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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INDIGENOUS VOICEIndigenous

Wakka Wakka Dancers at the Yes23 Campaign and Come Together for Yes event in Brisbane, Sunday, July 2, 2023 - Picture: Richard Walker

Yes campaign pushes power of the positive

There was no brass band, not a bell or whistle to be heard when the pro-voice forces finally took a no-frills pitch to the people.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

10th IOC International Athlete's Forum, Lausanne, 2021 - Kirsty COVENTRY, IOC Member (ZIM), and Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission.

Games jumps gun in race for corporate cash

The Olympics’ world governing body is set to give Brisbane 2032 Games’ organisers early access to the event’s naming and marketing rights to unlock multimillion-dollar corporate funding.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

Cameron Baird VC MG on duty in Afghanistan for Exclusive Feature running April 8-9, 2017.Pictures courtesy parents Doug and Kaye Baird - contact Jo Schulz 0416757845 before using for any other purpose

Cam’s cause lives 10 years after VC hero gave his all

Humble soldier Cameron Baird would have refused the Victoria Cross had he lived to have his say.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

16/12/21: Stephen Edwards at Kings Cross. Dr Stephen Edwards was charged in 2016 with murdering his dying mother in Hobart, an alleged mercy killing. He denied the charge, which was dropped in 2020 after he contracted terminal cancer. Now, in his final days, he is telling his story publicly for the first time. John Feder/The Australian.

Inquest the last hope for dying doctor: I didn’t kill mum

Stephen Edward was charged with murdering his mother before a terminal cancer diagnosis forced prosecutors to drop the case.

Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos September 27, 2022: Senator Pauline Hanson during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Long, bitter Canberra chill gets to Hanson

The Labor government neither wants nor needs the two votes Pauline Hanson can deliver in a congested Senate. The One Nation leader hates being out in the cold.

Jamie Walker

INSIDE STORYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 17 JUNE MAY 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Coffin of Ramses II in cedar. End of the Eighteenth Dynasty. World Heritage Exhibitions. Photo: Sandro Vannini, Laboratoriorosso/Supplied

Museum’s coup secures the King of exhibitions

The blockbuster $2.4bn Ramses the Great exhibition is on its way to Australia, and there’s a rollicking background to how the deal was done.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

NEWS2019ELECTION 15/4/2019. DAY 5 One Nation's Pauline Hanson Campaigning in regional South Australia - Loxton, Berri and Remark today. Pauline Hanson on the campaign trail in Berri with her COS James Ashby and local member Jennifer Game. Tricia Watkinson

Adviser in line for top job if Hanson quits

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson opens up on being cast into the cold in Canberra and the future of her controversial chief of staff, James Ashby.

Jamie Walker

Covid-19Nation

A UQ researcher using a bioreactor, one of the key pieces of equipment in establishing a vaccine candidate. Picture: UQ/Glenn Hunt

Scientists unite to fight next pandemic

Australian and US scientists partner to develop new generation of vaccines for the inevitable next pandemic

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

25/05/2023 : The worlds only remaining German WW1 tank, Ã¢â¬ÅMephistoÃ¢â¬Â, is reunited with its long lost compass by Tom Lamin , inside the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. In the 1960Ã¢â¬â¢s Tom was given the compass by his grandfather Lt Horace Lynch, who was in London when Mephisto, a giant A7V tank, was stored at the Tilbury Docks prior to the tanks shipping to Australia as a war trophy, and likely souvenired the compass at the time. pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Compass finds way home, 104 years on

A WWI German military compass, handed down from an Australian Digger to his grandson, is back where it belongs in the world’s rarest tank.

Jamie Walker

exclusivePolitics

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pictured making an announcement about the Tugun Satellite Hospital and also doing a walk through. Tugun Wednesday 3rd May 2023 Picture David Clark

IOC stumps up $1bn to honour Games pledge

Queensland’s Labor government also secured $1bn in funding this week from the federal budget for 2032 Olympics venues.

Jamie Walker

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