Sonic Healthcare Ltd (SKHCF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Sonic Healthcare Financial Half Year and 31st December 2024 conference call. At this time, all participants are in the listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To redraw your question, please press dial 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to hand you over to the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Dr. Colin Goldschmidt. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you, Amber, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Sonic Healthcare's half-year result for the period ending 31 December 2024. I'm joined today by my long-standing colleagues, Chris Wilk, CFO of Sonic, Paul Alexander, Deputy CFO of Sonic Healthcare, and Diane Ayres, Senior Executive, Investor Relations and Financial Analysis. I trust you've got the presentation in front of you. And perhaps before we go to the deck itself, I'd like to just take a minute just to give you my view about the current company status and performance and how we see this result, particularly in the context of future performance of Sonic Healthcare. In many ways, this result reflects that Sonic has turned the corner in terms of our financials and that we're back on track following the massive disruption to the business over the pandemic and immediate post-pandemic periods. In the post-pandemic period today, and that's about two years, it's only two years, it's not even two years since the pandemic ended, there's been an incredible effort in Sonic from our leaders and all our staff worldwide to right-size ...