King’s birthday honours list 2025: from broadcasting luminary Phillip Adams to a PM and a film-making couple

The longtime ABC radio host joins Scott Morrison, movie-makers Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin and former Women’s Weekly editor Deborah Hutton among award recipients

The broadcasting luminary Phillip Adams has been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia on the King’s birthday honours roll, where he is joined by the former prime minister Scott Morrison and film-making couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin.

Adams was made a member of the order in 1987, then an officer in 1992. At the age of 85, he can now add the suffix AC – denoting Australia’s highest civilian honour – to his name.

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