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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One NationPolitics

Hanson still in a tight fight

Relegated Liberal Amanda Stoker has surged past Pauline Hanson for the final Senate spot in Queensland, tightening a seesaw contest that could deprive One Nation of its talismanic leader.

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Glyn DavisNation

Albo calls on ‘Mr Fixit’

Anthony Albanese has named a change agent who shook up the nation’s top-ranked uni to head the federal public service.

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‘Broad church’ splitNation

$Existential threat: carnage fractures Liberal heartland$

Existential threat: carnage fractures Liberal heartland

Libs’ centre of gravity has collapsed into outer suburbs and regions far from inner-city seats that turned teal or Green.

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exclusivePolitics

20/05/2022: Opposition treasurer Jim Chalmers takes his 3 yr old son Jack to pre school, and then sits down for an interview at a local cafe, in his electorate of Rankin, in Springwood, Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Logan’s hero ready to hold the purse strings

Jim Chalmers is nervous, and who can blame him?

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ExclusiveNation

QUT filmmaker Joe Carter at Pumori High Camp with members of the Full Circle climbing team - who summited Everest on 12 May. Picture - Supplied

Giant jump from Earth’s roof thwarted by ill health

Australian climber Ken Hutt was forced to turn back short of the summit after going heartbreakingly close to realising a dream to fly a paraglider off Mount Everest.

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exclusiveNation

Anglican Church on brink of revolt

Fallout from internal same-sex marriage vote deepens, with church Primate issuing dire warning.

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‘people want to leave’Nation

Gay marriage vote divides Anglican Church

Church leaders have rejected a bid to restrict marriage to the union of a man and woman in a boilover at the General Synod.

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religionNation

Gay marriage clash cracks Anglican unity

Gay wedding blessing ceremonies will be banned under a bid to have Anglican Church leaders vote that marriage can only be between a man and woman.

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Politics

Church to push jail age change

The Anglican Church will campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 in a bid to reduce the number of children in juvenile detention.

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ExclusiveNation

Moderates hit back in Anglican same-sex spat

Progressive Anglicans have hit back at church conservatives, deepening tensions over same-sex marriage and gay priests at a national assembly.

Jamie Walker

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