Post-political Life
On 9 June 2003 Richard Court was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia, entitling the awardee to the postnominal letters AC. In conferring the award, it was cited "for service to the Western Australian Parliament and to the community, particularly the Indigenous community, and in the areas of child health research and cultural heritage and to economic development through negotiating major resource projects including the export of gas to China furthering the interests of the nation as a whole."
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