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A woman who defrauded millions of dollars from a major Australian bank has been jailed for at least eight years.

Helen Mary Rosamond, 48, falsified and inflated invoices from her event management company Human Group, swindling more than $19 million from the National Australia Bank between 2013 and 2018.

A jury found Rosamond guilty in November, finding she gave corrupt benefits to Rosemary Rogers, former chief-of-staff to NAB chief executives, and obtained or attempted to obtain property by deception.

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"The overarching motivation of the offender is accurately described as one of greed, self-gratification and enrichment," Judge Robert Sutherland said on Thursday, sentencing Rosamond to 15 years in prison with a non-parole period of eight years.

Successfully hiding her derived financial benefit from her own company and even her co-offender, Rosamond defrauded the bank for almost five years, a testament to her level of planning, the judge said.

Rogers pleaded guilty to corruptly receiving benefits for her role in the same scheme in February 2020 and is serving a maximum jail sentence of eight years with a non-parole period of four years and four months.

The judge rejected submissions seeking to place greater blame on Rosamond's co-offender.

Rather than being dominated by Rogers, Rosamond and her co-offender clearly depended on each other to conduct the fraud, for which they were equally culpable, the judge said.

"During the years in which the fraud continued, both Rosemary Rogers inside the bank, and Helen Rosamond within Human Group, were extremely efficient," the judge said.

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Rogers received a house, a BMW, boat, holidays and other benefits, Rosamond's trial heard.

Human Group began conducting legitimate work for NAB in 2006, before starting to defraud it in 2013.

Rogers would ensure contracts were extended with Human Group and pay its inflated invoices, with a delegated authority to approve spending up to $20 million.

When a new CEO took over, they did not know Rogers had such authority.

The judge said such a large authorisation exemplified the level of influence and trust Rogers enjoyed within the bank, which she abused.

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Rosamond had not breached the trust placed in her at the same level, but also engaged in repeated and ongoing deception of her own company.

Her claim she wanted to express remorse, which came through "an apparently unquestioning third-party", was treated with "considerable reserve" by the judge, as Rosamond herself gave no evidence.

She will be eligible for release in December 2030.

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Netflix's crackdown on password sharing appears to be paying off.

The streaming giant said it added nearly six million paid subscribers during the three months ending in June, bringing its total to more than 238 million globally.

The company said it has now launched paid sharing — its effort to get users to stop sharing accounts with others for free — in more than 100 countries, after beginning its broad rollout earlier this year. Netflix said revenue in those regions is now higher than before the service launched, and that "sign-ups are already exceeding cancellations".

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Netflix's chief financial officer, Spencer Neumann, called the launch of paid sharing Netflix's "primary revenue accelerator in the year" during the company's second quarter earnings call.

"Most of our revenue growth this year is from growth in volume from new paid memberships and that's largely driven by our paid sharing rollout," he said.

The results come at a pivotal moment for Netflix as the streamer looks to boost revenue by restricting password sharing and introducing an ad-supported subscription option while also contending with a fresh challenge: strikes by both the Hollywood actors and writers unions that could impact its future slate of original shows and movies.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos addressed the strikes on the call Wednesday, saying it was "not the outcome we wanted."

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Sarandos also said the company produces "heavily across all kinds of content," pointing to Netflix's investments in unscripted and international content, among others, when asked whether the company might run out of original content if the actors' and writers' strike persists.

"The real point is we need to get the strike to a conclusions so that we can all move forward," he added.

While Netflix's password-sharing clampdown helped boost revenue for the quarter, it still fell just shy of what Wall Street analysts had expected.

"While we've made steady progress this year, we have more work to do to reaccelerate our growth," the company said in a letter to investors about the results. The company noted that subscriptions to its lower priced, ad-supported plan have doubled since the first three months of this year but that "current ad revenue isn't material for Netflix."

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) fell more than 4 per cent in after-hours trading Wednesday following the results.

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Deep off the coast of Canada, a team of researchers have made a remarkable discovery; a bubbling underwater volcano covered with "maybe a million" giant eggs.

Researchers on the Northeast Pacific Deep-Sea Expedition were exploring what was previously believed to be an extinct ancient volcano when they discovered it was still active.

Then they noticed the conical, giant eggs covering the slopes of the volatile peak, which soars to a height of 1100 metres and is located nearly 1.5-kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The volcano has been dubbed NEPDEP 58, and is one of more than 45 new seamounts mapped by the expedition. 

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Lead researcher, Cherisse Du Preez, a deep-sea marine biologist from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, said she was left in shock at the discovery.

She explained the eggs belong to the Pacific white skate, Bathyraja spinosissima.

"I was in disbelief when I realised the seamount top was covered in hundreds of thousands of skate eggs, maybe a million," Du Preez told 9news.com.au.

Prior to the find, the only other known Pacific white skate nursery was in the Galapagos and only a couple dozen eggs were observed there.

"That was a big deal discovery and so I immediately recognised the significance of what we had discovered," Du Preez said.

"But really, at that point, we had just scratched the surface of what was to come."

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Du Preez and the team then witnessed a "one-of-a-kind encounter".

"Everyone on the vessel was giddy with excitement over the eggs, and I joked, wouldn't it be amazing to be the first to document a Pacific white skate, or any deep-sea skate, laying an egg," she said.

"And just like that (we saw), a large female skate 'swoop' to the seafloor.

"I had speculated what it'd look like when they laid, and the swoop was exactly as I'd imagined.

"We documented it all. She flew down to the seafloor and used the corals to bush up against and pull the egg. At this point, you couldn't ask for more.

"The behaviour was beautiful. The encounter was one-of-a-kind".

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Du Preez said the heat from the active volcano provides an ideal environment for the species to incubate their eggs, a timeframe believed to take a massive four years.

"We deployed the submersible thermometer, and that's when we discovered the volcano was venting hydrothermal fluid, which is a rare discovery in the world and a first in Canada," she said.

"That was it – the draw for the skates.

"Warmth is thought to accelerate incubation times and result in more successful young hatching.

"Here, in this amazing nursery ground, they are sheltered from predators by the corals and warmed by the volcano itself,

"We believe that the eggs are safe here, the juveniles grow to be strong, and the young have a better chance at survival, to grow larger, descend into the deep, and wander the open ocean."

The fruitful expedition wrapped in June and had been exploring the deep sea since 2017.

"This is an example of how a seamount is essential to helping populate an ocean basin," Du Preez said.

"This is so important considering the current question of deep-sea mining of seamounts for their cobalt crust."

The team are yet to publish their findings. 

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