Donald Gerard Stewart (25 November 1928 – 14 July 2016) was an Australian judge, barrister, police officer, Royal Commissioner, and founding chairman of the

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of Australia. He spent a lifetime fighting

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and

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and detailed many of his experiences in his memoirs
Recollections of an Unreasonable Man
. He attended

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from 1941 to 1946. He died in 2016 at the age of 87.

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"Retired Royal Commissioner Don Stewart""Victorian police corrupt: ex-judge""A conversation with Don Stewart"
1928 births 2016 deaths Australian police officers Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Australian memoirists Judges of the District Court of NSW 20th-century Australian judges {{Australia-law-bio-stub

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