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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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commentaryPolitics

Cold comfort amid Premier’s bleak winter of discontent

This winter of discontent for a bumbling Annastacia Palaszczuk gets bleaker by the day, just like Queensland’s deeply unwelcome cold snap.

Jamie Walker

$25m buyNRL

Gambaro Hotel in Brisbane. Picture - Supplied

Rugby league goes upmarket with Hotel NRL

Rooms will be named after rugby league personalities at the hotel in Brisbane purchased by the NRL.

Jamie Walker and Brent Read

inquirerInquirer

Instagram @annastaciamp Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pictured on the Logie red carpet with boyfriend Reza Adib. Delighted to have the Logies back on the Gold Coast showcasing Queensland to the rest of Australia. @screenqueensland has added $1.3 billion to our state and 14,000 jobs - 10,000 of them on the Gold Coast.Queenslanders can now build careers in this exciting industry

The whole show is a shambles and it all starts with Palaszczuk

What Peter Coaldrake found in Queensland amounts to a failure of leadership on every level. In her haste to adopt his report, does the Premier really understand what she has signed up to?

Jamie Walker

‘ritual beheadings’Politics

Peter Coaldrake, VC of QUT, is announcing fees following proposed deregulation , with the new Science and Engineering Centre behind, at the Gardens Point Campus in the CBD , Brisbane

Hollowed out public service ‘can’t keep check’

The expertise of government workforces is so badly depleted they can’t keep tabs on outsourced services, warns author of bombshell Queensland report.

Jamie Walker

CommentaryPolitics

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Palaszczuk dodges the issue, passes the buck

The seven-year-old Labor government is adrift at a time when the Premier needs to be on her game, not out on the town.

Jamie Walker

CommentaryPolitics

Premier must throw open integrity shutters

Peter Coaldrake has given the Queensland Premier a golden opportunity to arrest the southward trajectory of her government.

Jamie Walker

Covid vaccinesNation

Dilemma over targeted vaccines

Despite closely related variants of the dominant Omicron strain known as BA.4 and BA.5 taking hold across Australia, progress on top-up vaccines could prompt health authorities to delay the rollout of a fourth shot.

Jamie Walker and SARAH PETTY

magazineWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 25 JUNE 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. 09/06/2022 Greens member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather photographed in studio in Brisbane. Glenn Hunt/TWAM

How the Greens ambushed Brisbane

If the teal wave that hit the Liberal heartland in Sydney and Melbourne was a standout, the Greens’ onslaught in Brisbane was just as epic. How did Max Chandler-Mather do it?

Jamie Walker

Federal budgetPolitics

Greens MP Adam Bandt at Queensland Media Club event, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane, Friday, June 24, 2022 - Picture: Richard Walker

Bandt warns Labor on tax cuts

Greens leader Adam Bandt has warned the Senate balance-of-power party will oppose the government’s first budget if Labor proceeds with stage-three tax cuts for high-income earners.

Jamie Walker

ECO-TOURISMNation

24/06/2022 : Kate Lawrance and partner Justin Johnson with their son Eden Johnson 17 and daughters Kirra 15 and Emily Johnson 13 (in shorts) , visiting the site of the burnt down Binna Burra Lodge, at Binna Burra in the mountains behind the Gold Coast. There is to be a new replacement lodge development after the original building destroyed in 2019 bushfires . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Family favourite Binna Burra will build back better

The Queensland government has stumped up $18m in the state budget to replace the lodge at Binna Burra, in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Jamie Walker

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