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He represented former prime minister Kevin Rudd in the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program, successfully arguing that long-standing Cabinet secrecy rules be overturned and Rudd be allowed to give his evidence in full, rather than the royal commission being met with a 'devastating truncation of the truth'. A small handful of Australia's top barristers now command in the order of $30,000 a day, and The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has been told there is no reason to think Walker is any different. Last year it was reported Walker commands fees in the order of $25,000 a day. 'I've been opposed to him a couple of times, and the scary thing about him is he conducts himself in a flowing, comprehensive and extremely analytical way from notes that are about the size of a matchbox.' Just how good is he? Rush says Walker has an 'uncommonly' good capacity to act at the highest levels in complex commercial law, human rights and international law, the High Court, and plenty of other courts in between. 'He's demonstrated himself to be in the top three or four barristers in Australia for two decades.' 'I've known him for in excess of 20 years,' says fellow barrister Jack Rush, QC.

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But in his professional circles, he is known for having one of the sharpest legal minds this country has ever seen. He told The Australian Financial Review five years ago that his favourite Australian poets were David Campbell and Robert Adamson and his favourite composers were Mozart, Bach, Bartok and Sibelius: 'Mozart and Bach are very easily the two I could never do without.' He is a keen gardener. He is a former chairman of the board of directors of Red Room Poetry, which commissions and nurtures established and emerging Australian poets. Like many barristers, Walker is something of a Renaissance man.