Paul Collier (activist)

Paul Henry Collier (died 9 March 2010)[1] was an Australian disability activist and the founder of the Dignity for Disability party.

Collier was a quadriplegic, having suffered serious spinal injuries in a car accident on the way to his twenty-first birthday celebrations.[2] He held a PhD from the University of Oxford, and held advisory roles with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and for the federal Minister for Disability.[3] He founded the Dignity for Disability party in South Australia, standing as its candidate for the South Australian Legislative Council in 2006 and 2010. He died after suffering a brain haemorrhage a few weeks before the 2010 election, in which his party gained enough votes for a seat in the Council; this was taken by the second candidate on the ticket, Kelly Vincent. In 2013, a scholarship in Collier's name was set up to assist potential leaders with disabilities.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "SA election candidate Paul Collier dies". The Australian. 10 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Shepherd, Tory (11 March 2010). "Vote for Dr Paul Collier "will help those in need"". The Courier-Mail.
  3. ↑ "AAA farewells Paul Collier". 4 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Leaders scholarship commemorates Dr Paul Collier". Wadham College, University of Oxford. 12 September 2013.
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