Fiona Stewart (author)
Fiona Stewart | |
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 Dr Fiona Stewart | |
| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Author and euthanasia campaigner |
| Education | Monash University (B.A.) La Trobe University (M.A., Ph.D.) CDU (LL.B) |
| Subject | Generation X, Feminism, Euthanasia |
| Spouse | Philip Nitschke |
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| 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
[edit]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
[edit]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]
Euthanasia
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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
[edit]Stewart married Philip Nitschke around 2009.[2]
Books
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Lathams Alumni Hit List". 29 March 2005. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d e 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...
- ^ Bulbeck, Chilla (1 January 1999). "Simone De Beauvoir and Generations of Feminists". Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Generation Xcluded". 21 December 2003. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Swimming Upstream – Moira Rayner and Fiona Stewart talking feminism" (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Fiona Stewart". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Stewart, Fiona; Dale (15 March 2002). "Fiona Stewart and Dale Spender". Online Opinion. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "e-Learning: The new challenge in education". Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Dr Fiona Stewart". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Griffin, Michelle (15 March 2002). "And another thing..." The Age. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Arnold, Wayne (30 September 2004). "In Australia, Tug of War Over Privatizing Phone Giant". New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Women and Power: A Public Forum". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 January 2000. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "From "Ideas At The Powerhouse" Festival in Brisbane 16-19 August, 2001". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 October 2001. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Fiona Stewart". Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Internet Communication and Qualitative Research". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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