As husband to wife Laeticia and being a busy young dad of two teenagers plus a baby daughter he has somehow managed to successfully combine his love of acting and fatherhood.
His passion for proudly maintaining his cultural heritage certainly did stand out as witnessed in his thank-you Logie speech.
Make no mistake...there most certainly is bigger things to come for this Logie award-winning 'Cleverman'.
Collins' fellow cast member of 'Cleverman' Hunter Page-Lochard's nomination for TV legend Graham Kennedy's award 'Breakthrough Star of Tomorrow' ensures that we'll definitely be seeing much more of Page-Lochard on our TV screens.
Deborah Mailman's performance in Stan's outback thriller series 'Wolf Creek' shows what a versatile actor she continues to be since her varied appearances in other tv series and also in the big-screen movie 'The Sapphires' in which she co-starred with fellow Aboriginal actors Miranda Tapsell, Jessica Mauboy and Shari Stebbens.
Making a bold statement with their portrayal of blackfella humour was ABC TV's comedy series 'Black Comedy' whose accurate portrayal of blackfellas comedy has seen it become one of the most popular and compulsory TV viewing shows for our mob.
Jessica Mauboy's nomination for Best Actress in Channel 7's 'Secret Daughter'
was most commendable.
She later got the crowd pumping when she belted out her rendition of Wilson Pickett's classic 60's hit 'Land of a Thousand Dances' which featured in the movie 'The Sapphires'.
Fellow singer and former 'Australian Idol' winner Casey Donovan surely did great musical justice to the late David Bowie's song 'Heroes' and in return received a standing ovation from the most appreciative audience.
For her clear cut and well researched story on South Australia's nuclear waste dump proposal former NITV reporter Laura Murphy-Oates gained media nomination as well
There's absolutely no doubting that our 'black diamonds' shone brilliantly in a league of their own at the 2017 Logie Awards.
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