Its aircraft support Australian military and humanitarian operations worldwide.

About two-thirds of the profit was from the sale of a 20 percent stake in the company's Australian operations.

"The benefits of that expansion are now flowing through to our Australian operations," he told a business lunch here.

His betting on Betfair is believed to account for one third of the company's Australian operations.

The mine is currently the company's only Australian operation.

However, in 2005, the Australian operation was under-performing.

During 2005, the stock dropped dramatically due to worse than expected results from the Australian operation.

The South African and Australian operations continued as independent entities from 2001.

The Australian operations of the company, which were in Liquidation with 1 million One.

Indeed although the fighting continued, Australian operations began to wind down.