Australia Day Honours Collins was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the community through the Catholic Church as Bishop of Darwin, and to the Aboriginal community". Collins retired in 2007. He died on 8 August 2014 at the St Joseph's Aged Care Home in Kensington, and was interred in a crypt at Saint Mary's Cathedral, Darwin. Ted Collins Village, a housing complex opened in 2011 and run by the St Vincent de Paul Society in Darwin, is named after him. Cyclone Tracy recording Collins was in Darwin when it was struck by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. When the cyclone hit, he switched on a tape recorder, and recorded the sounds of the storm. The recording is now in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, as part of the Cyclone Tracy exhibit. References 1931 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia Roman Catholic bishops of Darwin People from the South Coast (New South Wales) Australian people of Irish descent Members of the Order of Australia