Education
King"s College London.
King"s College London.
The book has been assessed as a fair, balanced and generally positive treatment of Rudd. Within a month of the election of the new Labor government Stuart published another 96,000 word book analysing the last term of the Howard government and identifying the significant factors that resulted in the change of government at the 2007 election. Less than one month after the fall of Kevin Rudd Stuart published a third book
Rudd"s Way.
This book describes reasons why the ALP decided to remove Rudd from the leadership, making him the only successful Labor prime minister never to face re-election. Stuart"s newspaper column specialises in coverage of strategic and defence issues reflecting an interest developed after studying for an Master of Arts in War Studies at King"s College London in 1984. When he returned to Australia the next year Stuart became a cadet radio news journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, gaining wide reporting experience.
He later reported on politics and international events for the Radio Current Affairs programs "Department of Administration and Management" and "Prime Minister", before moving to the American Broadcasting Company television environmental program "A Question of Survival".
He covered the aftermath of the 1989 Tienanmen protests in China before becoming the American Broadcasting Company"s Indochina Correspondent, based in Bangkok. Stuart was critically injured in a vehicle accident in Bangkok in late 1990 when he was left in a coma.
He later returned to work in Bangkok and covered the 1992 demonstrations that led to the fall of the military-backed government of the country. However, the American Broadcasting Company believed he had not properly recovered from his accident and was recalled to Australia.
After working for a period in the Corporation"s International Operations division, he later left the American Broadcasting Company. When they returned to Canberra, Stuart became a columnist with The Canberra Times.
In 2015 Stuart became a Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
His unauthorised biography of Kevin Rudd has been described by Monash University"s Senior Lecturer in Economics Nick Economou as "requisite reading for observers of Australian national politics". This has received similar positive reviews in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, and The Age newspapers.