Stephen MacMahon is a leading international authority on the risks associated with high blood pressure and the benefits resulting from blood pressure reduction. He was the first to demonstrate in epidemiological studies that there was no lower threshold, within the normal range of blood pressure, below which cardiovascular risks did not continue to decline. On this basis, he hypothesized that blood pressure reduction would benefit high-risk patients irrespective of their initial blood pressure level. He has since proven this in large-scale trials among patients with varying disease histories, the results of which have changed clinical guidelines and patient care worldwide.

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For exceptional scientific contributions of international significance to optical glass materials and fibres, photonics and optical physics, most notably in nanophotonics for nonlinear optics and sensing. These contributions have led to new science and novel solutions to important measurement problems within a number of scientific and technological disciplines.

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Brian Walker is an ecologist at the forefront of the inter-disciplinary area of resilience in complex adaptive systems. His major contributions have been his pioneering studies of the functional significance of biodiversity, understanding the dynamics of ecosystems that exhibit alternate stable states, and his novel insights into the resilience of linked social-ecological systems. He has an outstanding record of scholarship and international and national science leadership across multiple disciplines.

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John Oakeshott is an evolutionary biologist whose multidisciplinary studies on latitudinal clines in Drosophila enzyme polymorphisms, the molecular basis of insecticide resistance in blowflies and the degradation of persistent organic pollutants by bacteria have provided important new insights into the molecular basis of adaptation. He has published over 130 papers in international refereed journals, for over 3350 citations and an H factor of 34. John has also applied his science to the broader benefit of society, for example through sustained service to the regulation of Australia's gene technology and the international commercialisation of a novel enzyme-based pesticide bioremediation technology.

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Professor Brian Kay is considered to be one of the pre-eminent entomologists from Australia dealing with a range of regional arbovirus problems, especially dengue. Since 1972, he has published over 240 peer reviewed papers on mosquito bionomics, diagnostics, vector competence, epidemiology and innovative mosquito control: most recently with a landmark strategy against dengue in Lancet (365: 613-617 February 2005). He has also made significant contributions to the understanding of arbovirus ecology in Australia i.e. Ross River, Murray Valley encephalitis viruses, and was honoured in the Queen’s birthday list of 2005 with an AM for elimination of arbovirus diseases in northern Australia and Asia.

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Colin Thompson has contributed with distinction to a variety of areas of statistical mechanics, especially phase transitions, critical phenomena, exactly soluble models, and random systems. Beyond this he has made important contributions to condensed matter physics, chaos theory and mathematical biology. His recent work on pattern recognition has had impact in psychology and cognitive science, as has his work on occupational accidents. His books on statistical mechanics are classics that have influenced the style and outlook of research workers over several decades.

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Professor Barber is internationally known for his substantial contributions to the mathematical development of statistical mechanics. With M. E. Fisher he developed the scaling theory of systems of finite size, together with the related theory of remnant functions. His articles and reviews are widely consulted, being the leading exposition of these subjects. He pioneered the application of optimal control theory to the renormalisation group, revealing the limitations of Kadanoff' s variational approach. His renormalisation group technique for analysing Monte Carlo data is widely used. He has also made significant contributions to two-dimensional lattice models, and to improved techniques for extrapolating sequences.

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Professor Brown is widely known for his contributions to measure theory and in particular for his work on the structure of convolution measure algebras. He was one of the first to recognise the importance of measure algebras for harmonic analysis and probability theory and in a series of deep going papers written mostly in association with W. Moran, he clarified significantly their algebraic structure. Perhaps his most significant individual achievement so far is a complete description of the structure of Reisz product measure which arise from a famous classical example due to F. Riesz. Here Brown's originality and craftsmanship show up in full. For years mathematicians were laboriously constructing examples of measures with particular structural properties. Such examples can now be manufactured at will from specific Riesz products, due to Brown's structure theorems. In recognition of his distinguished contributions to measure theory Professor Brown was awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker prize of the Edinburgh Royal Society in 1977.

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Professor Mahony has made significant contributions over a wide range of applied mathematics, demonstrating not only an ability to extract the important physical mechanisms in highly complex non-linear phenomena, but also to make a careful analysis of the mathematical subtleties involved, and often to expose and identify hidden flaws which have hitherto been unnoticed. He has made distinguished contributions to the theory of supersonic flow and shock waves, the bending of thin plates, the theory of matched expansions and, most recently, to the non-linear propagation of long waves including the theory of cross waves.

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Professor Michael is one of the leading world experts on surface integrals and the theory of measure on parametric surfaces. He is not a prolific writer, but each one of his papers is an important and deep contribution to the subject. Perhaps his most outstanding achievement is the extension of the classical Gauss-Green and Cauchy theorems to very general parametric surfaces. He made important contributions to the notion of surface area and existence of surface integrals, and proved an important conjecture of Kuratowski on the mapping of boundaries of closed subsets of the n-sphere.

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