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Cameron Stewart
Cameron Stewart
Source: The Australian
Associate Editor
Cameron Stewart is The Australian’s Associate Editor, specialising in investigative reports on national security issues such as terrorism and defence as well as federal politics and international affairs.
After graduating from Melbourne University with BA (Hons) in politics and history he became a spook with the spy agency Defence Signals Directorate before joining The Australian in 1987.
Almost immediately he found himself covering the October 1987 global stockmarket crash as the paper's stockmarket reporter.
From 1992 to 1995 he was posted to Canberra as the paper's foreign affairs and defence writer, covering major news stories on the ground in Somalia, Rwanda and throughout Asia.
From 1996 to 1999 he was The Australian's New York correspondent, a role which saw him cover the 1996 US presidential campaign.
From 1999 to 2000 he was the Victorian Editor of The Australian, presiding over coverage of Premier Jeff Kennett's shock election loss.
From 2000 to the present, he has worked as a senior news/investigative writer based in Melbourne. In 2009 he was awarded the highest honour in Australian newspapers, the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year.
He has also won five Melbourne Press Club quill awards for excellence in Victorian journalism, two News Limited News Awards and has been a Walkley finalist for investigative journalism and runner up in News Limited’s highest honour, the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism.
Cameron lives in Melbourne and is married with three kids.
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