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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CHRISTMAS DEADLINENation

Miles hits back as PM throws down gauntlet to rebel states

Scott Morrison has lashed premiers for casting doubt over border reopenings, insisting Aussie families will be reunited at Christmas.

Helena Burke, Jamie Walker and Rachel Baxendale

inquirerInquirer

The issue that will not die

With passage of Queensland’s bill, NSW now is the sole holdout on assisted dying laws.

Jamie Walker

exclusivePolitics

17/09/2021 : Breast cancer sufferer Susan Reilly, 47, mother of three, Charlotte 14, Liam (L in white shirt) and Jacob both 11, at a park near their home in Forrest Lake, Brisbane. Susan nursed her own mother with fatal breast cancer, now has the bitter sweet prospect of the new VAD laws passed in QLD being a possible factor for her into the future . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Assisted-dying activists eye last state hurdle

Ink barely dry on Queensland’s new voluntary euthanasia act when activists turned to toughest nut of all to crack: NSW.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

Professor Dale Fisher, Senior Consultant and Head of Division Infectious Diseases at the National University of Singapore, poses for a photograph, in Singapore, on Friday, March 13, 2020 Photograph by Paul Miller/The Australian.

Lessons from a country getting on with life

Singapore can teach us a lot as Australia grapples with the promise and challenges presented by double-jabbed protection from Covid-19.

Jamie Walker

great wall of CoolangattaNation

Pictures of families doing fathers day over the border barriers at Coolangatta.Sean Harapeet kissing wife Haylee Harapeet.5 September 2021 Coolangatta Picture by Richard Gosling

A Father’s Day bordering on cruelty

The frustration overflowed in Coolangatta as the Covid barrier between virus-light Queensland and locked-down NSW became a scene of tears.

Mackenzie Scott and Jamie Walker

stabbing attackWorld

A man has been fatally shot by police officers and shoppers are understood to have suffered life-threatening injuries in horrific scenes at a West Auckland supermarket this afternoon.Emergency services responded to the New Lynn mall mid-afternoon, with multiple people being injured. The Herald has been told at least one person suffered a stab wound, while Newstalk ZB understands two people have been shot.Four people have been taken to Auckland City Hospital's emergency department. It is understood the patients are all status 1 - which is in an immediately life-threatening condition.New Zealand Herald photograph by Alex Burton

Islamic State terror hits NZ

The ISIS-inspired terrorist who stabbed six people in a frenzied supermarket attack in Auckland was under around-the-clock surveillance by New Zealand agencies.

Jamie Walker

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LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

The first Australian shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines is seen on the tarmac after being unloaded from a Singapore Airlines plane at Sydney International Airport on Monday, February 15, 2021. More than 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have arrived at Sydney airport in Australia's response to the pandemic. This is the first shipment of 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine the Government has secured as part of Australia's COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatment Strategy. Picture: AAP Image/Pool/Bianca De Marchi

PM: New Pfizer doses bring reopening closer

Scott Morrison says 4 million Pfizer doses, heading to Australia from the UK, ‘offer a significant chance of hastening reopening’; NSW records 1431 cases and 12 deaths.

Nicholas Jensen and Rachel Baxendale

BordersPolitics

BRISBANE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 2, 2021: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk holds up her COVID-19 economic recovery plan during question time at Parliament House. NCA NewsWire / Sarah Marshall

Lagging states widen divide before reopening

The lower vaccination rates in Queensland and WA are deepening fault lines between the haves and have-nots in the nation’s Covid-19 response.

Jamie Walker, Paul Garvey and Lydia Lynch

inquirerInquirer

25/08/2021 : Senator Pauline Hanson, Leader of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, during an interview with the journalist at a restaurant in the Brisbane CBD. Hanson is about to celebrate 5 years of being back in Federal Parliament. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Pauline’s pleased to explain: it’s personal

All eyes are on Pauline Hanson as she sweeps into the restaurant maskless, unvaccinated and utterly unrepentant. She won’t be told to behave. Tomorrow she’ll savour that other dish best served cold: vindication.

Jamie Walker

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27/08/2021 : Kellee Clarkson with daughter Wynter 3, at home in Westbrook outside Toowoomba, QLD. Kellee secured a $3m treatment for her daughter, Wynter, suffering terminal spinal muscular atrophy, after Pauline Hanson lobbied the government, saving the child's life. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

More than baby steps: Hanson still making moves

Kellee Clarkson knocked on every door she could find to get help for her sick baby, Wynter, after doctors said their best hope was a $3m treatment in the US the family had no hope of covering.

Jamie Walker

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