Former ABC board member Wendy McCarthy and broadcaster Philip Adams are among the recipients of this year’s Order of Australia honours.

Also recognised are Cherie Romaro, Greta Bradman and the late Jim Remedio and Ian Cousins.

The media people to be named amongst 0ver 800 Australians receiving the country’s top civil recognition on this Kings Birthday holiday are:

• Programmer, Manager and international consultant Cherie Dawn Romaro, 6PR, 2SM, 6IX, 2MMM, 2DAYFM, ARN, Foxtel, 2CH and consultant to many international broaadcast companies

• ABC Broadcaster Greta Jessie Bradman, ABC Classic FM

• ABC Broadcaster Phillip Andrew Adams, ABC Radio and 2UE

• Journalist and presenter Kenneth Casellas, ABC Radio Western Australia

• Newcastle broadcaster Carol Ann Duncan, 2NX, New FM, 2NC, 2NUR

• Shepperton volunteer presenter Leslie John Harrison, from community station One FM

• Broadcaster and podcaster Menaka Iyengar, 2RPH

• Kenneth Francis Jones, presenter Phoenix FM 106.7 Community Radio and Vision Radio, Bendigo

• Glenn Innes volunteer presenter Janice Fay Lemon, community stations 2CBD and STA FM.

• Hungarian Language Broadcaster Maria Magdolna Rozgonyi, 2EA (now SBS Radio)

• Edward Charles Wilkinson, former General Manager of 2TM, Tamworth

• Presenter and founding member Lorraine Evelyn Winchcomb, 6SEN, Community Capital Radio 101.7FM, Perth

• Talkback radio vet Dr John (Jack) Paul Ayerbe, 3AW, 3GL, 3AK, Bay FM and ABC Radio, Geelong

• Community radio board member Christopher John Pfeiffer, BBBFM 89.1, Barossa Valley SA

• Presenter Teresa Plane, 2RPH Sydney

• ABC Board Member Wendy Elizabeth McCarthy

Posthumous awards

• The late Ian Stewart Cousins, former Gold Coast and Tweed Heads General Manager, who passed away on the Gold Coast in April this year

• The late Matthew James Peacock, ABC reporter, EP and foreign correspondent

• The late ‘Jim’ James Daniel Remedio, indigenous broadcast leader, broaadcaster and manager at Black Star, CAAMA, Radiuo

  Larrakia, and many others.

• The late Gerald Maxwell Doyle, sports broadcaster at ABC Radio Illawarra

• The late Oliver David Pearson, sports broadcaster, Top FM (now Territory FM) Darwin

• The late Mr Reginald Andrew Watson, history program presenter on community station 96.1 FM (now Hobart FM), Hobart

• The Late Mr Peter Wykes Burgis, Director of Sound Recordings, Sound and Radio Branch, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra

Note: We have chosen not to display a picture of Jim Remedio in our main picture for reasons of cultural sensitivity.

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