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Max Walden

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Deputy digital editor, ABC Melbourne. PhD from Melbourne Law School. Bad opinions are my own

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Some shocking numbers in this story. Gaza needs $US71 billion in next decade for recovery, UN and EU report finds www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A judge has dismissed Trump's defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal about a letter it published to financier Jeffrey Epstein bearing the US president's name www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Another disastrous Newspoll for the Coalition www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
No shortage of Simpsons references at today's teacher strike in Melbourne. Wonderful pics by Danielle Bonica. Public school teachers in Victoria are on strike for the first time in 13 years amid a wages dispute with the state government. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Brilliant
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has dropped a criminal defamation case against Australian writer Murray Hunter in Thailand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Incredible, devastating photo
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Devastating beyond words. The 10-year-old girl who was killed in the Bondi Beach shooting has been identified as Matilda. Her family have withheld her surname but provided this image to the media. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
What is happening over there in Brunei
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
What a front page
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Islamic Council of Victoria reports multiple recent security incidents at its Melbourne mosque, including an envelope of suspicious white powder being found in the donations box and being targeted by a far-right group
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Insane scoop from the Journal: The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Pew's latest survey shows Australians have done a complete switcheroo since 2021 regarding how they view the importance of economic ties with China vis a vis the United States www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The lawsuit argued some islands would soon become uninhabitable if global temperatures rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Accurate
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad is 100
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bases, soldiers and firepower: Mapping the US military's stake in the Middle East www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Deeply strange times we live in
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Public opinion in Australia of the United States broadly, not just Trump, has become very negative www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Kremlin readout, which erroneously calls Anwar “Ahmed”, also bizarre
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A wild exchange about polygamy between Putin and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
At the Philippines consulate in Melbourne, a “democracy sausage”: longanisa sausage with egg, cheese and banana ketchup in a pandesal bun.
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim: “Australia plays a pivotal role in the Asia Pacific. The Albanese government’s attention to Southeast Asia during its first term did not go unnoticed, and we hope that spirit of engagement will continue.”
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Albo doing his election victory lap at Bar Italia is so Grayndler coded
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Singapore, which calls itself a democracy, has been ruled by the PAP since 1959. I spoke to opposition candidate Han Hui Hui on why she thinks it’s important to run against the government: "I'm willing to be the person to take the first step, knowing I will not win." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Lads it’s on
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Poor old Albo. What a photo
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Booked an airbnb in Sydney and it asked me to include this information for the host lmaooo
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Malaysia forever having a normal one
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Astounding
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Fascinating how Australia's large and growing South Asian diaspora's penchant for cinema-going is a pocket of growth for the film industry www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Yikes
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Obsessed with this king. Not fazed by floods that have submerged 1000 homes in Jakarta 📷Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Nope
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yet another salute, this time from Steve Bannon www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
18(!) different intelligence agencies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
King Max St
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hooly dooly www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Last month Najma Sambul and I wrote about the diplomatic fallout between Bangladesh and India in the wake of Sheikh Hasina fleeing to Delhi. I’m told it was republished in 15 (!) daily newspapers, including this one www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Just logged on to Twitter. Great website
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Su-kyoung Hwang, a historian of the Korean War at the University of Sydney, told me: "It's like displaying German-style dirndls and lederhosen and insisting they are popular French garments in a World War II museum."
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Australian government increasingly violated the rights of children in the criminal justice system in 2024, @hrw.org World Report 2025 says, also citing ongoing human rights abuses against asylum seekers
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Statement from Australian PM Anthony Albanese and FM Penny Wong on the ceasefire in Gaza
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Noticed recently Australian policy announcements attracting attention in Indonesian and other Asian news and social media in a way I’ve not seen before. First the right-to-disconnect laws, then under 16s social media ban, now penalties for deliberate wage theft that came into force on January 1
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Bro's got the most French name imaginable www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
What an image. One dead after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Lamb fatteh: breakfast of champions
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
There is so much going on here www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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