Stuart Corner

Stuart is one of Australia's most experienced telecoms specialist writers. He has been writing on IT since 1984, specialising in telecoms since 1986 and for over 20 years has edited and published the weekly telecoms industry newsletter Exchange, now published daily by iTWire as ExchangeDaily - widely read by executives at the highest levels of the Australian telecoms industry - among telcos, suppliers, government and others.

An electronics engineer by training, he came to journalism almost by accident. He was teaching maintenance technicians on IBM-compatible mainframe computers for Facom Australia (now Fujitsu) in late 1983 when he saw an advertisement for an IT journalist at Computerworld. Thinking this might be more fun than dealing with the mind-numbing details of the technology, he applied, and hasn't stopped writing since.

Stuart was born and educated in the UK where he gained a Higher National Certificate in Electronic Engineering and a post-graduate certificate in Technical Education from the University of London.

He worked as an electronics engineer in the offshore oil industry in the UK, the Middle East and Nigeria and as a technical college lecturer in London before embarking on a six month journey through Asia that brought him to Australia in 1980.

After watching the antics of the UK's new prime minister Margaret Thatcher he determined not to return, became an Australian resident, later a citizen and has lived here ever since.