In the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours, prolific Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano AM was appointed Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the performing arts, particularly music, as a singer, songwriter and entertainer, and to charitable organisations.
It would be a rare event for two members of any family to be given such a high level of recognition for eminent service to the community but that is exactly what has happened when Tino Ceberano Hanshi OAM was awarded Medal of the Order of Australia for his contributions to karate in the Queens Birthday Honours on Mon 10th June 2019.
The announcement of The Order of the Medal of Australia award was made on the Queens Birthday Honour list and presented on 30th October 2019 by His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Brisbane at Government House in Brisbane.
Tino Hanshi, accompanied by Emma Ceberano, Alan Hesketh Kyoshi and Barry Johnston Shihan, attended the morning Investiture Ceremony when the medal was presented. It is an exciting day when, after 53 years of devotion to the martial arts in this country, Tino Hanshi was officially recognised and awarded by the community for his services.
The OAM was awarded for service to karate as a martial arts practitioner, instructor, consultant and karate school owner, as founding member, life member, national coach and referee for the Australian Karate Federation, and through leadership roles in the World Karate Federation and other international organisations.
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