Redigerer Edmund Collins (avsnitt)

===Bakgrunn===
Edmund Collins var den yngste av fem barn i en irsk katolsk familie. Han vokste opp i [[Bermagui (New South Wales)|Bermagui]]. Hans mor døde da han var fem år gammel.<ref name=CatholicWeekly>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/dec/7/14.html|title=Conversation: Ted Collins, Bishop of Darwin - Souls to be saved, not locked up|author=Damir Govorcin|date=2003-12-07|accessdate=2014-08-09|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325053954/http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/dec/7/14.html|archivedate=2012-03-25}}</ref>

Som 16-åring flyttet han til [[Sydney]] og begynte i politiet der som politikadett,<ref name=ExPoliceCadets>{{cite web|url=http://www.expolicecadets.asn.au/personality.php?id=3|title=What happened to... Bishop Edmund J P COLLINS MSC AM DD|publisher=Ex-Police Cadets Association of NSW, Inc|accessdate=2014-08-09}}</ref> før han ble ''probationary constable'' som 19-åring.<ref name=DioceseOfDarwin>{{cite web|url=http://www.darwin.catholic.org.au/our-story/bishop-collins.htm |title=Bishop EJP Collins – 1986–2007 |publisher=Diocese of Darwin |accessdate=2014-08-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811172359/http://www.darwin.catholic.org.au/our-story/bishop-collins.htm |archivedate=2014-08-11 }}</ref>