Jeff Collins (Australian politician)

Jeff Collins
Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
for Fong Lim
In office
27 August 2016 – 22 August 2020
Preceded byDave Tollner
Succeeded byMark Monaghan
Personal details
Born
Jeffrey David Collins

(1961-10-27) 27 October 1961 (age 62)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political partyTerritory Alliance (2020–)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (2019–2020)
Labor (1986–2019)
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
University of Technology Sydney
OccupationLawyer

Jeffrey David Collins (born 27 October 1961) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2020, representing the electorate of Fong Lim. He was member of the governing Labor Party, but was one of three MPs excluded from the Labor caucus on 21 December 2018 over alleged criticism of the government,[1][2] and resigned from the party on 8 February 2019 to sit as an independent.[3] In March 2020 he joined the Territory Alliance as its second MP.[4]

  1. ^ "Electorate: Fong Lim". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC News. 28 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Ken Vowles, Jeff Collins and Scott McConnell dumped from NT Government's Labor Caucus". ABC News. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  3. ^ Gibson, Jano (8 February 2019). "Exiled NT politician Jeff Collins quits Labor to sit as independent". ABC News. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  4. ^ "NT election 2020: Independent Jeff Collins joins Territory Alliance, ramping up threat to CLP". ABC News. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.