To be a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MACFARLANE, Dr Scott Duncan
For services to health
Dr Scott Macfarlane has transformed the treatment and improvement of children with cancer in New Zealand for the past 45 years.
Dr Macfarlane was an integral part of paediatric oncology service development between 1980 and 1990, leading the development of a National Child Cancer Service (now National Child Cancer Network) in 2000. He was instrumental in establishing the National Child Cancer Network in 2011, who have oversight of child cancer treatment in New Zealand and reducing inequity of access to child cancer treatment and led the network until 2021. He had advocated for the then Auckland-based Child Cancer Foundation to become a national organisation as it is an integral support system for children and families and helped establish the Waikato branch. He became a paediatric oncologist at Starship Hospital in Auckland, going on to become Clinical Leader and Clinical Director of Starship Hospital. As a result of his nationally coordinated approach to child cancer, the child cancer survival rate has improved from every second child not surviving 40 years ago to the five-year survival rate in New Zealand becoming more than 80 percent, parallel to Māori and Pacific children. He was President of Australia New Zealand Children’s Haematology Oncology Group. Dr Macfarlane was made Life member of the Child Cancer Foundation in 2015 and retired in 2021.
To be a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MALLARD, The Right Honourable Trevor Colin
For services as a Member of Parliament and as Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Right Honourable Trevor Mallard was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2022 and held ministerial portfolios in the fifth Labour government.
Mr Mallard was first elected to Parliament as the Member for Hamilton West in 1984 and was the MP for Pencarrow from 1993 to 1996, Hutt South from 1996 to 2017, and a Labour List MP from 2017. In 1999, he was appointed to Cabinet and became the Minister of Education, Minister of State Services and Minister for Sport and Recreation. He also held a number of other Ministerial portfolios from 1999 to 2008, including Minister of Labour, Industry and Regional Development, Broadcasting, America's Cup, Environment, Energy, Co-ordinating Race Relations, as well as the Minister for the Rugby World Cup. He was an Assistant Speaker from 2014 to 2017. Outside of chairing the Business, Standing Orders and Officers of Parliament Select Committees, and the Parliamentary Service Commission in his role as Speaker, he has been a member of the Education and Science, Government Administration, Finance and Expenditure, Statutes Revision and Justice and Law Reform Select Committees. Mr Mallard retired from politics in 2022, after 35 years as a Member of Parliament.
HONOURS
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
To be a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
MUNE, Mr Ian Barry, OBE
For services to film, television and theatre
Mr Ian Mune is an award-winning actor, writer and director for stage and screen, who has been a pioneer in these professions in New Zealand and has focused on telling the stories of New Zealanders in an authentic voice since the 1970s.
Mr Mune was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for his services to the theatre and film industry, having worked on developing these industries as a viable profession in New Zealand. His notable earlier film productions include co-writing seminal classics ‘Sleeping Dogs’ (1977) and ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’ (1981) and directing ‘Came a Hot Friday’ (1984). Since 1991, he has continued contributing to these industries. He directed ‘Once Were Warriors’ award-winning sequel ‘What Becomes of the Broken Hearted’ (1999), the coming-of-age drama ‘End of the Golden Weather’ (1991) and ‘The Whole of the Moon’ (1997). He directed the 2008 depression-era telefeature film ‘Life’s a Riot’ and the 2011 documentary on the life of New Zealand comedian Billy T James “Billy T: Te Movie”. As an actor with more than 70 screen roles to date, he has continued to perform in a variety of film, television and theatre productions, most recently in the miniseries ‘The Pact’ (2021). Mr Mune has remained connected with new generations of actors as Patron of The Actors Program since 2012.
HONOURS
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, New Year 1991