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Peter Charles Collier is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2005, representing North Metropolitan Region. He served as a minister in the government of Colin Barnett from 2008 until its defeat at the 2017 election.

Peter Fenelon Collier was an Irish publisher, the founder of the publishing company P.F. Collier & Son, and in 1888 founded Collier's Weekly.

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John Collier (fiction writer) writer

John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. Most were collected in The John Collier Reader ; earlier collections include a 1951 volume, the famous Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections. John Collier's writing has been praised by authors such as Anthony Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, Wyndham Lewis, and Paul Theroux. He appears to have given few interviews in his life; those include conversations with biographer Betty Richardson, Tom Milne, and Max Wilk.

<i>Colliers</i> magazine

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was initially launched as Collier's Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, and finally shortened in 1905 to simply Collier's. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated for the week ending January 4, 1957, though a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012.

Baron Monkswell, of Monkswell in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir Robert Collier. His eldest son, the second Baron, served as Under-Secretary of State for War in 1895 in the Liberal administration of Lord Rosebery. His grandson, the fourth Baron, disclaimed the peerage on 7 April 1964. He had earlier been a member of the Essex County Council. As of 2010 the title is held by his eldest son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 1984. He was pre,viously a member of the Manchester City Council for the Labour Party.

The Margaret Collier Award is a lifetime achievement award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, to a writer for their outstanding body of work in Canadian television. Formerly presented as part of the Gemini Awards, since 2013 it has been part of the Canadian Screen Awards. It can be presented to an individual writer or writing team

The following lists events that happened during 1934 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1928 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1926 in Australia.

Robert Collier may refer to:

John Collier may refer to:

Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.

<i>The Hanging Valley</i> book by Peter Robinson

The Hanging Valley is the fourth novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. It was published in 1989, and reprinted a number of times since.

Events from the year 1680 in England.

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Events from the year 1943 in Argentina.

Collier is an English surname.

Events from the year 1799 in Scotland.