2025 Australia Day Honours

Close up photo of Australian golden wattle
Australian native golden wattle

The University of Melbourne congratulates staff, alumni and special friends who have received 2025 Australia Day Honours.

Dr Katrina Wruck

Postdoctoral (Indigenous) Research Fellow, March 2023 - May 2024

Professor Allen Cheuk-Seng Cheng AC
for eminent service to medicine as an epidemiologist, to infectious and communicable disease research and education, and to national and international public health policy.

Emeritus Professor Gillian Doreen Triggs AC
for eminent service to humanitarian and human rights law, to international relations, to social justice advocacy, and to tertiary legal education and research.

The late Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu AC
for eminent service to First Nation Peoples, in particular traditional land ownership, to leadership in economic development initiatives, to fostering reconciliation and respect, and as a custodian of culture and ceremony.

Professor Bronwyn Louise Fox AO
for distinguished service to public administration, to scientific research and development, to advanced manufacturing, and to tertiary education.

Emeritus Professor Keith Alexander Nugent AO
for distinguished service to tertiary education, to science as a physicist, and to the advancement of optical physics.

Professor Richard Anthony Strugnell AO
for distinguished service to medicine, particularly microbiology, immunology and vaccinology through tertiary education, research and board positions.

The late Kevin James Andrews AM
for significant service to the people and Parliament of Australia, to the Catholic Church, and to the community.

Professor Lauren Nicole Ayton AM
for significant service to optometry, to ophthalmology, and to public health as a clinician and researcher.

Professor Kim Louise Bennell AM
for significant service to medical research and education, particularly in the field of health and rehabilitation science.

Mrs Anne Coghlan AM
for significant service to the legal profession, and to judicial administration.

Dr Ross Stanley Cutler AM
for significant service to veterinary medicine, and to the pork industry.

Ms Margaret Beth Donnan AM
for significant service to occupational hygiene, chemical engineering, and to professional associations.

Mr Jeffrey Lane Floyd AM
for significant service to the community through a range of executive roles.

The late Emeritus Professor Joe Henry Graffam AM
for significant service to tertiary education, and to social welfare organisations.

Mrs Gaye Lorraine Hamilton AM
for significant service to tertiary education, and to the community.

Professor Vera Ignjatovic AM
for significant service to medical science in paediatric disorders and proteomics, to promotion of STEM to under-represented populations, and as a mentor.

Professor Alun Conrad Jackson AM
for significant service to health sciences, particularly as a researcher and academic.

Dr Kym Darlene Jenkins AM
for significant service to psychiatry as a clinician, academic and in executive roles.

The late Mr Paul Richard Madden AM
for significant service to the community through social welfare organisations, social policy development, and the arts.

Dr Katherine Martin AM
for significant service to medicine, particularly trauma care and surgery, and to professional associations.

Dr Robyn Maree Miller AM
for significant service to children, young people and families.

Ms Joanna Murray-Smith AM
for significant service to the performing arts as a writer.

Dr Shirley Prager AM
for significant service to psychiatry, and to professional organisations.

Dr Craig Robert Rayner AM
for significant service to pharmacology in a range of roles and organisations.

Professor David Theunis Runia AM
for significant service to tertiary education, and as an academic in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

The Honourable James Robert Short AM
for significant service to the Parliament of Australia, to multiculturalism, and to international relations.

Emeritus Professor Ilana Ariela Snyder AM
for significant service to the Jewish community of Australia, and to tertiary education.

Professor Robert Gideon Weintraub AM
for significant service to paediatric medicine, and to medical research.

Dr Wally Ahmar OAM
for service to medicine, particularly cardiology.

Ms Anna-Maria Arabia OAM
for service to science, particularly through organisational leadership roles.

Ms Rachel Katrina Bin Salleh OAM
for service to literature.

Mr Roger Maxwell Blythman OAM RFD
for service to the community, and to the church.

Mr Patrick Gerard Boland OAM
for service to the manufacturing industry.

Ms Grace Lowden Brown OAM
for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

Ms Catherine Maree Dillon OAM
for service to youth, and to secondary education.

Dr Margaret Anne Garde OAM
for service to medicine, particularly through education.

Mr Stephen Allen Kip OAM
for service to the construction industry.

Ms Selba Mtendere Luka OAM
for service to the African community of Victoria.

Ms Alison Mary MacGregor OAM
for service to music, and to horticulture.

Ms Lynette (Linn) Maskell OAM
for service to the community of the Brighton region.

Emeritus Professor Anthony Ronald Moon OAM
for service to tertiary education.

Professor Emerita Margaret Plant OAM
for service to visual arts, and to art history.

Mr Timothy Fitz-John Smith OAM
for service to secondary and vocational education.

Dr Colin George Walker OAM
for service to avian veterinary science, and to pigeon racing.

Dr Anthony Neil Hodder ESM
for exceptional commitment to frontline service over 45 years with Life Saving Victoria and service as a volunteer aircrewman with LifeFlight helicopters.

Mr Peter Vincent Brick AFSM
for distinguished service as a member of an Australian fire service.

Mrs Tanya Angela Zita ACM
for distinguished service as a member of an Australian correctional service.

Ms Narelle Capp ASM
for significant contributions to Ambulance Victoria including driving innovation in ambulance services for Victoria's Alpine areas.

Mrs Marcia Francene Armstrong PSM
for outstanding public service in maternal and child health service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Paul Bernard Thornton-Smith PSM
for outstanding public service in electoral research and legislation.

Mr Luke Cameron Wilson PSM
For outstanding public service in the advocacy and support of regional communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University also congratulates those friends who provide valuable support – philanthropic and otherwise – who received honours.

The Honourable Justice John Basten AO
for distinguished service to the law as a judge, to legal education, to board and commission roles, and as a champion of Indigenous and human rights.

Scientia Professor Megan Jane Davis AC
for eminent service to the law and to social justice, to the national and international advocacy of the rights of Indigenous peoples, and to the community.

Professor Graeme John Hankey AO
for distinguished service to medicine as a neurologist and stroke physician, to research, and as an editor and author.

Associate Professor Marietta Martinovic OAM
for service to social welfare, and to criminology.

Professor Stephen Peter McDonald AM
for significant service to kidney medicine as an administrator, researcher and clinician.

Mr David Shelmerdine AO
for distinguished service to conservation and environmental sustainability through sector governance and philanthropic contributions.

Ms Wendy Simpson AM
for significant service to social welfare, to cultural and church organisations, and as a mentor.

Ms Helga Svendsen OAM
for service to the community through a range of leadership roles.

Mrs Eve (Lyn) Lynette Williams AC
for eminent service to the arts as an administrator, and to the museums and galleries sector through philanthropic donations.