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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20th April 2021.Professor Trent Munro poses for a portrait in a lab at the University of Queensland.Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

New centre to test RNA technologies

Scientists involved in an Australian COVID-19 vaccine have set up a proving centre for breakthrough RNA and DNA technologies.

Jamie Walker

Anzac DayNation

2021 ANZAC Day March along St Kilda Road finishing at the Shrine of Remembrance. Lance Corporal Arthur Davis Engineers regiment salutes the crowd during the parade. Picture: David Caird

No limits to our heartfelt vote of thanks

A special day was marked by crowds conscious that this year was the last that Australian soldiers would risk all in a distant war.

Jamie Walker and Joseph Lam

Anzac DayNation

ANZAC Day veterans (L-R) Valerie Ireland, (96), and Albert Maurice Collins (105) share a laugh before marching. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Veterans hold tight as time marches on

With a combined age of 201, war veterans Albert Collins and Valerie Ireland are still tickled pink to be part of Australia’s great WWII generation.

Jamie Walker

ExclusiveNation

23/04/2021 Kevin Harper, 89, pictured with great-grandkids (L-R) Jordyn Adams (10) and Charlee Adams (4), is one of the last survivors of the Battle of Kapyong in Korea in 1951, fought over the Anzac Day weekend. He will march in Benalla on Sunday with his grandchildren and children who are descending on the town for the day. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Survivors of ‘forgotten war’ diminished, undaunted

A digger returns to his hometown to remember a battle fought 70 years to the day.

Jamie Walker

Sons and daughtersNation

Australian Army Lance Corporal Bianca Ricketts (left) with Trooper Lachlan White from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment is employed as a Quartermaster for the Regiment at Lavarack Barracks, Queensland. *** Local Caption *** Lance Corporal Bianca Rickets enlisted into the Australian Regular Army in 2013 as a member of the Royal Australian Army Ordinance Corps, she is currently serving as the warehouse corporal at the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.

More women reporting for duty

When it comes to frontline duty, the Australian Defence Force can at last claim to be gender blind.

Jamie Walker

This violence must stopNation

Brian Johnston is the estranged husband of Kelly Wilkinson and has been charged with her murder at Arundel on the Gold Coast Picture Facebook

Nation mourns as mum dies in flames

Kelly Wilkinson’s death of a Gold Coast mother amid an alleged rampage by her husband triggers renewed calls for action on domestic violence.

Jamie Walker and Mackenzie Scott

exclusivePolitics

Anglican elder ‘agnostic’ on voluntary dying

A senior Anglican Church figure has declared himself to be ‘agnostic’ on voluntary euthanasia and said he would not rule out using a proposed new law in Queensland to end his own life.

Jamie Walker

Trial results revealedScience

Associate Professor Keith Chappell, inventor of UQÃs Molecular Clamp technology used to develop the uni's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine now backed by CSL and the Australian Government, University of Queensland School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, St. Lucia. Photographer: Liam Kidston

Dropped UQ jab ‘among best in world’

Findings of the phase one safety study published in The Lancet show the Australian-made vaccine generated an immune response in 99 per cent of patients.

Jamie Walker

inquirerInquirer

15/04/2021: QLD LNP Senator Amanda Stoker, outside her office, with the Storey Bridge behind, in Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Warrior of the right says her detractors have got it wrong

Someone less sure of their beliefs, not so precociously self-confident, might have taken a step back. But that isn’t Amanda Stoker’s style at all.

Jamie Walker

Nation

LNP turns to Springborg to stop revolt

Queensland’s Liberal National Party is set to turn to father figure Lawrence Springborg to quell bitter infighting that threatens to engulf the division and damage the Morrison government’s re-election prospects.

Michael McKenna and Jamie Walker

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