Max Walden
Max Walden is a digital producer with The Age.
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Bushfires
Festival chaos across Victoria amid extreme heat and bushfire warning
The Moomba parade has been cancelled due to forecast severe heat, as drama engulfs a camping arts festival in regional Victoria that is proceeding despite an extreme fire warning.
- by Rachael Dexter and Max Walden
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As a brutal winter approaches, Sajjad’s aunty has been forced back to the Taliban
International headlines are focused on Gaza, but another humanitarian crisis looms with Pakistan’s threatened deportation of 1.7 million people to Afghanistan.
- by Max Walden
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Tragedy
Five dead, seven injured after car ploughs into Daylesford beer garden
A young boy and girl are among five people who died after a car crashed into a busy pub in Daylesford, north-west of Melbourne. A witness described the scene as horrific.
- by Benjamin Preiss, Roy Ward and Max Walden
Mushroom poisoning victim released from hospital
Ian Wilkinson, who was one of four elderly people hospitalised after attending a lunch in Victoria’s south-east in July, left the Austin Hospital on Friday.
- by Max Walden
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Melbourne emergency
Driver accelerated into cars after hitting pedestrians on Bourke Street, police say
One man died and five people were injured in Friday night’s crash. Police said the driver involved, a 26-year-old man, remains in hospital under police guard, but they do not believe the incident is terror related.
- by Ashleigh McMillan, Max Walden, Alex Crowe and Annika Smethurst
‘Nothing changes’ for Matildas fans still standing after devastating exit
Thousands turned out to Melbourne’s public viewing sites hours in advance of the semi-final. Some latecomers to Federation Square decided to push their way in.
- by Alex Crowe and Max Walden
How the ABC’s ‘betrayal’ of Stan Grant exposed its racism problem
The broadcaster’s exit from the ABC has forced an internal reckoning. Now other ABC journalists are sharing their experiences of racism and demanding change.
- by Osman Faruqi and Max Walden
Cancel culture: Why comedy is an extreme sport in Modi’s India
Joking about religion or politics has always been sensitive in India. But under the current government, comics risk jail time for offending the wrong people.
- by Max Walden
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