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The 2024 King's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 10 June 2024 by the Governor-General, David Hurley. [1] [2]The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.
The 2024 King's Birthday Honours list is announced, in which Daniel Andrews, Karen Canfell, Simon Crean, Mark McGowan, Jonathan Mills and Samantha Mostyn are all made a Companion of the Order of Australia. [352] Federal Labor MP Maria Vamvakinou announces she will not be recontesting the 2025 Australian federal election. [353]
His Excellency General The Honourable David John Hurley, AC, DSC, FTSE, lately Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Awarded as part of the 2024 Birthday Honours [12] Lieutenant Paul Singer, MVO, RAN – 22 October 2024 – Upon relinquishment of the appointment of Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia. [13]
Most Australian states and territories observe the King's Birthday on the second Monday in June, except in Western Australia and Queensland.As Western Australia celebrates Western Australia Day (formerly known as Foundation Day) on the first Monday in June, the governor of Western Australia each year proclaims the day on which the state will observe the King's Birthday, based on school terms ...
The list was announced on 26 January 2024 by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley. [1] The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the King's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.
Martine Clark MBE – 11 June 2024 – Honorary appointed in 2021 to be made Substantive [44] Dr Muhammad Shafie Bin Kamaruddin MBE – 11 June 2024 – Honorary appointed in 2022 to be made Substantive [44] Honorary. Frans Ammerlaan – WWII military commemoration volunteer. For services to Commemorations and British World War II Veterans [31]
The 2023 King's Birthday Honours for Australia was announced on 11 June 2023 by the Governor-General, David Hurley. [1]The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.
Honours have been awarded at New Year since at least 1890, in which year a list of Queen Victoria's awards was published in The London Gazette on 2 January. [1] There was no honours list at New Year 1902, as a list had been published on the new king's birthday the previous November, [2] but from January 1903 until 1909 a list (including only Indian orders) was published.