Personal Life
In 1969 Sir Buri married Carol Millwater of Brisbane, Australia, whom he had met at a fitness camp when they were high school students, he at Toowoomba Grammar School and she at Sandgate High School. They had six children. Sir Buri died of a massive heart attack on 30 January 1994, at the age of 48, five months after the elapse of his term of office as Chief Justice.
Lady Kidu entered Parliament in 1997 as Member for Moresby South and became Minister of Community Development. Lady Kidu was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 and is now Dame Carol Kidu.
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