New Year's Honours 2020

Dr Anne Bardsley

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and the State.

Dr Anne Bardsley worked as a senior analyst for the Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor from 2012 to 2018.

She undertook the research that led to the Chief Science Advisor's methamphetamine report, uncovering the social harm that had been caused as a result of overzealous testing.

Mr John Barnett

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film and television.

Mr John Barnett is New Zealand's leading television and film producer, who over the past 45 years has produced some of New Zealand's most popular feature films, among them the internationally acclaimed Whale Rider, and the comedy Sione's Wedding.

Dr Richard Bedford

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to governance.

Dr Richard Bedford has served as president of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for the last four years, and led the society through a period of transformation. He is a former academic who was appointed to the voluntary role of president of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, formerly the Royal Society of New Zealand, in 2015 to guide the institution through restructuring and modernisation.

Mrs Gillian Bibby

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music and music education.

Ms Gillian Bibby is a past-president of the New Zealand Composers' Association and one of the country's leading piano teachers. She has been co-founder and examiner for the New Zealand Music Examinations Board and teacher trainer for the New Zealand Suzuki Music Institute. She served on the National Council of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers and was an examiner for the Australian and the New Zealand Music Examinations Boards for more than 20 years.

Ms Susan Boland

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music and seniors.

Ms Susan Boland co-founded Operatunity Ltd in 2001, an organisation dedicated to delivering professional daytime concerts for seniors, while providing performance opportunities and employment to New Zealand artists.

She has contributed to the organisation as managing director and artistic director, since its inception, and Operatunity now performs to more than 65,000 seniors annually throughout New Zealand.

Mr Murray Cammick

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the music industry.

Mr Murray Cammick was the co-founder of Rip It Up magazine in 1977, the only nationwide music magazine at the time of its launch. Mr Cammick edited the magazine from 1980 to 1998, at a time when it played an important role in the revitalisation of the New Zealand music industry. He self-published the magazine for 17 years. By 2019 the first 101 issues of Rip It Up were digitised and made freely available through the National Library of New Zealand's Papers Past project.

Dr David Codyre

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mental health.

Dr David Codyre is a community psychiatrist and longstanding advocate for improvement in mental health services, and for increased access to peer support services. From 2002 to 2012 he established and led New Zealand's first primary mental healthcare programme at ProCare Health in Auckland.

Since 2012 he has led the mental health team at New Zealand's largest independent primary healthcare group Tamaki Health. He has led the development of a number of innovative programmes to better meet mental health and long term condition need, including development of a peer/cultural health coach role.

Associate Professor Ineke Crezee

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to interpreter and translator education.

Associate Professor Ineke Crezee has made a significant contribution toward interpreter and translator education, helping to ensure New Zealand is known internationally for leading the way with the non-language specific training of public service interpreters.

She has worked as a Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology for more than 20 years, teaching community interpreting, healthcare interpreting, legal interpreting and community translation courses.

Dr Aroha Harris

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and historical research.

Dr Aroha Harris is a historian at the University of Auckland, whose works have been published nationally and internationally in various edited collections and academic journals.

Dr Harris' first book Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest was published in 2004 and she collaborated on the award-winning 'Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History' (2014). She is past president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, a founding member of Te Pouhere Kōrero, the national collective of Māori historians, and former president of the New Zealand Historical Association.

Dr Frances Hughes

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mental health and nursing.

Dr Frances Hughes was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005 for her services to the mental health profession. She completed the first situational analysis of the status of mental health in 16 Pacific countries for the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has been instrumental in providing psychological support for those affected by the Christchurch Earthquakes.

Reverend Dr Helen Jacobi

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican church and the community.

The Reverend Dr Helen Jacobi has served as the first female Vicar of Auckland's St Matthew in the City since 2014.

Reverend Jacobi works with many marginalised and vulnerable communities, gaining national attention for her Church's inclusivity of the LGBTQI+ community. She was the first female dean of Waiapu Cathedral in Napier, where she served for nine years. During this time she managed the Cathedral's assets and addressed the Church's changing needs with the planning of new development, including a tourism strategy and historical exhibition.

Mrs Jennifer Khan-Janif

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to refugee and migrant communities.

Mrs Jennifer Khan-Janif co-founded the Umma Trust in 2003, which initially undertook development work in Iraq, and which diversified in 2008 to provide social services and support for refugee and migrant communities, particularly economically and socially disadvantaged Muslim women, children and families in the Auckland region.

Professor Ngaire Kerse

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to seniors and health.

Professor Ngaire Kerse is a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care and in 2018 was appointed the inaugural Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well at the University of Auckland. Professor Kerse is an international expert in maximising health for older people, falls and older people, the impact of physical activity on development of disability, and developing robot technology for older people with dementia.

Dr Murray MacCormick

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health, particularly surgery.

Dr MacCormick has been a surgeon for 45 years, specialising in breast cancer and vascular surgery.

He has worked as a tutor, consultation surgeon, and clinical director of General Surgery at Auckland Hospital. He is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Surgery at the University of Auckland, where he has introduced numerous surgical procedures, including breast reconstruction following mastectomy, carotid artery surgery, and a number of laparoscopic procedures now in general use.

Dr George Mason

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to conservation, philanthropy and the community.

Dr George Mason founded and has been a Trustee of the George Mason Charitable Trust since 1995, which has distributed more than $630,000 of scholarships, educational funding and grants to young New Zealanders.

In 2016 the Trust donated $5 million for a new Environmental Research Centre at the University of Auckland. He is an active member of 11 professional bodies across New Zealand, the United States, Asia and the Pacific. He has personally contributed to Forest and Bird international projects and has actively promoted interest and research on New Zealand's native flora and fauna.

Mr Roger Moses

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.

Mr Roger Moses was Headmaster of Wellington College for 23 years until stepping down in April 2018 as the second longest serving headmaster in the school's 150 year history. Under his leadership, since the implementation of New Zealand Scholarship Examinations, Wellington College has been among the top performers in New Zealand schools in terms of scholarships awarded to students.

Mr Robert Narev

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the community and education.

Mr Bob Narev is the Chairman of the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation (formerly Shadows of Shoah Trust) and has chaired the Auckland Holocaust Memorial Trust since 2016. As Chair of the Memorial Trust Mr Narev and his committee have worked with Auckland Council to identify a site for the creation of a Garden of Humanity, collaborated on design concepts and liaised with iwi and heritage specialists, as well as driving fundraising for the project. He has been an educator for Holocaust Education since 2002, regularly speaking to children at secondary schools and to adult groups.

Mr Graeme North

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to architecture and natural building standards.

Mr Graeme North is an architect who has been involved in the natural building industry in New Zealand since 1971.

He was the founding Chair of the Earth Building Association of New Zealand (EBANZ) in 1988, a role that he resumed from 2014 to 2018. He developed the original Earth Building Standards published in 1998 and is currently completing an update of the standards. He uses a wide range of natural building materials, including strawbale, earthen walls and plasters, natural timber and fibres, and has designed numerous buildings using these materials.

Mrs Lyndy Sainsbury

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to philanthropy and the community.

Mrs Lyndy Sainsbury established The Museum Circle Foundation, which raised $1.3 million in the late 1990s and a further $2 million between 2004 and 2006 for the restoration of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Mrs Sainsbury was made a Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2005. She was a founding trustee of the Auckland City Sculpture Trust from 2001 to 2016. She helped establish the Sir Hugh Kāwharu Trust in 2011, to inspire and encourage emerging Māori leaders.

Emeritus Professor Warwick Silvester

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and conservation.

Dr Warwick Silvester has provided leadership and advice to a large number of professional and community organisations with a conservation focus.

Dr Silvester taught as Professor of Biological Science at the University of Waikato for 32 years and is internationally-recognised for his research into understanding nitrogen leaching, a key environmental issue in New Zealand, and on his retirement he was appointed Emeritus Professor. He has been an expert witness, consultant and adviser to various local bodies, organisations, review panels and scientific and conservation panels.

Ms Pauline Stansfield

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to people with disabilities.

Ms Pauline Stansfield has contributed to the support of people with disabilities as an advocate and member of the disabled community.

She was involved with the 1980 Year of the Disabled Person and played a part in allocating funds to those most in need. She published her autobiography entitled Russia Changed my Life in 2017, outlining her journey since an accident in 1969 that left her paralysed from the waist down. She has helped to educate the public about necessary care for wheelchair users.

Mr Terence Wade

The Queen’s Service Medal for services to scouting, education and the community.

Mr Terry Wade was Principal of Glenavon Primary School from 1981 to 2001, after working as a teacher at three other schools.

Mr Wade spent 12 years fundraising for Glenavon's school hall and established a preschool group on the school's grounds, which became the Glenavon Early Childhood Centre where he has served the past five years on the management committee. He has been secretary and president of the Waitakere Area Principal's Association and is a life member.

Dr Dianne Webster

Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health, particularly paediatrics.

Dr Dianne Webster has directed the national newborn metabolic screening programme (NMSP) for more than 25 years.

The screening programme detects 50-60 affected babies annually, many of whom would have died or suffered life-long disabilities if their condition had not been detected. In 2017, severe combined immune deficiency was added to the national screening programme.

Mr Gary Wilson

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and Pacific journalism and broadcasting.

Mr Gary Wilson has made a major contribution to strengthening Māori and Pacific journalism, print media and broadcasting for close to 40 years.

When Mr Wilson joined the New Zealand Journalists Training Board in 1980, he identified that less than two percent of New Zealand's journalists had Māori or Pacific heritage. In response to this, he pushed for the board and the Department of Māori Affairs to fund introductory journalism courses for Māori and Pacific students. Then, in 1985, he initiated national, full-time journalism training courses for Māori students in Rotorua.