Rory Stewart, former cabinet minister of the UK Government, writer, diplomat and one half of the hugely popular podcast The Rest Is Politics will be touring Australia in October & November 2024 for an evening of no-holds barred discussion on crises, policy, and the world order.
Monday 21October Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall
Tuesday 29 October Sydney Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall
Saturday 2 November Brisbane Concert Hall, QPAC
Sunday 3 November Canberra Llewellyn Hall
Monday 4 November Perth Perth Concert Hall
Following a sold-out 2023 UK tour, Rory will now be taking to the stage across Australia to reflect on how, over the course of a decade, he went from being a political outsider to standing in for the prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
“Global politics has never been more interesting. This is the year where there are more elections worldwide than ever before. European politics is in the balance … It’s an amazing opportunity to engage audiences [and] to talk about the future of the world. I couldn’t be more excited!” said Rory Stewart.
Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Rory learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become.
In conversation, Rory will engage with populism, Brexit and global conflict and delve even deeper into the instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller, Politics On the Edge.
Don’t miss the chance to hear Rory’s account of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life, and ask your burning questions in a live Q&A.
RORY STEWART – POLITICS ON THE EDGE – AUSTRALIAN TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA www.fane.com.au/rorystewart
ABOUT RORY:
Rory Stewart OBE is a British podcaster, politician, diplomat, and writer schooled at Eton with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University.
After Oxford, Stewart joined the British Foreign Service with postings in Indonesia and Montenegro and briefly served as an officer in the Black Watch regiment.
From 2000 to 2002, Stewart walked across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, documenting his journey in the acclaimed book The Places In Between and across the borderlands between Scotland and England documented in The Marches. He served as Deputy Governor of two provinces in Iraq post-2003 invasion and wrote Occupational Hazards about his experiences.
Elected as MP for Penrith and The Border in 2010, Stewart held various ministerial roles. During his career as a politician he served in several ministerial roles, including as Secretary of State for International Development in 2019.
In 2022, Stewart joined former political strategist Alastair Campbell to launch the chart-topping The Rest is Politics podcast, aiming for temperate and informed political debate.
He has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (for his work in Iraq), the Gold Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (for his work in Afghanistan), a Scottish BAFTA (for the documentaries he has made and presented with the BBC) and honorary doctorates from Stirling University and the American University of Paris.
