2023 Australia Day Honours List: Archie Roach, David Wenham, Claudia Karvan and Jean Kittson lead celebrities on list

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Celebrities are among the many a couple of thousand names on this 12 months’s Australia Day Honours List, with late indigenous performer Archie Roach awarded the very best of honours.

Roach has posthumously been made a Companion of the Order of Australia for his “eminent service to the performing arts as a songwriter and musician, to Indigenous rights and reconciliation, and thru help for rising First Nations artists”.

Roach, who died aged 66 in July, had beforehand been made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015.

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The musician wasn’t the one celeb making this 12 months’s record – the primary of King Charles III’s reign.

Australian filmmaker and Rabbit-Proof Fence director Phillip Noyce, 72, was awarded the title Officer of the Order of Australia for his providers to the humanities as a movie and tv director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Live performance promoter Paul Dainty AM was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, primarily for his efforts organising the fundraising live performance Fireplace Battle Australia to boost cash for the victims of the 2019/20 bushfires.

He was beforehand appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017.

Australian actor David Wenham and comic Jean Kittson are among the many latest performers recognised as Members of the Order of Australia.

Wenham, the 57-year-old Elvis and Moulin Rouge actor who’s from Queensland, was given the honour “for important service to the performing arts as an actor and producer”.

Whereas former Superstar Apprentice star Kittson, 68, from NSW was recognised “for important service to the humanities as a performer, author and comic”.

Kylie Minogue’s former longtime supervisor Terry Blamey was additionally made a Member of the Order of Australia within the 2023 honours record “for important service to administration within the music trade”.

Since 1974, Blamey has managed Australian stars together with: Deni Hines, Gina G, Fiona Horne, Richard Clapton, Dannii Minogue and older sister Kylie Minogue AO OBE, whose profession he steered for 25 years earlier than they parted methods in 2013.

Australian producer Bruna Papandrea from NSW, a long-time collaborator with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, was additionally recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia.

She’s made hit TV reveals and filmd together with Huge Little Lies, 9 Excellent Strangers, Anatomy Of A Scandal, Penguin Bloom and The Undoing.

TV correspondant Philip Williams and TV physician, Dr Norman Swan, each from NSW, have been recognised for providers to Broadcast by being made Members of the Order of Australia

Bump and Secret Lifetime of Us actress Claudia Karvan, 50, from NSW was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia “for service to the movie and tv trade”.

Journalist and former At present host Steve Liebmann was additionally given a Medal of the Order of Australia within the 2023 record, “for service to the published media as a journalist”.

Nation music singers Dianne Lindsay and Peter Simpson, in addition to Sydney-based singer Peter Ciani have been all awarded Medals of the Order of Australia for his or her musical work.

Tanya Wilks and John MacKenzie have been each recognised for his or her efforts in radio broadcasting with Wilks a breakfast host for Triple M Newcastle (previously KO-FM), since 2000 and MacKenzie a chat present host in Cairns since 1983.

Jeweller to the celebrities Nic Cerrone, whose purchasers embody Barbara Streisand was given a Medal of the Order of Australia “for service to the jewelry trade, and to the group”.

Sydney-based Cerrone was awarded the Knighthood of the Italian Republic in 1994.

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