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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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CCC inquiryPolitics

And just like that … he’s back in the political fray

The retired corruption buster’s re-entry into Queensland public life was typically audacious. Here he is, co-chair of a Fitzgerald 2.0 probe into the CCC.

Jamie Walker

LIVE

Updates: Covid pandemicNation

Millions of antigen tests sent to NSW schools

The NSW government has sent millions of rapid antigen tests to schools before the first term starts, and Victoria is on alert for cases of the more infectious BA. 2 subvariant.

Carla Mascarenhas and Nicholas Jensen

inquirerInquirer

The long road to Covid normal

Two years since the first case hit our shores, we are winning against the virus – but the battle is far from over.

Jamie Walker

exclusiveScience

GT CSIRO CEO Science Leader Australian Animal Health Laboratory Prof Linfa Wang and Micro bat

‘Batman’ to the rescue with Covid immunity breakthrough

A former CSIRO scientist’s discovery of crossover immunity between an ancestor of Covid-19 and the virus has given rise to a candidate vaccine that could work against all future variants.

Jamie Walker

boomProperty

09/12/2021: Frustrated potential graziers, Sheree Pratt (and husband Tim), with her children Abbie, Sam and youngest Bronte, with their horses in an empty main street outside the post office they own in Julia Creek. The family are typical of many in the town who would desperately love to buy a property to run cattle, but despite owning and running a number of successful local businesses are unlikely to ever be able to afford the soaring cost of local stations or land. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Wide brown land a dream beyond reach

Soaring property prices sour the outback land rush.

Jamie Walker

regionsNation

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.

Jamie Walker

Federal Court rulingTennis

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.

Jamie Walker

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.

Jamie Walker

detentionTennis

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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