Rick Allert

{{short description|Australian businessman}}

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Richard Hugh "Rick" Allert AO is an Australian businessman who was chair of Tourism Australia from 2007 to 2012.

Before this, he worked with Carroll Winter & Co Chartered Accountants from 1959 to 1960, and then with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company from 1960; he was a partner with them from 1973 to 1979. He was a senior partner of Allert Heard & Co Chartered Accountants (1979–89) until it was acquired by the then Arthur Andersen & Co in 1989.

He was chair of Southcorp (1989–2002). In 1995, he was appointed a director of Coles Myer.[http://www.colesmyer.com/AboutUs/board_executive.asp#dr01 board of directors], Coles Myer He was chair of Coles Myer from 2002 until it was acquired by Wesfarmers in 2007. Allert is also chair of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd, Voyages Hotels & Resorts Pty Ltd and a Director of the Australia Business Arts Foundation.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1997,{{cite web |title= Member of the Order of Australia (AM) |date=9 June 1997 |quote=For service to business and to the community, particularly through the National Heart Foundation |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/870928 }} an Honorary Doctor of the University of South Australia in 2000, awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001,{{cite web |title=Centenary Medal |date=1 January 2001 |quote=For service to Australian society through rail transport, business and taxation |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127076 }} and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2008.{{cite web |title= Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) |date=9 June 2008 |quote=For service to the business sector through visionary leadership and promotion of corporate social responsibility, and to the community through involvement with and support for a range of artistic, charitable and educational organisations. |url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1138589 }}