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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16/3/17: Cindy Hook, CEO of Deloitte who is in favor of the marriage equality letter. Pictured at her Sydney office. John Feder/The Australian.

Sports novice shock pick to run Brisbane Olympics

A US businesswoman with no background in sports administration has been given the job of delivering the Brisbane Olympics.

Jamie Walker

wieambilla shootingNews

One of the young QLD Police officers murdered in a shooting in Wieambilla is identified as Constable Matthew Arnold, 29. Picture: Facebook

‘Never stood a chance’: Cops gunned down in ‘execution-style’ massacre

Two officers, three alleged offenders and a member of the public have been shot dead in a series of shootings northwest of Brisbane.

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new hopeNation

Ultrasound trial manager Professor Peter Nestor (left) with Professor Jurgen Gotz. Picture: Supplied

Ultrasound Alzheimer’s treatment starts human trials

Animal studies show blasts of ultrasound can restore cognitive function and boost the effect of drugs, University of Queensland researchers say.

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‘Shameful’ actPolitics

11/12/2022: Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, at ArchbishopÃ¢â¬â¢s residence, Ã¢â¬ÅWynbergÃ¢â¬Â, in New Farm, Brisbane. Terminally ill people who take their lives through voluntary euthanasia could be denied the last rites by a Catholic priest when Queensland becomes the fourth state to operate a right-to-die program on January 1. pic Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Anger at Catholic ban threat on VAD rites

Right-to-die groups denounce a senior Catholic Church leader for flagging that the last rites could be withheld from users of voluntary assisted dying.

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Daughter supporting her terminally ill mother lying on hospital bed, hospice istock image

Catholic priests to deny last rites in VAD backlash

Terminally ill people who opt for voluntary euthanasia could be denied the last rites from a Catholic priest when Queensland starts a right-to-die program on January 1.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

A woman takes pictures of Olympic Rings in Tokyo on January 8, 2021, as Tokyo Olympics organisers insisted that the coronavirus-postponed Games will still go ahead despite Japan declaring a state of emergency less than 200 days before the opening ceremony. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

Data collection legal minefield for elite sport

Athletes could own and demand payment for their performance data, creating a legal minefield leading into the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

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Globally significantScience

Dr Espen Knutsen, Senior Curator of Palaeontology with the Queensland Museum Network at the site of the intact fossilised skeleton of a 100million-year-old elasmosaur. Picture: Supplied

Aussie fossil hunters unearth ‘Rosetta stone’

They’re calling it the Rosetta stone of Australian palaeontology in outback Queensland – the first intact fossilised skeleton of a 100-million-year-plus elasmosaur to be unearthed.

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WWII veteran diesDefence

23/04/2021. Ernie Walker, one of the last living Rats of Tobruk, who turned 105 on 22 April 2021, photographed at home in Penrose in the Southern Highlands with his wife Bev ahead of Anzac Day. Britta Campion / The Australian

‘Ready to go’: Larrikin lost to Rats’ dwindling ranks

He was unbowed, unafraid and incorrigible to the very end, going out at the age of 106 like a Rat of Tobruk should. We’ll not see the likes of Ernie Walker again.

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Old Country, new insightInquirer

23/09/2021 : A newly rediscovered ancient giant Ã¢â¬ÅScorpious Stone ArrangementÃ¢â¬Â in the remote desert of far western QLD, is offering new clues about the Mithika indigenous history for Associate Prof of Archeology Michael Westaway along with colleague Dr Kelsey Lowe a geo archeologist, on Mithika lands north of Birdsville. The research team are completing a geo physical survey of site in an attempt to help understand the purpose of the secret stone structures . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

‘Entirely different story’ of Aboriginal past

From ‘industrial scale’ mining to permanent settlements and an Indigenous Silk Road, eye-opening archaeological discoveries are changing what we know about how early Aborigines lived.

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exclusiveIndigenous

Aug 2022: Mithaka elder Trudy Gorringe holds one of two extremely rare rainforest swords, (discovered in the mud of nearby King creek south of Bedourie), on top of a red sand hill, near King creek south of Bedourie , QLD. The unusual swords have only just come to the attention of researchers and have been scientifically tested to have come from an area somewhere between Townsville and Mackay, and date from around the mid to late 1800Ã¢â¬â¢s, and are believed to be an previously unknown example of indigenous trade into the desert regions of central Australia. pic Lyndon Mechielsen

‘Gobsmacked’: sharp end of an Indigenous mystery

A pair of rare, possibly centuries-old Indigenous rainforest swords add new context to the fierce Dark Emu debate over pre-contact First Australians.

Jamie Walker

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