Primary Industries and Energy. After the Coalition led by John Howard won the 1996 election, Collins continued to serve in the Senate until he resigned on 30 March 1998. Trish Crossin was appointed to fill his previous Senate seat. Co-ordinator of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands After he left federal politics in 1998, Collins took on various projects on boosting Aboriginal education, tackling petrol sniffing and landscape conservation. In March 2004, the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, appointed Collins as the service delivery co-ordinator of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands in South Australia's north. He was tasked with rectifying some of the vast social problems in the region. Collins resigned from the position in August 2004. Honours In the Australia Day Honours of 2004, Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to the Northern Territory and indigenous rights. Child sex allegations In June 2004, Collins was involved in a serious single-car accident when his car rolled over near the town of Jabiru. He was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital, then flown to Adelaide on 22 June for specialised surgery. As Collins recovered in hospital, officers of the Northern Territory Police flew to his hospital bedside to inform him his home had been raided and he was charged with child-sex offences. His home computer had been seized, and prosecutors said this computer contained 54 child pornography images. Additionally, four men had made allegations that Collins had sexually assaulted them as children, more than 30 years previously. One of the alleged victims was Tom E. Lewis, a young actor who had played the title role in the 1978 Australian film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions supported a move by Collins's defence lawyers to suppress all details of the court case, including media reporting of the case. Another allegation was made in 2006 of the sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy in Canberra in September 1989. Collins was charged with two counts of committing an act of indecency and one count of sexual intercourse with a child. Collins's continuing medical problems, including surgery for bowel cancer and injuries from his car accident, meant he was unfit to attend the ACT Magistrates' Court for four scheduled hearings of the case in September and December 2006 and March and May 2007. An additional charge of possession of child pornography was set down against