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Wednesday 13 <strong>June</strong>, <strong>2018</strong> THE WEEKLY TIMES 21<br />
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS <strong>2018</strong><br />
MEDAL (AM) IN THE<br />
GENERAL DIVISION<br />
COLIN ALLEN of Meadowbank for significant service to people who are deaf or hard of hearing<br />
through national and international leadership and advocacy roles.<br />
Service includes: Deaf<br />
Australia: President, 9<br />
years; Board Member,<br />
1987-1999; Led the establishing<br />
of the National<br />
Relay Service.<br />
Life Member, since 2000.<br />
Deaf Society of NSW:<br />
Director of Services and<br />
Community Engagement,<br />
2009-2013; Access and<br />
Community Engagement<br />
Consultant, 2013-2016;<br />
Board Member, 1987-<br />
1994; 1996-1999; Life<br />
Member, 2003.<br />
International Disability<br />
Alliance: Chair, since<br />
2016; First Vice-Chair,<br />
2015-2016; Second Vice-<br />
Chair, 2013-2015.<br />
World Federation of the<br />
Deaf: President, since<br />
2011; Board Member,<br />
since 2003; Member, Human<br />
Rights and Convention<br />
on the Rights of<br />
Personal with Disabilities,<br />
2008-2011.<br />
Member, Developing<br />
Countries Expert Group,<br />
2003-2011.<br />
United Nations Representative,<br />
2003-2011.<br />
Co-author, Deaf People<br />
and Human Rights, World<br />
Federation of the Deaf<br />
and Swedish National<br />
Association of the Deaf,<br />
2009.<br />
International Coordinator<br />
for Global Education<br />
Pre-Planning Project on<br />
the Human Rights of Deaf<br />
People, 2007-2009.<br />
Representative, United<br />
Nations High Level Meeting<br />
on Disability and Development,<br />
APEC Forum<br />
on Disability, 2014, World<br />
Humanitarian Summit,<br />
2016, United Nations<br />
Social Forum, 2016 and<br />
Global Action on Disability<br />
Network 2015, 2017 and<br />
<strong>2018</strong>; Australian <strong>The</strong>atre of<br />
the Deaf: Board Member,<br />
1987-1994; Actor, 1976-<br />
1985; Australian Deaf Gay<br />
and Lesbian Association:<br />
President, 1986-1990;<br />
Australian Association of<br />
the Deaf: Board Member,<br />
1986-1987; Actor, Finnish<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre of the Deaf,<br />
2017; NSW Association of<br />
MEDAL (AO) IN THE<br />
GENERAL DIVISION<br />
Professor Mark HARRIS of North Ryde for distinguished service to<br />
education, and to the community, in the area of public health care,<br />
evidence-based practice, and equity, as an academic and researcher,<br />
and to refugees.<br />
Service includes:<br />
University of NSW: Executive<br />
Director, Centre<br />
for Primary Health<br />
Care and Equity, since<br />
2005.<br />
Deputy Director,<br />
Translational Cancer<br />
Research Network,<br />
current.<br />
Director, Centre for<br />
Obesity Management<br />
and Prevention Excellence<br />
in Research<br />
Care, 2012-2016; Scientia<br />
Professor, 2013-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Author of a range of<br />
peer reviewed publications<br />
and peer<br />
reviewed journal articles.<br />
Director of General<br />
Practice, South Sydney<br />
West Sydney Area<br />
the Deaf: President, 1987-<br />
1992; Treasurer, 1986-<br />
1987.<br />
Awards and recognition<br />
includes:<br />
Recipient, Community<br />
Colleges Australia Award<br />
for Outstanding Contribution<br />
by an Individual to<br />
the Community Education<br />
Sector, Community Colleges<br />
Australia, 2013.<br />
Recipient, Grand Cross<br />
Award, World Federation<br />
of the Deaf, 1999.<br />
Recipient, Dorothy Shaw<br />
Deaf Australian of the<br />
Year, 1999.<br />
Recipient, Deaf Citizen<br />
of the Year, NSW Association<br />
of the Deaf Achievement<br />
Award, 1993.<br />
Recipient, Queen Elizabeth<br />
Silver Jubilee Award<br />
for Young Australians,<br />
1979.<br />
* * *<br />
MICHAEL ATHERTON<br />
of Lane Cove for significant<br />
service to the performing<br />
arts, particularly<br />
through music composition,<br />
performance and<br />
education.<br />
Service includes: University<br />
of Western Sydney:<br />
Emeritus Professor,<br />
Dean’s Unit, School of<br />
Humanities, Communications<br />
and Arts, since 2012.<br />
Foundation Chair and<br />
Professor of Music, 1993-<br />
2012.<br />
Associate Dean of Research,<br />
College of Arts<br />
and Social Sciences,<br />
2004-2011 and Deputy<br />
Chair, Academic Senate,<br />
2004-2006.<br />
Inaugural Head, School<br />
of Contemporary Arts,<br />
2001-2003.<br />
Member, Writing and Society<br />
Research Centre.<br />
Director, Southern<br />
Crossings Ensemble,<br />
1986-1993.<br />
Performer, Musica Viva;<br />
Composer, Performer,<br />
Researcher, Consultant,<br />
Michael Atherton Productions,<br />
1987-1993; concert<br />
hall, film, television and<br />
radio.<br />
Various teaching and<br />
Health Service, 1993-<br />
2000; General Practitioner<br />
(voluntary), Asylum<br />
Seeker Resource<br />
Centre Sydney, since<br />
2000.<br />
Editorial Chair, Royal<br />
Australian College of<br />
General Practitioners<br />
Guidelines for Preventive<br />
Care in General<br />
Practice, 3 editions.<br />
Member, National<br />
Diabetes Expert Working<br />
Group, Australian<br />
Institute of Health and<br />
Welfare (AIHW), current.<br />
Member, National<br />
Heart Foundation<br />
Clinical Issues Committee,<br />
2003-2012.<br />
Life Fellow, Royal<br />
Australian College of<br />
General Practitioners,<br />
administration positions,<br />
NSW Conservatorium,<br />
Worker’s Educational Association,<br />
NZ Music <strong>The</strong>rapy<br />
Association, Institute<br />
of Early Childhood NSW,<br />
University of NSW, 1975-<br />
1986.<br />
One of the Founders-<br />
Leaders, Golden Stave<br />
Music <strong>The</strong>rapy Centre and<br />
Teaching Facility, 2001<br />
Elected Fellow, Royal<br />
Society for the Arts, Manufactures<br />
and Commerce,<br />
since 1998.<br />
Author, Book, ‘A Coveted<br />
Possession: the rise<br />
and fall of the piano in<br />
Australia’, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Author, Book, ‘In Exile<br />
from St Petersburg: the<br />
life and times of Abram<br />
Saulovitch Kagan - Brandl<br />
& Schlesinger’, 2017.<br />
Author, Book, ‘Australian<br />
Made, Australian Played’,<br />
1991; re-released in 2014<br />
by Vivid/Fontaine as an e-<br />
book.<br />
Author, Book, ‘Musical<br />
Instruments and Sound<br />
Producing Instruments of<br />
Oceania’, 2010.<br />
Co-editor, ‘Music of the<br />
Spirit: Asian-Pacific Music<br />
Identities’, 2009.<br />
Author, Book, ‘<strong>The</strong> ABC<br />
Book of Musical Instruments’,<br />
ABC Books,<br />
Numerous CD recordings,<br />
documentary film<br />
scores and television<br />
themes, since 1976;<br />
Awards and recognition<br />
includes:<br />
Residency, Bundanon<br />
Trust, 2015, and 2012;<br />
Vice-Chancellor’s Award<br />
for Excellence - High<br />
Commendation, ‘for Postgraduate<br />
Research Training<br />
and Supervision’,<br />
2008.<br />
* * *<br />
HELEN BROWNLEE<br />
OAM of Tennyson Point<br />
for significant service to<br />
sports administration, to<br />
women as an advocate<br />
for greater participation<br />
in sport, and to the<br />
Olympic movement.<br />
Service includes: Australian<br />
Olympic Committee:<br />
2009; Fellow, Australian<br />
Academy of Health<br />
and Medical Science,<br />
2015.<br />
Awards and recognition<br />
includes: Recipient,<br />
Muru Mari Indigenous<br />
Health Prize<br />
Impact, 2014; Recipient,<br />
Peter Baume<br />
Public Health Award,<br />
2013; Recipient, Professional<br />
Research<br />
Fellow, National Health<br />
and Medical Research<br />
Council, 2011-2015.<br />
Recipient, Charles<br />
Webb Bridge Medal,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Australian Association<br />
for Academic<br />
Primary Care, 2010;<br />
Recipient, Humanitarian<br />
Award, Refugee<br />
Council of Australia,<br />
2010.<br />
Vice President, since<br />
2013.<br />
Executive Member,<br />
since 1991 (first female<br />
appointed).<br />
Leader, Olympic Education<br />
Program, since 1993.<br />
Life Member, since<br />
2012.<br />
Director, Australian<br />
Olympic Federation, current.<br />
NSW Olympic Council:<br />
President, since 1990,<br />
(first female appointed).<br />
Vice President, 1989.<br />
Executive Member,<br />
since 1988.<br />
International Olympic<br />
Committee:<br />
Member, Commission<br />
for Culture and Olympic<br />
Education, 1994-2014.<br />
Member, Olympic Education<br />
Commission, since<br />
2015.<br />
Oceania National Olympic<br />
Committee:<br />
Chair, Women and Sport<br />
Commission, since 2009<br />
and Member, since 2004.<br />
Member, Executive<br />
Committee, since 2017.<br />
Member, Education<br />
Commission, since 2017.<br />
Member, Advisory Committee,<br />
Australian Centre<br />
for Olympic Studies, current.<br />
International Canoe<br />
Federation:<br />
Executive Board Member,<br />
since 1988 (first female<br />
appointed).<br />
Chair, Women in Canoe<br />
Commission, eight years.<br />
Judge, Seoul Olympic<br />
Games, 1988 and Munich<br />
Olympic Games, 1972.<br />
Member, Competition<br />
Jury, 1992, 1996 and 2000<br />
Olympic Games.<br />
Australian Canoe Federation:<br />
President, 1985-1999,<br />
(first female appointed).<br />
Vice Chair, 1976-1985.<br />
Life Member, since<br />
1999.<br />
Paddle NSW:<br />
Life Member, since<br />
1979.<br />
Patron, since 2015.<br />
President, Oceania Canoe<br />
Association, since<br />
2006.<br />
Deputy Chair and Director,<br />
Penrith Whitewater<br />
Stadium, since 1998.<br />
Awards and recognition<br />
includes:<br />
Inductee, Australian<br />
Canoeing Hall of Fame,<br />
2017.<br />
Recipient, Merit Award,<br />
Oceania National Olympic<br />
Committee, 2017.<br />
General Member, Sport<br />
Australia Hall of Fame,<br />
2015.<br />
Recipient, <strong>The</strong> Olympic<br />
Order, International Olympic<br />
Committee, 2015 “for<br />
her contribution to world<br />
sport and her dedication<br />
to upholding the Olympic<br />
ideals”<br />
Inductee, International<br />
Whitewater Hall of Fame,<br />
2010.<br />
Recipient, IOC Women<br />
and Sport Trophy, Oceania,<br />
2002.<br />
* * *<br />
LOUISE DAVIS of<br />
Drummoyne for significant<br />
service to business<br />
in the not-for-profit sector<br />
through promoting<br />
corporate social responsibility,<br />
and to the<br />
community.<br />
Service includes: Consultant,<br />
Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility, current;<br />
Manager, Skilling Australia<br />
Foundation, current.<br />
Volunteer, Clean Up<br />
Australia; Clean up the<br />
World; <strong>The</strong> Noffs Foundation;<br />
Breast Cancer Australia.<br />
Manager, Corporate Citizenship<br />
and Corporate<br />
Len Answorth AM of Hunters Hill gives a speech at one of the many<br />
medical charity events he supports. <strong>TWT</strong> on-the-spot PHOTO<br />
Len’s lucky strike<br />
funds medical care<br />
HUNTERS HILL poker machine magnate Len Ainsworth AM has described<br />
his Queens Birthday Award as simply a case of sharing his<br />
luck with others.<br />
Ninety five year old Mr<br />
Ainsworth was recognised<br />
with an AM for significant<br />
service to business<br />
and manufacturing<br />
as well as to the community<br />
through philanthropic<br />
contributions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> founder of the<br />
world famous Aristocrat<br />
poker machines in 1953,<br />
Mr Ainsworth has donated<br />
millions to charity and<br />
has inspired generations<br />
of Australian exporters.<br />
“I’ve been very fortunate<br />
in life, very lucky<br />
with more than 1,500<br />
great people working for<br />
me.”<br />
Much of Mr Ainsworth’s<br />
contributions have been<br />
in the medical profession<br />
and his support for<br />
Sydney Children’s Hospital<br />
saw it name the new<br />
Ainsworth Building after<br />
him in 2013.<br />
“I’ve got my name on a<br />
lot of buildings in a lot of<br />
places because they ask<br />
me if there is anything<br />
they can ever do to thank<br />
Affairs Team, IBM Australia<br />
Limited, 1987-2015.<br />
Member, Review Panel,<br />
Deakin Bachelor of Arts<br />
Program, Deakin University,<br />
2013; President,<br />
Science Foundation for<br />
Physics, Sydney University,<br />
2005-2008; Partner,<br />
Faculty of Arts and<br />
Human Development,<br />
Reinventing Education<br />
Program, Victoria University,<br />
2001-2008; Member,<br />
Committee on supporting<br />
Muslim communities,<br />
Australian Federal Government,<br />
2007.<br />
Trustee, Art Gallery NSW<br />
Foundation, 1992- 2002.<br />
Council Member, Science<br />
Foundation for<br />
Physics, Sydney University,<br />
1998-2004; Chair,<br />
Sydney Lord Mayor’s<br />
cultural advisory committee,<br />
Sydney City Council,<br />
1998-2001.<br />
* * *<br />
MARGOT DOUST of<br />
Macquarie Park for significant<br />
service to the<br />
community through equitable<br />
access in tertiary<br />
education.<br />
Service includes: Dunmore<br />
Lang College, Macquarie<br />
University:<br />
Founding Member,<br />
Scholarships Committee,<br />
since 1979.<br />
Chair, 1978-1987; Secretary,<br />
1976-1978; Board<br />
Member, 1974-1992.<br />
Author, A Short History<br />
of the Establishment of<br />
Dunmore Lang College,<br />
1993; Chairperson, Committee<br />
to record the History<br />
of the Establishment<br />
of the College, 1991-<br />
1993; Member, Finance<br />
Committee, 1978-1992;<br />
Member, Building Fund<br />
Appeal Committee, 1968-<br />
1972; Assisted with establishment,<br />
1967.<br />
Honorary Fellow, current.<br />
* * *<br />
ANDREW McLACHLAN<br />
of Gladesville for significant<br />
service to pharmacy<br />
as a researcher, educator<br />
and administrator,<br />
and to professional<br />
medical and scientific<br />
organisations.<br />
Service includes: University<br />
of Sydney: Head of<br />
School and Dean of Pharmacy,<br />
since <strong>2018</strong>. Professor<br />
of Pharmacy (Aged<br />
Care), Faculty of Pharmacy,<br />
2006-<strong>2018</strong>. Past Associate<br />
Dean (Postgraduate).<br />
Past Associate Dean<br />
(Research). Australian<br />
Government Department<br />
of Health and Ageing:<br />
Expert Member, Medication<br />
Reference Group,<br />
Australian Commission<br />
on Safety and Quality in<br />
Health Care, 2010-2017.<br />
Chair, National Medicines<br />
Policy Committee, 2009-<br />
2013. Member, National<br />
me, so I just say, I don’t<br />
know .. name a building<br />
after me or something.<br />
“I think anyone with<br />
seven sons would be<br />
fond of children and appreciate<br />
the work of the<br />
Childrens Hospital.”<br />
Mr Ainsworth built his<br />
career on his father’s<br />
work as a dentist making<br />
dental equipment and his<br />
first poker machine was<br />
an iconic two up machine<br />
he created in the 1950s<br />
called Two Up.<br />
“My father always complained<br />
I turned his hobby<br />
into a successful business<br />
and we were quite<br />
successful in the export<br />
market,” he said.<br />
“I’ve always been a<br />
successful exporter and<br />
if you have a product<br />
worth exporting you can<br />
make a lot more than you<br />
can in Australia, but no<br />
one lays out a red carpet<br />
for you overseas if you’re<br />
a competitor.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ainsworth family is<br />
one of Britain’s first exports<br />
to Hunters Hill.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> orginal Ainsworth<br />
came here in 1831 and<br />
two of his houses are still<br />
standing, his father was<br />
a saddler in Birmingham<br />
and he came here with<br />
a bit of money behind<br />
him.”<br />
Mr Ainsworth said he<br />
has made Hunters Hill<br />
his home because of “the<br />
peace and quiet here”<br />
but also appreciates the<br />
heritage municipality’s<br />
close association with<br />
the art scene.<br />
“We are heavily involved<br />
in art and with<br />
poker machines you<br />
would be surprised at the<br />
number of artists we employ,<br />
it is a huge industry<br />
and Sydney and Nevada<br />
and among the few places<br />
where they make machines.”<br />
His advice to exporters<br />
is to be “brave and dedicated”<br />
and he believes<br />
that if you have good<br />
fortune in life, you should<br />
share it.<br />
Committee on Prescription<br />
tralian Sports Anti-Doping<br />
ney Local Health District<br />
Ethics Committee. Past<br />
Chair, Drug and <strong>The</strong>rapeutics<br />
Committee. Editorial<br />
Positions: Executive<br />
Editorial Board Member,<br />
British Journal of Clinical<br />
macy and Pharmacology,<br />
since 2004. Associate Editor,<br />
Journal of Pharmacy<br />
and Practice Research,<br />
since 2007. Awards and<br />
recognition includes: Recipient,<br />
Pharmacist of the<br />
Year, Pharmaceutical Society<br />
of Australia, 2006.<br />
Recipient, APSA Medal,<br />
Australasian Pharmaceutical<br />
Science Association,<br />
Medicines Policy Executive,<br />
Chair,<br />
Subcommittee,<br />
2009-2013. Past<br />
Pharmaceutical<br />
Advisory<br />
Medicines.<br />
Australian<br />
Goods Advisory<br />
Member,<br />
<strong>The</strong>rapeutic<br />
Council,<br />
2013-2015. Australasian<br />
Pharmaceutical Science<br />
Association: President,<br />
2009-2012.<br />
Member, 2003-2009.<br />
Executive<br />
Aus-<br />
Authority:<br />
2006.<br />
Anti-Doping<br />
Member,<br />
Chair,<br />
Rule<br />
1999-<br />
Australian<br />
Violation<br />
Panel, since 2006. Syd-<br />
and Concord<br />
General<br />
Chair, Human<br />
Repatriation<br />
Hospital:<br />
Research<br />
Past<br />
Pharmacology,<br />
2008.<br />
Member,<br />
Editorial<br />
Journal of<br />
since<br />
Board<br />
Phar-<br />
2013.