<P> Hollows was a member of the Communist Party of New Zealand during the 1950s and 1960s . </P> <P> Hollows was married twice: in 1958 to Mary Skiller, who died in 1975, and in 1980 to Gabi O'Sullivan . </P> <P> Hollows was originally a New Zealand citizen . He declined the award of honorary Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 . He adopted Australian citizenship in 1989 and was named Australian of the Year in 1990 . He accepted the substantive award of Companion of the Order of Australia in 1991 . </P> <P> In 1961, he went to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology . He then did post-graduate work in Wales before moving in 1965 to Australia, where he became associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney . From 1965--1992 he chaired the ophthalmology division overseeing the teaching departments at the University of New South Wales, and the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry hospitals . </P>

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