Whitehaven Coal Limited (WHC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thanks very much for taking the time to join us for the half-year results for FY26 for Whitehaven. I'm joined here as usual by our CFO Kevin Ball and our COO Ian Humphreys and we'll work our way through the presentation highlights as usual and then get ourselves across to the Q&A section of today's format. Over the page I should bring your attention to our disclaimer as usual. We do have forward-looking statements in these presentations as a matter of course. So I'll bring that to your attention for the obvious reasons. And I'll move over to the highlights and I'll start by saying, look, the company, as you know, for those who've been following the quarters, we've had a good first half here. We've laid down a pretty solid foundation for our first half of the year and sets us well up for the second half. Now, I'll start with a couple of these important highlights, which we always do with safety and our compliance. Safety has been very good at TRIFRA 2.9. Now, we all know that moves around month to month a little bit here and we finished the year at 4.6 but at 2.9 that is an excellent result so all kudos to the team for looking after our people and making sure we're on this pathway to minimizing instances and injuries in our business. Now we all know also that it's been a wet six months in various states and so despite that our compliance has been very good so we've had no No enforcement action events at all during the last six months, which has been very positive for us also. So again, kudos to the team for keeping that up despite some weather variation, particularly in Queensland, which we'll talk to a little bit later. Over to the highlights. The operational performance has been good, as you know. 20 million tonnes has been a very nice way to set the platform for th...