5 new ‘Black Mirror’ episodes have dropped — and there’s not a dud in the bunch
In episode "Demon 79" an employee at a department store (Anjana Vasan) is visited by an apprentice demon…
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Why the oil and gas tax is a dud and a gift to the industry
Chevron discovered the Gorgon field in 1981, but gas was not produced for another 35 years. The PRRT deductions for millions of dollars spent on offshore drilling would have increased more than three-fold by the time the first revenue…
How a top Sydney high school’s alumni club was caught in dud investment scheme
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeA non-profit club linked to Sydney Boys High School is caught up in a global investment scheme that many investors now believe is a dud.The Sydney Morning Herald can reveal The High Club,…
TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud
The pandemic sent the livestream sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “zero Covid” policies hit the brick-and-mortar retail industry hard. Stuck at home, sales assistants and business owners started to sell online,…
‘Shotgun Wedding’ movie review: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel stuck in a dreadful dud
A still from ‘Shotgun Wedding’
Just when you thought 2023 was going to be a good year at the movies, with a prehistoric shark for company, comes Shotgun Wedding. It is not even the kind of existentially bad film that prompts you to debate…
Dud deal: The real problem for Musk’s Twitter
Anointing yourself the guardian of free speech is one thing. Living up to it is something else altogether, as Elon Musk is quickly discovering.It’s been just over a week since the Tesla tycoon took over Twitter and already it looks like the…
Ukrainian mortar crew wrestles with ammo shortage, dud shells By Reuters
By Jonathan Landay FRONT LINES NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) - The Ukrainian mortarmen, hands cupping their ears, turned away from the green tube angled towards their Russian foes entrenched less than a kilometre away as one of…
‘Dud deal’: Board stoush over Humm’s $335m sale heats up
The majority of Humm directors on Monday expressed their rationale for the deal with Latitude, which will mainly be paid in Latitude shares, by saying it was a “highly compelling value proposition” for the company to expand in the buy now,…
NFT of first-ever tweet a dud in online auction
NFTs -- such as this one, of the painting 'Madonna del Cardellino ('Madonna of the Goldfinch') by Raphael -- have been in vogue, but the dud auction of the first ever…
Stuart Robert says ‘dud teachers’ not an issue in Australia’s independent schools
Stuart Robert has said independent schools do not accept “dud teachers”, sending the “bottom 10% of teachers dragging the chain” into the government system, where they are protected from being fired.The acting education minister made the…