The listing in the SMH simply read: Ms Amanda Rose Keller Coogee, NSW. For service to the broadcast media, and to the community.

It could also have said: For the service of being the nicest person in radio.

Others associated with radio who featured in the Queen’s Birthday list released this morning include radio and TV medic Dr John D’Arcy, for significant service to community health and education through a range of broadcast media roles, and to medicine as a general practitioner. And Ms Deborah Elizabeth Spillane. For significant service to media as a sports commentator and journalist, and as a role model for women in broadcasting.

Amanda’s WSFM breakfast show co-host Brendan “Jonesy” Jones said, “Getting up at 4am everyday isn’t easy but I feel like I haven’t worked a day in the past 11 years of being on air with Amanda. Besides being talented and an absolute expert at what she does we really just hang out in the studio and make each other laugh. Over the years I’ve also been of great service to the Queen, well, I’ve played a lot of Queen … So where is my award? But seriously, I’m so proud of Amanda, this is a great honour and it is really deserved.”

Off air Amanda volunteers her time and energy to support a number of charities. She has been a patron of The Sydney Kids Committee (2004- 2014), a volunteer organisation which raises funds for the Sydney Children’s Hospital; an ambassador for DonateLife (2011-2012); is an ambassador of Save Our Sons, a charity which aims to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) a form of muscular dystrophy characterised by aggressive muscle degeneration, which affects mainly young boys from the age of five. Amanda is also a supporter of Kidney Health Australia and makes herself available to help many other causes close to her heart. 

Annually, WSFM and Jonesy & Amanda as a team support the GOLD Telethon with Channel 9 to help sick and injured kids treated at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.