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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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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

‘it’s getting out of hand’Inquirer

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 04: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and boyfriend Dr Reza Adib attendsthe Australian premiere of ELVIS at Event Cinemas Pacific Fair on June 04, 2022 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

‘Checked out’: MPs turn on Palaszczuk

Derided by her own MPs as the ‘part-time premier’, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s grip on power in Queensland has entered a dangerous twilight zone.

Jamie Walker and Michael McKenna

inquirerInquirer

TOPSHOT - Russian police officers patrol on the Red Square in central Moscow on April 2, 2017, as Russian opposition promised protests after police detained hundreds of people during anti-corruption rallies. Russsian President Vladimir Putin on March 30 insisted that participants in unauthorised protests must be punished after anti-corruption rallies across the country at the weekend ended in mass arrests. More than 1,000 people were arrested in Moscow on March 26 during an anti-corruption protest, one of the largest unauthorised rallies to take place during Putin's 17 years in power as president or prime minister. / AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

Putin another chapter in Russia’s blood-soaked story

Is brutality stamped into the DNA of Russian war-making and, if so, why? A fascinating new account links the war in Ukraine to the horrors of 1917-21.

Jamie Walker

LIVE: Politics NowNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 4, 2022: Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese officially renames Aspen Island to Queen Elisabeth II at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese renames island after Queen

PM marks platinum jubilee by naming an island after the Queen, as he reveals he’s moved into The Lodge to restore tradition.

Carly Douglas

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.

Jamie Walker

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.

Jamie Walker

‘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.

Jamie Walker

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?

Jamie Walker

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.

Jamie Walker

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