Category: Knights and Dames of the Order of Australia

Categories: Order of Australia

Knights (AK) and Dames (AD) of the Order of Australia were established on 24th May 1976 as the senior grade of the Order, by the monarch on the advice of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Following the 1983 election, Prime Minister Bob Hawke recommended the abolition of the knight and dame grades. Following his election in 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott advised the Queen to reinstate the categories of dame and knight, however this was short-lived as on 2nd November 2015, his successor as Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, announced that the categories of knight and dame in the Order of Australia would again be discontinued. Knights and Dames of the Order were only available in the Civil or General Division. Fifteen Knights and four Dames of the Order of Australia have been invested. Five are living:

• Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK AFC
• General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC
• King Charles III, KG KT GCB OM AK QSO PC
• Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO
• Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

Australian Honours: Order of Australia.
Wikipedia: List of Knights and Dames of the Order of Australia.

Australian Knights and Dames

Garfield Barwick 22 Jun 1903 Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia - 13 Jul 1997

Enid (Burnell) Lyons 09 Jul 1897 Leesville, Duck River, Tasmania (Australia) - 02 Sep 1981

Frank Burnet 03 Sep 1899 Traralgon, Victoria (Australia) - 31 Aug 1985

Charles Court 29 Sep 1911 Crawley, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 22 Dec 2007

Zelman Cowen 07 Oct 1919 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 08 Dec 2011

Arthur Cutler 24 May 1916 Manly, New South Wales, Australia - 21 Feb 2002

Alexandra (Darker) Hasluck 26 Aug 1908 Perth, Western Australia, Australia - 18 Jun 1993

Ronald Jackson 05 May 1924 New Farm, Queensland, Australia - 01 Jun 1991

John Kerr 24 Sep 1914 Balmain South, New South Wales, Australia - 24 Mar 1991

Robert Menzies 20 Dec 1894 Jeparit, Victoria (Australia) - 15 May 1978

Philip (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Mountbatten 10 Jun 1921 Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece - 09 Apr 2021

Ninian Stephen 15 Jun 1923 Henley, Oxfordshire, England - 29 Oct 2017

Colin Syme 22 Apr 1903 Claremont, Western Australia, Australia - 19 Jan 1986

King Charles III (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor 1940s

Roy Wright 07 Aug 1907 Central Castra, Tasmania, Australia - 28 Feb 1990

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