Qantas and Auspost celebrate a hundred years of delivering the mail

Hudson Fysh arriving at Winton to deliver the mail on 3 November 1922 on the second leg of the inaugural service to Cloncurry, Queensland Source: Supplied / QANTAS/PR IMAGE

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Qantas and Australia Post are marking 100 years of partnership recreating the first passenger and mail flight through outback Queensland. The event marking not just a century of service .. but also a revitalisation of the Australian airline as it continues to recover from the COVID travel bans.

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