Australian Bravery Decorations - Wattle Day 2025

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Government House CANBERRA ACT 2600 

 

 

 

1 September 2025

 

 

 

Australian Bravery Decorations - Wattle Day 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRAVERY MEDAL (BM)

(For acts of bravery in hazardous circumstances)

 

Senior Constable Karyn Louise HART

 Queensland Police Service

Miss Aaliah Paige JOHNSON

 

Miss Tyra Jayde JOHNSON

 

The late Ms Lisa Marie MANDELTORT

   VIC

Miss Chantelle SIMS

   VIC

Mr Joshua William SMITH


COMMENDATION FOR BRAVE CONDUCT

(For acts of bravery worthy of recognition)

 

Brevet Sergeant Gregory John BLIEDEN

   South Australia Police

Detective Sergeant Bradley Dann GALPIN

   South Australia Police

Mr Connor William HERWIG

   Queens Park WA 6701

Mr John Stephen KENNY

   NSW

Mr Martin Colin LLOYD

   MP Creek QLD 4606

Mr David Francis LOPEZ

   Glenmore Park NSW 2745

Mrs Kirrilly Petah LOPEZ

   Glenmore Park NSW 2745

Mr Rydell MURRAY

   QLD

Mr Michael David NAPPER

   Findon SA 5023

Mr Stephen John PARKER

   Surrey Hills VIC 3127

Mr William Harry REISSENWEBER

   Mount Barker SA 5251

Mr Dean ROSSIT

   NSW

Mr Michael Paul SCHMIDT

   Acacia Ridge QLD 4110

Mr Gethyn Timothy SINGLETON

   Beulah Park SA 5067


GROUP BRAVERY CITATION

(For a collective act of bravery, by a group of persons in extraordinary circumstances, that is considered worthy of recognition)

 

The following recipient is added to the Group Bravery Citation gazetted on 31 March 2020, for their actions during a prison riot at Long Bay Gaol in New South Wales.

 

Mr Robert Gordon MENZIES

 

 

The following recipients are added to the Group Bravery Citation gazetted on 19 March 2025, for their actions in intervening and apprehending a man armed with a knife in Sydney, NSW on 13 August 2019.

 

Mr Luke O’SHAUGHNESSY

 

Mr Paul Joseph O’SHAUGHNESSY

   NSW

 

The following recipients are recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for their actions rescuing a woman from a burning house in Bayview Heights, Queensland on 20 September 2022.

 

Mr Wayne Anthony MACONACHIE

   Bayview Heights QLD 4868

Mr Robert Frank PETERSEN

   Bayview Heights QLD 4868

Mr Mark Robert PORTON

   Bayview Heights QLD 4868

Mr Barry Richard UHR

   Bayview Heights QLD 4868

Mr Teokatai UMAKI

   QLD


The following recipients are recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for their actions restraining an armed offender at a hospital in Toowong, Queensland on 28 August 2016.

 

Mr Martin Patrick COLLINS

   Carina Heights QLD 4152

Dr Trevor HOLLINGSWORTH

   QLD

Ms Anne Josephine JONES

   Ipswich QLD 4305

Ms Kim Leanne SHEPHERD

   TAS

 

The following recipients are recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for their actions retrieving people from dangerous surf at Newcastle Beach, New South Wales on 20 May 2023.

 

Mr Anthony Gerard KELLY

   Charlestown NSW 2290

Mr Christopher KELLY

   Whitebridge NSW 2290

 

The following recipients are recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for their actions retrieving victims of a plane crash in Mudgee, New South Wales on 14 September 2014.

 

Mr Donald Anthony COOMBES

 

Mr David Robert RIBAUX

 

Mr Ashley William WALKER

   Gilgandra NSW 2827

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Her Excellency’s command

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gerard Martin PSM 

 

Official Secretary to the Governor-General 

 

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