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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey and

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Speaker 1: this is an afternoon headlines edition of the Front. A

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Speaker 1: whopping two point three nine billion dollar annual profit for Quantus,

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Speaker 1: up fifteen percent on last year. That's despite a federal

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Speaker 1: court penalty for illegally sacking workers during COVID and an

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Speaker 1: embarrassing cyber hack. How did they do it well? Quantus

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Speaker 1: Domestic brought in a billion dollars in underlying earnings and

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Speaker 1: budget carry out. Jetstar contributed seven hundred and seventy million,

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Speaker 1: up more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: We have also today announced an order for a Thurs

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Speaker 2: twenty Exolas for Quantas. Sixteen of these aircraft will have

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Speaker 2: a life flap bedding business Class, a first for any

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Speaker 2: Quantus narrow body aircraft.

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Speaker 1: Strange times at the Pentagon, with the US Defense Department

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Speaker 1: shooting down suggestions Australia's Defense minister had a prize meeting

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Speaker 1: with Donald Trump's powerful Defense secretary, Pete Hegsev. The Americans

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Speaker 1: say it was just a happenstance encounter. Our expert journals

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Speaker 1: are digging in to exactly what went down and why

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Speaker 1: it matters for Australia's most important strategic alliance. Check out

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Speaker 1: those stories live right now at the Australian dot com

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Speaker 1: dot a U and come back to the front first

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Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our deep dive on the

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Speaker 1: big dramas at the very top of the medical profession,

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Speaker 1: with physicians accusing one another of bullying and racism.