Douglas Walter Ritchie

Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, those of you here and those of you online, thank you for joining us today for this Annual General Meeting. This meeting today is being held on the lands of the Turbal and the Yagara people, and we'd like to acknowledge them as the traditional owners and also pay our respects to the Ankamuthi people, who are the traditional owners of the land on which we undertake our mining operations.

I've been advised by our Company Secretary that a quorum of members is present, and I'd like to declare the meeting open. Just a couple of housekeeping matters before we move on to the body of the meeting.

First, if everyone could turn off mobile phones to silent, please. [Operator Instructions]

I'd like to now take the opportunity to introduce you to our directors who are all here today. Firstly, Simon Wensley, Managing Director; Jo-Anne Scarini who is the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee as well; Andy Lloyd, who is also Chair of the ESG Committee; the Honorable Paul Lucas, who is Chair of the Remunerations and Nominations Committee; and our newest member of the Board, Dr. Jenni Purdie.

Our executive leadership team are also here as well as a number of other Metro employees. And if you haven't had a chance to meet them, if they could just stand up as I introduce them, Nathan Quinlin, who is our Chief Financial Officer; Robin Bates, Chief Legal and what do I call? General Counsel sorry and Company Secretary; Paul Green, who's not with us at the moment, who is actually up at Skardon River, who's the Executive General Manager of Operations; But