting and Training Services: Brian John Richardson, crew member of Australia -Stanley Stuart Roberts, RSL and community work: The Rev Father Peter James Robinson, chaplain to the Catholic Association of DeafHearing Impaired People of Australia 1965-1983; Major Arthur Frederick William Shaw, RL, League of Home Help for Sick and Aged and president, Belmont Rotary Club; Grant Eugene Simmer, crew member of Australia II; Phillip Murray Smidmore, crew member of Australia II; Miss Mary Clare Smith, Commonwealth Public Servant since 1940 as typist, secretary and personal assistant. Miss Rosemary Joy Stacy, Girl Guides, Zonta, National Trust and National Parks and Wildlife; Mrs Florence Winifred Stalley, community work; James Francis Stephens, work with RSL; James Ronald Stoner, community work; Leon George Stubbings, Red Cross, Council of Social Services, Child Accident Prevention Foundation, Prevention -of Blindness Foundation; Andrzej Szczygisj- ski, president. Foundation of Polish Organisations in South Australia; Mrs Joan Margaret Taggart, Member and Deputy Speaker, Australian Capital Territory HoUse of Hugh Keith Treharne, crew member of Australia II; Mrs Gina Florence Triaca, work with immigrant's; Harold EJlrot Twartz, community work; Edward -So I Twohill, Pony Club Association of land; Wagea Waia, Torres Council of Sabai Island; Mrs Eileen May-Walker, member.

Prince. Charles Hos pital Board. Thomas Wallace, executive member of Queensland State Service Union; Stanley Ward, Foundation for Research and Treat; ment of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Mrs Ivy May West, Church Nursing Sen-ice; William Raymond Wilkie, Commonwealth Public Servant since 1949 in Bureau Meteorology; Charles Henry Wilson, Li Club Garnet Ian Wilson, Nati Aboriginal Conference; Reginald Wifsoa.gr Irving, television and community work; Florence Edith Wrighter, work in amateS athletics: Albert Ernest Clifford YoHngsr winner of Sydney to Melbourne Marathon in 1983. Officers in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (AO) Royal Australian Navy Rear-Admiral Kaye Vonthethoff, NavaKJ-Support Command. Australian Army s'-'t Major-General David Mathesobn Butle DSO, Training Command: Major-General David Aloysious Drabsch, MBE, commander, 1st Division; Major-General Peter Courtney Gration, OBE, Deputy Chief of the General itati.

Royal Australian Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Eric Hay Stephenson" OBE, OHP, Director-General of Air Forced Health Services. Members of the Military Division of the Order or Australia (AM) Royal Australian Navy Commander Raymond George Bragg, Naval Support Command; Captain Peter Grant Verlaine Dechaineux, mine warfare project director; Lieutenant-Commander Stephen John Baillieu, crew member of Australia II; Mrs Magda Bardy, supervisor. Sheltered Workshop. Australian Jewish Welfare Society: Barry Barker, radio and op-, erator Bankstown Bluewater Fishing Club, keeping voluntary watch, over emergency radio frequencies up to 2(1 hours a day: Mrs Enid Isabel Barnes, director of pharmacy. Royal Canberra Hospital since 1952: Paul Henry Barnes, foundation member.

National Parks Association NSW; Reginald Wakeham Bartels, member of Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade since 1944; Harold Henry Batterham, executive member. Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association until 1971 Colin Kenneth Beashel, crew member of Australia II; Alexander' Clifford Beauglehole, member of many organisations related to botany and conservation; Mrs Alma May Bode, founded the first Angora stud in Queensland; Joseph Meyer Brandon-Bravo, director of Lions Club of Bondi from 1956, president 1976. Perce Edward Brierley, more than 35 years of service to the RSL; Miss Sylvia Hazel Brose, schoolteacher since 1939, founderprincipal of Glenaeon Rudolph Steiner School, 1957; Robert Neil Brown, crew member of Australia II; Sister Mary Elizabeth Bui-Thi Nghia, director of large orphanage near Saigon to 1975. Arrived' Australia 1976. Founder 1980 and president, Indo-China Australian Women's Association; Alexander Leslie Cahill, compositor, active in Victorian trade union matters; Norman Astley Calvert, foundation member of Wingham Rotary Club 1957, life membership of NSW Rifle Association 1983; Mrs Anita Olive Campbell, research officer.

Northern Territory Administration Welfare Branch, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Darwin, 1963-1975, Aboriginal Land Commission 1978-1983; Dr Margaret Enid Chris-. tian, involved with native fauna care and protection for over 20 years in South Australia: David Chugg, president, National Ploughing Association of Australia 1980-1982: Mrs Florence Amy Cluff, assistant secretary. Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Union, 1961-1968, State secretary of the Combined Pensioners' Association of NSW since 1979; Denis George Leonard Coley, Commonwealth public servant. Department of Defence, 1964-1982; Mrs Daphne Rosina Colless, for work with Queensland Aborigines. Mrs Kathleen Mary Cooper, councillor, Shire of Alexandra 1970-82, shire president 1980-1982; Dr Wilson Leighton Corlis, postgraduate teaching fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 1 966:74, co-ordinator, Illawarra Family Medicine Program 1976-80: Major Peter Costello, crew member of Australia II: William Leslie Joseph Crofts, councillor, Altona City Council since 1966; Miss Carmel Curtain, director of Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten for Emergency Care (WA); George.

Harold Daldry, athletics director, City Tattersalls. Club 1958-79; Mrs Virginia Margaret Davey, physiotherapist at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Children's Hospital; Francis James Day, prominent in WA and Australian athletics; David Rex Deer, executive member; South Australia Apiarists Association 1953-81 Antonino Albert de Fina, federal president of the Australian Underwater Federation since 1965; Donald Gatjil Djerrkura, senior adviser on Aboriginal affairs, Department of theChief Minister, Darwin 1980-1981. Mrs Monica- Alma Duane, official visitor to psychiatric hospitals, Gladesville, Rozelle, Parramatta and Rydalmere since 1956. Active with the Red Cross Society; Russell Frank Ebert, football player for Port Adelaide since 1968; Frank Brian Evans, principal, Port Augusta TAFE College 1970-82; Damian Edmund Lloyd, head of Scientific and Technical Services Division. Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works; John Francis Lonjjley, project manager, America's Cup challenge: Dr Desmond James Lugg, medical officer and senior medical officer, Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions; Mrs Joan Hartley McClintock, secretary-general.

Australian Council of Social Service 1980-83: Professor Andrew Dalgarno McCre-die, professor of musicology, University of Adelaide. John Streeter Manifold, president. Fellowship of Australian Writers (Queensland); Right Rev Kenneth Bruce Mason, first Anglican Bishop of the Northern Territory 1968-83: Keith Vaux Mattingley, managing director. West Australian Newspapers; Desmond Ronald Miller, export manager. Commonwealth Serum Laboratories; James Mol-lison, director, Australian National Gallery; Colonel Kenneth George Mosher, OBE, ED (RL), chief geologist.

Joint Coal Board and consultant to Electricity Commission of New South Wales foundation director. Keep Australia Beautiful: Cecil Thompson (Charlie) Oliver, president of NSW branch of the AWU; Ms Patricia June O'Shane, permanent head, NSW Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs: William James Bell Pollock, managing director, Telecom Australia: Eric Ernest Porter, pioneer of animation in films in Australia. Dr Delmont Puflett (Mrs R. R. Purcell), senior visiting medical officer in gynaecology, St Margaret's Hospital and Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney; Mrs Joan Innes Reid, field work co-ordinator, James Cook University of North Queensland 1976-81; William Ronald John Riddel, OBE, member, Industries Assistance Board from 1964, president Retailers Association of Queensland 1971-73; George Arthur Robinson, chairman, Victorian Town Planning Appeals Tribunal 1975-1981: Hugh Thomson Rogers, personnel manager and director, Australian Paper Manufacturers 1940-79: chairman of the Council of Adult Education Board 1983; federal treasurer.

National Party of Australia; Saul Same, chairman of directors, Gloweave Consolidated Ltd: George Schaffer, chairman and managing director, Calsil Ltd; Dr Kevin Vincent Sheridan, senior principal research scientist, CSIRO Division of Radiophysics from 1971; George Slater, general secretarytreasurer, Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union 1963-83; Robert Duncan Somervaille, chairman. Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia). Mrs Cecile Eunice Storey, president. United Nations Association of Australia, 1979-82; Dr Kenneth Milton Sullivan, managing director, K. M.

Sullivan and Associates, chairman. Waste Disposal Advisory Committee, NSW Department of Health: Harold Elvin Toft, pioneered the commercial production of mechanical sugar cane harvesters in Aers in Australia: Robert William Turner, chairman, Australian Kidney Foundation (NSW) 1975-80: Vincent Anthony Warrener, general manager, WA Opera Company; Mrs Marjorie Elvira West, State Commissioner, 'Girl Guides Association of Victoria 1978-83; Richard i Bruce Wherrett, director, Sydney Theatre Company from 1979: Francis Kevin Willis, Various positions Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, SA, since 1968; Eric' Paul Willmot, principal, Australian Insutu'te of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra; Stanley James Wilson, Pharmacy Guild of Australia since 1946,. part-time curator numismatics and assistant curator of history, WA Museum. -The Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division (O AM) Raymond Alexander Aitken, founding "member WA Wildlife Authority; William Professor Frederick John Willett, DSC, vice-chancellor, Griffith University: Lindsay James Yeo, federal president Aulralian Kidney Foundation. Members in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) Miss Jean Marjorie Adamson, director.

Lady Gowrie Child Centre, Melbourne 1963-83: Ms Gillian May Armstrong, president, Feature Film Directors Association 1982-83, director many feature films and documentaries: John Edwin Bertrand, skipper of Australia Arthur Ernest Bishop, inventor of power steering systems: Emeritus Professor Albert Laurence Blakers, Professor of Mathematics, University of Western Australia 1952-1982; Professor Aubrey Charles Bowring, senior staff specialist paediatric surgeon. Prince of Wales Children's Hospital; Dr Doreen Miriam Bridges, lecturer and tutor in music. University of Sydney 1957-73: Graeme Thomas Briggs, president, Australian Athletic Union. Miss Elizabeth Ann Butcher, administrator, National Institute of Dramatic Art, chairman, Theatre Board, Australia Council: Leslie Caplan, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, president 1981-83: Dr Desmond William Crowley, director. Department of Adult Education.

University of Sydney 1964-82: Miss Betty Cuthbert, MBE, gold medal winner 1956 and 1964 Olympic Games; Allen Thomas Deegan, chairman and managing director. Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd: Dr Carmine de Pasqualc, director of psychiatry, Beaufort Ethnic Day Clinic: Mrs Kathleen Mercy Dickinson, vice-president, Queensland Training and Placement Centre for the Blind: Dr Robert Andrew Douglas, 'consultant physician, Townsville Hospital, chairman. Foundation for Australian Literary Mark Gordon Ella: captain, Australian Rugby Union team: Albert Coulston Evans, national director and chief executive Metal Trades Industry Association; George Joseph Fairfax, general manager, Victorian Arts Centre Trust. Rev Father Jefferies John Foale, presidentchairman, Indo-China Refugee. Association (Aust): Michael John Francis Fox, chairman.

National Committee on Overseas Aid, Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled: Dr George Taylor Gibson, chairman. St Andrews Hospital. Adelaide: James Connal Howard Gill, MBE, foundation chairman, Queensland Museum board of trustees from 1970: Stephen Charles Hall, general manager. Festival of Sydney: Frank Charles Beresford Haly, chairman, Queensland State Council, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1976-77: Brian Douglas Hannaford, principal, Marion High School, Adelaide 1974-83; Norman Jones Hitchens, Queensland Commissioner of Housing 1976-82: Dr David Clements Jackson, DSC, honorary consultant paediatrician, Queensland Spastic Welfare League 1952-83: Mrs Hilary Alsion Downing Johnson, board director of programs. Autistic' Children's Association of South Australia: Warren Leslie Jones, executive director; Australia II.

team: Brian Keating, DFC, foundation. president and president 1962-75, Association for Educational Freedom. Sister Marie Teresa Kehoe, 'director Institute of Catholic Education, Ascot Vale: Mrs Ingeborg Victoria lectiirer iri sculpture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Dr David Kerry Kirke, regional director of health, Alice Springs: Gilbert Roche Andrews Langley, member, South Australian House of Assembly Australian Test- cricketer 1949-56; Henry" Madren Leggo, past president and now acting executive director. Royal Guide Dogs for the Blind Association of Tasmania; Benjamin -Lexcen, designer of Australia II; Brian.