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CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
My name is Charles Goode.
As your Chairman, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 35th Annual General Meeting of ANZ.
I want to also welcome shareholders joining us via anz.com
Let me say how pleased we are to be holding our Annual General Meeting in Brisbane.
Over 200,000 Australians directly own shares in ANZ.
To make sure as many of those shareholders as possible have an opportunity to attend a meeting, we have a policy of rotating our annual general meetings around Australia's major capital cities.
In the last three years we have held our annual general meetings in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth with information meetings in Adelaide, Auckland and Wellington.
I am pleased to see so many Queensland shareholders here today.
This year marks ANZ's 150th year in Queensland and we considered it especially appropriate to hold this year's meeting in Brisbane to commemorate that anniversary.
