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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08/12/2021: Amanda Stevens mum of young twin boys Lawson and Staaten White, and proprietor of fashion store Ã¢â¬ÅGravel and GraceÃ¢â¬Â in outback Julia Creek. A severe labour shortage in the town (and others like it) means juggling being a mother and a business women is sometimes almost impossible, and often the business needs to shut due to a lack of available help. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Jobs boom but labour drought’s a bust

There are days when Amanda Stevens can’t find help for love or money to look after the twins and her customers at Gravel & Grace in Julia Creek.

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Game, set and match: Djokovic expelled

Rather than be marched to Melbourne airport, the Serb left voluntarily, flying out to Spain at 10.30pm, just hours before he had been due to play in the Australian Open.

Remy Varga, Jamie Walker and Jacquelin Magnay

EXCLUSIVENation

16/12/21: Stephen Edwards at Kings Cross. Dr Stephen Edwards was charged in 2016 with murdering his dying mother in Hobart, an alleged mercy killing. He denied the charge, which was dropped in 2020 after he contracted terminal cancer. Now, in his final days, he is telling his story publicly for the first time. John Feder/The Australian.

GP ‘helped to end suffering’ as death neared

A GP charged with murdering his mother after she pleaded to die described how he put other patients into ‘terminal sedation’ to end their suffering as death neared.

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EXCLUSIVENation

GP’s dying defence: I did not murder mum

This is Stephen Edwards’ dying declaration, the defence he did not get to make in court to charges of murdering his aged mother and conspiring to cover up the alleged crime.

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What a Djoker: Can I have my own chef?

Novak Djokovic demanded access to his chef and a tennis court while in immigration custody in Melbourne as the Serbian government rallied to his side.

Jamie Walker and Remy Varga

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07/01/2022: Mina Cullen, 41 (who has to social distance from her parents at the moment) who oversees the health of her parents parents Eva and Nicholas Comino, aged 72 and 82, at their home in Bethania, Brisbane. The old couple lined up in a drive-thru testing line at 2:30am in Brisbane's south on Thursday and were still second in line. Mr Comino, who is in remission for leukaemia and has asbestosis and diabetes, was forced to wait hours without his sleep apnea machine following recent back surgery. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

We’re on our own in this DIY pandemic

Australians are seemingly on their known in this DIY Covid pandemic, as we turn to each other, not governments, for vital advice.

Jamie Walker and Mackenzie Scott

PM: rules are rulesTennis

Border farce: court to rule on Djokovic visa

Novak Djokovic is in immigration detention in Melbourne after launching a legal challenge to border control rules and his deportation for breaching Covid-19 vaccination orders.

Jamie Walker and Remy Varga

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 21: Novak Djokovic of Serbia speaks with CEO of Tennis Australia Craig Tiley as he holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup following victory in his MenÃ¢â¬â¢s Singles Final match against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during day 14 of the 2021 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on February 21, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

‘It’s in Novak’s best interests to own up’

Given medical exemption ‘can’t be for physical reasons’, Rod Laver says he understands anger directed at Djokovic.

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17/12/2021: Now in much happier times a couple of years on from the cattle killing floods a few years ago, Patrick and Edwina Hick on their property, Argyle, just outside of Julia Creek, in north west outback QLD. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Keeping heads above water when floods hit

Having lost 6000 of 16,000 cattle in a monsoonal onslaught in northwest Queensland three summers ago, third-generation grazier Patrick Hick and wife Edwina have turned the corner – thanks to the government-led disaster response.

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Charles and Christa Billich in their festive best at the annual Christmas party at the Billich Gallery in the Rocks, on Sydney’s official reopening date, 15 December 2021.

Artist’s brush with Covid-19

Charles Billich’s star-crossed visit to the US to meet Donald Trump has taken another turn for the worse, with the prominent Sydney artist and his wife both in hospital with Covid-19.

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