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Why Qantas’ fares are taking off · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's Biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Quantas says the Middle East conflict
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  Speaker 1: is prompting it to review ticket prices bi weekly and
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  Speaker 1: they could go up even more than the blanket rise
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  Speaker 1: of approximately five percent it's already announced. Wallace told the
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  Speaker 1: Destination Australia Tourism conference costs have risen faster in the
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  Speaker 1: past few weeks than he's seen in his thirty year career,
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  Speaker 1: so what's causing it. Fuel prices are up and there's
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  Speaker 1: growing concern about the future of fuel supply thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Iran's closure of the Harmers Strait. There's massive doubt about
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  Speaker 1: the future of Middle Eastern hubs because Iran is lobbing
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  Speaker 1: drones and missiles across the Persian Gulf, and for domestic
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  Speaker 1: tourism operators that means a dearth of inbound European visitors.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a general era of uncertainty as customers hold
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  Speaker 1: off booking family holidays or rejig their plans. Queenslanders are
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  Speaker 1: bracing for a once in a century cyclone. The category
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  Speaker 1: five tropical cyclone Nerell is expected to make landfall on
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  Speaker 1: the Cape York Peninsula on Friday morning, bringing storms, gales
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  Speaker 1: and heavy rain. The Bureau of Meteorology reported on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: winds near the eye of the storm are moving at
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and five kilometers per hour, with gusts of
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  Speaker 1: up to two hundred and eighty five kilometers per hour.
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  Speaker 1: There hasn't been a storm as intense as this one
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  Speaker 1: so far north since the eighteen hundreds. Here's Queensland Premier
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  Speaker 1: David CHRISI fu lee, but.
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  Speaker 2: I assure you can get through it.
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  Speaker 1: If communities take it seriously, if they look out for
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  Speaker 1: each other, if they prepare well now, if they heed advice,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get through it. There's an active warning zone from
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  Speaker 1: north of the Lockhart River to Cape Tribulation in the south,
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  Speaker 1: while Portstewart and Lizard Island have been evacuated. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: says he'll destroy a crucial Iranian gas field if the
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  Speaker 1: regime launches further attacks on Qatar's primary gas plant. In
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  Speaker 1: a social media post, the president said the strike that
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  Speaker 1: prompted around to retaliate against Qatar was launched by Israel,
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  Speaker 1: not the United States. We've used AI to bring parts
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's post to life.
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  Speaker 2: No more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to
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  Speaker 2: this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field, unless Iran
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  Speaker 2: on wisely decides to attack a very innocent in this case, Qatar,
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  Speaker 2: in which instance, the United States of America, with or
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  Speaker 2: without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow
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  Speaker 2: up the entirety of the South pars gas field at
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  Speaker 2: an amount of strength and power that Iran has never
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  Speaker 2: seen or witnessed before.
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  Speaker 1: two fifty. That's right here, Friday morning,