Monthly Archives: August 2025
World News Live Updates: Israeli Forces Kill Four Aid Seekers In Northern Gaza Amid Offensive Fears
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Israel Accused Of Misleading On Gaza War Goals And Inflating Militant Death Toll
Israel’s political and military leadership has for two years allegedly...
Australia’s largest Indigenous business gathering crowns 2025 diversity champions
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From Defence Department to Rio Tinto, discover which organisations are partnering with Indigenous businesses to create lasting economic and social impact.
What’s happening:Supply Nation has announced the winners of its 2025 Supplier Diversity Awards, recognising businesses, government agencies and individuals driving growth in Australia’s Indigenous business sector at a gala dinner following the nation’s largest Indigenous business event.
Why this matters:Indigenous-owned businesses are generating $42.6 billion in social value for households, employees and families, proving that diverse procurement policies create measurable economic and cultural benefits beyond traditional business metrics.
The winners were revealed at ICC Sydney on Thursday night, capping off Connect 2025: Beyond the Horizon, which attracted 280 Indigenous businesses exhibiting at the tradeshow and more than 4,000 participants from across Australia and overseas.
Supply Nation Chief Executive Officer Kate Russell, a proud Awabakal woman, said the...
Scientists Capture Rare Images of Indonesian Coelacanth
First discovered in 1997 and described as a new species two years later, the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria Menadoensis) is one of two living species of coelacanth, a deep-sea fish that closely resembles its ancestors from the Cretaceous period.Deep diver about a meter behind the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria Menadoensis) discovered at a depth of 144 m in North Maluku, Indonesia. Image credit: Alexis Chappuis.Coelacanths are a group of large, sea-cave dwelling lobe-finned fish (sarcopterygians).
They were thought to be extinct for 65 million years, until a first living specimen was discovered fortuitously in South Africa in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler.
Coelacanths present several unique and intriguing features such as unpaired lobbed-fins looking much like paired fins and highly modified lungs/swim bladder.
Together with lungfish, they are the closest relatives to tetrapods...