
Graham was posthumously awarded the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2006 Honours List. He had been nominated for the honour by Mike McColl Jones.
Mike started as a personal writer for Graham on In Melbourne Tonight in 1963. They were friends for the rest of Graham's life and Mike wrote the book Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King (with Steve Vizard) in 2008.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.