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Corporate boards are on notice now, despite our Star court defeat, says ASIC

The corporate watchdog’s departing chairman Joe Longo says corporate boards are now on notice despite the regulator’s defeat in the Federal Court, which found Star Entertainment directors were not liable for the governance disaster that has taken the casino operator to the brink of collapse.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Women’s Hell’ on HBO, A Polish Series Where A Woman Seeks Independence And Justice In A Society Controlled By Men

In the six-episode series Women’s Hell, directed by Anna Maliszewska and produced by Ewa Puszczyńska (The Zone of Interest), women in 1930s Poland seek personal autonomy, or just the simple dignity of earning a living or finding a partner, without having to die for either. While feminism and relaxed social mores exi…

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[Mariana Mazzucato] Reimagining the economics of culture

Brazil’s Carnival, the greatest party on earth, ended last month. For those who have never been, no description does it justice. The blocos playing in the streets, the samba schools parading through Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome, the drumlines, the costumes, and the collective joy of millions of people constitute a sp…

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Melania’ on Amazon Prime Video, a Dull, Emotionally Sterile Portrait of the FLOTUS

This week on 10-Foot Pole Theatre is Melania (now on Amazon Prime Video), a film that its subject, Melania Trump, insists isn’t a documentary, but “a created experience” and “purposeful storytelling.” Translation to regular human English: It’s a celeb propagandist ego stroke featuring its subject as a producer that’…

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery’ on Hallmark, Where A Murder At A Masquerade Ball Gives Hannah A New Case To Solve

A woman is murdered during a masquerade party at a hotel and the only person who can solve the crime is baker-slash-amateur detective Hannah Swenson. In the new Hallmark Channel movie Sugar & Vice: A Hannah Swensen Mystery, Alison Sweeney reprises her role as Swensen, a successful baker who – with some help from her…

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Trump administration criticizes court rulings slowing immigration agenda in Supreme Court appeal

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is criticizing lower court judges who have slowed its efforts to strip legal protections from a broad swath of migrants living in the US It's asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for moves that could expose thousands more people to deportation.

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