John Stubbs

John Norman Stubbs (2 February 1938 in Cunnamulla, Queensland – 25 May 2015 in Lismore, New South Wales) was an Australian political journalist, author and Labor staffer. Stubbs worked as a political correspondent for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane's Sunday Sun among others and authored three non-fiction books. He worked as a press secretary for Clyde Cameron when he was a minister in the Whitlam Government, and for Hugh Hudson, a minister in the South Australian government of Don Dunstan. Stubbs co-authored Nest of Traitors: The Petrov Affair, with Nicholas Whitlam in 1974 about the Petrov Affair. He also wrote The Hidden People, Poverty in Australia and Hayden, a biography of Bill Hayden.