28 January 2025
Congratulations to these outstanding people on being recognised in the 2025 Honours List. Your service and achievements shine a light on the co-operative and mutual sector:
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division
Ms Amanda Joy Young – for service to youth and to the community
- Great Southern Bank (Credit Union Australia Limited)
- Quality Assurance Personal Lending, 2016-2018
Dr Andre Conradie – for service to medicine and community health
- Friendly Society Private Hospital (Bundaberg Friendly Society Medical Institute Limited)
- Director, Coronary Care Unit, current
- Interventional Cardiologist, Cardiac Investigations Unit, since 2012
- Founder, Cardiac Investigations Unit, 2012
- Medical Resident, current
- Medical Student Trainer, current
Mrs Nellie Beatrice Mooney – for service to the Indigenous community of the Shoalhaven region
- South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation
- Founding Member, 1982
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