During a long career he worked as a senior reporter on the ABC’s flagship investigative journalism program, Four Corners, as economics correspondent and national finance correspondent, filing across nearly all ABC outlets.

He also worked as a senior reporter and columnist at The Australian Financial Review covering industrial relations and labour markets and as a reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald.

Stephen is a Walkley Award winner, a winner of the Citigroup Award for Economic and Financial Journalism and the Commonwealth Media Award. He studied political economy and history at the University of Sydney.