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Stuart was elected the Liberal Federal member for the northern Gold Coast seat of Fadden in the November 2007 federal election. Since the merger of the Queensland Liberal and National parties, Stuart is a member of the Liberal National Party (LNP) of Queensland, sitting with the Liberals in the House of Representatives.

Stuart is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, has a Masters Degree in Information Technology, a Masters of Business Administration, an Honours degree in Arts (History and Politics) and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management.

Stuart serves on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade, the Joint Statutory Committees for Corporations and Financial Services and the Joint Statutory Committee for Public Accounts and Audit.

Prior to entering Parliament, Stuart was a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and a top ten graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon subsequently serving as an Officer in the Army. During this time he served in command roles with the Parachute Battalion (3 RAR), Recon and Surveillance (51 FNQR) in the North based out of Thursday Island and Counter Intelligence and Security (1 Div Int Coy and DSEC-A). Stuart also saw operation service oversees spending five months with the force protection element of the Peace Monitoring Force following the Civil War on the PNG island of Bougainville.

Following his military career, Stuart and a colleague founded an IT services firm that was expanded into a nationwide company. Corporate accolades for the firm include it being named a BRW fast 100 company two years in a row, as a finalist in the Queensland Small Business Champion Awards and as a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards.

Stuart is a founder and director of Watoto Child Care -- Australia and is the Secretary of the Watoto International Board. Watoto seeks to address the humanitarian crisis of over 2 million orphans in the African country of Uganda, the highest number of any orphans per capita in the world. Watoto in Uganda is currently caring for over 1800 orphaned children and babies and is one of the world's largest non-institutional orphan care programs.

Stuart has lived in the Fadden electorate for over 10 years. Stuart is married to Chantelle and they have two sons, Caleb and Isaac. Stuart and Chantelle enjoy traveling and the outdoors particularly mountaineering, having climbed in four of the world's six continents.