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Abbreviations
ARRC - The Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)

BEM(C) - The Order of the British Empire (Civil)

BEM(M) - The Order of the British Empire (Military)

CBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Civil)

CBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military)

DBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander

GM - George Medal

ISM - Imperial Service Medal

MBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil)

MVO - The Royal Victorian Order - Member

OBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil)

RRC - The Royal Red Cross

GABBE, Margaret - ISM, 1971
PMG - Postal Officer
GADEN, Kathleen Listowel - MBE(C), 1953
Overseas League
GAFFNEY, Annie Aileen - BEM(C), 1977
Public service
GAGGIN, Dorothy Nellie - BEM(M), 1970
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
GAIN, Ethel Lillian May - BEM(C), 1978
Community
GAIRN, Dorothy - BEM(C), 1966
Typist-in-Charge - Department of Immigration
GALE, Isabel Vera - MBE(C), 1972
Red Shield Friendship Club
GALE, Jean Johnstone - MBE(C), 1969
Red Cross Society
GALE, Olive - ISM, 1972
NSW Health - Supervisory Nurse
GALINBU, Margaret May - BEM(C), 1972
Aboriginal community
GALLAGHER, Dorothy Sarah - BEM(C), 1984
Community
GALLAGHER, Ella Frances - BEM(C), 1972
Music & the community of Red Cliffs, Victoria
GALLAGHER, Ellen Jane - BEM(C), 1973
Community of Hornsby, NSW
GALLAGHER, F M - ISM, 1968
N/A
GALLAGHER, Frances Millicent - ISM, 1968
PMG - Welfare Officer
GALLAGHER, Mary - ISM, 1974
NSW Health - Nursing Superintendent
GALLAGHER, Monica Josephine - DBE(C), 1976
Services to the community
GALLEGHAN, Persia Elspbeth - OBE(C), 1977
Red Cross Society
GALLIERS, Olive Rose - BEM(C), 1979
Matron - Armadale Hospital, Western Australia
GALLOWAY, Meava Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1978
Music
GALSWORTHY, Kathleen Fay - BEM(C), 1982
Community
GALVIN, Annie Edith - OBE(C), 1967
Community
GARD, Matilda Adelaide - BEM(C), 1969
Mentally sick
GARDEN, Effie May - ARRC, 1919
Australian Army Nursing Service
GARDENER, Olivia - OBE(C), 1950
Social welfare
GARDINER, Evelyn - MBE(C), 1953
Entertainment (Mrs EM York)
GARDNER, Margaret Ethel - MBE(C), 1981
Education & handicapped
GARDNER, Margaret Nellie Maud - MBE(C), 1966
Dependants of ex-servicemen
GARE, Elsie Maude - BEM(C), 1980
Aboriginal welfare
GARNETT, Gertrude Mabel - ISM, 1960
PMG - Supervisor
GARRATT, Dorothy - ISM, 1971
Concord Repatriation Department - Senior Sister
GARRETT, Barbara Francis - MBE(C), 1977
Community
GARRY, Agnes Mary - MBE(C), 1965
Social welfare
GARSIDE, Jean Hazel - MBE(C), 1968
Handicapped
GARVAN, Clare Frances - OBE(C), 1920
Voluntary motor transport work
GARVIN, Gladys Evelyn Isobel - BEM(C), 1971
Ex-servicemen in Macleod, Victoria
GASPAR, Eva Veronica - BEM(C), 1972
Music in Warranbool, Victoria
GATEHOUSE, Amy Annie - ISM, 1971
PMG - Non Offical Postmistress
GATES, Minnie May - MBE(C), 1941
Philanthropy
GAUNSON, Nora Florence - MBE(C), 1974
Community
GAWTHORPE, Nan Anderson - BEM(C), 1980
Community
GAYLARD, Nancie Walker - BEM(C), 1974
Red Cross Society
GEARD, Merle Gladys - BEM(C), 1972
Social Secretary of the Mitcham Racing Club
GEARON, Irene Ellen Alice - MBE(C), 1967
Secretary - Official Secretary - London High Comm
GEDDES, Irene - ISM, 1962
NSW Public Health Department - Housekeeper
GEDDES, Jean Mary - OBE(C), 1967
Youth welfare
GEDDIE, Thelma Adeline - BEM(C), 1980
Community
GEELAN, Catherine Alice - ISM, 1963
NSW Public Health - Experience Nurse
GELL, Heather Doris - MBE(C), 1976
Music
GELMAN, Sylvia - MBE(C), 1981
Education, youth & Jewish community
GEMMELL, Annie Boyd - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GEMMELL, Jessie Ross - RRC, 1919
AANS - With British forces in Egypt
GENDERS, Dorothy Edna - MBE(C), 1970
Sick & the destitute
GEOGHEGAN, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1918
Australian Army Nursing Service
GEORGAS, Nancye Florence - BEM(C), 1977
State of New South Wales
GEORGE, Flora Stella - MBE(C), 1968
Sick, poor & the aged (Sister Dora)
GEORGE, Heather Jane - ISM, 1970
PMG - Telephonist
GERDES, Beatrice Emma Foster - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GESS, Ina - BEM(C), 1978
Handicapped children
GHENT, Sadie Aileen - BEM(C), 1972
Public service
GIBB, Phyllis Annie Constance - MBE(C), 1963
School of the Air in New South Wales
GIBB, W T - ISM, 1942
N/A
GIBBINGS, Beatrice May - ARRC, 1919
AANS - With British forces in Salonika
GIBBINS, Charlotte Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GIBBON, Beatrice - ARRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
GIBBONS, Norah Eugenie - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GIBBS, Mary Elizabeth - GM, 1973
Bravery during a child hostage incident
GIBSON, Freda - OBE(C), 1946
Flying Doctor Service in the Eyre Peninsula
GIBSON, Gladys Ruth - OBE(C), 1953
President of the National Council of Women
GIBSON, Gladys Ruth - CBE(C), 1970
Advancement of women
GIBSON, Irene Maud - MBE(C), 1960
Music
GIBSON, Jessie - ARRC, 1919
AANS - Services in India
GIBSON, Madge Enid - MBE(C), 1976
Charities
GIBSON, Margaret - MBE(C), 1980
Community
GIBSON, Margaret Hilda - BEM(M), 1970
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
GIDDENS, Wendy Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1989
Queensland Pavilion at Expo 88
GIDDINGS, Anna Maureen - OBE(C), 1974
Community
GIESE, Nancy - MBE(C), 1971
Community
GIESE, Nancy - OBE(C), 1977
Education & the arts
GILBERT, Ida - MBE(C), 1953
Social welfare servcies in Tasmania
GILBERT, Mary Isabelle - BEM(C), 1971
Education in Orbost, Victoria
GILBERT, Stella Louise - BEM(C), 1972
Clerk in the CSIRO
GILCHRIST, Christine Adelaide - MBE(C), 1960
Matron of Marrickville Hospital in NSW
GILES, Zelma Alberta Frances - BEM(C), 1968
Typist in the Repatriation Department, NSW
GILHAM, Ethel Florence - OBE(C), 1971
Community in Papua New Guinea
GILL, Edna May - MBE(C), 1960
No citation
GILL, Eunice Elizabeth Perrott - MBE(C), 1975
Sport, recreation & physical fitness
GILL, Veronica Margaret - MBE(C), 1950
Charities in Port Pirie in South Australia
GILLAM-HUNT, Barbara - MBE(C), 1962
President - Victoria Housewives Association
GILLESPIE, Frances Mary - MBE(C), 1960
President of the Rachel Foster Hospital
GILLESPIE, Margaret - MBE(C), 1976
Arts
GILLESPIE, Mary Catherine - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GILLETT, Stella Douzie - MBE(C), 1959
Charities
GILLIES, Annie Florence - DBE(C), 1951
WA Minister of Health (Mrs Cardell-Oliver)
GILLILAND, Winifred Anna Cameron - ARRC, 1920
AANS - Service in the Afghan War
GILLINGHAM, Alice Mary - BEM(C), 1984
Sport of marching girls
GILMORE, Margaret Jane - BEM(C), 1972
Community
GILMORE, Mary - DBE(C), 1937
Services to literature
GILMOUR, Margaret Alice - MBE(C), 1975
Crown employee
GILMOUR, Margaret Alice - MVO, 1984
Secretary to the Governor of Queensland
GILMOUR, Mary Ellen - BEM(C), 1981
Community
GILRUTH, Jeannie - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
GILSENAN-WATERS, Cora Doran - MBE(C), 1976
Aboriginal community
GIUFFRE, Jean Mary - MBE(C), 1974
Community
GLANCY, Patricia - BEM(C), 1979
Public service
GLASGOW, Mary Margaret - ARRC, 1945
AANS - South West Pacific
GLASGOW, Winifred Florence - BEM(C), 1981
Disabled
GLASSBORROW, Edna Margaret - BEM(C), 1977
Mentally handicapped
GLEADOW, Helen Marianne - ISM, 1972
Taxation Office - Supervisor
GLEESON, Gertrude Cecelia - ISM, 1969
Labour Department - Employment Officer
GLEESON, Gertrude Cecilia - ISM, 1969
N/A
GLENNIE, Edith Rodda - BEM(C), 1976
Community
GLOVER, Dorothy May - BEM(C), 1979
Nursing
GODBEHEAR, Blanch May - MBE(C), 1977
Community
GODFREY, Joan Estelle - OBE(C), 1984
Nursing education
GODFREY, Thora Amelia Lynn - MBE(C), 1972
Community services in remote areas
GODFREY-SMITH, Anne - BEM(C), 1979
Theatre
GODHARD, Mona - OBE(C), 1933
Charities in New South Wales
GODLEE, Hazel Mary - BEM(C), 1966
Welfare of young women
GODOLPHIN, Ethel - ISM, 1957
London High Commission
GOESSLING, Gertrud Ann Amalie Sophie - MBE(C), 1978
Community
GOI, Danga - MBE(C), 1970
Malaria Control Assistant in Papua New Guinea
GOLDSWORTHY, Zoe Ita - BEM(C), 1976
Public service
GOLDTHORPE, Elsie - ISM, 1972
PMG - Non Official Postmistress
GOLLAN, Christina May - BEM(C), 1972
Community of Wengham in New South Wales
GONZALEZ, Amy - BEM(C), 1975
Community
GOOD, Beryl Mary - ISM, 1979
Queensland Transport - Stenographer
GOOD, Louisa May - MBE(C), 1957
Social welfare services in Nyal district in NSW
GOOD, Minnie Agnes - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
GOODCHILD, Essie Lillian - MBE(C), 1976
Girl Guides Association
GOODMAN, Nerida Josephine - MBE(C), 1980
Women's affairs & Jewish community
GOODRIDGE, Patricia - MBE(C), 1975
Women's hockey
GOODSALL, Christine Gertrude - ISM, 1972
Reserve Bank London - Manager's Secretary
GOODWIN, Gloria Lillian - BEM(C), 1976
Community
GOODWIN, Lillian Lankester - BEM(C), 1978
Community
GOOLAGONG, Evonne Fay - MBE(C), 1972
Tennis
GOOMA, Maria - MBE(C), 1973
Community
GORDON, Christine - MBE(C), 1938
Charities in the Northern Territory
GORDON, Edith Glencairn - MBE(C), 1972
Community
GORDON, Edna Lily - OBE(C), 1968
Community
GORDON, Ella Mavis - BEM(C), 1980
Community
GORDON, Margaret - OBE(C), 1962
Public service
GORDON, Rebecca Anne - MBE(C), 1954
President of the RSSAIL Womensfolk
GORDON, Valmea - BEM(C), 1979
Community
GORHAM, Kathleen - OBE(C), 1968
Ballet
GORRIE, Jean Adelaide - BEM(C), 1972
Boy Scouts Association & community of Glenroy, Victoria
GORRY, Jean Mary Genevieve - MBE(C), 1959
Matron of Casino Hospital in NSW
GORSHENIN, Lorrae - MBE(C), 1970
Entertainment in Vietnam (Lorraine Desmond)
GORTA, Mary Veronica - ISM, 1970
Commonwealth Housing Department - Stenographer
GORTLEY, Joan Patricia - MBE(C), 1980
Community
GOSSE, Joanna Lang - MBE(C), 1946
Red Cross Society in South Australia
GOULD, Ellen Julia - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
GOULD, Nellie - BEM(C), 1972
Sport
GOULD, Shane Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1981
Swimming (Mrs SE Innes)
GOURLEY, Ellen Jane - OBE(C), 1964
Women & girls
GOYDER, Marie Innes - BEM(C), 1970
Community
GRACE, R - ISM, 1942
N/A
GRACE, Vivienne - BEM(C), 1972
Boy Scouts Association
GRAF, Violet Elsie - MBE(C), 1962
President of the Red Cross in Orange, NSW
GRAHAM, Isabel Mary Agnes - MBE(C), 1957
Staff during Duke of Edinburgh's visit
GRAHAM, Margaret - RRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
GRAHAM, Margaret - MBE(C), 1956
Social welfare
GRAHAM, Tabitha Lucretia - MBE(C), 1967
Community
GRAHAM, Teresa - MBE(C), 1962
Secretary - Ballan Red Cross Society in Victoria
GRAHAM-JONES, D - BEM(C), 1987
Tasmania
GRALOW, Gertrude Annie - MBE(C), 1974
Community
GRANT, Beryl - OBE(C), 1976
Nursing
GRANT, Florence - ISM, 1963
NSW Public Health - Sister
GRANT, Florence May - MBE(C), 1956
Public service
GRANT, Gladys Isobel - MBE(C), 1956
Social welfare services in Victoria
GRANT, Lilian - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
GRANT, Nance - MBE(C), 1976
Opera (Mrs NG Harris)
GRANT, Nancy - BEM(C), 1971
Community
GRANT-ALLAN, Nance - OBE(C), 1948
Voluntary work
GRAY, Ethel - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
GRAY, Ethel - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Army Nursing Services
GRAY, Nina Lilla - BEM(C), 1972
Community
GRAY, Olive Victoria - MBE(C), 1954
Social welfare for children
GREAVES, I - RRC, 1915
Australian Army Nursing Service
GREEN, Alice May - BEM(C), 1972
Postmistress at Taree, NSW
GREEN, Betty - MBE(C), 1982
Nursing
GREEN, Clarice - ARRC, 1919
AANS - 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
GREEN, Ella Mona - MBE(C), 1962
Social welfare
GREEN, Isabel Alice - OBE(C), 1970
Community
GREEN, Ivy Pearl - MBE(C), 1976
Ex-servicemen
GREEN, Jessie May - BEM(C), 1972
Community
GREEN, Judith - MBE(C), 1977
Community
GREEN, Lilian May - BEM(C), 1981
Community of Carnegie, Victoria
GREEN, Lorna Lilian - ISM, 1969
N/A
GREEN, Lorna Lillian - ISM, 1969
Works Department - Machinist-in-Charge
GREEN, Mabel Matilda - MBE(C), 1961
Red Cross Society
GREEN, Mary Gertrude - MBE(C), 1948
Superior - Order of the Nuns of St John in WA
GREEN, Ola Cohn - MBE(C), 1965
Sculpture (Miss Ola Cohn)
GREEN, Olive May - MBE(C), 1952
Supervisor of Child Welfare in Tasmania
GREEN, Selina - BEM(C), 1968
Ex-servicemen
GREEN, Valerie - BEM(C), 1970
Ormond Mobile Nursing Section, St Johns Ambulance
GREEN, Violet - BEM(C), 1977
Ex-servicemen & women
GREENHALF, Violet Lesley Aseneth - MBE(C), 1975
Community
GREENHALGH, Emily Mary - BEM(C), 1977
Public service
GREENHILL, Clarice Lilian - MBE(C), 1954
Secretary to the Australian Consul in New York
GREENSLADE, Jane - ARRC, 1981
RAN Nursing Service
GREENTREE, Vida Mitylene - BEM(C), 1965
Postmistress at Freeman's Reach, NSW
GREENWAY-SMITH, Myrtle - BEM(C), 1984
Community
GREENWELL, Mary - BEM(C), 1971
Migrants
GREENWOOD, Betty - MBE(C), 1971
Public service
GREER, Shirley Winsome - BEM(C), 1976
Public service
GREGORY, Janet Eileen - ISM, 1971
Qantas - Clerk Financial Ledger Section
GREGORY, Kathleen Maie - MBE(C), 1974
Director of the Forest Hill Kindergarten
GREIG, Elsie Stewart - ARRC, 1919
Australian Army Nursing Service
GRESHAM, Lilian Bessie - MBE(C), 1971
Girl Guides
GREVILLE, Henrietta - MBE(C), 1958
Social welfare services in New South Wales
GREY, Helene Dorothy - OBE(C), 1948
Matron of the Royal Melbourne Hospital
GREY-WILSON, Agatha Mary - MBE(C), 1976
Public service
GRICE, Evelyn Douglas - BEM(C), 1975
Community
GRIEVE, Beatrice Jane - MBE(C), 1953
Religion & social welfare
GRIFFITH, Margaret Elizabeth - ARRC, 1947
AANS - South West Pacific
GRIFFITHS, Edith - MBE(C), 1961
Charities
GRIFFITHS, Patricia Ada Rose - BEM(C), 1979
Handicapped persons
GRIFFITHS, Veronica Mary - BEM(C), 1977
Community
GRIFFITHS, Winifred Ethel - MBE(C), 1980
Early childhood education
GRIGGS, Elizabeth Chapman - MBE(C), 1952
Social welfare in Tasmania
GRIMES, Isabel Vena - ISM, 1978
Queensland Mines - Stenographer
GRIMSON, Evelyn Muriel - MBE(C), 1968
Charities
GRIMWADE, Joan Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1977
Guiding & community
GRIMWADE, Mabel Louise - CBE(C), 1962
Philanthropy in Victoria
GRISDALE, Ruby May - MBE(C), 1963
Charities
GROOM, Dorothy Margaret - ISM, 1971
PMG - Drafting Assistant
GROOM, Jessie Mary Grace - OBE(C), 1958
Mayoress of Brisbane
GROSS, Anna Sophie - BEM(C), 1981
Community
GROSVENOR, Marjorie Millicent - MBE(C), 1934
Confidential typist to Prime Minister
GROVES, Edna Mary - ISM, 1974
Queensland Children's Services - Nurse
GRUNDIE, Oruba May - ISM, 1971
ABC - Clerical Officer
GRUNDIE, Ursuala May - ISM, 1971
N/A
GUEST, Barbara Macgregor - OBE(C), 1972
Charities
GUILFOYLE, Bridget Mary - ARRC, 1964
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
GUILFOYLE, Margaret Georgina C - DBE(C), 1979
Public & Parliamentary service
GULLETT, Ruth Mary - MBE(C), 1982
National Estate
GUM, Daphne Lorraine - MBE(C), 1960
Director - SA Cerebral Palsey Children's School
GUNDELACH, Elvira Beatrice - ISM, 1972
Qantas - Stenographer
GUNN, Jeannie - OBE(C), 1939
Literature
GUNN, Mary - MBE(C), 1963
Secretary of the Sydney Eisteddfod
GUNTON, Mollie Marie - ARRC, 1945
AANS - South West Pacific
GURR, Dora Phoebe - MBE(C), 1963
Charities
GUSCOTT, Helen Dods - BEM(C), 1976
Community
GUSTIN, Maddalena - MBE(C), 1968
Migrants
GUTHRIE, Joan Lorraine - MBE(C), 1972
Girl Guides Association
GUY, Margaret Frances - OBE(C), 1961
Matron of the Canberra Community Hospital
GUYETT, Beatrice Kate - MBE(C), 1970
Education
GWYNEFORD, - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society