Senate debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Motions

Tasmania: Australia Day Awards

4:15 pm

Photo of Helen PolleyHelen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 376 standing in my name and the names of Senators Brown, Bilyk and Urquhart for today, relating to Tasmanian recipients of Australia Day honours.

Leave granted.

I, and also at the request of Senators Brown, Bilyk and Urquhart, move the motion as amended:

That the Senate acknowledges and congratulates:

(a) the 46 worthy Tasmanians who were recipients of the 2020 Australia Day honours on 26 January 2020 for their outstanding achievement and services to Tasmania, and Australia more broadly;

(b) Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) recipient: Ms Gillian Margaret Groom;

(c) Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and the Australian Police Medal (APM) recipient: Commissioner Darren Leigh Hine;

(d) Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and the Public Service Medal (PSM) recipient: Mr Robert Harold Annells;

(e) Member of the Order of Australia (AM) recipients; Mr John Charles Batten, The late Mr Daniel Leo Reardon, Ms Constance Kimberly Seagram and Mr Richard Ashton Warner;

(f) Order of Australia Medal (OAM) recipients; Mr Richard Palmer Bennett, Ms Helen Rosemary Connor-Kendray, Mrs Dallas Antoinette Cooper, Ms Susan Margaret Cure, Ms Glenise Gale, Mr Neil Laurence Hirt, Mr Colin Howlett, Mr Gregory Reginald Jackson, Dr Stephen Jeffries King, Dr Thomas William Langston, Dr Robert Lavis, Ms Sarah Jane Lloyd, Mr Peter John McDermott, Dr Jennifer Ann McMahon, Ms Janelle Mary McMillan, Mrs Janette May Miller, Mr James Ingle Nicholson, Mr Ian Mead Paterson, Mr Douglas Alan Renshaw, Dr Kim Frances Rooney, Ms Patricia Noeline Sabine, Mrs Joan Rosemary van Bibra, Mrs Jocelyn Yvonne Watson, Dr John Milton Wettenhall, Mr Paul Clifford Wilson, and Mrs Lexie Eileen Young;

(g) Australian Police Medal (APM) recipients: Detective Senior Constable Sharee Simone Maksimovic and Commander Ian John Whish-Wilson;

(h) Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) recipient: Mr Mark Henry McDermott;

(i) Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) recipients: Mrs Lorraine Joy Gardiner and Mr Han-Wei Lee;

(j) Emergency Services Medal (ESM) recipients: Mr William James Folder, Mr Vincent Holthouse and Mr Neil Geard Van Veldhuizen;

(k) Australian Corrections Medal (ACM) recipient: Ms Elizabeth Moore;

(l) Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) recipient: Lieutenant Colonel Darryl Robert Bridgeman; and

(m) Conspicuous Service Medal (CSM) recipient: Lieutenant Colonel John Charles Sayers.

Question agreed to.