Eight receive honours

Updated November 5 2012 - 2:04pm, first published January 25 2007 - 1:09pm

EIGHT Ballarat and district residents have been recognised in the Australia Day 2007 Honours List.
Awards in the Australian honours system represent the highest level of recognition that can be accorded by the nation, for attainment of outstanding achievement and service.
Recognised with Order of Australia Medals were Mt Helen resident Topsy Nevett; Ballarat businessman Doug Sarah; Linton farmer and Golden Plains Shire councillor Kevin Knight; Learmonth resident Keith Hucker; Ballarat
lawyer Bill McGregor and former Ballarat Grammar headmaster Barry Smith.
Clarendon resident and former politician Rob Knowles received the Order of Australia, while Ballarat ambulance officer Colin Horwell received the Australian Ambulance Service Medal.
Council of the Order chairman Sir James Gobbo said a diversity of service across all fields was being recognised today in the honours list.
"These awards are public recognition of people who provide outstanding community service and whose achievements enhance national identity," he said.
"These awards recognise particularly the quiet achievers, who serve the community, but do not seek accolades for themselves."
In total, 577 recipients received awards in the Order of Australia for a range of contributions and service.
Among nation-wide recipients were two Perth-based professors, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2005, and have now been recognised by their own country for their ground-breaking work.
The professors discovered that it was bacteria, rather than stress, that caused stomach ulcers and have both been appointed Companions in the Order of Australia for service to medicine and medical research.
It may be 50 years since Bob Simpson first pulled on the baggy green of the Australian Test cricket team, but he was judged to have done so much for the game in an administrative role since that he has been appointed an Officer
in the Order of Australia.

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