140 AGMs attended in calendar 2024

1. Fleet Partners (FPR): 9am hybrid in Sydney on Thursday, January 25, 2024 with physical component at Freehills. See notice of meeting. Mark cap $750m. Was only 1 of 5000 shareholders to ask questions and here is the text of all 6 of them. Voting results commendably showed outcome by shares and shareholders and there were no material protest votes with only 103 shareholders bothering to vote. Awaiting full archive of 1 hour webcast.

2. Nufarm (NUF): hybrid at 11am on February 1 with physical component at Laverton North head office. See notice of meeting. Attended in person, only 1 other person in the room asked questions and the meeting lasted 63 minutes. Failed to follow the agenda and no protest votes. See links to audio of key exchanges.

3. Technology One (TNE): hybrid meeting in Brisbane on February 21. See notice of meeting and text of 8 questions asked along with a summary of the answers and some video grabs via Twitter. The meeting lasted 80 minutes and the only protest votes were against the two directors seeking re-election.

4. Boart Longyear: (BLY): The scheme meeting to approve a US private equity takeover took place on February 21 at 10am. Here is the text of the 5 questions lodged. All but one were censored and the meeting was done in less than 20 minutes.
No webcast archive was provided and the deal was approved by 99.97% of voted stock although this was only 83 in favour and 21 against. The shares were suspended on April 5 with shareholders paid on April 10.

5. Aristocrat Leisure (ALL): The following 9 written questions were lodged at the 2024 Aristocrat Leisure hybrid AGM held on February 22. Commendably, they were read out in full with no censorship at the 1 hour and 50 minute meeting. There was a 21% protest vote against the CEO's LTI grant which wasn't really properly discussed, partly because the proxies weren't disclosed with the formal addresses.

6. Scentre Group (SCG): 10am hybrid on April 4 with physical component at the Wesley Centre in Sydney. See notice of meeting. No early disclosure or proxy position. They've largely sorted the NTA discount to market cap issue. Suffered a rem strike and 26% protest against CEO's LTI grant. See webcast of 100 minute meeting where David Kingston gave them a hard time. See text of 8 written questions lodged and summary of answers with video links.

7. Telix Pharmaceuticals (TLX): 10am hybrid in Sydney on April 5 for EGM to approve some acquisition-related share issues. See notice of meeting and voting results announcement. Asked these 4 online questions.

8. AMP: 10am hybrid in Sydney on April 12. See notice of meeting. There were no material protest votes and the meeting lasted 2.5 hours with questions from about 20 different shareholders, including the fabulous activist fund manager, Fred Woollard.
See text of 7 written questions asked and summaries of the answers with video links. See AGM webcast and transcript.

9. Volpara Health Technologies (VHT): an agreed takeover of the Wellington-based breast cancer company by South Korean cancer AI company Lunit Inc which values the equity at $296m. See scheme book. Hybrid scheme meeting held at 11am on April 12 and asked 3 online questions. Was approved by 97% of voted stock and no head count vote required in NZ. A webcast archive was available here until the deal completed.

10. Bell Financial Group (BFG): Here is the text of the 5 questions lodged at the 2024 Bell Financial Group virtual AGM held on April 19, plus a summary of the 3 which were answered along with videos via Twitter. The meeting lasted 28 minute meeting. There was no early disclosure of the proxies in the formal addresses and the 3 board candidates weren't invited to speak. No material protest votes.

11. Latitude Financial (LFS): 9.30am physical only meeting in Melbourne on April 24 - see notice of meeting. Last attended in 2022 when it was a hybrid meeting with physical component at the RACV Club in Melbourne. See text of 8 questions asked. The meeting lasted just under an hour and I was the only questioner. Thin skinned chair Mike Tilley has banned online questions ever since, so had to turn up in person this year and had some lively exchanges again with Mr Tilley, who will finally be departing at next year's AGM. Was the only person questions at the 1 hour meeting. See webcast.

12. Woodside Energy (WPL): returned to a hybrid this year in Perth on April 24. See text of 6 questions asked. Watch webcast of 4 hour meeting.

13. Link Group (LNK): Japanese giant Mitsubishi agreed to pay $2.16 per share or $2.1 billion in enterprise terms after years of poor performance, much of which was associated with its UK division. The share registry and investor services business was floated at $6.37 per share in October 2015. However, when you add back the performance of PEXA, which was spun off in 2021, the performance wasn't as bad. The hybrid scheme meeting took place at 3pm on April 24 in Sydney at the Four Seasons. See text of 4 questions asked as the deal sailed through with 99% support from voted shares.

14. Rio Tinto: 9.30am hybrid meeting in Brisbane on May 2. See notice of meeting. Lodged 3 written questions but only two were dealt with. Biggest protest 20.4% against buyback followed by 4.14% against chair Dominic Barton. Watch webcast and read transcript.

15. G8 Education (GEM): 11am hybrid on May 7 with physical component at Allens in Brisbane. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 written questions, which were all asked in full. Generated this coverage in The AFR.

16. Iluka Resources (ILU): Hybrid. 9.30am WST at Perth Convention Centre on May 7. See text of 7 questions asked. The only protest vote was 7.7% against the rem report.

17. Capral Aluminium (CAA): 10am fully virtual meeting on May 8 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 written questions, plus video grabs of responses. Only 1 other online question and no protest votes. Market cap around $165m.

18. Ampol: 10am hybrid in Sydney on May 9 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked which were all read out in full. Proxies were once again not disclosed with the formal addresses and biggest protest vote was 4.7% against Mike Ihlean. Watch the webcast archive of the 75 minute meeting. No transcript was provided.

19. QBE Insurance. hybrid at 10am on May 10 with physical component at Wesley Centre in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See pre-AGM letter - chair Mike Wilkins largely rejected requests. See text of 6 questions lodged and a summary of the answers. No protest votes and meeting lasted just 75 minutes with only questions from 4 shareholders.

20. ARN Media (A1N): 9am hybrid in Sydney on May 14. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked.

21. Briscoe Group (BGP): NZ hybrid starting at 10am NZ time (8am Melb time) on May 16. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked. No protest votes. Market cap almost $1 billion.

22. Atlas Arteria (ALX): 10am hybrid on May 16 with physical meeting in Melbourne at RACV Club. See notice of meeting. No protest votes of note. See text of 6 questions asked, which scored a run in The AFR. Biggest protest vote 4.95% against director fee rise. Watch webcast of 95 minute meeting.

23. 29Metals Ltd (29M): May 21, 10.30am hybrid meeting with Melbourne component at The Windsor. See text of 7 questions asked. Biggest protest vote 9.6% against rem report. Market cap $350m in May 24. See notice of meeting.

24. Brainchip Holdings (BRN): May 21 hybrid in Sydney starting 11am. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.6 billion in 2022 and only $289m in Feb 24. See text of 6 written questions submitted. See interesting voting results showing only 14% of voted stock wanted a second strike board spill.

25. Eagers Automotive (APE): 10am hybrid in Brisbane on May 22. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked. There were no material protest votes at the 80 minute meeting and proxies were disclosed early with the formal addresses which contained a shock profit warning which drove the share price down 15% as the meeting commenced.

26. Ventia Services (VNT): May 23, 10am: virtual only meeting. See notice of meeting and text of 6 written questions. Natasha Lee was only other shareholder asking questions. They published proxies early with biggest protest 15% against CEO's LTI grant.

27. Karoon Energy (KAR): 10am hybrid at the RACV Club in Melbourne on May 23, 2024 - see notice of meeting and text of 6 written questions. Meeting lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes with big protest votes, including a rem strike.

28. Stanmore Resources (SMR): 1pm hybrid in Brisbane on May 23, 2024 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked. No other shareholder contributed. Proxies were released with the formal addresses and biggest protest vote 9% against rem.

29. Pepper Money (PPM): fully virtual, 3pm on May 23, 2024. See notice of meeting. See audio grabs of 7 question exchanges. They took the Lumi link down before had a chance to capture the text. Proxies disclosed early with the formal addresses.

30. Neuren Pharmaceuticals (NEU): 2.30pm hybrid on level 33 of 477 Collins St - see notice of meeting and text of 6 questions asked. Market cap $3.1 billion on day of AGM.

31. Tigers Realm Coal (TIG): May 28, 3pm: hybrid with physical component at Rendezvous Hotel, 328 Flinders St, Melbourne. See text of 5 written questions asked. Market cap $196m in 2022 and $50m now. Owen Hegarty used to be on board. See notice of meeting. Link is running online component.

32. Kina Securities (KSL): 10am Port Moresby time on May 29 for a fully virtual meeting. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 written questions, only 4 of which were answered. Market cap $270m. See 8 questions asked at 2023 AGM.

33. Probiotec (PBP): Owns 6 pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Australia and has agreed to a takeover by Indonesian company PT Pyridam Farma Tbk which values the business at around $260 million. Grant Thornton valued the business at between $2.78 and $3.29, which fell within the $3 per share bid price. See scheme implementation agreement. Hybrid scheme meeting held at 10am on May 29. See text of 5 written questions.

34. Bluebet (BBT): May 30, 2024, 10am virtual EGM to approve BETR merger. See notice of meeting and text of 6 questions asked.

35. Yancoal (YAL): 11am hybrid meeting in Sydney on May 30, 2024 - see notice of meeting and text of 6 questions asked.

36. Brazilian Rare Earths (BRE): Sydney-based company which floated in December 2023 when it raised $50 million at $1.47 and now has a market cap of $715m. A fully virtual AGM via zoom at 9am on May 31. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions lodged. No protest votes.

37. Far Ltd (FAR): Noon virtual on May 31 2024, the last day once again - see notice of meeting. See text of 5 questions lodged and summaries of the answers. Was the only 1 of the almost 4000 shareholders to ask questions at the 20 minute meeting.

38. QV Equities (QVE): 10 hybrid scheme meeting in Sydney on June 28, 2024 for WAM Leaders takeover - see scheme book. Also, see text of 6 questions lodged and summaries of the 3 scripted answers provided.

39. TASK Group (TSK): the restaurant technology company only shifted its HQ and primary listing to Australia in 2023 and now it is being taken over by NYSE listed rival PAR Technology in a $310 million deal announced with a full scheme implementation agreement on March 11, 2024. See our 10 questions at last year's final New Zealand AGM. The scheme book dropped on May 28 and the virtual scheme meeting was scheduled to start at 11am on June 28 Sydney time but was delayed on the day until July 4 due to "conservative legal advice, not ASIC". See text of 6 questions asked. There were no material protest votes at the 22 minute meeting.

40. TASK Group (TSK): held a virtual EGM on July 4, 2024 1 hour after the scheme meeting (see above) to approve two resolutions related to executive incentives. See text of 4 questions asked at the 12 minute virtual meeting. See text of 6 questions asked at the earlier scheme meeting.

41. Alumina (AWC) scheme meeting: The scheme implementation agreement was announced on March 12 and the hybrid scheme meeting was held at 2pm in Melbourne on July 18. Proxies weren't disclosed with the formal addresses but there were no material protest votes at the 45 minute meeting which sailed through with support from 99.77% of voted stock in favour and 87.5% of the voting shareholders (1,598 for and 227 against out of circa 52,000). See text of 6 online questions asked at the meeting. Only one other shareholder asked questions online and no one spoke at the State Library.

42. Macquarie Group: 10.30am hybrid in Sydney on July 24 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked. No material protest votes at the 3 hour meeting.

43. OZ Forex: 2pm hybrid meeting in Sydney on August 1, 2024 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 written questions, which were butchered a bit by the chair and CEO but answers were generally good. There were no protest votes.

44. Metcash (MTS): Here is a the text of the 6 written question lodged at the 2024 Metcash hybrid AGM held in Sydney on September 13. Most were edited down and see this summary of the answers provided with links to video grabs via Twitter. The meeting lasted about 90 minutes with 2 questioners in the room (including ASA) and two of us online. There were modest rem protest votes.

45. APM Human Services: 2 fully virtual meetings on September 18, 2024 to approve the $1.33 billion Madison Dearborn takeover. No video was provided and no other shareholder asked any questions at either meeting. Here is the text of 7 written questions lodged and asked, all of which were handled by the question wranglers who protected everyone else. the 2024 APM Human Services virtual scheme meetings held on September 18.

46. AGL (AGL): hybrid in Melbourne starting at 10.30am on September 25, 2024. See notice of meeting. See text of the 6 written questions lodged, along with video grabs of the exchanges. Kudos to the question wrangler for reading them all out in full, with excellent intonation. There were no protest votes. Also, see webcast archive and full transcript.

47. PSC Insurance (PSI): hybrid scheme meeting in Melbourne on September 26, 2024. See text of the 6 written questions lodged about the $2.23 billion private equity takeover. Despite there being no other questions, only the first one was dealt with on the day but I couldn't hear the answer properly due to microphone issues. CEO Tony Robinson later called to apologise and provided the written answers published here. The formal addresses were only released after the meeting with the poll results and there were no protest votes.

48. REA (REA): 9am virtual meeting on October 9 via Link platform. See notice of meeting and text of the 6 written questions submitted. The only material protest at the 45 minute meeting was 7.3% against chair Hamish McLennan, who is still over-boarding. The botched attempted takeover of UK equivalent Rightmove was front and centre in the debate but the stock resumed its upward trend once the deal fell over.

49. Aurizon (AZJ): 2pm hybrid in Brisbane on October 10, 2024. See notice of meeting and text of the 6 written questions submitted at the 97 minute 2024 Aurizon Holdings hybrid AGM held in Brisbane on October 10, plus a summary of the answers and some video grabs via Twitter. The only protest votes were against the two directors up for election, including 14% against chair Tim Poole. This was surprising given we couldn't find any proxy advisers who recommended against and was potentially driven by opposition to Aurizon's loss-making expansion into stevedoring as it tries to diversify away from coal haulage.

50. Meridian Energy (MEZ): 7.30am hybrid (Melbourne time) in Wellington time on October 15, 2024. See notice of meeting. See package on 6 questions asked.

51. Telstra (TLS): 9.30am start for Sydney hybrid on questions on October 15, 2024 but no online voting via Link platform. See notice of meeting. See package on 7 questions asked. Telstra got away with one here after accounting treatment changes delivered an extra $7 million in stock awards to the executive team but the rem report and LTI protest votes were only around 15% because only one of the proxy advisers picked this up and recommended against. Chair Craig Dunn, a former AMP CEO who has somehow risen to the top at Telstra, also monopolised the Q&A session too much, failing to invite other directors to contribute even when specific questions were directed at them.

52. Genesis Energy (GNE): 2pm Auckland time on October 15, 2024. Market cap $2.2b. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See package on 3 questions asked.

53. Region Group (RGN): 2pm hybrid in Sydney on October 15, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $2.74b. No early disclosure of proxies with formal addresses. No material protest votes. See package on 6 questions asked.

54. The Reject Shop (TRS): 9.30am virtual meeting. See notice of meeting. See online access via Link. See package on 4 questions asked.

55. Commonwealth Bank (CBA): 9.30am start at the Adelaide Oval. Online questions but no online voting. See notice of meeting. No protest votes. See package on 2 questions asked.

56. Australian United Investments (AUI): hybrid meeting in Melbourne on October 15, 2024. See package on 6 questions asked.

57. Bapcor (BAP): 1.30pm hybrid at Melbourne airport on October 16, 2024 via Computershare link. See notice of meeting. See package on 7 questions asked. Gave new executive chair Angus McKay a solid grilling. He had no plausible excuse for failing to put himself up for election and wouldn't commit to do it next year either. In terms of executive chairs using the CEO voting exemption, you have to go back to Rupert Murdoch prior to News Corp's 2004 redomicile to Delaware and John Gay at Gunns before the GFC.

58. Auckland Airport (AIA): 10am hybrid at Eden Park in Auckland on October 17, 2024. See notice of meeting. See online access via Link. Biggest protest 9% against director Dean Hamilton.

59. Perpetual (PPT): 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 17, 2024. See notice of meeting. See package on 6 questions asked. Was a bruising 3 hour meeting with a record 88% rem strike. The David and Charlie Kingston father and son combo were on song but challenging candidate Rodney Forrester received less than 5% of the vote and kept his powder dry for the entire meeting until delivering his campaign speech at the end.

60. Event and Hospitality (EVT): 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 18, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Billionaire Alan Rydge copped a rem strike courtesy of not being able to vote his controlling stake, as was discussed on The Money Café. Enjoyed the tag team with Charlie Kingston. Other billionaires like Kerry Stokes, Gerry Harvey, Solly Lew and Twiggy Forrest refuse to offer online questions so well done to Alan Rydge for being accountable and maximising retail shareholder access to the meeting.

61. Australian Finance Group (AFG): 9am hybrid in Perth on October 18, 2024. See notice of meeting. See online access via Link. Market cap $430m. No protest votes but enjoyed grilling the former ASIC chair Greg Medcraft who has chaired this outfit for the past couple of years and also noticeably improved its governance, such as by offering a hybrid meeting. Many Perth-based companies refuse to do this, as can be seen on this disappointingly long shame file.

62. Amotive/GUD (AOV): 11am hybrid in Melbourne on October 21, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See package of all the action. Not impressed by old school chair Graeme Billings who should move on after 12 years, as was discussed on The Money Café. He didn't even allow the retiring audit committee chair to offer some exit reflections after just 3 years on the board and wouldn't admit leaving $800 million on the table by selling out of Breville too early in 2012 was his biggest mistake.

63. Stockland (SGP): 2.30pm hybrid in Sydney on October 21, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Lumi link. See package of the action including an interesting case study about the indecent haste in which the former GPT CEO, Bob Johnston, joined the board of a rival just 6 months after “retiring”.

64. Atturra Software (ATA): 3pm virtual meeting for $305m company on October 21, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See package of the action.

65. Audinate (AD8): 9.30am hybrid via Link in Sydney on October 22, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $780m. See package on our 5 questions.

66. Suncorp (SUN): 10am hybrid in Brisbane on October 22, 2024. See notice of meeting. See online access via Link. Asked 6 written questions - see package of action. They produced best practice AGM governance and transparency such as early proxy disclosure and scheme-like voting results, which opened up the opportunity to ask Cochlear why it isn't following suit given that Suncorp chair Christine McLoughlin sits on that board too.

67. Transurban (TCL): 11am hybrid in Melbourne on October 22, 2024. See notice of meeting. See package of all the action which unfolded the morning after they got done over by the ABC's Four Corners program.

68. SG Fleet (SGF): 3pm virtual meeting on October 22, 2024 where was the only shareholder asking questions. See notice of meeting. Market cap $860m. See package of all the action. Was amusing asking for the age of board candidate Edwin Jankelowitz who declared he was 81 and definitely serving a full 3 year term.

69. Fletcher Building (FBU): 8.30am hybrid (Melbourne time) in Auckland on October 23, 2024. See notice of meeting. Plenty of issues in its recent $NZ700m capital raising. See package of 6 questions. The acting chair Greg Crowley, an Australian and former CEO of GWA and Austrim, was positively belligerent when asked for some fairly standard AGM transparency and procedure changes.

70. National Storage (NSR): 10am hybrid in Brisbane on October 23, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $3.5b. See package of 6 questions.

71. Mystate (MYS): Tasmania's most valuable company held a hybrid at 10.30am on October 23, 2024 in Mystate Arena in Glenorchy. See notice of meeting. Market cap $430m. See package of 6 questions. The former chair Miles Hampton was ripping into the proposed merger with Queensland regional bank Auswide from the floor.

72. Codan (CDA): 11am Adelaide time hybrid October 23, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See package of 5 questions.

73. Chorus (CNU): 8am Melbourne time virtual meeting in NZ on October 24, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $3.4b. No protest votes. See text of 3 questions lodged.

74. IAG: 9.30am hybrid in Sydney on October 24, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No protests or extra voting disclosure. See text of 5 written questions.

75. Challenger Financial Group (CGF): 9.30am hybrid in Sydney on October 24, 2024.. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No protests or extra voting disclosure. Check for questions.

76. Super Retail Group (SUL): 10am hybrid via Link platform at their Brisbane head office on October 24, 2024. See notice of meeting. Only protest vote 17.4% against CEO's LTI grant. See package on 7 questions asked which were pretty tough given allegations about the CEO's affair with the former head of HR and the resultant legal fight involving two senior in-house female lawyers. Chair Sally Pitkin finally exited and not before time.

77. South32 (S32): hybrid meeting starting at noon Perth time on October 24, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No protest votes. See package on 6 questions. The chair Karen Wood just couldn't bring herself to get with the AGM reform program, knocking back early proxy disclosure and revealing how many shareholders had voted. With retail shareholder voting participation down below 2% after the move away from paper, we need this data to be disclosed at every meeting to draw attention to the problem and encourage more retail voting.

78. Pinnacle (PNI): 9am hybrid in Sydney on October 25, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $3.87b. No protest votes. See text of 7 written questions. Bizarrely, they're still refusing to publish an archive of the webcast so am relying on texts and email exchanges with CEO Ian Macoun to try and find out what happened at the meeting given just lobbed the questions and then went elsewhere on the day.

79. McMillan Shakespeare (MMS): 10am hybrid in Melbourne on October 25, 2024. See notice of meeting. No protest votes. See text of 6 written questions. Big fan of the chair Helen Kurincic who mounted a strong defence of former Tabcorp chair Bruce Akhurst, who was comfortably re-elected despite being recently forced out of the struggling gambling giant. Yes, CVs do matter and you can raise the poor performance of a director at one company at the AGM of an un-related company.

80. Cochlear (COH): 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 25, 2024. See notice of meeting. Only modest protests 5% against 3 directors, including chair Alison Deans. See text of 6 written questions.

81. Qantas (QAN): 10.30am hybrid in Hobart of all places on October 25, 2024 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 written questions including a doozy on board perks, which got widely covered in the press and generated 3 ABC radio interviews.

82. Cleanaway (CWY): 11am hybrid in Brisbane on October 25, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No protest votes. See text of 6 written questions including 3 on the proposed $110 million purchase of Citywide Waste off City of Melbourne, reducing competition in the waste collection market. Remarkably, this privatisation process was signed, sealed and delivered by City of Melbourne without any public disclosures that it was even being considered. The ACCC might yet block the deal.

83. ASX Group (ASX): 2 board challengers and a debut for new chair David Clarke, although he only takes over at the end of the meeting. 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 28, 2024. See notice of meeting. See text of 7 questions asked. Was excellent that they continued with the practice of disclosing the poll results in terms of both shares and shareholders, joining this best practice list. The two well-credentialled challenging candidates, Philip Galvin and Robert Caisley, were comfortably defeated but both gave good campaign speeches and contributed some penetrating questions from the floor.

84. Ansell: 9am hybrid at The Rialto in Melbourne on October 29, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See text of 6 questions submitted. No protest votes.

85. CSL (CSL): full hybrid starting at 10am at the RACV Club in Melbourne on October 29, 2024 - see notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions submitted. Chair Dr Brian McNamee was waxing lyrical about potential takeovers, his past record on divestments and his plan to potentially run again in 2027 after being comfortably elected for another 3 year term.

86. Trajan Corp (TRJ): Ringwood-based company capitalised at $180m held a 10am virtual AGM on October 29, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See text of 6 questions submitted.

87. McMahon Holdings (MAH): capitalised at $700m and held its hybrid AGM in Perth starting at 9am on October 29, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See text of 5 questions submitted. Biggest protests 13% against rem and 14% against virtual AGMs. Former Leighton CEO Hamish Tyrwhitt was not an impressive chair, a bit like his old colleague Nev Power. These big talking engineering and project delivery types don't tend to get the finer points of AGM meeting procedures and disclosure.

88. Bega Group (BGA): 9.30am hybrid in Bega on October 30, 2024 although only questions not voting. See notice of meeting. Using Link meeting platform. Biggest protest 11% against rem report. Executive chair Barry Irwin had 5% opposition and wouldn't commit to this being his last 3 year term despite being in the role for 24 years. See text of 6 questions asked. These covered a raft of interesting issues and this was one of the most interesting AGMs of the season. Was impressed by the tag team of chair Irwin and CEO Pete Findlay who were right across the detail.

89. Data#3 (DTL): 10am hybrid in Brisbane on October 30, 2024. See notice of meeting. Using Link meeting platform. Market cap $1.12b. See text of 5 questions asked.

90. Heartland Group (HGH): 2pm Auckland time hybrid on October 30, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $870m. They got smashed from the floor as the Australian expansion is not adding value and bad debts are on the rise. See text of 6 questions asked.

91. Civmec (CVL): 10.30am hybrid in Singapore (1.30pm Melbourne time) on October 30, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $600m. Market cap $600m but the defence contractor and major projects builder is controlled by its two Irish founders, who remain CEO and executive chair. No protest votes. See text of 6 questions asked including an awkward revolving doors one for Labor heavyweight Gary Gray. First time have lobbed questions at a physical meeting held in Singapore. Was impressed by the strong interest shown by local retail shareholders.

92. Fleetwood (FWD): 3pm hybrid in Sydney on October 30, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $175m. See Computershare link. Enjoyed the combat with chair John Klepec, who used to be Gina Rinehart's side-kick and was happy to take on gun shareholder activist Charlie Kingston who engaged strongly from the floor. Funniest moment came when Klepec defended the board's relatively modest skin in the game by claiming the NAB chair Phil Chronican would be on $1 million a cash year and wouldn't own $1 million worth of NAB shares. So I fact checked this and lobbed a follow up question pointing out that Chronican was only on $825,000 a year and owned $1.6 million worth of NAB shares. See text of 7 questions asked.

93. Sky City Entertainment (SKC): 9am (Melbourne time) hybrid in Auckland on October 31, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See text of 4 questions asked. Only protest 12% against Chad Barton the former CFO of Star Entertainment, who the chair strongly exonerated for all the subsequent problems at Star after he left. Also got former Tabcorp CEO David Attenborough talking about his AUSTRAC problems, given this outfit settled with AUSTRAC for $67 million over money laundering at its Adelaide casino.

94. Woolworths (WOW): 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 31, 2024. See notice of meeting. See shareholder resolution on salmon farming. See text of 3 questions asked. Biggest protests 17.5% against Maxine Brenner and 30.4% opposing board recommendation on salmon farming. Proxies disclosure was disappointingly held back until after the debate.

95. Navigator Global Investments (NGI): 10am hybrid in Sydney on October 31, 2024. See notice of meeting. Market cap $850m. Using Link voting platform. See text of 5 questions asked. Only modest protest 7% against director Sean McGould.

96. JB Hi Fi (JBH): 10.30am hybrid at RACV Melbourne on October 31, 2024. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Biggest protest 29% against CEO's LTI grant. See text of 2 questions asked. They failed to follow the agenda and just did one job lot of questions. Some solid hero-worshipping from the floor from retail shareholders who are enjoying a comfortable retirement thanks to JB's long term incredible performance.

97. Wesfarmers (WES): 1pm Perth hybrid via Lumi on October 31, 2024. See notice of meeting. No protest votes. See text of 3 questions asked. Old school chair Michael Chaney was giving nothing, as usual.

98. Spark NZ (SPK): 10am hybrid NZ time. See notice of meeting. Attended in 2022. $5b market cap. See text of 6 questions asked. No protest votes.

99. Steadfast (SDF): 10am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. Issues with strata management detailed in this 4 Corners report. See text of 8 questions asked which made for a very lively meeting. Only protest 15% against rem report.

November 6, 2024: attended these 5 meetings

100. Domain Group (DHG): 10am hybrid in Sydney via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Lodged these 13 questions at 2021 AGM. Biggest protest 13.2% against CEO's LTI grant. See text of 6 questions asked.

101. Coast Entertainment (CEH): hybrid at 10am in Surfers Paradise via Link platform. Market cap $192m. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked. No early proxies and biggest protest 20.4% against rem report.

102. Cedar Woods (CWP): 10am hybrid in Perth but no online voting, just questions via this open briefing platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $466m. See text of 2 questions asked. Proxies disclosed early and no protest votes.

103. IGO Ltd: (IGO): noon hybrid in Perth. See notice of meeting. Market cap $4.4b. See Computershare link. See text of 7 questions submitted. Very narrowly missed a strike and 15% protest against 3 long term directors, none of which was announced early with the these formals.

104. Domino's (DMP): 3pm hybrid in Brisbane (Brisbane time). See notice of meeting. Using Link voting platform. See text of 6 questions asked. Biggest protest 14% against rem report.

Thursday, Nov 7, 2024: Attended these 4

105. Clearview Wealth (CVW): 10am hybrid in Sydney via the Computershare platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $340m. No protests and responded positively to request for extra voting data. See package on 6 questions lodged.

106. Nine Entertainment (NEC): 10am hybrid in North Sydney HQ. See notice of meeting. Using Link voting platform. Came good with early proxy disclosure and finished with a 37% rem strike and 17% against chair Catherine West. See package on 6 questions lodged.

107. AJ Lucas (AJL): $460m in accumulated losses. 9am Brisbane time virtual meeting. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Biggest protest 6.8% against rem report. See package on 5 questions lodged.

108. Bendigo Bank (BEN): 11am hybrid in Bendigo. See notice of meeting. Using Link AGM platform. No early proxies and 19.4% rem protest with 6.7% against Richard Deutsch. See package on 6 questions lodged.

Friday, November 8, 2024: attended these 4

109. Wotso Property (WOT): 9am hybrid in Sydney suburb of Cremorne. See notice of meeting. Market cap $112m. See Computershare link. The proxies were disclosed the night before with the chair address and there were no protest votes. See wrap of 5 questions, 2 of which were ignored.

110. Bisalloy Steel (BIS): 11am physical meeting changed to virtual after threats of violence. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $152m. See wrap of 8 questions submitted, not all of which asked. Multiple protests including 21% against chair, 14% on rem and 24% on an incentive grant.

111. Lindsay Australia (LAU): 11am Brisbane time hybrid. See notice of meeting. Market cap $280m for transport operator. Confusing half-baked proxy disclosure in the formals and circa 10% rem protest with no percentages included in announcement. See wrap of 6 questions submitted, most of which were butchered.

112. Jumbo Interactive (JIN): 11am hybrid in Brisbane - see notice of date. See Computershare link. Tech player in lotteries. Market cap $810m. See wrap of 5 questions submitted. No protest votes.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024: Attended these 4 AGMs

113. Lifestyle Communities (LIC): 9am hybrid at South Melbourne HQ. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Proxies not disclosed early in these formal addresses and biggest protest 7% against chair David Blight. See package on 6 questions lodged.

114. Coles: 9.30am hybrid at Melbourne Park via Lumi with the meeting code being 300-271-656-090. See notice of meeting. They are facing a hostile shareholder resolution on farmed sea food. See package on 4 questions lodged. See poll results showing 10% LTI protest and 39% backing on the proxies for a hostile shareholder resolution on salmon farming.

115. Platinum Asset Management (PTM): 10am Sydney hybrid via this Computershare link. See notice of meeting. They disclosed the proxies early last year but not this year, where there was a huge 73% second rem strike despite the proxies only being 51% against. It appear founder Kerr Neilson voted against rem and defeated the CEO's LTI grant from the floor, even though his man James Simpson was elected with 98% support after self-nominating and receiving board endorsement. See package on 6 questions lodged.

116. Nanosonics (NAN): 11am hybrid in Sydney via Computershare. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1 billion. See package on 7 questions lodged. No protest votes.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024: Attended these 4 AGMs

117. Contact Energy (CEN): 9.30am hybrid in Auckland via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $6b. See package on 6 questions lodged. No protest votes.

118. Endeavour Group (EDV): 10am hybrid in Sydney using Link platform. See notice of meeting. See package on 3 questions lodged. Only protest 26.5% against LTI grant.

119. Nuix (NXL): 10am hybrid in Sydney using Link platform. See notice of meeting. See package on 6 questions lodged. Only protest 7.5% against rem.

120. Tyro Payments (TYR): 2pm hybrid in Sydney using Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $473m. See package on 6 questions lodged. Biggest protest 9.6% against rem.

Thursday, November 14, 2024: Attended these 6 AGMs

121. Sky Network Television (SKT): 10.30am hybrid in NZ. See notice of meeting. Market cap $240m. See Computershare link. Chaired by Philip Bowman and only protest 8% against director fee cap. See package on questions submitted.

122. Goodman Group (GMG): 10am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Big rem protests including 35% rem strike, the 5th in 9 years. See package on questions submitted.

123. Flight Centre (FLT): 10am hybrid in Brisbane. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See package on solitary audit questions submitted. They were at best practice with all aspects of voting disclosure, including these scheme-like results with no material protest votes.

124. Pact Group (PGH): noon virtual AGM followed by 1pm virtual spill meeting. See Computershare link. See voting results with a 99.5% second rem strike, following by an EGM board spill that 88% holder Raphael Geminder voted down. See package on questions submitted.

125. Cettire (CTT): 1.30pm virtual AGM via Zoom with Automic on share registry. See notice of meeting. Market cap $780m. Surprised biggest protest only 6.6% against rem report. See package on questions submitted.

126. Guzman Y Gomez (GYG): 2pm hybrid in Sydney via Zoom. See notice of meeting. Made this separate announcement with the proxies 26 minutes before AGM. No protest votes. See package on questions submitted.

Friday, November 15, 2024: Attended these 3 AGMs

127. Senetas (SEN): 9.30am Melbourne virtual. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $35m. Has accumulated losses of $125m and chair Francis Galbally owns 12%. Biggest protest 8% against CEO's options grant. See package on 6 questions lodged.

128. Lendlease (LLC): 10am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No early disclosure of the proxies in the formal addresses or extra data in these poll results. Biggest protest 9% against rem. See package on 6 questions lodged.

129. Sandfire Resources (SFR): 10am hybrid in Perth through the Automic online platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $5b. See package on 6 questions lodged. Only protest a whopping 56% second rem strike but no support for spill.

Monday, November 18, 2024: attended these 2

130. Fonterra (FSF): 10am hybrid in NZ. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Bad question censorship. See package on 4 questions asked. No protest on single director election resolution.

131. Auswide Bank (ABA): 11am hybrid in Brisbane via Computershare platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $212m. Merging with Mystate. Big protest votes against 2 directors and narrowly missed a strike. See package on 6 questions asked.

Tuesday, November 18, 2024: attended these 9

132. Resimac (RMC): 9.30am virtual AGM via Computershare platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $348m. No early proxies or extra voting data in 2023. No protest votes. See package on 6 questions lodged.

133. Generation Development Group (GDG): 10am hybrid in Melbourne via Lumi platform for company with Grant Hackett as CEO. See notice of meeting. No protests despite some proxy adviser objections. See package on 7 questions lodged.

134. Bluescope (BSL): 10am hybrid at Wollongong via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Delivered on the extra voting data. See package on 7 questions lodged.

135. Sonic Healthcare (SHL): 10am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Biggest protest 13% against director Kate Spargo. See package on 5 questions lodged.

136. Impedimed (IPD): 11am hybrid in Sydney via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $117m. Biggest protest 6% against LTI grant. See package on 4 questions lodged.

137. KMD Brands (KMD): 2pm NZ time hybrid in West Auckland via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Was out early with the proxies in 2024 and the biggest protest was 5.5% against chair David Kirk. Also delivered extra voting data again. See package on 6 questions lodged.

138. Monadelphous (MND): 10am hybrid in Perth. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. No protest votes. See package on 4 questions lodged.

139. De Grey Mining (DEG): 11am hybrid in Perth via Zoom. See notice of meeting. Market cap $3.28b. Out 6 hours early with these 35 slides but failed to include the proxies. 13% against rem and 16-17% against directors Paul Harvey and Andrew Beckwith. See package on 5 questions lodged.

140. Seek (SEK): 3pm hybrid in Melbourne. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Biggest protest 22% against CEO's LTI grant. See package on 5 questions lodged.

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