Mr Benji Marshall, CNZM, of Canada Bay, NSW, Australia, for services to rugby league
Benji Marshall is a rugby league player who has played a record 346 games in the National Rugby League (NRL), the most of any New Zealand player in rugby league.
He played 31 tests for New Zealand between 2005 and 2019, captaining 21 games, the most in history, and winning the Rugby League World Cup in 2008.
He has played for the Wests Tigers, the Brisbane Broncos, the Illawarra Dragons, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the New Zealand Kiwis and for the Auckland Blues in rugby union.
He founded the Benji Marshall Foundation for charitable purposes in 2011, which supports the Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia and raised $250,000 in 2011.
Mr Marshall retired from rugby league in 2021 following a career spanning 18 years.