This section contains additional information required by the Australian Stock Exchange Limited listing rules not disclosed elsewhere in this report.

Shareholdings

Substantial shareholders
The following information is extracted from the Company’s Register of Substantial Shareholders.

Class of shares and voting rights
At 4 September 2001, there were 23,196 holders of ordinary shares in the company. The voting rights attaching to the ordinary shares, set out in Clause 50 of the company’s Constitution, are:

a) every member may vote
b) on a show of hands every member has one vote
c) on a poll every member has:

• for each fully paid share held by the member, one vote; and
• for each partly paid share held by the member, a fraction of a vote equivalent to the proportion which the amount paid up bears to the total issue price of the share.

At 4 September 2001, there were 18,102,043 options over ordinary shares issued to eligible employees at the absolute discretion of the board. The options are generally exercisable 3 years after the date granted or earlier in the case of the employee’s death or retirement.

Distribution of shareholders as at 4 September 2001

Twenty largest shareholders as at 4 September 2001