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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.

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