Researching Lynne Walker

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Walker was an outspoken critic of the former Country Liberals' government's management of the closure at the Rio Tinto aluminum refinery.

On 23 April 2015, Walker was installed as deputy leader under Michael Gunner, and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition, following the Northern Territory leadership challenge.

Walker was widely tipped to become Deputy Chief Minister following the 2016 Territory election. Not only was Labor been far ahead of the governing CLP in polling, but Walker sat on a seemingly insurmountable majority of 13.7 percent. However, in a major upset, while Labor won the third-biggest majority in Territory history, Walker was defeated by independent candidate and indigenous activist Yingiya Mark Guyula by eight votes. She suffered a swing of just under eight percent on the first count, and ultimately lost after CLP preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Guyula. The result, which was not known for days, saw Walker become the only Labor incumbent to be defeated at the election.

Walker sought to return to the legislature for Labor at the 2020 election, standing in Mulka, a reconfigured version of her old seat. She lost election to incumbent independent Yingiya Mark Guyula.

Born in Edinburgh, she attended the Mary Erskine School. She won a medal at the end of her time at Napier College in 1976, and gained a degree from the Huddersfield School of Music (now part of Huddersfield University). At the Huddersfield School, she studied oboe, the piano and conducting. It was at this time that Walker became drawn to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and gained a scholarship to study choral conducting in France under Arthur Oldham.

Her early career was as a musician, but she migrated to marketing and publicity in the early 1980s working for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow being involved in the RSNO's Music Nova (New Music) festival and editing the orchestra's journal, SNOscene. She performed a similar role For the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester (1987–94). In 1991 she began her own editorial consultancy Edgewise with the music critic Gerald Larner, whom she had married in 1989. Together, the couple wrote music programmes for the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall and other concert venues. (Larner died in December 2018.) Walker was appointed programme editor for the Edinburgh International Festival in 1992.

Simultaneously she had begun a freelance career in journalism and broadcasting. For about a decade, until the programme was dropped in 1998, she was a contributor to (and for its last two years presenter) of the BBC Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope. She also hosted the Radio 3 programme In Tune.

By 2000 she was a more regular contributor to The Independent, responsible for the newspaper's coverage of theatre events at the Edinburgh Festival, feature articles and arts criticism with an emphasis on the north of England.

Lynne Walker died in Alderley Edge, Cheshire having suffered from cancer for ten years.