1960 Sir MacFarlane Burnet
1961
Dame Joan Sutherland
1962
Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock
1963 Sir
John Eccles
1964 Dawn Fraser
1965 Sir Robert Helpmann
1966
Sir Jack Brabham
1967 The Seekers
1968 Lionel Rose
1969 The Rt Hon
Richard Gardiner
1970 Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy
1971 Evonne
Goolagong Cawley
1972 Shane Gould
1973
Patrick White
1974 Sir Bernard
Heinz
1975 Sir John Cornforth
1975 Major General Alan Stretton
1976
Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
1977 Sir Murray Tyrall
1977
Dame Raigh Roe DBE
1978 Alan Bond
1978 Galarrwuy Yunupingu
1979
Senator Neville Bonnor
1979 Harry
Butler
1980 Manning Clark
1981
Sir John Crawford
1982 Sir Edward Williams
1983 Robert de Castella
1984 Lois O'Donoghue
1985
Paul Hogan
1986
Dick Smith
1987
John Farnham
1988 Kay Cottee
1989 Allan Border
1990
Fred Hollows
1991 Archbishop
Peter Hollingworth
1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu
1993 (no award given
due to changing date system)
1994 Ian Kiernan
1995
Arthur Boyd
1996 Doctor John Yu
1997 Professor Peter Doherty
1998 Cathy Freeman
1999 Mark
Taylor
2000 Sir Gustav Nossal
2001 Lt General Peter Cosgrove
2002 Patrick Rafter
2003
Professor Fiona Stanley
2004
Steve Waugh
2005
Fiona Wood
2006
Professor Ian Frazer
2007 Tim Flannery
2008 Lee
Kernaghan
2009 Mick Dodson
2010 Professor Patrick McGorry
2011
Simon McKeon
2012 Geoffrey Rush
2013 Ita Buttrose
2014 Adam
Goodes
2015 Rosie Batty
2016 David Morrison
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