MICHAEL BALL, AO
Volunteer administrator
After a lifetime career spent in advertising "doing things entirely commercial", Michael Ball, who has been made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia, decided it was time to give something back to the community. 
Taking up more "pro bono work" was "vastly more difficult, but much more interesting".
From then on, it was a life dedicated to the National Trust of Australia, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the National Capital Authority, the National Museum of Australia, the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and the Bradman Foundation.
It was his services to the Donald Bradman Museum in Bowral that led him to form the first and only International Cricket Hall of Fame, a feat he achieved with the help of then-prime minister and "cricket tragic" John Howard.
Mr Ball conceived the idea of conducting more than over 100 digitised interviews with the world's leading cricketers, providing an unprecedented archive available for study.