"Brisbane Sees Fast Airliner"
Another newspaper cutting that muddies the waters even more, from the Brisbane Courier Mail, 30 April 1945::
"Australia's fastest civil transport plane, the Lancastrian, was visited by hundreds of sightseers when it made a brief visit to Brisbane vesterdav. One of five machines of this type acquired by Qantas Empire Airways to inaugurate the 70-hour flights between Sydney and London, in June ..."
30 Apr 1945 - BRISBANE SEES FAST AIRLINER - Trove