Tennis star Ash Barty, Australia's first female premier Carmen Lawrence, and cricketing legend Shane Warne are among those recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.
"In a funny kind of way, the more women come closer to real power the more savage the response seems to be," she said.
"There's no more important space where diversity is needed than the media itself because it's a literal reflection of who we are, of what we think, of where we want to go," she said.The health of the nation Dr Murphy said he had been fortunate to work with brilliant people in his more than 40-year career in the health and medical fields.
"Without music, without creativity, without art, without dance, without theatre, we really do have a very meaningless kind of existence."