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)
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