King’s Birthday 2026 Honours: Congratulations to Copyright Agency members
June 10, 2026
Warm congratulations to our members who were recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List.
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
- Gerald Murnane, for distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, and to tertiary education.
- Professor Elizabeth Elliott, for distinguished service to paediatric medicine, to women’s health, and to medical and social understanding of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
- Emeritus Professor Justin Kenardy, for distinguished service to clinical psychology, to the understanding of traumatic stress, to governance roles, and to tertiary education.
Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
- Scientia Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, for significant service to physiology and molecular biology research, and to tertiary education.
- Professor Greg Bamber, for significant service to tertiary education, and to international industrial relations research.
- Dr Joanna Mendelssohn, for significant service to art history as a researcher and author.
- Dr Ursula Dubosarsky, for significant service to literature as an author of children and young adult books.
- Bianca Beetson, for significant service to Indigenous art as an educator, curator and artist.
- Sally Smart, for significant service to the artist as an administrator, educator and visual artist.
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
- William Marsh, for service to literature as a writer.