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Breaking: How Qantas made a $2.4 billion profit · The Front

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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.