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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Associate Professor Keith Chappell, inventor of UQÃs Molecular Clamp technology used to develop uni's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine now backed by CSL and the Australian Government, University of Queensland School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, St. Lucia. Photographer: Liam Kidston

Hopes high for next virus: one jab is fit for all

Australian scientists have developed a one-stop vaccine for pandemic viruses that promises to be available within weeks of another Covid-style threat erupting.

Jamie Walker

exclusiveVisual Arts

16/2/22: Charles Billich and wife, Christa at their gallery in the Rocks. On new year's eve, they were due to present Donald Trump with a painting at his Mar-a-Lago bash in Florida: instead, both contracted Covid and fell so ill they feared death. John Feder/The Australian.

Croatia invites Billich to buy back his ‘stolen’ $2m artworks

Sydney artist Charles Billich has been invited to bid for 32 paintings and artworks ‘stolen’ by local authorities in Croatia, potentially ending a 14-year standoff over the $2m-plus collection.

Jamie Walker

retirementHigher Education

10/11/2022: Scientist Prof Ian Frazer with wife Caroline, at a park next to their in their apartment at Highgate Hill, Brisbane. Ian has revealed his retirement as a full-time professor at University of Queensland. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian

God’s gift to women says ‘my work here is done’

You would think by now that Ian Frazer, who co-invented the world’s first cancer vaccine, had learned to take a compliment, to accept he might just be God’s gift to women.

Jamie Walker

inquirerInquirer

This UGC image posted on Twitter reportedly on October 26, 2022 shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's home town.

Iranian women dare to dream that their cries will be heard

The timeline of civil disobedience in the Islamic Republic is dotted with false dawns. But there are signs, at last, that the theocrats who have ruled since 1979 may be forced to make concessions.

Jamie Walker

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01-11-2022 - Naz Almasi is Iranian-Kurdish asylum seeker active in dissident circles. She arrived in Australia by boat after her family fled Tehran in 2013. Picture: Emma Murray / The Australian

‘We will never stop fighting, and one day all Iranians will be free’

As she can’t share the danger her friends and former classmates face when protesting in Iran, Sydney asylum seeker Naz Almasi sharing their harrowing stories.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

27/10/2022: Newly re hired former New Acland mine worker Bodie Sherrington 33, wife Abby and their children Isla 3 and Monty 1, taking the rare opportunity to show his family some of the huge machinery while the mine is still shut down, ahead of its full reopening in the near future. Bodie is the mines Technical Services Superintendent , who lost his job when the mine closed, and is the first to be re hired back following the mines approval to operate. pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Back on the tools and home for dinner

Bodie Sherrington, the first person to be rehired at the New Acland coal mine, can wave goodbye to a six-hour drive for a fill-in job and resume duty as full-time husband and father.

Jamie Walker

Surreal obsessionWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 29 OCTOBER 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. Charles Billich and wife Christa Billich pictured at their apartment on Friday 16 July, 2022, Daringhurst, NSW. Photo: TWAM/Nic Walker

The latest strange turn in the life of Charles Billich

It’s the $2 million-plus art heist you’ve never heard of, the claimed wrong flamboyant Sydney painter has fought to put right for 14 years.

Jamie Walker

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22th October 2022.Treasurer Jim Chalmers out on his morning run near his home in Springwood. Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Chalmers aims to get us out of the woods

It’s his time, just for Jim, when the Treasurer pulls on the running shoes. And if ever there was a time he needed to clear his head, it’s now.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

17/10/2022: University of Queensland scientists Associate Professor Rebecca Dunlop (in the red boat) and Professor Mike Noad (in the white boat), search for whales , about 2km off the coast near Noosa, QLD . Rebecca tries to attach sensors with suction cups to whales in order to try and decipher the language of whales. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Splash and dash: the sheer joy of singing with whales

After decades of listening in, two marine scientists are edging closer to understanding not only what whales say to each other in the lonely depths of the ocean, but what it means to them and us.

Jamie Walker

EXCLUSIVENation

Archbishop Justin Welby with indigenous dancers in the background. Picture: Supplied.

No ‘either or’ Indigenous solutions: Archbishop

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says symbolic change went hand-in-hand with practical measures to tackle disadvantage and inequality among Indigenous Australians.

Jamie Walker

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