Alexander Stewart Cockburn was an Australian journalist, commentator, and author from Adelaide, South Australia.
17 Facts About Stewart Cockburn
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Stewart Cockburn was the only child of journalist Rodney Cockburn and his second wife, Ruby Ethel, nee Adams.
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Stewart Cockburn began working as a copy boy for The Advertiser in 1938, and started his reporter cadetship late in 1940.
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Stewart Cockburn was needed on the short-staffed paper in Adelaide.
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Stewart Cockburn transferred to the associated Melbourne Herald in 1945, after the war ended.
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Stewart Cockburn was personally selected by Prime Minister Menzies in 1951 as his press secretary, and accompanied the PM on his 1952 official visit to London and Washington.
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Stewart Cockburn accompanied Menzies and his family to London in 1953 for the Coronation of Elizabeth II.
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Stewart Cockburn wrote about his three year experience in a series of articles in The Bulletin.
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Stewart Cockburn returned to The Advertiser in early 1954 as a special feature writer.
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Stewart Cockburn covered the 1959 Royal Commission into the trial of Aboriginal murderer Rupert Maxwell Stuart largely instigated by campaigning journalist Rohan Rivett.
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Stewart Cockburn resigned and returned to Australia and The Advertiser after voicing his doubts about the veracity of a public statement made by the Australian ambassador.
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Stewart Cockburn continued as senior feature writer at The Advertiser and resumed his radio commentaries on 5AD and 5AN.
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Towards the end of 1971 Stewart Cockburn investigated the company behind Holiday Magic cosmetics, and showed how a small number of operators profited enormously from the aspirations of a large number of agents, a classic pyramid scheme.
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In January 1979 Stewart Cockburn received a letter written in jail by inmate Edward Splatt, protesting his innocence of the 1977 murder of 77-year-old Rosa Amelia Simper.
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In 1979 Stewart Cockburn published The Salisbury Affair on the sacking by premier Don Dunstan of South Australian Police Commissioner, Harold Salisbury.
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Stewart Cockburn donated a substantial collection of ephemera related to his career, including several scrapbooks, to the University of Adelaide which includes audio cassettes, letters and press clippings.
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Stewart Cockburn married Beatrice Ferguson in England in 1947.