A number of Canberra public servants, each federal and ACT, have been recognised within the 2024 Australia Day honours awards.
We have collected the citations for the federal and ACT public servants recognised. See what number of you recognise, both by their names or the superb work they’ve been doing.
The popularity ranges from division secretaries, to extra junior public servants.
Many, particularly within the ACT public service, have been recognised for his or her roles throughout the COVID pandemic.
Every entry beneath contains the quotation, outlining why they’re being recognised within the 2024 Australia Day honours.
This listing contains these honoured with medals for Hearth Service, Emergency Companies, Corrections and Intelligence.
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) within the Basic Division
Mr Gregory Lawrence Moriarty, ACT
For distinguished service to public administration in management roles, notably in nationwide and worldwide safety.
Division of Prime Minister and Cupboard
Division of International Affairs and Commerce
Awards and Recognition embrace:
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) within the Basic Division
Her Excellency Ms Harinder Kaur Sidhu, ACT
For important service to public administration, and to overseas affairs.
Division of International Affairs and Commerce
OTHER CANBERRA RECIPIENTS:
Federal Public Service Medal (PSM)
Ms Elizabeth Jane Baxter, NSW
For excellent public service to organisational functionality and tradition at Australian Abilities High quality Authority.
Ms Elizabeth Baxter performed an important function in serving to to form the Australian Abilities High quality Authority’s (ASQA) constructive, high-performance tradition. As a smaller Australian Public Service company, her exemplary work throughout a broad vary of company, coverage and program areas has made a major distinction to the efficiency and effectivity of ASQA throughout a transformational interval for Vocation Schooling and Coaching (VET) in Australia.
Beneath Ms Baxter’s management, ASQA has achieved main milestones equivalent to main the event and implementation of ASQA’s Reconciliation Motion Plan, Variety and Inclusion Technique, Versatile Work Association Coverage, and Workforce and Functionality Plans. These created an inclusive, supportive and productive work surroundings, which overtly and actively celebrates range and fosters a way of belonging.
Ms Baxter led ASQA in growing and launching the Gender Affirmation Information, which was shared with different Australian Public Service companies and networks and was thought of by the Australian Public Service Fee for inclusion as a case examine titled ‘Progressing range and inclusion throughout the Australian Public Service’ within the 2021-22 State of the Service Report.
Ms Baxter is a pure chief and a selfless achiever, serving the company and the general public past the traditional necessities of her place with integrity. Ms Baxter is constantly counseled by her friends, workers in any respect ranges and by senior govt service officers for her collaborative strategy, her supply of outcomes, and her openness and integrity in managing delicate and tough issues.
Dr John Harold Dawson, Ainslie ACT 2602
For excellent public service to authorities, trade and the group to enhance social, environmental and financial outcomes for Australia.
Between 2017 and 2022, Dr John Dawson initiated and led the institution of SouthPAN place system, the most important Australian civil area program so far and the primary Satellite tv for pc Based mostly Augmentation System (SBAS) within the southern hemisphere.
SouthPAN improves security on mining and development websites, helps save lives throughout pure disasters and land aircrafts in adversarial circumstances. It is usually important for rising effectivity and sustainability in framing practices, transport and transport and is predicted to profit the Australian financial system by $6.2 billion over 30 years.
By means of Dr Dawson’s management, imaginative and prescient and dedication to excellence, Australian trade, communities and academia have entry to correct real-time positioning information. The Positioning Australia program, as developed by Dr Dawson’s management, is remodeling Australians’ entry to aggressive high-quality positioning, increasing Australia’s innovation and export alternatives.
Dr Dawson’s efforts all through his profession, have contributed to important development and growth of exact level positioning infrastructure for Australia and New Zealand by his distinctive management, technical experience, his robust dedication, imaginative and prescient and persistence.
Mr Nicholas John Housego, Pearce ACT 2607
For excellent public service in growing and embedding the apply of facilitation providers inside authorities departments and companies.
Mr Nicholas Housego established the Authorities Facilitation Neighborhood of Observe (CoP), a cross authorities group, which has grown to host over 400 people throughout departments and companies in all ranges of presidency. By means of establishing the CoP, Mr Housego delivered a brand new functionality throughout the Australian Public Service (APS) that achieves co-designed outcomes and builds true partnerships between the APS and non-government stakeholders.
Mr Housego has facilitated a whole bunch of workshops with stakeholders, each inside and exterior organisations. Mr Housego has a popularity for constructing lengthy lasting relationships and embedded the apply of participating otherwise, working in direction of shared and agreed actions and outcomes. Mr Housego deeply understands the significance of facilitation as essential for the success of co-designed packages and outcomes for the success of the APS.
Workshops facilitated by Mr Housego have instantly impacted the supply of profitable coverage, program, regulation and inside governance tasks, with particular reference to biosecurity funding in Northern Australia.
Mr Housego’s spectacular contribution and size of service makes him one of many APS’s most revered specialist facilitators. His service has contributed considerably to delivering strategic priorities and revolutionary achievements by his dedication to constructing facilitation functionality throughout the APS.
Dr Andrew Kenneth Johnson, QLD
For excellent public service by management in growing and stewarding Australia’s functionality within the environmental and bodily sciences.
Dr Andrew Johnson has carried out and overseen a number of main enterprise transformation packages, together with bringing collectively the uplift of the safety, stability and resilience of the Bureau of Meteorology’s (Bureau) info and communications expertise (ICT) techniques and observing community by the ROBUST Program.
Dr Johnson has labored laborious to make sure the Bureau’s ICT system is maintained at a world class stage to ship its providers of wide-ranging expertise transformation of climate, local weather and water providers by cell phone purposes for Australians and for Bureau purchasers such because the aviation trade and defence.
Attributable to Dr Johnson’s high-calibre management capabilities, the Bureau secured an ongoing improve in base funding to maintain capabilities realised by the ROBUST Program. By means of his management, professionalism and experience, Dr Johnson was key to restoring belief and credibility of the Bureau.
Dr Johnson has supplied excellent service and management in local weather modelling, world main climate prediction, water and oceans providers, emergency administration and innovation in provision of public info to Australia.
Together with his lifelong dedication to science, operational excellence and growing the leaders of tomorrow, Dr Johnson has been a champion for range and for growing his workers and making certain it’s a culturally high-performing establishment. Dr Johnson has led his staff to really ship on its imaginative and prescient, technique and values to construct an company that’s trusted nationally and revered globally.
For excellent public service in management and professionalism within the growth and supply of the Commonwealth budgets and monetary coverage.
Ms Amanda Lee has excelled within the tough and dynamic function main Price range Coverage and Coordination Division and has been essential within the growth and supply of quite a few Commonwealth Budgets and related updates.
Ms Lee’s experience, work ethic and dedication to work collegiately throughout the Australian Public Service (APS) was notably relied upon because the Australian Authorities navigated although the disaster response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Along with the same old Price range and Mid-12 months Financial and Fiscal Outlook updates, this era additionally required supply of the July 2020 Financial and Fiscal Replace, the October 2020 Price range, the 2022 Pre-Election Financial and Fiscal Outlook and out-of-session Price range updates. By means of working underneath excessive circumstances throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and navigating uncertainty, Ms Lee led her staff in an exemplary style throughout this era in offering recommendation to authorities which was instrumental in stopping an financial catastrophe for Australian households and companies.
Ms Lee has all the time rapidly secured and held the arrogance of Ministers, leading to her capacity to successfully affect decision-making on authorities expenditure and non-taxation income issues.
Ms Lee is extensively revered for her skilled recommendation, steering and help for successive governments to allow them to ship on their funds and monetary coverage aims. Ms Lee’s popularity in supporting her workers throughout extraordinarily tough and busy occasions is testomony to her management. Her experience and highest diploma of professionalism is indicative of the integral function she has performed in advising and supporting authorities in managing the funds course of.
For excellent public service in management and innovation in gender equality and girls’s coverage throughout the Australian Authorities.
Ms Chantelle Stratford has been a driving power behind a spread of great nationwide coverage and reforms in gender equality and girls’s security. This contains work underneath the Nationwide Plan to Cut back Violence towards Ladies and their Youngsters, the Ladies and Ladies’s Security Ministerial Council, COVID-19 household violence responses and the 1800RESPECT nationwide home violence service. She has led complicated and delicate coverage reforms, contributing considerably to placing girls on the centre of the financial and social coverage agenda.
The previous yr alone, Ms Stratford has led work to introduce new legal guidelines that may see employers publish gender pay gaps – a world class reform to drive transparency and motion in direction of closing the gender pay hole. She has been on the forefront of main financial reforms for girls by the Price range and launched Australia’s first gender budgeting system – embedding gender impression evaluation throughout all new coverage proposals, along with finalising the method of Australia’s first ever Nationwide Gender Equality Technique, that may information complete of group motion to assist make Australia probably the greatest nations on the earth for equality.
Ms Stratford was elected as the worldwide chair of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) Coverage Partnership on Ladies and the Economic system for 2023 and 2024 and has confidently advocated for girls’s rights on the United Nations Fee on the Standing of Ladies, OECD Gender Budgeting Community and different international fora over a few years.
Ms Stratford has additionally contributed to non-government organisations, by board and committee appointments, and her work main massive scale reforms to modernise Victorian group providers as a part of their response to the Royal Fee into Household Violence.
Ms Stratford is an inspiration to all who work alongside her. She is a visionary chief and a tireless advocate for girls’s rights who has gone above and past in her work to attain gender equality and help girls’s empowerment.
Ms Gemma Van Halderen, Turner ACT 2612
For excellent public service in delivering important statistical developments for higher use of knowledge for public coverage functions, each in Australia and internationally.
Ms Gemma Van Halderen led the Commonwealth Authorities’s response to the Productiveness Fee’s Inquiry into Information Availability and Use. This work aimed to enhance the sharing of public information in a means that was safe and revered privateness. Ms Van Halderen’s work culminated within the Information Availability and Transparency Act (DATA) 2022, and the organising of the Workplace of the Nationwide Information Commissioner, whose function is to supervise a brand new regime of enhanced public-sector information sharing.
Ms Van Halderen was additionally extensively concerned in establishing Australian Bureau of Statistics environmental statistics and accounts, together with the event of the System of Environmental-Financial Accounts (SEEA) which combine environmental accounts with longstanding financial accounts.
Particularly, Ms Van Halderen’s management and contribution within the fields of place-based and environmental statistics, and information integration and entry, have supplied new wealthy info sources and highly effective instruments for analyzing complicated public coverage points essential to Australia’s future wellbeing.
Ms Van Halderen’s management and experience can also be acknowledged internationally, the place she has influenced the event of worldwide requirements and practices within the fields of geospatial and statistical integration and environmental accounting. Ms Van Halderen is understood for her dedication to nurturing and growing early profession statisticians and information professionals and growing future leaders whereas repeatedly demonstrating excellent public service.
For excellent public service in contributing to the protection of Australians, safety of missions and safety of bilateral relationships by tough environments and abroad crises.
Ms Sally-Anne Vincent has managed a sequence of complicated political and humanitarian crises throughout her function as deputy excessive commissioner to Solomon Islands.
Within the first month of her posting, she was lead coordinator of Australia’s response to a major man-made oil spill near the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) World Heritage Website at Rennell Island. Ms Vincent travelled to this distant space, whereas going through environmental damage and severe well being dangers and coordinated the incoming Crises Response Crew and different whole-of-government help from Australia.
Ms Vincent was the Authorities’s principal focus as performing excessive commissioner throughout civil unrest in Honiara in November 2021, the place she managed fast paced and complicated points referring to Australia’s help to revive calm, whereas making certain the protection of all Australians in Solomon Islands. Attributable to Ms Vincent’s efforts, Australia was in a position to deploy personnel and logistical help inside 24 hours, which is exemplary of her hard-earned work on constructing Australia’s relationship with the Solomon Islands Authorities.
Her dedication in occasions of disaster has continued throughout her time in Solomon Islands the place she has acted as excessive commissioner for prolonged intervals of time, and at occasions of adversity and disaster, together with intervals of civil unrest, a serious earthquake and an prolonged interval of extreme COVID-19 restrictions. Ms Vincent’s profession has been marked by dedication to defending Australia’s important pursuits in robust overseas environments and distinguished by a number of cases of brave and memorable service in tumultuous circumstances.
Australian Capital Territory Public Service Medal (PSM)
For excellent public service to financial growth and restoration throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her function as Deputy Director-Basic, Financial Growth, Ms Kareena Arthy was chargeable for offering aid and help to the ACT enterprise group throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. She gave help by the event of help packages, equivalent to grant packages and hardship schemes, in addition to extensions on price waivers within the hospitality trade.
Ms Arthy addressed the wants of the ACT group by focused help to Canberra companies by the supply of coverage, packages and funding. Whereas offering help throughout the pandemic, Ms Arthy was additionally making certain a full restoration post-pandemic by growth of recent key strengths equivalent to cyber, area and quantum industries.
Ms Arthy leads with integrity and dedication, and her work throughout the ACT’s COVID-19 response performed a essential function in making certain the ACT group have been protected and supported. She was instrumental to the fast restoration of the financial system and trade sectors following the pandemic.
Ms Fiona Barbaro, Campbell ACT 2612
For excellent public service to the ACT Authorities’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
Ms Fiona Barbaro led the ACT Authorities’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program. The vaccination program ensured entry to COVID-19 vaccinations for all Canberrans, with a selected concentrate on individuals with entry and sensory wants and those that face boundaries to accessing mainstream healthcare.
Beneath Ms Barbaro’s management, the ACT COVID-19 vaccination program pioneered revolutionary approaches to advertise and enhance vaccine protection in individuals struggling to entry mass vaccination clinics. For instance, she led the event and implementation of the Entry and Sensory Vaccination Clinic in Could 2021, which was established as a specialised vaccination service for individuals with incapacity, their carers and relations, individuals with psychological well being circumstances, individuals who wanted further sensory help and people experiencing boundaries to mainstream service supply.
Ms Barbaro additionally led the Fairness to Entry Program. This program ensured equitable entry to COVID-19 vaccines for teams more likely to expertise a disproportionate burden of illness, by making use of rules of inclusive and clear service supply. Ms Barbaro led her staff to accomplice with group teams and repair suppliers to ship in-reach vaccination clinics and pop-up vaccination clinics at a spread of places throughout the ACT.
As of 30 June 2022, the ACT was one of the vaccinated jurisdictions on the earth with greater than 97 per cent of eligible individuals (aged 5 years and over) receiving two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. This outcome was on account of a big staff of devoted workers and volunteers throughout the ACT Authorities and the group. Ms Barbaro supplied distinctive management to this staff, inspiring and coordinating revolutionary and extremely profitable packages. Her management was integral to the success of the ACT vaccination program and is an excellent instance of public service underneath difficult circumstances.
Ms Natalie Jayne Cooper, Bungendore NSW 2621
For excellent public service in communications for the ACT Authorities’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
Ms Natalie Cooper led the communications actions for the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination program for the ACT, and later led the COVID-19 Communications staff, following the stand down of the Public Data Coordination Centre. Ms Cooper labored intently with the ACT Well being Directorate, the COVID-19 Response staff, complete of presidency and with non-government stakeholders.
As a part of the COVID-19 Government staff, Ms Cooper engaged and labored with ACT Authorities Directorates and their Communication and Media groups, to make sure there was consciousness, understanding, help and alignment within the communication and media actions that have been carried out throughout authorities.
Ms Cooper managed and led key actions for the COVID-19 response, together with strategic info campaigns, administration of media responses, speaking factors and information articles, administration of social media channels and internet content material.
Ms Cooper labored to develop revolutionary methods to help communications for the COVID-19 vaccination roll out. She did this whereas main her staff in a constructive, empathetic and nurturing means. It was this administration type that noticed the Communications staff constantly ship glorious initiatives, underneath immense strain and inside extraordinarily tight timeframes.
Ms Cooper’s work was instrumental within the ACT Authorities’s supply of a profitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The revolutionary and constructive communications actions led by Ms Cooper meant that the group remained engaged, at the same time as COVID fatigue had begun to set in. Ms Cooper’s management expertise, her capacity to assume strategically and her dedication to steady enchancment resulted in a extremely profitable communications strategy for the pandemic.
Mr Rodney Dix, Wamboin NSW 2620
For excellent public service to environmental safety providers throughout the ACT.
For over twenty years, Mr Rodney Dix has led the small Atmosphere Safety Crew throughout the broader Atmosphere Safety Authority (EPA) in Entry Canberra. The staff responds to environmental incidents in any respect scales, from noise and wood-smoke complaints to main air pollution incidents such because the 2022 Boxing Day hearth on the ACT Supplies Restoration Facility and huge chemical spills.
His management ensures that Entry Canberra and EPA accountability and compliance frameworks are upheld, with all events handled with respect, and academic approaches used earlier than any regulatory motion. This permits negotiated options to be discovered typically.
Mr Dix has excelled in customer support whereas delivering environmental outcomes for the group. He has additionally supplied management for glorious service supply, main improvements for extra environment friendly processes and instilling a security tradition to forestall hurt. The place severe environmental hurt happens, Mr Dix and his staff shield individuals and property whereas stopping contamination of waters, land and air whereas working with different emergency providers. Beneath his management, the staff’s work well being and security file is superb regardless of the inherently hazardous nature of those emergency responses.
The impression of Mr Dix’s contribution is evidenced in environmental hurt that’s prevented from occurring, and subsequently doesn’t lead to additional complaints or cases of environmental hurt. He additionally performs a key function in issuing environmental authorisations to handle noise at Canberra’s main occasions, which permits Canberra’s wealthy cultural life to proceed.
Ms Karen Elizabeth Doran, ACT
For excellent public service to group security by management, coverage recommendation and program administration.
Ms Karen Doran is an excellent chief in group security coverage and program administration, offering stewardship to the ACT’s emergency providers functionality and corrections system.
Ms Doran performed a pivotal function in supporting ministers and operational response leaders throughout the 2019-20 bushfire season, together with the state of alert and state of emergency intervals through which threat to the ACT group was at its highest. Ms Doran’s management, mental rigour and skill to attach the suitable components of presidency on the proper time fashioned a vital part of the work to help the ACT’s operational response.
Ms Doran’s experience was once more known as upon at first of the COVID-19 pandemic as an incident controller of the ACT Authorities’s non-health response. In that function Ms Doran supplied an important hyperlink between the well being response and complete of presidency efforts to reply to the preliminary phases of the pandemic. Ms Doran laid the groundwork for the ACT Authorities’s long run non-health response mechanisms.
Outdoors of occasions of disaster, Ms Doran has astutely guided efforts to make sure that ACT emergency responders and the ACT corrections techniques have the coverage help, sources and infrastructure to ship group security outcomes for the individuals of the ACT. Ms Doran’s efforts have delivered excellent leads to group security infrastructure growth and strategic infrastructure planning for the long run.
For excellent public service to the Workplace of the COVID-19 Native Enterprise Commissioner for the ACT.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms Emma Gowling established and managed the Workplace of the COVID-19 Native Enterprise Commissioner (LBC) for the ACT. The Workplace was established to help the COVID-19 Native Enterprise Commissioner who was charged with supporting Canberra companies throughout the pandemic, notably in mediating between landlords and tenants over rental points. Over the lifetime of the LBC Ms Gowling established and ran the Workplace, maintained information and data collected, triaged the contacts obtained, carried out mediations, assisted the Commissioner with extra complicated circumstances, and supplied pastoral care to a lot of those that contacted the LBC.
Ms Gowling excelled within the promptness of her response to greater than 1,500 purchasers, the accuracy of the recommendation given, the way through which she carried out the mediations and thru the compassion and caring proven to those that wanted it. Her management in working with people, companies, trade associations, committees and her ACT public service colleagues resulted in glorious and well timed service to the enterprise group, in addition to necessary info being provided to trade and authorities.
The impression of Ms Gowling’s work could be seen in variety of profitable agreements struck, giving aid and certainty to the events concerned. Ms Gowling’s inciteful summaries and recommendations again into Authorities, and to trade associations, enabled methods to be developed and/or modified. In a person sense, her biggest work was caring for people at a time of immense strain.
For excellent public service to public schooling because the principal of Evatt Major Faculty.
Mr Michael Hatswell goes above and past within the function of a college principal at Evatt Major Faculty, He achieves this by main the varsity in enhancing pupil outcomes by the supply of rigorous, excessive impression studying packages, while advocating for the person wants of all college students.
Mr Hatswell is child-centred, selling a constructive faculty tradition of inclusiveness. He invests time and power in his workers and college students that’s to a depth not often seen within the busyness of his function. He helps pupil engagement, with a holistic view of their wellbeing wants, together with these college students who may have additional help with meals, attendance, and bodily and psychological well being, in order that they’re in the perfect area for studying. He recurrently advocates for individuals who want it, making certain that each one college students and households obtain what they want.
Mr Hatswell’s management type conjures up lecturers, educators, and help workers, whether or not they’re new to the career, or have had years of expertise. He shows a strategic and efficient problem-solving strategy while encouraging all to collaborate to attain the perfect in all areas of studying and wellbeing.
Mr Hatswell believes within the significance of robust partnerships, working along with workers, college students and households to create a united group. He is aware of the necessary function that colleges play and has ensured that Evatt Major is on the centre of the group.
He has developed significant relationships with organisations, companies and repair suppliers with the widespread aim of enhancing outcomes for the group. He actively listens to college students and workers and ensures that everybody feels a part of the varsity group. Mr Hatswell needs faculty to be a spot the place college students like to study, play and join.
For excellent public service to the Canberra and area tourism trade by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Government Department Supervisor, VisitCanberra, Mr Jonathan Kobus was instrumental in main the customer financial system by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Kobus expanded VisitCanberra’s functionality to raised help trade in restoration and development, together with grant packages to help native tourism companies and coaching to uplift trade functionality.
Mr Kobus led the event of the Framework for Restoration of the Customer Economic system, a pathway ahead for presidency and trade to work collectively to focus exercise within the areas that might make the most important distinction. Mr Kobus led the way in which for trade restoration, participating with trade and clearly articulating a means ahead throughout a time of disaster. Additional, Mr Kobus labored intently with Canberra Worldwide Airport to re-establish direct flights to each capital metropolis, in addition to new routes and new carriers that haven’t beforehand operated in Canberra.
Mr Kobus’s efforts in aiding the Canberra and area tourism trade throughout, and following, the COVID-19 pandemic was excellent. His distinctive management and strategic considering have been instrumental for the help of native tourism companies and the ACT customer financial system. He has set a brand new precedent for a united and collaborative tourism trade in Canberra and the area.
Mr Victor Hugo Martin, ACT
For excellent public service in managing the COVID-19 Proactive Compliance Inspection Program for the ACT’s COVID-19 response.
Mr Victor Martin supplied distinctive management in his function managing the COVID-19 Proactive Compliance Inspection Program for the COVID-19 response. The Program ensured that companies and organisations complied with the general public well being instructions that have been in place, and supported companies to develop measures that minimised the danger of COVID-19 transmission.
Mr Martin’s strategic strategy to the Compliance Program noticed a robust concentrate on engagement and schooling, moderately than an enforcement compliance strategy. Companies and organisations relied closely on compliance officers who labored tirelessly to interact and advise companies throughout a interval of fixed change and immense uncertainty. The Program was extremely efficient and constructive, with many companies in a position to adjust to the general public well being restrictions.
Mr Martin was instrumental in main the event of key laws that supported a step-down strategy for the COVID-19 Public Well being Emergency to a COVID-19 Administration Declaration framework. He labored collaboratively and respectfully with key stakeholders to handle all pursuits in a strategic and productive means. Which created different choices to managing the COVID-19 pandemic exterior of a public well being emergency.
Mr Martin’s work was instrumental within the ACT Authorities’s supply of a profitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The revolutionary and constructive strategy to compliance actions led by Mr Martin meant that enterprise and organisations remained engaged. His management and skill to interact constructively with essential stakeholders was instrumental in supporting a profitable response to the pandemic.
Ms Jenny Anne Priest, Pearce ACT 2607
For excellent public service in main the supply of Enterprise Assist Grants to companies within the ACT impacted by COVID-19.
As govt department supervisor for the supply of the Enterprise Assist Grants, Ms Jenny Priest was tasked with growing processes, constructing a staff, and managing the supply of the grant program. By means of her actions native companies obtained a lot wanted and well timed help throughout the pandemic.
This system design and implementation ensured funding went to companies in want, processes have been honest and clear, and timeframes have been managed successfully, limiting impression on people, companies and throughout authorities. Ms Priest ensured the well being and wellbeing of her workers remained paramount, whereas managing competing calls for of greater than 11,000 companies requesting help.
Ms Priest additionally led a multi-year challenge to determine a brand new College of New South Wales (UNSW) campus in Canberra. She coordinated throughout ACT Authorities, oversaw planning and governance preparations, led negotiations with UNSW and undertook the required actions to supply prime quality recommendation to authorities.
Ms Priest displayed the very best ranges of management, integrity and dedication for her work throughout COVID-19 and ensured the wants of native companies and the ACT Authorities have been met. Ms Priest performed a direct contributing function to the ACT Authorities’s COVID-19 response and success.
For excellent public service to the ACT Authorities’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
As the manager department supervisor for the ACT COVID-19 vaccination program, Ms Charmaine Smith supplied exemplary service by her management of a various and dynamic program. Beneath her management, the Vaccination Program achieved world-leading outcomes.
Ms Smith’s contribution to this system targeted on management within the areas of knowledge, reporting, and coverage. She led the interpretation of Commonwealth coverage and steering from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) into the ACT context. Ms Smith represented the ACT on the Commonwealth’s Operation COVID-Protect and to the COVID-19 Vaccine Program Managers Group.
Ms Smith led well timed and efficient communication and engagement with the group and stakeholders. All through, she was a constructive, productive and compassionate chief of her groups. She modelled respect, integrity and empathy, guiding her groups by hectic circumstances with compassion and dedication. Ms Smith led the event and implementation of public well being instructions associated to vaccines, together with these requiring that sure staff be vaccinated towards COVID-19. These mandates have been imposed to assist forestall COVID-19 transmission to susceptible individuals within the ACT by requiring that sure healthcare, schooling, early childhood schooling and care, incapacity and aged care staff be vaccinated.
As of 30 June 2022, the ACT was one of the extremely vaccinated jurisdictions on the earth with greater than 97 per cent of eligible individuals aged 5 years and over receiving two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. This outcome was on account of a big staff of devoted workers and volunteers throughout Authorities and group. Ms Smith supplied distinctive service by her management to this staff. Her management engendered a tradition of excellence, whereas remaining compassionate and person-centred.
Ms Susan Ruth Vroombout, Curtin ACT 2605
For excellent public service because the Deputy Beneath Treasurer within the ACT Treasury throughout COVID-19.
Ms Susan Vroombout has demonstrated exemplary public service all through her profession, each within the Commonwealth and ACT Public Service. Her management in negotiating with the Commonwealth Authorities to supply help that was complementary to ACT Authorities efforts and of the best impression to Canberrans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic exemplifies her dedication to excellence in public service and her capacity to ship leads to the pursuits of the general public.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms Vroombout developed and carried out options to financial and monetary issues that the ACT Authorities doesn’t usually face. She performed a key function in growing packages to help households and companies to remain afloat. This required that she lead novel, collaborative approaches to coverage growth, growing options in timeframes that usually would not be thought of, and dealing prolonged hours to make sure these packages have been carried out.
With out Ms Vroombout’s efforts the funds wouldn’t have been as nicely directed and would have been much less efficient in serving to companies and households within the ACT climate the impacts of COVID-19. To this finish, the supply of the COVID-19 Enterprise Assist Grants and the Small Enterprise Hardship Scheme, along with numerous income measures to help the ACT financial system couldn’t have been achieved with the timeliness, efficacy and impact throughout the pandemic with out her management.
Ms Vroombout demonstrated exemplary requirements of management throughout this era. Whereas her dedication to robust management has been a function of her profession, it was her execution of this normal throughout COVID-19 that helped guarantee her distinctive contribution. The direct impression of this was the supply of monetary help measures to households and companies within the ACT, with out which, many Canberrans would have suffered additional hardship.
Ms Joanne Margaret Wooden, Kaleen ACT 2617
For excellent public service in supporting susceptible Canberrans all through the ACT’s COVID-19 response.
As deputy director-general, Neighborhood Companies Directorate (CSD), Ms Joanne Wooden was chargeable for main CSD’s response to COVID-19. She led the-groundwork to determine quarantine preparations that catered to girls and youngsters fleeing home violence, homeless individuals, these with drug and alcohol points and other people from quite a lot of cultural backgrounds. She labored tirelessly throughout sectors to make sure providers might cater to the wants of all, notably these at biggest threat.
Ms Wooden was in a position to work throughout a number of directorates, packages, and with well being and group sector companions to supply revolutionary service responses to probably the most susceptible cohorts throughout COVID-19. This included working with multicultural group leaders to make sure key cultural teams have been accessing vaccines and enabled to adjust to lockdown necessities. She negotiated the supply of fundamental provides and providers for some cohorts, who would in any other case have been left remoted and at-risk throughout lockdowns.
She labored to determine the ACT Authorities’s Ragusa Quarantine Facility. This work included participating group sector companions to supply on the bottom providers and helps, equivalent to entry to drug and alcohol providers, that have been required for individuals to have the ability to adjust to quarantine necessities. She was additionally instrumental in making certain the service response attended to individuals’s wants past the well being necessities.
Ms Wooden has exemplified group service in her numerous roles throughout the Neighborhood Companies Directorate. She could be very attuned to the work wanted with the group sector. She has a transparent concentrate on doing what is true to help probably the most susceptible in our group, and to make the social cloth of the ACT higher, by focused helps and providers for those who want it.
Australian Hearth Service Medal (AFSM)
Mr Gerald Peter Muhldorff, ACT
Mr Gerald Muhldorff joined ACT Hearth & Rescue (ACTF&R) on 12 June 1997 after having served 9 years as a firefighter within the Royal Australian Navy. Mr Muhldorff joined with the primary consumption of lateral recruits inducted by ACTF&R. All through the previous 26 years, Mr Muhldorff has demonstrated an unwavering dedication to the examine, coaching, and apply of fireplace investigation, particularly hearth trigger dedication.
Mr Muhldorff attained the rank of station officer on 7 September 2006, and constantly proves to be a helpful member of ACTF&R and ACT Emergency Companies Company. While a firefighter, Mr Muhldorff undertook examine within the area of fireplace investigation and subsequently labored as an investigator, and because the ACTF&R Hearth Investigation Coordinator. He has maintained all operational necessities and coaching and nonetheless participates in lively frontline operations frequently.
The function of a fireplace investigator is to determine hearth trigger and dedication submit hearth, which could be a particularly complicated science. Mr Muhldorff has confirmed to be an skilled on this area and has represented ACTF&R on quite a few events as an skilled in courts of regulation. Mr Muhldorff has additionally excelled as an teacher and mentor for workers from ACTF&R, Australian Federal Police, and numerous different companies.
Attributable to his experience and expertise, Mr Muhldorff was chosen to be a member of a joint service Australian contingent who have been tasked with offering hearth investigation coaching to army officers in Thailand and the Iraq Police service coaching carried out in Australia. The science of fireplace investigation is to analyse the reason for a fireplace, to supply info and finally safety to operational crews by the outcomes of this investigation course of. Complete hearth scene investigation determines hearth behaviour which informs instantly how operational crews deal with the incident scene.
The work undertaken by Mr Muhldorff has considerably added to the protection of responding ACTF&R crews. Hearth investigation is tough, soiled, and exhausting work. The circumstances encountered are hazardous in nature, and practitioners are required to undertake their work till a dedication is made. This requires dedication and focus which Mr Muhldorff has demonstrated on many events.
Emergency Companies Medal (ESM)
Mr Tristan Wesley Peemoeller, ACT
Mr Tristan Peemoeller is a extremely devoted and valued member the ACT State Emergency Service (ACTSES). He unfailingly makes himself accessible to help nearly all SES requires help, exceeding the volunteer obligation by 24 occasions of that required. His dedication to the ACT group is past query.
Mr Peemoeller has served as a frontline volunteer since 2017, he has all the time maintained a excessive stage of competence and availability to help the group all yr spherical. Mr Peemoeller is a really proactive member of the ACTSES, and all through his time has responded to requests for help throughout floods, storms, lacking particular person searches, and helps within the coordination of coaching actions. As well as, he unfailingly makes himself accessible to help on a variety of duties, together with aiding within the welfare of his fellow volunteers.
In the course of the ACT Well being response to COVID-19, his dedication was nicely above that requested by the ACTSES volunteers. He contributed a number of hours of service, collaborating in frontline operations, Incident Administration Groups, and welfare and help actions. These actions included packaging meals and provide packs for susceptible communities, distribution of products to ACT residents by the Canberra Aid Community, and supply of faculty provides and laptop computer computer systems to ACT college students on behalf of ACT Schooling. Mr Peemoeller maintained his volunteer engagement by this tough time, remaining operationally prepared, when many didn’t.
Mr Peemoeller continues to exhibit an excellent stage of dedication to the ACTSES and its members, persevering with to go above and past in each side of his volunteering. His management and dedication, particularly in regard to group schooling, ensures the ACT can ship its helpful service to the group. He’s extremely regarded by ACTSES volunteers and instantly contributes to the continuing growth of the ACTSES into the skilled organisation it’s right now.
Australian Corrections Medal (ACM)
Mr Dean Smith has been a frontline correctional officer with ACT Corrective Companies (ACTCS) since 1997 and at present holds the place of correctional officer grade 2 on the Alexander Maconochie Centre. He’s nicely regarded for the respectful means he treats each workers and detainees. Mr Smith is extremely expert in planning and coordinating responses to incidents or disturbances.
In an emergency, Mr Smith has a capability to evaluate and reply to what’s typically a quickly altering state of affairs. Throughout these occasions, Mr Smith takes a management function in coordinating operational responses and has a excessive stage of situational consciousness. He gives detailed and clear instruction to workers, with every particular person understanding what’s required of them and the significance of their function to attain the specified consequence. Workers place belief in his experience and judgement and are keen to comply with his directions in hectic and doubtlessly hazardous conditions.
Mr Smith treats all detainees with respect, particularly when they’re experiencing heightened emotional states. The detainees additionally present him respect, as he’s tactful, thoughtful, upfront and clear in his dealings with them and doesn’t make false guarantees. He has distinctive communication expertise and a relaxed disposition, which permits him to resolve battle calmly and peacefully with detainees.
Mr Smith, all through the length of his profession, has carried out himself with professionalism and integrity and has an untarnished service file. He’s the epitome of an excellent correctional officer and supervisor and he’s admired by his colleagues for his professionalism. General, Mr Smith is an achieved, but humble, correctional chief who doesn’t search private recognition.
Australian Intelligence Medal (AIM)
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