Jamie Walker

Jamie Walker is a senior staff writer, based in Brisbane, who covers national affairs, politics, technology and special interest issues. He is a former Europe correspondent (1999-2001) and Middle East correspondent (2015-16) for The Australian, and earlier in his career wrote for The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. He has held a range of other senior positions on the paper including Victoria Editor and ran domestic bureaux in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide; he is also a former assistant editor of The Courier-Mail. He has won numerous journalism awards in Australia and overseas, and is the author of a biography of the late former Queensland premier, Wayne Goss. In addition to contributing regularly for the news and Inquirer sections, he is a staff writer for The Weekend Australian Magazine.

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2032 Brisbane GamesNation

Brisbane 2032 Olympic Organising Committee CEO, Cindy Hook, with the Olympic Rings and Paralympic Agitos structures, made by Bailey Print Group in Salisbury. This is part of the Ã¢â¬Ë9 years to goÃ¢â¬â¢ celebrations for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

Games strategy long on talk, short on detail

The Queensland government’s new legacy strategy for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics leaves the critics asking for more.

Jamie Walker

Inside StoryNation

Jail but no solution to vigilante ‘thrill kill’

Would-be vigilante Christopher Hughes pays the price for taking the law into his own hands, at the cost of an innocent woman’s life.

Jamie Walker and Daneka Hill

‘profoundly decent’Nation

3/11/2023: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at the State Funeral Service for the Hon William (Bill) George Hayden AC, at St. MaryÃ¢â¬â¢s Catholic Church, Ipswich pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Hundreds gather to farewell Labor giant Bill Hayden

Hundreds of mourners, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, gathered in Ipswich to farewell Labor luminary Bill Hayden, who died last month, aged 90.

Lydia Lynch and Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

15/10/2023: Queensland LNP Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, at his early morning gym work out at Sanctuary Cove, on the Gold Coast . Crisafulli is about a year out from crucial state election, in 2024. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Preparation is key for premier hopeful

David Crisafulli rarely sleeps past 4am, as the candidate most likely to end Labor’s Queensland reign looks to keep his mind and body sharp.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

15/10/2023: Queensland LNP Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, at his local bakery in Paradise Point on the Gold Coast .Crisafulli is about a year out from crucial state election, in 2024. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Greens deal weighs heavily on LNP leader

Preferencing the Greens over Labor at next year’s Queensland election could backfire on the LNP.

Jamie Walker

HISTORY WARSThe Weekend Australian Magazine

29/5/2023 : Books by Alice Duncan-Kemp , owned by Will Duncan-Kemp at his home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Will is a descendant of author Alice Duncan-Kemp, who wrote a number of books, including Our Sandhill Country in 1933 about life in far western QLD outback desert country. Lyndon Mechielsen/TWAM

‘Improbable tales’: trailblazing historian’s Dark Emu moment

The forgotten memoirs of Alice Duncan-Kemp vividly describe first contact with indigenous Australians almost 100 years ago. So why is her work dividing today’s experts?

Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

Noel Pearson launching Damien Freeman and Julian LeeserÕs An Australian Declaration of Recognition at the State Library of NSW. (LR) Damien Freeman, Noel Pearson and Julian Leeser pictured out the front of the state Library.Photographer: Adam Yip

‘It’d be one of the great tragedies’: Moment of truth for voice architects

A disparate group overcame their differences to seek recognition. But to understand where it went wrong, we need to cast back to the political soap opera of Labor in power under Rudd and Gillard.

Jamie Walker

Israel at warWorld

Confirmed hostage taken from Israel. A picture taken from social media of Noa Argamani, who was abducted by Palestinian militants in Southern Israel.

Saving hostages now a brutal calculus for Israel

The chilling warning by Hamas that it would execute a hostage for every unannounced strike by Israel pounded home the brutal calculus of war for the Jewish state.

Jamie Walker

Israel at warWorld

09/10/2023 The remains of a festival site where rescuers have found 260 bodies at a music festival in Israel after witnesses say Hamas terrorists cut the power and opened fire.

Death squad massacre of innocents

The slaughter of more than 260 partygoers in southern Israel deepens horror at the weekend terror strikes and reinforces the case for war with Hamas.

Jamie Walker

INSIDE STORYWorld

A still taken from video appearing on social media purportedly showing an Israeli hostage taken prisoner by Palestinian militants.

Hamas declares bloodthirsty war on women

Seizing female captives appears to have been prioritised by the rampaging Islamist militants. The unthinkable is now a living nightmare for Israelis.

Jamie Walker

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