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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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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

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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

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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

Ardern’s hermit kingdomWorld

NZ struggles to eliminate doubts over strategy

Accustomed to their PM’s boasts about NZ locking out the virus, dismayed Kiwis are grappling with an explosion of case numbers.

Jamie Walker

InquirerInquirer

16-08-2021 Police attend a house in Buena Vista Avenue, Coorparoo where it is believed that Australian Wallabies rugby union player Toutai Kefu was stabbed in a home invasion. PICTURE: Brad Fleet

Law unto themselves: bloodshed in the burbs

Toutai Kefu is not alone in suffering the effects of Brisbane’s teen crime wave. This is a story of worlds colliding.

Jamie Walker and David Murray

exclusiveNation

Attack on rugby great not the first

Wallabies legend Toutai Kefu’s horror home invasion was no isolated event, with a strikingly similar event three weeks earlier.

Jamie Walker and David Murray

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk talking to media at Southbank. Pic Peter Wallis

It’s a deal: Covid-19 camp for city centre

The federal and Queensland governments have agreed to build a 1000-bed international quarantine centre in Brisbane, ending months of bickering.

Jamie Walker

inquirerInquirer

Ex Cairns to the C MAIL - 07.12.2017Moinster Rogue Crocs ... and Hunters- PICS BRIAN CASSEY - story Peter MichaelIconic (over 4 metre) 'problem' crocs from around the far north of Queensland are relocated to the Melaleuca Crocodile Farm near Mareeba - see Peter Michael story

From the jaws of death

If you are wondering what two Australian soldiers were doing swimming off a lonely reach of Cape York Peninsula eight days ago, so are the locals. Their story is cautionary for two reasons.

Jamie Walker

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