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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 OlympicsNation

Brisbane 3032 Olympic Committee at the Townsville Sports Reserve. Olympic Committee Chair Andrew Livoris. Picture: Evan Morgan

Boss ‘a bargain buy’ for Games

Brisbane Olympics president Andrew Liveris could command much more than he is paid to plan the 2032 Games.

Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

No campaigner and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and Yes23's Dean Perkin. Picture: Chris Pavlich/Brian Cassey

Behind the scenes of two very different voice campaigns

As each camp crisscrosses the country to try to sway up to 6m undecided voters, the No group holds a formidable lead in the polls. But the Yes side has one final push planned.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

ÃYESÃ campaign Director Dean Perkin meets 7 year old Blessing Bolea whilst sorting campaign material at the ÃYouth Doing GoodÃ facility in Cairns Wednesday 27th September 2023. Photo by Brian Cassey

Yes camp olive branch calls for post-vote healing

The Yes campaign boss says the time will come when the nation has to move on from the voice referendum.

Jamie Walker

INDIGENOUS VOICEIndigenous

Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Senator, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price with the Leader of the National Party, David Littleproud, campaign in Dubbo for The Voice - No case. Picture - Chris Pavlich/The Australian

Dutton gets front-row seat to Jacinta show

After flying in from distant Moree to join the voice referendum campaign trail, the Opposition Leader said his now-famous spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians was a hard act to follow.

Jamie Walker

Media shake-upNation

Rupert Murdoch with son Lachlan (far R) and daughter in law Sarah (2nd R) join staff members and their families at the launch of the campaign for the new Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Victoria.

‘Expect to see me in the office late on a Friday’

The News Corp founder hands over the reigns at the company he founded 70 years ago to his eldest son.

Jamie Walker

exclusivePolitics

###NO BYLINE### Crown prosecutor Sal Vasta outside the Brisbane Supereme Court for the trail of Benjamine Albert Hester

Standoff: Top judges boycotting risky cases

Angry federal judges are refusing to hear cases for fear that they may be held financially liable for struck-down judgments, potentially bringing one of the nation’s busiest courts to a standstill.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

Laurie Cooper, 94, and wife Bette Cooper, 90, playing bowls at Club Tweed. Picture by Luke Marsden.

The secret to a long life? Kiss your troubles away

Australians are living longer, but they also need to live well in old age. A greying nation has reached the tipping point.

Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

Wednesday 16th August 2023. The Australian.Father Sam Randall and his wife Mirjam. Father Randall is a former Church of England priest who switched to the Catholic Church. He says being married has made him a better priest.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.

‘Being married makes me a better priest’

Sam Randall is the Catholic priest who seems to have it all: his vocation, the love of wife Miriam, the joy of their children and grandkids. His question for the church is why deny other clergymen that fulfilment?

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

10/8/23: Professor Kohler-Ryan at St Benedict's Church in Sydney. She is a professor of philosophy who will attend a summit on Catholic Church reform at the Vatican in October. This is for a story on possible change to celibacy rule for Catholic priests that will be considered at the summit. John Feder/The Australian.

Celibacy a gift that ‘fulfils’ priests

In a debate replete with nuance and counterintuitive turns, a woman who teaches philosophy to Catholic priests-in-training makes the case for clerical celibacy.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

24.11.2015. CentacareÕs Manager of Aboriginal Services, John Lochowiak, has just been appointed chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Catholic Council. John manages the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry at the Otherway Centre, Stepney. Photo Sam Wundke.

Elder backs call to scrap celibacy

Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge’s call for change on clerical celibacy gains traction with Indigenous and Church leaders.

Jamie Walker

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