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Arts Access Australia champions arts access and participation for the one in five Australians with a disability. This website offers news, connections and rich information about the vibrant Australian arts and disability sector.

Arts Access Australia mourns the loss of Chair Dr Paul Collier who died, aged 46, in Adelaide on Tuesday night 9 March 2010 following a brain haemorrhage at his home last weekend. Paul became Chair of Arts Access Australia in 2007 following a Board restructure to ensure the national arts and disability organisation was disability led and highly skilled. Paul fitted the bill on both counts, with his Oxford Phd and previous advisory roles for the ABC and federal Minister for Disability, and made an immediate and positive impact managing the transition from the old to the new structure. Paul was returned as Chair twice and unanimously by his fellow Board members. Under Paul's leadership Arts Access Australia had a significant impact on public policy with the October 2009 release of a National Arts and Disability Strategy by the Cultural Ministers Council setting the vision and direction for arts and disability over the next three years and beyond. Arts Access Australia supported Paul's entry into the South Australian Governor's Leadership Program and knew he had a great many things left to achieve at the time of his death. Paul will be remembered for his passionate advocacy, expertise and good humour. He will be missed and our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.

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