AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS 2021

Australia Day Honours 2021

COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA

Rabbi Dr John Simon LEVI AM, Malvern East VIC 3145

For eminent service to Judaism through seminal roles with religious, community and historical organisations, to the advancement of interfaith understanding, tolerance and collaboration, and to education.

Australia, New Zealand and Asia Region, Union for Progressive Judaism

  • Honorary Life Vice-President, 1996.
  • Regional Director, 1997-2004.

World Union for Progressive Judaism

  • Vice-President and Australian Representative, 1975-1995.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry

  • Deputy President, 2004-2007.
  • Honorary Life Member, 2008.

Jewish Community Council of Victoria

  • Appointed Proctor, Pontifical Institute, since 1990.

National Editorial Board, Australia/Israel Review, since 1985.

  • Executive Member, current.

Liberal Rabbinical Association of Australia and New Zealand

  • Chair, 1991-1993.
  • Founding Chair, 1977-1982.
  • Founder, Progressive Jewish Congregations, Wellington, New Zealand, Hong Kong
    and Adelaide.

Temple Beth Israel, Melbourne

  • Rabbi Emeritus, since 1997.
  • Senior Rabbi, 1974-1997.
  • Rabbi, 1960-1997.

Interfaith Dialogue

  • Patron, Australian Council of Christians and Jews, since 2005.
  • Co-Founder and Co-President, The Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria), 1985-1997.
  • Adjunct Professor, Asia-Pacific Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue, Australian Catholic University, 2008-2017.
  • Honorary International President, World Conference on Religion and Peace (now known as Religions for Peace), 2000-2006.
  • Australian President and former local Chairman, International World Conference on Religion and Peace, 1994.
  • Co-Founder, World Conference on Religion and Peace (Australia), an affiliate of the (International) World Conference on Religion and Peace, 2000.
  • Member, Joint Committee of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Uniting Church in Australia, since 1991.
  • Committee Member and Past President, Australian Jewish Historical Society (Victoria), 1962-2015.
  • Member, Panel of Eminent Persons, Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc, since 1997.
  • Author and co-author of several books, including Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers, 1788-1850, 2002 and 2013, An Australian Haggadah, 2002, These are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia 1788-1950, 2013, Rabbi Jacob Danglow, 1995, and My Dear Friends: The Life of Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, 2009.
  • Co-editor, Machzor High Holyday Prayer Book, 2 Vols, World Union for Progressive Judaism, 2019 and The Musical Traditions of the Berlin Reform Congregation, (Museum of the Disapora, 1998, Israel).

Education

  • Co-Founder and School Council Member, The King David School, Melbourne, 1977-2018.
  • Member, Monash University Ethics Committee, current.
  • Teacher, Yarra Theological College, 1990-2000.
  • Academic Fellow, The Program of Jewish Culture and Society (formerly Centre for Jewish History and Culture), University of Melbourne, since 2007.
  • Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, University of Melbourne, 1991-1996.
  • Lecturer, Australian Catholic University, circa 2008.
  • Former Jewish Representative, Tertiary Institutions Chaplaincy Commission.

The Arts

  • Commonwealth Assessor for Jewish Art and Artefacts, current.
  • Advisor on the Jewish religion and Australian Jewish history for exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Museums Victoria and the Australian Museum in Sydney.
  • Advisor and assessor for the Jewish Museums in Melbourne and Sydney.

Civil Service

  • Chaplain and Officer, Reserve Citizen Military Forces of the Commonwealth, 1960-1995.
  • Awards and recognition include:

    • General Sir John Monash Award for Outstanding Service to the Jewish Community of Victoria, 2008.
    • Victorian Premier's Award for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs, 2005.
    • Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, 1981.
    • Paul Harris Fellow, Melbourne Rotary Club.
    • Recipient, Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal, 1977.
    • Recipient, Australian Centenary Medal, 2003.

OFFICER (AO) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA

Professor Susan Ruth DAVIS, Richmond VIC 3121

For distinguished service to medicine, to women's health as a clinical endocrinologist and researcher, and to medical education.

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

  • Professor of Women's Health/Endocrinologist, since 2004.
  • Program Director, Women's Health Research Program, since 2005.

Head, Specialist Women's Health Clinic, Alfred Hospital, since 2011.

Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009.

Executive Council Member, Monash University, 2006-2008.

International Menopause Society

  • President, since 2018.
  • Board Member, since 2011.
  • Henry Burger Prize, 2011.

Australasian Menopause Society

  • President, 2003-2005. 
  • Recipient, AMS Award, 2009.

Other Medicine:

  • Consultant Endocrinologist, Cabrini Health, since 2004.
  • Senior Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council, since 2018.

Jean Hailes Foundation (Jean Hailes for Women's Health)

  • Director of Research, 1993-2004. 
  • Co-Founder, 1992.

Publications

  • Editorial Board Member, Maturitas, European Menopause and Andropause Society, current.
  • Editorial Board Member, Climacteric, current. 
  • Editorial Board Member, Menopause, current.
  • Editorial Board Member, Clinical Endocrinology, current.
  • Author, Our Health, Our Lives - what women should know, Allen and Unwin, 1997.
  • Author, The Healthy Woman - better health management and the menopause, Longman Cheshire, 1994.
  • Author/Co-Author, more than 240 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
  • Author/Co-Author, 100 review papers.
  • Author/Co-Author, 30 book chapters. Endocrine Society (USA)

Membership:

  • Member, Clinical Practice Guideline Panel, Management of the Menopause, 2014- 2016.
  • Member, Clinical Practice Guideline Panel, Androgens in Women, 2012-2014.

Recipient, International Excellence in Endocrinology Laureate Award, 2015.

Other Professional Associations

  • Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, since 2016.

Awards and Recognition include:

  • Distinguished Service Award, International Menopause Society, 2020.
  • Endocrine Society of Australia Senior Plenary Award, 2019.
  • Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum inaugural Honour, St Catherine's Girls' School Melbourne, 2010.
  • Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct Research Prize, 2009.

MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Mr Alistair URQUHART, Barwon Heads VIC 3227

For service to people with a disability through employment initiatives. WISE Employment (also known as Workplace Integrated Supported Employment)

  • Founding Chairman, since 1992.
  • Board Member, since 1993.

Professional

  • Managing Director, Affairs of State Consultancy Firm, since 1993.
  • Editor and Publisher, Letter from Melbourne, since 1994.
  • Member, Law Institute of Victoria, 1984-2015.
  • Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors, since 1994.
  • Member, Institute of Public Administration Australia until 2012.

Other Australian In Member, 2007-2016.

  • Member, since 2006.

MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION

Mrs Amanda MANDIE, Toorak VIC 3142

For service to the community through charitable organisations.

  • The Snowdome Foundation
  • Committee Member, Great Shake Up, since 2009.
  • Committee Member, Communications, since 2009.
  • Koala Kids Foundation
  • Program Director and Founder, 2005.

Community Other

  • Committee Member, Dance Attack on Breast Cancer, since 2012.
  • Founding Member, Ross Dennerstein Foundation, since 2016.


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