Good morning and welcome to the Silk Logistics Holdings Half Year FY 2023 results webinar for the period ending 25 December 2022. Presenting today is Silk's Chief Executive Officer, Brendan Boyd, Chief Financial Officer, Brendan Pentland, and Chief Operating Officer, Dani Aquilina. Today's format will have the team run through the results presentation followed by a Q&A session whereby investors can submit questions in the Q&A function on the bottom of the screen. I'll now pass to BV. Thank you, Mel. Good morning, all. I'd like to start by acknowledging and paying respect to the traditional custodians of the land of all the places we are coming from here today. Here in Port Melbourne, I acknowledge the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation as the traditional owners of the land and their continued connection to country and culture. On behalf of the board, management, and staff of Silk, it's with a great sense of pride we are presenting what is an excellent first half result and a significant step up on the prior calendar period. I'm pleased to have presenting with me today, Brendan Pentland, our CFO, and Dani Aquilina, our Chief Operating Officer. In addition to our financial results today, I'm delighted to have Dani presenting you more detail on our recently approved five-year strategic plan. At Silk, we pride ourselves on establishing discipline plans, setting achievable targets, and then challenging ourselves to exceed them year after year. I think the results we're presenting today demonstrate that we continue to do that. Amidst an environment of labor shortages, supply chain congestion, escalating property costs, and shortages of material handling equipment and pallets critically, the Silk team have risen to the occasion to deliver what we think is a really outstanding result. Revenue growth on the prior period, 39.1% at AUD 253 million. EBIT growth of 34%. Underlying NPAT growth of 32%. A really strong cash position at the end of the period with AUD 34 million. This has delivered an underlying earning per share growth of 26% and allowed the business to reward its shareholders with a 5.27%, AUD 0.07 per share dividend. We think these are very, very good results. In terms of achievements through the period, we did outline in our last results presentation at the full year FY 2022 how the business would be investing heavily to ensure we can achieve the three-to-five-year growth plan that Dani will talk to shortly. Despite commencing this investment and in challenging conditions, we are really pleased that we've maintained our underlying margins during the half. We have successfully leveraged our assets, and this has been underpinned by warehouse occupancy, averaging 90% for the period, well up. Warehouse revenues growing by 51% for the period. Port logistics revenues by 31%. Our distribution business, the baby of the family, increasing volumes by 15%. Really strong growth across all three service lines. Just as critically, our strategic why is to make it easy for our customers to do business. They have continued to reward this focus with contract renewals of AUD 83 million achieved during the period. This has grown our forward recurring revenue to AUD 377 million. This is up 13% on the prior calendar period. Just as importantly, customers have recognized the brand as synonymous with service excellence, and the team have brought new customers with annualized revenues of AUD 34 million to the business in the first half. A really great result. As you can see, the business is not standing still. Organic growth is only part of the picture, as you are aware, and M&A activity is a key feature of our strategic plan. During the period, we continued the integration of the 101Warehousing business, and we completed the FFS transaction, as you are aware, in September. I'm pleased to advise both operations are on track with the earnings forecasts in our acquisition business cases. This is an improvement, particularly for the 101 business. The investment that we're making in our corporate development team is driving further M&A opportunities, and we have a well-qualified list of targets now engaged in processes. Just as importantly as these achievements, our safety-first culture continues to drive improvement in our TRIFR rate, recording 8.9 for the period. Our diligence and investment around cybersecurity has enabled us to achieve compliance to the government's Essential Eight requirements. Of course, we continue to increase the diversity of our workforce. Just as importantly, particularly for John and I, we welcome 432 employees as shareholders of Silk Logistics during the period. This is a really important one for John and I. Concurrently, the team have been investing heavily into the future with exciting developments occurring across new sites like Tarneit, where a long-term customer,CRYOVAC, has recently committed to another seven-year term with Silk. Kemps Creek and Kenwick, our new properties, where new capacity and automation will play a key role in underpinning our future earnings growth. Some really exciting developments in the business. Many in this audience will be familiar with the Silk business model, but for those less so, we present ourselves to the market as an integrated port-to-door logistics provider. We have in place an experienced board and management team, a growing and loyal workforce, and a presence across all major capital cities with 50 sites nationally. Importantly, each of those sites stands alone with its own P&L, with minimum thresholds of performance expected from all site managers. This helps the business maintain our laser-like focus on performance. Alongside that, just as critically, we offer our customers a time-certain delivery model that continues to resonate, as evidenced by the growth and new business that we've generated in this half. In terms of our metrics, which we regularly share, you can see the growth in container hardstand and warehouse capacity. Our tripper rate, critically for us, and the growth in our total labor force up to 1,715 people during the period. In terms of our customers, we have shared this previously, but those customer segments that we participate in have been strategically selected back in 2014 when John and I set out on this journey. The customer base has proven both recession and in more recent times, COVID resilient. A fact that gives us confidence as we execute our growth strategies in an environment of high inflation and high interest rates. We are confident these strategies, underpinned by our investment in people, process, and technology, will continue to deliver sustainable growth for all shareholders. I'd like to now hand you to Brendan Pentland to provide you some greater detail on the financials for this period. Thanks, Brendan. Yeah. Thanks, BB. The key features of this interim reporting period are that strong revenue growth that BB spoke to. We've maintained underlying profit margins. We have declared a fully franked interim dividend. We finished the period with low gearing, which provides us with capacity for M&A growth. We have a strong cash position at period end with strong cash generation. In terms of our group numbers, this is highlighted, as I said, by that significant revenue and earnings growth. Revenue at AUD 254 million is up 39%. Underlying EBIT at AUD 19.7 is up 35%. Our underlying NPAT is up 32%. This gives rise to an underlying earnings per share at AUD 0.1241 per share, which is up 26.5% on PCP. This is a really pleasing set of numbers in a challenging environment. As mentioned, we maintained our underlying group EBIT margin after adjusting for our investment in the corporate development team, which we spoke to at our FY 2022 year-end results. We closed the year with $34 million cash at bank, and that was after paying our FY 2022 final dividend of $5 million. As mentioned, the board has declared FY 2023 interim dividend at AUD 0.0527 per share, which is an annualized dividend yield of 5%. This strong, profitable revenue growth has allowed us to invest in the future in the following areas: corporate development to drive our M&A strategy. The business development to secure new customers ahead of the new capacity coming on at Kemps Creek and Kenwick over the next 18 months to two years. That new capacity will add over 85,000 square meters of new warehouse space. We are looking to invest into those sites' automation to drive a lower cost to serve our customers, and that will be underpinned by technology initiatives in our operations and integrations of businesses to provide scale across our network. These aforementioned initiatives are all linked to our corporate strategy to grow revenue at improved margins, which Dani will speak to shortly. Our overhead at circa 8% of revenue is in line with FY 2020, and this investment will underpin that next phase of growth. Thanks, BB. The profitable revenue growth I speak to comes from two equally important sources, which we set out here on this slide. 60% of our growth over the period comes from organic, is organic growth, with 40% coming from acquisitions. That organic growth of AUD 43.2 million represents a 23.5% growth on our FY 2021, sorry, FY 2022 revenue. That maintains that impressive organic growth since the MBO of around 20% CAGR. The acquisitive growth of AUD 28.1 million comes from both the acquired businesses with their revenues tracking ahead of pre-acquisition levels. Our strong annualized new business revenue of AUD 34 million on an annualized basis in this period. 96% of that is recurring business, whilst 91% comes from new customers to the group, highlighting the ability of this business to attract and retain new customers. Our cost recovery and yield management program across warehousing and transport customers is disciplined, well-communicated and timely. Thanks, BV. Just speaking to our segment results now. In port logistics, we experienced strong revenue growth at an expanded profit margin. Our acquisition of FFS in Western Australia achieves one of our stated strategic objectives at the IPO and is a significant step in filling out our geographic reach. In this segment, revenue growth of 36 million represents 31.5% growth on the prior period, with AUD 25.3 million coming from organic growth at 22.5% per annum. AUD 10.7 million of the revenue growth comes from for the four-month period of the FFS acquisition at an annualized run rate of AUD 32 million. Whilst our build container volumes grew by a modest 2.4% over PCP, in this interim period, we have focused on those customers that provide value over volume. We have exited lower-yielding customers to focus on those customers seeking long-term relationships. We have secured new sustainable revenues. We have executed a diligent yield program to pass through those rising input costs. We have reduced congestion in our yards and restored operating efficiencies, and also improved safety across all sites. Our average revenue per container increased to $968 from $754 in the prior period. That was achieved through the aforementioned focus areas, plus also strong export volumes driving that build container revenue. In our contract logistics business, this has also experienced strong revenue growth. Our EBIT margin has compressed due to warehouse congestion, reduced productivity and pallet shortages, which has led to handling inefficiencies as we double and triple handle our goods as they managed with scarce pallets. We have also traded some margin for long-term contract extensions, which BV spoke to earlier, with CRYOVAC being an example. Pleasingly, our distribution business margins experienced a recovery late in the first half. Our contract logistics revenue growth of AUD 35.3 million is contributed from warehousing at AUD 27.1 million. With AUD 9.7 million organic and AUD 17.4 million contributed by our 101Warehousing business, which again, as I mentioned, is running ahead of its pre-acquisition levels. Our distribution revenues grew by AUD 8.2 million, representing a 56% increase, with build consignments up 16%. In our Silk leased warehouse, says our average capacity increased to 253,000 pallets from 240,000 in PCP, whilst our average occupancy averaged 90% compared to 81.6% PCP. In our 101Warehousing profit margins are now backed in line with those expected from the business. In respect of our balance sheet, we finished the period with AUD 34 million at period end, with borrowings at AUD 27.7 million and finance leases at AUD 7 million, giving rise to a net debt at AUD 0.7 million. Our corporate debt increased in the period by AUD 18 million as we used that debt to fund our acquisition of Fremantle Freight & Storage. Our leverage ratio at 1.4 times remains low, our debt service serviceability is very comfortable. Based on our current earnings, without taking into account the earnings from any acquisition targets, we have capacity for a further AUD 50 million of debt in the business, which provides us that firepower to support our M&A strategy. Finally, as I speak to our cash flows, pleasingly, we can report strong cash generation in the half again, which we measure as free cash flows as a percentage of EBITDA less cash rents, which is above that 90% mark and an improvement on PCP. Our working capital remains well-managed and focused, and our retail customer exposure remains low as a percentage of our total portfolio. CapEx is prudently managed. As we look to the investment in automation, we will be utilizing leasing options to match our cash inflows and outflows over the term of customer contracts, which will maintain our high cash generative attributes of the business. Thank you. I'll now pass to Dani. Thank you, Brendan. Before I discuss our strategy, I'd like to talk briefly about our vision and values as a business. Our vision is to be the market leader of innovative supply chains through our people and connected networks, and is brought to life by our purpose of making it easy for customers to do business. It is through this lens that we have developed our strategy. This vision is supported by our values of safety, being customer-centric, innovation, passion, respect, and integrity. As Brendan discussed in his opening, we have started investing in the future growth of our business, which is necessary to support our ambition to grow to AUD 1 billion in revenue over the next five years, if not sooner. We will deliver this by focusing on five strategic pillars designed to deliver value, growth, and excellence. I will take you through each of these pillars shortly. These pillars will be enabled by our people and leadership, with a focus on building capability across our existing and growing team. Industry-leading technology, maximizing efficiency and insights, mergers and acquisitions of strategic significance and earnings accretive, and a well-positioned ESG program. Noting that we are progressing our environmental program through establishing our current emission baseline, emission targets, and roadmap by the end of this financial year. Moving on to our strategic pillars. Providing a market-leading customer experience. We see this as a clear point of differentiation and our place to win by becoming an extension of our customer supply chain through our holistic service offering. Solution design and data-driven insights. We'll be investing in technology to bring our integrated offering to life, enhancing visibility, and supporting service excellence. This will include a new centralized service portal and improved business intelligence. Leveraging our integrated service offering. Our port-to-door service provides a competitive advantage in the market and the benefit of capturing a greater share of our customers' wallets. We see this as twofold. One, through entering new geographies, such as our recent acquisition of FFS, our port logistics business in WA. Two, through expanding the number of services we provide our customers. With 75% of customers today accessing one service only. Furthermore, we see significant opportunity to expand our share of wallet by expediting growth in our distribution business by way of organic growth and/or targeted acquisitions, allowing new customer pull-through into our port logistics and warehousing operations. Growing our value-add services and sectors. Our growth strategy will be executed through expanding and diversifying into higher-margin services. We will do this through pursuing adjacent services that provide synergy and capitalize on growing market needs. This will include expansion into fumigation, unpack services, and empty park management, to name a few. It will see Silk support the growing e-commerce market and expand our multi-channel fulfillment capability, which is already advanced through our acquisition of 101 Warehousing, which we will extend nationally. We will continue to focus on obtaining customers in resilient market segments across a diversified base to ensure stability of growth. Expand site network capability and footprint. As outlined earlier by Brendan, we're investing in infrastructure to support a much higher revenue base with the addition of 85,000 square meters of warehousing footprint over the next 18 to 24 months. These larger-scale multi-user sites are being designed for efficiency and scale across our services with further consideration for best fit automation solutions. We'll invest in automation for key long-term customers in addition to identifying automation solutions that provide a distinct advantage and in turn, competitive advantage for Silk. We'll continue to pursue geographic expansion opportunities both in metro locations and with consideration for regional operations where synergy exists. Drive operational efficiency. Critical to our strategy is delivering operational excellence through improving utilization and efficiency. With our growth goals, a national program to deliver process standardization for best practice is an important pillar in ensuring sustainable growth at maintained and growing margins. This will extend into the integration of our acquisitions, capturing the efficiency synergies and unlocking further value. Our site network will be optimized for customer segments and service channels, yielding margin and service benefits. Furthermore, we will embed continuous improvement methodologies across our sites and deliver key customer programs that ensure ongoing tenure through value. Our new site at Kemps Creek and Kenwick demonstrate our drive for operational efficiency and our execution of footprint expansion. These sites will come online over the next 18-24 months and are forecast to contribute an approximate AUD 40 million in additional revenue per annum. Finally, we are pleased with our progress today, both reflected in our results and through the advancement of our key initiatives. We look forward to keeping you updated. I will now pass back to Brendan to close. Thank you, Dani. As you have heard, a lot of work going on here at Silk. In terms of guidance for the remainder of this period, you've heard about the considerable resource investment, both in capital, intellect, and other, that we're investing into this business. I think it's clear that since the IPO, the business has grown at a pace that outstripped even our expectations. As a result, the pace of our investment has had to step up to ensure we successfully execute the plans laid out by Danni. Our guidance continues to reflect this investment. Based on our first half and a pleasing start to the second, we provide guidance, as always at Silk, conservative as follows: A full year revenue in the range of AUD 480 -AUD 500 million, which I note is a 5%-10% beat on the current analyst forecasts. An EBIT on a post IFRS 16 basis of AUD 35million -AUD 37 million. This again represents a 4% beat on consensus at the upper end of our range. The rapid growth we've delivered over the last two years will ease until we deliver the new facilities and capacity over the next 18 months that Dani has talked about. This is consistent with the message we gave shareholders at the FY 2022 results. I think as the business emerges from this high growth phase, what we will see is a more typical earnings seasonality in a logistics business, which will be evident as we complete our second half. Typically this resembles a 52%-48% split of earnings across the two halves, noting that our second half has seven less working days as an example of why that seasonal split has existed. Alongside this, and as previously advised, we expect to return with a number of our major customers to a more just-in-time inventory principle, as opposed to what has been evident in the last two years of just in case. This trend is starting to occur, and we think will take six-nine months to correct itself with our customers and their inventory holdings. This will obviously coincide with less demand for import containers during this period. We do see a strong export volume of containers continuing. As BP outlined earlier, we will continue in our port logistics business to manage value where we need to. We will continue to service those customers that value what we do and of course, reward us financially. Notwithstanding the above guidance, the business has an aggressive and disciplined M&A plan underway, which is not factored into this guidance that we're providing today. In closing, Silk continues to have significant opportunities for both organic and inorganic growth. Our shareholders, staff, and customers can rest assured the board and management team will diligently execute the strategic plan outlined by Dani and continue to provide value and returns for all shareholders. I thank you for your time, and I'll hand you back to Melanie for questions. Thanks, BD. Our first question is from Danny Younis at Shaw. Strong FY 2023 guidance provided, which is very positive. Can you please elaborate further on expectations around import container volumes versus exports, new customer wins, and propensity for pricing increases, cost inflation into second half FY 2023? Thanks, Danny. As always, four or five questions in one. look, we see an easing of import containers and we've seen a little bit of that probably impacted as much by Chinese New Year and the slowdown there in this current month. We think that'll remain soft, Danny, for this sort of next four-eight-week period before things start to return to a more normal pattern. I think in the Port of Melbourne, for example, we've seen a decline of sort of 4%-5% in February on prior period. Of course, we don't stand still. As I've said, we will continue to aggressively pursue new business. Josh and the BD team have a number of really exciting opportunities, which we will look to backfill as capacity emerges in our port logistics business. In terms of yield management, cost recovery, that's a constant in our business. We do believe that there will be an aggressive campaign of wages growth coming at us, but we're well protected with most of our EAs already in agreements. We do have three or four here in Victoria, which we will look to conclude by June. Of course then through our cost recovery mechanisms, we will continue to recover those costs as they occur. In terms of just the general environment, customers continue, Danny, to value the quality of service we provide. John and his team, I think I joked with you previously that we set John a target of AUD 50 million for this year, and he was backing away, as you might recall. With AUD 34 million banked in the first half, we're very comfortable of continuing to win new customers into the Silk business. I've tried to answer most of them, Danny, but hopefully I've got to them. B.B., any update on the last few weeks of trading in January or February? Look, January was surprisingly strong, and we were very happy. I think, you know, I've noted that in my opening on the guidance that we've started the year with a pleasing trend. We're not going to see that easing of warehouse occupancy occur. It'll be a very gradual thing over the next three, six, nine months. We're hopeful that that will continue to trend down because one of the key factors that we can perhaps talk to later is our warehouse efficiencies and the impact on our labor has been quite pronounced given that we've been over that 90% threshold. That's something that Danny and the team are really looking to get on top of in the short term as the inventory slows down. What we believe, our storage margins, which have been abnormally high, will come down to a more normal pattern, and our handling margins, which have suffered in this period, will revert back to where we've had them historically. There's a little bit of that going on in our contract logistics business. Container volumes, as I mentioned, a little softer at the back end of February, and we think that'll continue to March. We see that normalizing as China sort of comes out of that new year period and/or subsequent lag in shipping. Thanks, BB. We've got a few questions on margins here. Big positive was strength in EBITDA, EBIT margins in port logistics. How sustainable are these margins longer term? Conversely, margins softened as expected and as flagged in contract logistics. How should we view the long-term trajectory of these margins? For example, is 22% a new normal? Look, I'll let BP talk to some detail, but, you know, we have, as we've said previously, a really robust port logistics business and we're continuing to build and expand on that. I think Danny touched on the value-add services that we are seeking to continue to add in that part of our service line. We're confident that there will be, you know, strong earnings in the future. Noting, I think I talked at this right at the opening, there will be an escalation in property costs in the next 12 to 18 months, and that's something that we are endeavoring to get well ahead of. That will certainly be a cost input that we will need to recover from our customers, and there will be some lags on that. Overall, I'm confident we can maintain our port logistics margins broadly in line with where we are today. Our contract logistics business, we're seeking further improvement in our distribution business. I think we flagged at the last results, that was not where we wanted it to be, and BP can talk to the reasons why in a moment. We see further improvement there. As I said, we see an evening out between our storage and handling margins in the contract logistics business. I think other than our continued investment and the sorts of things that we are investing in, there are, you know, resources externally and internally in the business in developing and building our automation solutions. We have a business development team the size of which I've not seen in my 10 years here in the business. Sudhi's certainly getting his wish. We continue to really invest heavily in our people. Those sorts of things are where as we grow revenue, we see that 8% overhead getting back more towards our target of 5%. BP, do you wanna add any particular color on the numbers with those parameters, mate? I think just in respect to the distribution business, you know, this half we did see a continuation of some of the, you know, the factors that we spoke to at the year-end with, you know, a shortage of drivers, you know, driving up, you know, contractor rates, carrier rates. And again, as we spoke to previously, our focus really is to grow scale in this business. And we're really focused on service delivery. In some respects, we've warned some of that margin compression. We've also experienced some widespread flooding again, which puts pressure on the road network, which also contributes to that. Pleasingly, as BB mentioned and I touched on as well, as we got towards the end of the half, some of those factors started to ease a little bit and we saw some the margins improve and getting back to where we expect them to be in distribution. The other thing is we've previously spoken about is the scalability of that business. You know, we are investing heavily in there because we think that that is a really fertile ground for us. At the moment, you know, we haven't grown as aggressively in that, the revenues in that space where we could have. We are looking, as I said, service execution and building scale before we really, you know, drive that, the growth so that we've got, you know, solid platforms and can deliver sustainable margins in that business. Thanks, BP. Slide four notes you're well progressed with a range of targets. Can you please talk through timelines, number of acquisitions, revenue size, and segment? Thanks, Mel. As always, we're looking to scale up our port logistics operations, particularly giving the pleasing earnings profile. We are engaged with at least two targets, one in Sydney, one in Melbourne at this point in time. Those acquisitions, to the points Danny made earlier, will bring value-added services and/or scale in those two states. I think our real focus in the medium term is very much addressing our distribution space. We're engaged with a couple of quite sizable targets, so I think AUD 100 million plus, as opposed to, you know, port logistics businesses, which you know, somewhere in the AUD 50 million range. We really see a need to control our distribution capability to ensure we are absolutely delivering that port-to-door service promise. As BP touched on, that's really cost us in this half. We're prepared to throw money, you know, to maintain service in that space at the moment. That's not a sustainable outcome long term. You can take from this that our focus is very much on addressing that gap in our operation. Thanks, BP. Consumer and food comprises one third of your revenue. Can you talk us through what you were seeing in terms of demand, volumes, and inventory, given a fair few discretionary retailers have recently announced significant slowdowns in the last few weeks? Yeah, look, the food space is has traditionally, and I think will continue to be very stable. Sure, we're seeing some shift in buying patterns, and I may have shared with some people on this call recently, but one of our coffee customers, for example, brought in a massive pile of inventory of large coffee jars only as consumer discretionary spend time to find that they were running out of the smaller coffee jars and, you know, we're over-supplied with large coffee. There's been some subtle shifts, but I think, you know, the one thing that has proven over time is our food customer base, and that includes ingredients and the like, have remained stable, and we think that will continue. In terms of, you know, the retail, we're getting mixed messages, I think it's fair to say. You know, we do a bit of specialist retail, as you know, and we're seeing those volumes, you know, reasonably stable at the moment. Where we're seeing a bit of volatility is in that, you know, retail fulfillment and/or online fulfillment, particularly in the one-on-one customer base. I think it's fair to say there's been some quite volatile trading in that business, and I think that's where we may see, you know, some volatility over the next three, six, nine months. As always, we'll pull the levers on our cost controls, particularly with the variable cost model we continue to operate, to make sure that we're managing those outcomes as they occur. Great. second half EBIT is forecast to come lower than first half. Is that normal seasonality? Can you expand on this? I'll let BP talk to the specifics. It's a combination of some seasonality. Note the seven-day delta I referred to earlier in terms of working days. It also reflects, you know, the growth in our investment that we've referenced several times in this presentation and some of that subdued volume, you know, in late February and March of import containers. They're the sort of headlines. BP, perhaps you can talk to some of the specific numbers there, mate. I guess when we think about the second half, and particularly the public holiday split, it's really about handling revenue and distribution revenues that we see the impact. If you look at the contributions in the first half at AUD 32 million and just under AUD 15 million respectively, and then if you apply the second half at margins, you're looking at around half a million dollars at around margin impact on those public holidays alone. The other thing really is to keep in mind, and we spoke about that investment to deliver the strategy. We have made investments in people, technology, building design, as we look to the automation opportunities, and the prize in that space is really attractive to us. We're not at this stage pulling back from any of that investment. In fact, we'll, you know, see that continue in the second half. That has a, you know, a further, I guess those further investments in the second half contribute to that, you know, that lower second half EBIT number. Thanks, BB. Do you expect to do an acquisition during second half FY 2023? In the past, you've spoken about a transformational deal. What is the progress with that? In an ideal world, we would complete an acquisition in this half, but as many will know, acquisitions don't always go the way you'd like. I should say we've walked away from three or four deals in the first half that we just didn't feel were accretive for our shareholders. We remain very disciplined, but we would anticipate an acquisition in this half, all going well. Certainly, as I mentioned, we are looking at a larger acquisition, which would be termed transformational. Those things always take a little more time as the people on this call would be aware. Certainly well-engaged and working hard on those aspects at the moment. Thanks, BB. Our last couple of questions are also related to M&A. Just a reminder, if anyone has questions, you can enter them at the bottom of the screen. The next question is, what level of debt to EBITDA are you willing to go to with acquisitions? BB, I'll take that. Thanks. When we think about EBITDA and debt, and under our current covenants with our bank, they measured that on a pre basis. If you think about in the terms of those, we have offers unconditional terms up to 2.5x EBITDA number at the moment. Generally, we're a little bit more, you know, conservative than that. Would like to keep a 10% buffer to make sure that we don't butt up against that. If you think about in those terms and the number that I spoke to earlier, just based on our current earnings, you know, would allow us, you know, you know, to borrow up to another, you know, AUD 50 million just based on our current earnings for acquisitions. Thanks, BP. Our final question is: Do you foresee that M&A will be more likely through debt than through issuing shares to the target or through capital raisings? Look, it will depend on which opportunity we bring to the table. I think all three are options and all three will be considered depending on the target, the, you know, the value that we're paying for that business, and the vendor's appetite for scrip. We think scrip will always play a role just simply to keep a vendor engaged and interested. I think, Mel, that the simple answer is, it will depend on the opportunity and the size of that opportunity as to which mechanisms we use. Certainly our first thinking is to leverage the debt capability that we have. If we were to do something much larger, then all three will come into play. Thanks, BB. That was our final question today, so I'll pass back to you. Thank you, Mel, and thank you all for listening this morning. In summary, the business is in good shape. The returns are stable. The team is stable. There is significant opportunity continuing to present. As a team and as a board, we're absolutely excited about what the next 6-12 months holds for our business. As I said earlier, you can rest assured we will be diligent and disciplined in our execution of capturing those opportunities. Thank you again for listening.
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