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Archived from the original on 4 November 2015. ^ 'Lateline - : Interview: Lawyer Bret Walker SC, the first independent monitor of national security legislation'.Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. ^ 'Government misquoting my report to defend revoking citizenship, says Bret Walker'.Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. ^ 'Bret Walker: Revoking citizenship by minister unconstitutional'.Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. 'Independent National Security Legislation Monitor appointed'. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. ^ 'Finance & Political Breaking News Australia & Worldwide'.Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 November 2014. ^ 'PM - Govt defends plain packaging in High Court '.: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. ^ Find a Barrister, NSW Bar Association.In 2021, Walker had the most appearances in the High Court of Australia, appearing 35 times that was more than twice the number of hearings as the next busiest, Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue QC. In April 2020 Walker was appointed to a Special Commission of Inquiry to '… investigate all matters and agencies involved with the Ruby Princess' departure and its return to Circular Quay on March 19'. In 2019, Walker successfully acted in the appeal to the High Court of Australia of Cardinal George Pell, whose child sex abuse convictions were overturned on 7 April 2020. The report was damning of the maladministration that characterised the overseeing Murray-Darling Basin Authority, describing their decision-making as “incomprehensible” and “indefensible”. In 2018/19, Walker oversaw the South Australian Royal Commsion into the Murray-Darling Basin.

In a 2015 interview with Lateline, Walker noted the Australian 'habit of seeing a problem and passing a law about it'. He said this was a misquote of the INSLM 2014 report by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

In 2015, Walker said that a proposed change to Australia's citizenship laws to give the Minister for Immigration the power to strip citizenship from people who support terrorism was unconstitutional. In April 2011, Walker was appointed as the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. He was one of the leading legal counsel representing tobacco companies in their unsuccessful fight against the Australian government's plain packaging legislation. He was a foundation member and has been director of the Australian Academy of Law since 2007. He was governor of the Law Foundation of NSW from 1996 to 2007, and Special Commissioner of Inquiry for the NSW government into Sydney Ferries in 2007. He is a patron of the State Library of New South Wales as a foundation senior fellow and has been a member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel since 2003. Walker is a member of the Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, and has been editor of the NSW Law Reports since 2006. He was president of the New South Wales Bar Association from November 2001 to November 2003, having been vice-president from 1996 to 2001. Walker was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1979 and was appointed senior counsel in 1993. He graduated with degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney. Walker was educated at Concord West Public School and The King's School, Parramatta. Walker is the son of an Anglican minister.