government. Diana Ruth Allen – For service to jazz music. Roger James Allen – For service to cricket. Susan Elizabeth Alt – For service to the community through voluntary roles. Gerald John Andersen – For service to social welfare organisations, and to the food manufacturing industry. Wendy Joy Andrews – For service to the community. Roy Arnold – For service to people with a disability. Associate Professor Christopher Roger Ashton – For service to medicine, and to medical education. David John Astbury – For service to local government, and to the community of Wickepin. Sandra Adrienne Atkins – For service to equestrian sports. Warren James Atkins – For service to mathematics education. Margaret Raemon Atkinson – For service to Irish dancing. Roland Auguszczak – For service to the performing arts, and to choral music. Associate Professor Anthony Paul Avsec – For service to the building and construction industry, and to education. Lt Col Philip Gavan Badcock (Retd) – For service to veterans and their families. Thomas John Bagnat – For service to public administration in New South Wales. Carol Joyce Baiton – For service to netball. Simon Francis Baker – For service to athletics, particularly to racewalking. Paul Robert Bangay – For service to landscape architecture. Adjunct Professor Agnes Bankier – For service to medicine as a geneticist, and to medical education. Muriel Helen Barasso – For service to the real estate industry. Neville Kenneth Barnier – For service to people with a disability, and to the community of Penrith. John Thomas Baron – For service to veterans and their families. Dr Raymond George Barrett – For service to education. Margaret Francis Barry – For service to social welfare organisations assisting children in Bali. Dr Neil John Bartels – For service to medicine in rural and regional areas. George Bartolo – For service to the Maltese and multicultural communities of New South Wales. Hatice Hurmuz Basarin – For service to the preservation of Australian and Turkish military history. John Gerard Bateman – For service to local government, and to the community of Nepean. Robert Gordon Bath – For service to the community of Ballarat. Vernon Clive Bechaz – For service to veterans and their families. Kevin Frank Best – For service to football in New South Wales. Margaret Josephine Bird – For service to the aged, and to the community of Tasmania. Terrence Ian Black – For service to veterans