SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- A Jewish Indigenous woman was awarded a top honor in Australia.Lisa Pulver, the co-founder and director of the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit at the University of New South Wales, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the annual Queen’s birthday honors list announced Monday. Pulver also is a professor of indigenous health at the university.RELATED:The indigenous pictureBDS brouhaha threatens to taint Limmud Australia console.log("catid body is "+catID);if(catID==120){document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://player.anyclip.com/anyclip-widget/lre-widget/prod/v1/src/lre.js'; script.setAttribute('pubname','jpostcom'); script.setAttribute('widgetname','0011r00001lcD1i_12258'); document.getElementsByClassName('divAnyClip')[0].appendChild(script);}else if(catID!=69 && catID!=2){ document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none"; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js'; script.setAttribute('data-widget-id','60fd6becf6393400049e6535'); document.getElementsByClassName('divVidazoo')[0].appendChild(script); }Pulver is president of the Newtown Synagogue, in Sydney’s inner west, and a board member of the Lowitja Institute, Australia’s premier Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led health research body.In 2004, she addressed the British House of Commons on the state of Australian indigenous health, an experience she described as a “defining moment” of her career.“This award acknowledges the work which I have done which is beyond the call of duty and is not part of my job description,” Pulver said.Among the other Jews amid the 250-plus recipients this year was Perth-based Spanish dancer Deeana Blacher, the first castanets soloist to be invited by Zubin Mehta to perform with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn, a South Africa-born minister at St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne; and Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, the head of neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, which has a collaborative agreement with Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.