Honours and Awards
- Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1987
- Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 1992
- Human Rights Medal awarded by the Australian Government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2006) (Shared with Father Chris Riley)
- Australian Humanist of the Year 1987 – Awarded by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies
- Raymond Longford Award (the Australian film industry's highest accolade, in 1981, for "Outstanding Services to the Australian Film Industry"
- Senior ANZAC Fellow (1981)
- Henry Lawson Arts Award (1987)
- Living Treasures by the National Trust in 1998
- Honorary doctorate, Griffith University
- Honorary doctorate, University of Sydney
- Honorary doctorate, University of South Australia
- Honorary doctorate, Edith Cowan University
- Australian Republican of the Year 2005 (Australian Republican Party)
- Walkley Award for Broadcast Journalism (2004)
- United Nations Media Award (2005)
- Windgrove Laureate (2004)
- Responsibility in Journalism Award 1998 (SCICOP) New York
- Australian Centenary Medal (1 January 2001) "For service to Australian society in journalism"
- Multiple AFI Awards for various films
- A minor planet, discovered by R.H. McNaught at Siding Spring (1990) was named "Phillipadams" by the International Astronomical Union (1997)
Read more about this topic: Phillip Adams
Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)