Jan du Plessis
Management
Well good morning everybody. And I am pleased to see all here and good afternoon to those of you in Australia and welcome to our 2013 interim results presentation. For those of you that don’t me, I am Sam Walsh, chief executive of Rio Tinto. And I am delighted to introduce my chief financial officer Chris Lynch will be presenting from Melbourne. He will come on the big screen at the appropriate moment. Chris joined my team in April and since then he’s been making a real difference, particularly bringing sharp focus to our capital allocation and cost reduction programs. It’s great to have him on board. Safety is one of our key core values. It brought me great sadness to learn of the two fatalities we had in our operations this year, one at La Granja in Peru in February and one at the [Elmus Velter] in Canada in April. I would also like to express my sympathy for all those impacted by the tragic incident at Grasberg in May. My goal is to make sure that all of our employees and contractors return home safely to their families, loved ones and friends at the end of every day. So I have challenged my team to deliver year-on-year improvements in safety performance. Doing so will remain a priority for the group for the remainder of this year and beyond. So let me make some comments about our performance this half. Overall I am pleased with our progress and we are seeing seriously good results from our business improvement initiatives. We delivered solid underlying earnings of $4.2 billion and a strong cash flow from operations of $8 billion. Cash flows were actually in line with last year despite the fact we’ve seen weaker commodity prices and it reflects the total…