Australia Day 2025 Honours List
January 30, 2025
The Governor-General, Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, announced the Australia Day 2025 Honours List on 26 January. Of the 732 Australians recognised for their achievements, we’re proud to see so many Copyright Agency members recognised for their valuable work in the arts, education, research, and the community.
Copyright Agency member recipients include:
Appointments as Companions of the Order of Australia (AC)
- Scientia Professor Megan Davis – 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.
- The Honourable James Joshua Edelman – For eminent service to the law and to judiciary, to legal education and scholarship, as a mentor to academics and legal practitioners in Australia and internationally, and to the community.
Appointments as Officers of the Order of Australia (AO)
- Laurie Joseph Lawrence – For distinguished service to water safety education, and to swimming as a high-performance coach.
- Dr Laurence Alfred Mound – For distinguished service to scientific research into the identification and biology of plant feeding insects.
- Professor Robynne Melva Quiggin – For distinguished service to the law and human rights, to tertiary education, and to the Indigenous community through leadership and governance roles.
- The late Professor Lyndall Ryan AM – For distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly Indigenous history and colonial settlement through research and publications.
- Professor Claire Edwina Smith – For distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly social and anthropological archaeology, and as a national and international academic.
Appointments as Members of the Order of Australia (AM)
- Emeritus Professor David Leslie Kennedy – For significant service to archaeology as a researcher and academic.
- Ian George Marler – For significant service to surveying, and to the community.
- Joanna Murray-Smith – For significant service to the performing arts as a writer.
- Professor Emerita Leonie Jean Rennie – For significant service to tertiary education as a mentor and academic.
- Emeritus Professor Ilana Snyder – For significant service to the Jewish community of Australia, and to tertiary education.
Awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
- The late Associate Professor Philip James Ayres – For service to literature, and to education.
- Rachel Bin Salleh – For service to literature.
- Alice Jemima Mary Garrett – For service to journalism.
- The late Eunice Napanangka Jack – For service to Indigenous arts.
Copyright Agency extends our warmest congratulations to our recipient members.