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Sydney Morning Herald
7 days ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
Gina Rinehart's right-hand woman Teena McQueen out the door at Hancock
Just last year, colourful Liberal Party identity Teena McQueen was at Mar-a-Lago celebrating Donald Trump's electoral triumph alongside her boss, Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart and Nigel 'Mr Brexit' Farage, the betting markets' pick for next British prime minister. McQueen, a regular talking head on Sky News' after-dark programming, joined the Hancock Prospecting payroll in 2022 as a group principal policy adviser to the executive team, and has, since acted as a kind of Robin to Rinehart's Batman, travelling with the boss to Florida last year and hanging out at Trump's estate for the long victory celebrations. But no more. CBD hears McQueen is out of her role at the Hancock Prospecting family. Rinehart's normally helpful team issued a swift 'no comment' in response to our queries. But McQueen told us she would be taking some time off for family issues. 'She's still a very good friend and wonderful person,' she said of her billionaire pal. Loading McQueen, a former federal Liberal vice-president, was at the time of her hiring by Rinehart subject to a gag order by the party following a train wreck appearance on Q&A. MCQueen has managed to outlive the ABC program which was euthanised a few months ago, and has recently made a name for herself through some fairly full-blooded interventions in WhatsApp groups. When broadcaster Alan Jones was charged with indecent assault offences last year (which he denies and is contesting), McQueen sprung to action, telling a Liberal group chat the whole thing was 'absolute bullshit'. More recently, she told another group chat a petition calling for gender quotas in the Liberal Party was 'disgraceful'. Although as this column reported, someone calling themselves 'Teena McQueen' – in jest – did sign that very same petition.
Globe and Mail
15-07-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Cimpress to Host Public Q&A Call Following Q4 FY2025 Earnings Announcement
Cimpress plc (Nasdaq: CMPR) announced that it will host a public Q&A call on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 8:00 am ET following the release of its Q4 FY2025 financial results at 4:05 pm ET on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The live call will be accessible on and a replay will be available at the same link following the call. We will take live questions on the call via chat, and investors may also presubmit questions any time before 11:00 pm ET on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 by emailing ir@ About Cimpress Cimpress plc (Nasdaq: CMPR) invests in and builds customer-focused, entrepreneurial, print mass-customization businesses for the long term. Mass customization is a competitive strategy which seeks to produce goods and services to meet individual customer needs with near mass production efficiency. Cimpress businesses include BuildASign, Drukwerkdeal, easyflyer, Exaprint, National Pen, Packstyle, Pixartprinting, Printi, Tradeprint, VistaPrint, and WIRmachenDRUCK. To learn more, visit Cimpress and the Cimpress logo are trademarks of Cimpress plc or its subsidiaries. All other brand and product names appearing on this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
The Spinoff
30-06-2025
- The Spinoff
Prominent New Zealander strikes again
The list of crimes attributed to Prominent New Zealander would make Al Capone blush. The news sent shockwaves across the nation. It quickly rose to the top spot on RNZ's website, then spread, inexorably, to the Otago Daily Times. Discussions sprang up on Reddit. Posts trickled out on X. Minions memes continued to dominate Facebook. The clamour was loud and persistent; the offending predictable, inevitable. Prominent New Zealander had struck again. Few people have been credited in the media with as many misdeeds as the prolific offender known as Prominent New Zealander. Their decades-long crime spree would make Al Capone blush. Its genesis may have been 1927 case, when a man described as a prominent Onehunga resident pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge of drunk driving. Since then, the offending has spread far from its Auckland epicentre, extending to any cranny that prominence can touch. The crimes have, if anything, picked up. In 2015, a person described as Prominent New Zealander appeared in court on a number of secret charges. The media has continued to attribute alleged crimes to Prominent New Zealander, notably in 2016, 2017 and 2019. The name Prominent New Zealander is, of course, a pseudonym given out by news organisations when someone vaguely connected with the concept of fame is granted name suppression by the courts. There's strong evidence it is in fact multiple people. In January, after years of appeals in multiple courts, a ' prominent political figure ' who committed sexual assault was named as former Act Party president Tim Jago. A similar process played out before a ' prominent businessman ' and abuser could be referred to by his true name, James Wallace. Often though, the identity of a Prominent New Zealander is never revealed. In 2014, a Prominent New Zealander was discharged without conviction and granted permanent name suppression after admitting to sexually assaulting a woman in Queenstown. A 'leading entertainment figure' still has name suppression after being convicted of sexual offences. A ' well-known musician ' retains name suppression after being convicted of domestic violence. This secrecy causes problems for the prominent community, which is often the subject of wild rumour and speculation when a Prominent New Zealander is before the courts. In trying to protect the privacy of a single alleged offender, courts routinely besmirch the reputations of hundreds of other vaguely celebrity New Zealanders. The issue was particularly pernicious during Jago's trial, where media organisations eventually took to clarifying the alleged offender wasn't a sitting member of parliament, presumably to ward off a portion of the online innuendo. The suppression also has an impact on the non-prominent, or 'peasant', community, mainly as an ongoing reminder of the justice system's inequities. As former justice minister Kiri Allan bemoaned on Q&A in 2021, name suppression gets given out to people with the means to fight for it in New Zealand. Poorer people don't get the chance to go by Prominent New Zealander. They tend to appear in court under their government name. The disparity cuts along intersecting economic and racial lines, with Pākehā getting suppression at three times the rate of Māori. Even if Prominent New Zealander isn't one person, they're certainly representative of a single, two-tiered, system; one where the wealthy, connected or well-known get to hide their identities behind alleged prominence, while less well-heeled are left to fend for themselves. Other countries seem to get by without such stringent restrictions. Maybe if they were less assured of their anonymity, a Prominent New Zealander would be less likely to offend in the first place.
Hindustan Times
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Danny Boyle admits he won't make Slumdog Millionaire today due to this reason; responds to colonialism claims
English director-producer Danny Boyle would not make Slumdog Millionaire (2008) today. In an interview with The Guardian, the filmmaker admitted that it probably wouldn't even get financed and that he would look for a young Indian filmmaker to direct it instead. (Also Read: James Gunn opens up about his favourite DC project and it's not Superman) Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor in Danny Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire. Danny reflected on his hit film Slumdog Millionaire and said, 'Yeah, we wouldn't be able to make that now. And that's how it should be. It's time to reflect on all that. We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we've left on the world.' When asked if the production 'amounted to a form of colonialism', Danny denied it and said, 'Well, only in the sense that everything is. At the time, it felt radical. We made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai. We'd work with a big Indian crew and try to make a film within the culture. But you're still an outsider. It's still a flawed method. That kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times. But at other times, it cannot be.' Danny also claimed that he was 'proud' of the film but wouldn't contemplate making it today because it 'wouldn't even get financed'. He also claimed that if he were to be involved in the project, he'd still look for a 'young Indian filmmaker' to direct it. About Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire is a loose adaptation of Vikas Swarup's book Q&A. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai who participates in the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, hosted by Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor), and wins it. He is interrogated by the police (Irrfan Khan), who wonder how he got all the answers correct. Freida Pinto played Latika, the girl Jamal loves. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009 and won 8 of them. But in India, Slumdog Millionaire received polarising reviews, with criticism for the way it portrayed the country. After the 2019 film Yesterday, Danny took a five-year hiatus and returned with the post-apocalyptic 28 Years Later, which he directed and produced. It is running in theatres.
AU Financial Review
15-06-2025
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Sussan Ley's chief of staff is a young, political animal
Few will lament last week's mercy-killing of the ABC's Q&A program. It had become a grim appointment for third-rate ministers to deliver party lines to a dwindling, ageing audience. But one unlikely person who has a soft spot for the show is opposition leader Sussan Ley 's chief of staff Dean Shachar. Shachar appeared in the Q&A audience as a chirpy questioner not once, but twice. In 2013, the fresh-faced future politico was called on by Tony Jones to lob a question to Anthony Albanese about Kevin Rudd. A year later, there he was again asking Clive Palmer about his former Liberal allegiances.
