Ryman Healthcare Limited (RHCGF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Ryman Healthcare half year results briefing. All participants are in a listen only mode. There'll be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question today, you need to press the start key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ryman Healthcare's Chairman, Dean Hamilton. Please go ahead. Welcome everybody. I'm Dean Hamilton, Executive Chair of Ryman. We appreciate you dialling in today. There's a lot to cover today, but just before we get into the presentation, I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing, sadly, this year of one of our two founders, Kevin Hickman. Kevin, along with John Ryder, founded Ryman 40 years ago and essentially pioneered integrated retirement living and aged care as we know it today. It literally didn't exist before both John and Kevin. Along with others, I was fortunate to attend the service for Kevin at the Christchurch Town Hall. It was certainly humbling to hear of his contribution, not only to our sector, but also to athletics and to his other real passion, and that was horse racing. A great pioneer with an enormous legacy. Certainly, Kevin, a life well lived. With me today in the room is our new CEO, Naomi James, and Rob Woodgate, our CFO. Naomi started with us on the 4th of November. We've purposely left Naomi free in November to travel around the business, to meet our team members, to meet residents, to meet with a number of our stakeholders. As of tomorrow, I will step back to a non-executive chair role, and Naomi will lead the organisation. Given Naomi's recent arrival, Rob and I will present today's result. Naomi will make a few comments at the end, and we'll all be open...