The King's Birthday 2025 Honours List
The King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List. It recognises 830 Australians, including awards in the Order of Australia (General and Military Divisions), meritorious awards and recognition for distinguished and conspicuous service. This represents an increase of awardees of almost 30% since the Australia Day 2025 List.
The General Division of the Order of Australia
The 581 recipients of awards in the General Division of the Order of Australia (all recipients names and citations), include:
- 14 appointments as Companions of the Order of Australia
- 31 appointments as Officers of the Order of Australia
- 123 appointments as Members of the Order of Australia; and
- 413 people awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
Meritorious Awards
The 149 Meritorious awards include recipients of the Public Service Medal, the Australian Police Medal, the Australian Fire Service Medal, the Ambulance Service Medal, the Emergency Services Medal, the Australian Corrections Medal and the Australian Intelligence Medal.
Military awards
There were 36 recipients of awards in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (3 AO, 10 AM and 23 OAM), and 64 distinguished and conspicuous awards.