Stuart Littlemore
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Queen's Counsel
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is an Australian barrister
Barrister
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and former journalist and television presenter. He is best known for his time as writer and host of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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's (ABC) Media Watch program, which he presented from its inception in 1989 to 1997. His broadcasting experience began in the late 1960s when he worked as a television current affairs journalist for the ABC, firstly on This Day Tonight
This Day Tonight
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and then on Four Corners. In the 1990s, Littlemore made guest appearances on the comedy series, Frontline
Frontline (Australian TV series)
Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995 and 1997.-Production:...
, where he played himself as the host of Media Watch. Following Media Watch, he had a short-running discussion program, Littlemore (2001). He published a book about his media experiences entitled The Media and Me in 1996.
In 2011 he published his first novel, Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice.
In recent years, Littlemore has returned to his legal practice, specialising in media law and criminal law. He has lectured in journalism and politics at three Australian universities, and been awarded a number of fellowships, including ones from the Australia Council
Australia Council
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, Deakin University
Deakin University
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, and the University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...
.
Littlemore represented Mercedes Corby, the sister of Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Leigh Corby is an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling who is imprisoned in Indonesia.Corby is serving a 20-year sentence for the importation of of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia...
, in her defamation action against Australian television broadcaster the Seven Network
Seven Network
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which was decided in her favour.
He also represented Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson
Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-multiculturalism platform...
in her defamation action against News Ltd.
News Limited
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, after The Sun-Herald
The Sun-Herald
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and The Sunday Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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published (and later retracted) nude photographs that they claimed showed a young Ms Hanson. A settlement was reached between the parties out of court.