Fiona Stewart (author)

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Fiona Stewart
Dr Fiona Stewart
Dr Fiona Stewart
BornMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
OccupationAuthor and euthanasia campaigner
EducationMonash University (B.A.)
La Trobe University (M.A., Ph.D.)
CDU (LL.B)
SubjectGeneration X, Feminism, Euthanasia
SpousePhilip Nitschke
Website
Exit International

Fiona Stewart is an Australian lawyer, sociologist, author, and former executive director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International (2004-7). She is author of Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the road to the Peaceful Pill and co-author of The Peaceful Pill Handbook, and is married to euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke.

Early life and education

Fiona Stewart was born in Melbourne, Victoria,[citation needed] and attended at Lauriston Girls' School.[1] She received her BA from Monash University in 1987 followed by a Graduate Diploma in Public Policy (Melbourne University) in 1992, Master of Policy and Law (La Trobe University) in 1994[citation needed] and her Ph.D. in health sciences from La Trobe[2] in 1998.[citation needed] She graduated from Charles Darwin University Law School[2] in 2015.[citation needed] She earned a distinction for her honours research thesis on rational suicide and testamentary capacity, which is "a person's legal and mental capacity to make a valid will".[2]

Career

From 1997 to 1999 Stewart held a postdoctoral fellowship at Deakin University for the study of "Womens Lives: Choice, Change and Identity".[3][failed verification] When her contract was not renewed, she turned to writing opinion columns for the media on Generation X and feminism.[4] Stewart worked as an opinion writer for The Age, The Australian, and other Australian papers and media outlets,[5][6] and as an online learning consultant with Dale Spender.[7][8] In 2001, Stewart founded the consumer complaints website Notgoodenough.org,[9][10] where she was active in promoting the consumer standpoint and criticising big businesses such as Telstra, the national carrier.[11] She has participated widely in Australian public debate on varied current affairs issues.[4][12]

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Steward met euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke at the Brisbane Festival of Ideas in 2001 during the Late Night Live debate "There's no such thing as a new idea".[13] She worked with Nitschke on The Peaceful Pill eHandbook and in Exit International.[2] She was executive director of the Exit International from 2004 to 2007.[citation needed] In the 2014 Victorian election she stood for the Upper House for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party.[14]

Personal life

Stewart married Philip Nitschke around 2009.[2]

Books

Stewart is the author of three books:

  • Internet Communication and Qualitative Research; Sage, 2000 (With Dr Chris Mann)[15]
  • Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the road to the Peaceful Pill; Penguin, 2005
  • The Peaceful Pill Handbook series

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lathams Alumni Hit List". 29 March 2005. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Stewart, Fiona (23 August 2014). "Philip Nitschke's wife, Fiona Stewart, on being the 'woman behind the man'" (Interview). Interviewed by Dovey, Ceridwen. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015. I wanted to know more about Fiona Stewart, his partner of 13 years...
  3. ↑ Bulbeck, Chilla (1 January 1999). "Simone De Beauvoir and Generations of Feminists". Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Generation Xcluded". 21 December 2003. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Swimming Upstream – Moira Rayner and Fiona Stewart talking feminism" (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Fiona Stewart". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Stewart, Fiona; Dale (15 March 2002). "Fiona Stewart and Dale Spender". Online Opinion. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "e-Learning: The new challenge in education". Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Dr Fiona Stewart". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Griffin, Michelle (15 March 2002). "And another thing..." The Age. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  11. ↑ Arnold, Wayne (30 September 2004). "In Australia, Tug of War Over Privatizing Phone Giant". New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "Women and Power: A Public Forum". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 January 2000. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "From "Ideas At The Powerhouse" Festival in Brisbane 16-19 August, 2001". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 October 2001. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Fiona Stewart". Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Internet Communication and Qualitative Research". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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