Max Walden
@maxwalden.bsky.social
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Journalist with the ABC’s Asia Pacific Newsroom. PhD from Melbourne Law School. Bad opinions are my own
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Under a presidential regulation Prabowo signed in late June, but made public only in September, Nusantara has been reclassified as Indonesia’s “political capital” – a phrase absent from existing legislation www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...
Indonesia’s grand capital plan gets a downgrade as Nusantara is redefined
A new regulation calls the city a ‘political capital’, fuelling uncertainty over the future of Joko Widodo’s legacy project.
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economist.com
Ambitious Asian students have made a beeline for universities in America, Australia, Britain and Canada. Yet lately the “big four” Anglophone countries have been losing their shine econ.st/42VP5xv

Photo: Getty Images
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'Humanity's fate cannot be left to an algorithm': UN chief on threat of military AI.

"Humans must always retain authority over life-and-death decisions," says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, arguing that AI systems cannot be allowed to run free in the military field
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“The ABC’s capitulation in the face of political pressure means that a penalty of sufficient weight must be imposed to deter the ABC ... when it is confronted with similar pressures in the future.”
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The ABC has been ordered to pay a penalty of $150,000 to Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully terminating her Sydney radio contract after a judge found it “let down the Australian public badly” by capitulating to pro-Israel campaigners www.theage.com.au/national/jud...
Judge reveals ABC’s penalty in Antoinette Lattouf unlawful sacking case
The six-figure sum is in addition to the $70,000 compensation the broadcaster has already been ordered to pay.
www.theage.com.au
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The ABC has been ordered to pay a penalty of $150,000 to Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully terminating her Sydney radio contract after a judge found it “let down the Australian public badly” by capitulating to pro-Israel campaigners www.theage.com.au/national/jud...
Judge reveals ABC’s penalty in Antoinette Lattouf unlawful sacking case
The six-figure sum is in addition to the $70,000 compensation the broadcaster has already been ordered to pay.
www.theage.com.au
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asia.nikkei.com
Corruption scandals at Indonesian startups have eroded investor confidence in the country's startup ecosystem, further deepening the ongoing funding winter.
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Indonesian startups face funding fallout from corruption scandals
Experts urge better governance and more hands-on investor oversight to revive ecosystem
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cnn.com
CNN @cnn.com · 20d
JUST IN: Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. https://cnn.it/3VmUl9n
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The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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During Indonesia's recent mass protests, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: cats reportedly left behind or stolen as their owners fled for safety. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Cats belonging to Indonesian politicians are the unexpected symbol of protests
Images of these frightened cats rescued by concerned citizens have struck a deep chord in cat-obsessed Indonesia.
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Indonesia’s high profile finance minister Sri Mulyani has been replaced in a reshuffle of Prabowo’s cabinet.

Comes after widespread rumours she was planning to resign amid the anti-government mass protests www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/2025090...
Reshuffle Menteri Keuangan, Mensesneg Sebut Sri Mulyani Diganti?
Presiden Prabowo Subianto melakukan pergantian kabinet atau reshuffle. Salah satunya Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
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The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them.

www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Lads lads lads
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VIDEO: Putin, Modi, and Xi meet in Tianjin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a conversation ahead of the opening of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin
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washingtonpost.com
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza.

One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
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What a front page
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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29
Paetongtarn, who was Thailand's youngest prime minister, becomes the sixth premier from or backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary in a tumultuous two-decade battle for power between the country's warring elites
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Lis Kramer ran the numbers