Transparent and accessible companies which run hybrid AGMs

29Metals Ltd (29M): May 21, 2024: 8.30am 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.

Accent Group (AX1): 10am hybrid at Melbourne HQ via Computershare. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.33b. Copped a 43% protest on performance rights tweaks and 19% against Anne Loveridge over workload concerns. See package on 8 questions lodged.

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.

Alfabs Australia (AAL): Bill Wavish and his wife Yvonne have quite an equity play going at this company. He may have failed miserably in his tilt at the Endeavour Group board in 2023 but Bill topped up with another 235k on-market purchase at Alfabs in December 2024. Market cap was $114m in early 2025. The commendably ran a hybrid AGM out of Automic's Sydney office on November 22, 2024.


AML3D (AL3): $30m two stage placement at 19c with the second stage subject to shareholder approval at a hybrid EGM in Adelaide on December 20 2024 starting at 11am. The debate was via Zoom but online voting via Computershare. Prefer just one platform is used. See text of 5 questions submitted. No protest votes.

Amotive/GUD (AOV): 11am hybrid in Melbourne on October 21, 2024 via Computershare. See notice of meeting and package of all the action.

AMP: 10am hybrid in Sydney on April 12, 2023. 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.

Ampol (ALD): 10am hybrid in Sydney on May 9, 2024 - 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 no material protest votes.

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

ANZ: A 9am hybrid in Melbourne on December 19 2024 via Computershare. See notice of meeting. See text of 2 questions submitted. Big rem and climate protest votes.

ARN Media (A1N): 9am hybrid in Sydney on May 14, 2024. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions asked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Betmakers (BET): 10am hybrid in Melbourne but just a general link to Automic provide for online participation. See notice of meeting. No protest votes. See text of 4 written questions submitted.

Bigtincan Holdings (BTH): 9.30am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $144m. Most remarkable voting results of the season, including extra shareholder data. See text of 7 questions asked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Cromwell Property Group (CMW): 10.30am hybrid in Brisbane via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1bn. No protests and came through with extra voting data. See text of 4 questions asked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elders (ELD): 10am hybrid on December 19 in Adelaide via Lumi. See notice of meeting. See text of 6 questions submitted. Delivered early proxies and shareholder voting numbers before the meeting but no extra data in poll results after the meeting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Growthpoint Properties (GOZ): 10am hybrid in Melbourne. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $2b. See package on 6 questions lodged. No protest votes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Integrated Research Ltd (IRI): 10am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $110m. Biggest protest 17% against new CEO Ian Lowe's LTI grant and 10% against new director Kate Greenhill. See text of 6 written questions submitted.

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.

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.

Jupiter Mines (JMS): 3pm hybrid in Perth via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $360m. See package on 6 questions submitted. Protests ranging between 9.27% against director Sally Langer and 22% on director fee cap rise.

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.

Kingsgate Consolidated (KCN): 2pm hybrid in Sydney via Zoom. See notice of meeting. Big capital raise in 2023. Market cap $411m. Proxies disclosed early with formals and ended up with 13% against chair and 21% against rem report. See text of 5 written questions submitted.

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.

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.

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.

Live Verdure (LV1): 9am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $102m. No protest votes. See text of 5 questions asked.

Lynas Rare Earths (LYC): 10am hybrid at The Mint in Sydney and via Lumi platform. See notice of meeteing. Last attended in 2022 when asked these 11 questions. See package on 5 questions submitted. No protest votes.

Lynch Group (LGL): Australia's largest flower company floated at $3.60 in 2021 raising $206m from the public but has struggled ever since, as was noted in this 2023 AFR piece. Commendably ran an accessible hybrid AGM on November 22, 2024. See notice of meeting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Megaport (MP1): 10am hybrid Brisbane time via Computershare. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.15b. Only protest 12.2% against rem so second strike avoided. See package on 6 questions lodged.

Metarock (MYE): 3pm Brisbane hybrid via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $51m. See text of 5 written questions submitted. Only protest 17% against M&A financial support from major shareholder.

Mineral Resources (MIN): 9.30am hybrid in Perth. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Only protest a massive 74.6% rem first strike. See package on 7 questions lodged.

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

Monash IVF (MVF): class action settlement. 2pm hybrid in Melbourne via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $470m. Last attended in 2021 when asked these 8 questions. See package on 6 questions submitted.

Myer (MYR): 2pm hybrid in Melbourne via Link platform on December 10, 2024. See notice of meeting. See text of 8 written questions. The proxies were disclosed 47 minutes before the AGM started and there were no protest votes.

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.

NAB: Came out early disclosing it had copped a climate related shareholder resolution. Was a hybrid in Melbourne starting at 9.30am on December 18. See notice of meeting and Computershare online link. See text of 4 questions lodged. The proxies were disclosed early to the ASX as the AGM commenced with the biggest protest being 15% support for the contingent shareholder climate resolution which the board opposed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Next DC (NXT): 11am hybrid in Sydney via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Only material protest 19.7% against CEO's LTI grant. See package on 4 questions lodged.

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.

Northern Minerals (NTU): Holding a hybrid at 10am in Perth via Zoom. See notice of meeting. Remarkable protest votes with second rem strike, defeat of extra placement capacity and 48% support for a hostile China-backed board candidate, which was written up in The AFR. See text of 5 questions asked.

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.

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.

Orica (ORI): 10.30am hybrid in Melbourne on December 17 via Link platform. See notice of meeting. No early proxy disclosure or protest votes. See text of 5 questions lodged.

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.

Peninsular Energy (PEN): 1pm hybrid in Perth via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $334m. Circa 13,000 retail holders. See package on 9 questions lodged. Big across the board rem protests caused by ISS.

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.

Pilbara Minerals (PLS): 2pm hybrid in Perth. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See text of 6 written questions submitted. Biggest protest 21% against CEO performance rights.

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.

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.

Pro Medicus (PME): 10am hybrid meeting at Leonda in Melbourne and via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Last attended in 2022 when asked these 14 questions. 5% against both directors, including long serving chair Peter Kempen. See text of 6 written questions submitted.

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.

Qaulitas (QAL): 10am hybrid in Melbourne via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $800m. No protest votes. See text of 6 questions asked.

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.

Raiz Invest (RZI): 11am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $47m. See text of 3 written questions submitted. Biggest protests 32% and 43% against two directors.

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.

Regis Healthcare (REG): 10am hybrid at Camberwell head office in Melbourne and via Link platform. See notice of meeting. Last attended in 2022 when asked these 9 questions. See text of 6 written questions submitted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seafarms (SFG): 10am Brisbane hybrid. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Huge accumulated losses of $300m, lost $19m in 2023-24, claims net equity of $14m and market cap $7m. Ian Trahar keeping prawn farmer afloat. Massive protest votes including second strike and support for board spill, plus came through with extra voting data. See text of 4 questions asked.

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.

Sheffield Resources (SFX): 3pm hybrid in Perth via Link platform. Market cap $90m. 23% protest against 3 different rem items. Asked 4 questions from the RACV Club library with no audio.

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.

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.

Southern Cross Media (SXL): 11am hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Biggest protest 37% against LTI grant but also 27.8% against chair and rem report, causing a strike. See text of 10 written questions submitted.

Southern Palladium (SPD): 4pm hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $66m. See package on 5 questions submitted. Only protests 11% against 3 incentive grant resolutions.

Star Entertainment (SGR): 10am hybrid at Star Brisbane via Link platform. See notice of date. See package on 6 questions submitted. Copped a 43% rem strike and slightly lower protests against CEO Steve McCann's ridiculous incentive grants.

Starpharma (SPL): 2pm Melbourne hybrid. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. See wrap of 2022 AGM action. See text of 5 written questions submitted. AGM adjourned with no rem report vote taken and 32% against director Lynda Cheng.

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”.

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.

Strike Energy (STX): 11am Perth hybrid via Lumi. See notice of meeting. Market cap $570m. See package on 6 questions submitted. Across the board protests and narrowly avoided a rem strike.

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.

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.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Verbrec Engineering (VBC): 1pm hybrid in Brisbane. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $34m. No protest votes. See text of 5 questions asked.

Vitura Health (VIT): 10am Gold Coast hybrid. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Robert Iervasi is chair. Market cap $60m. See package on 3 questions submitted. No protest votes.

WAM Capital (WAM): 10am hybrid in Sydney via Lumi platform. See notice of meeting. Market cap $1.79b. See package on 3 questions lodged. Rem strike avoided with the help of undirected chair proxies and great to get extra voting data.

Weebit Nano (WBT): 3pm hybrid in Sydney. See notice of meeting. See Computershare link. Market cap $360m. See package on 6 questions submitted.

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.

Westpac: 10am hybrid in Sydney on December 13 via Link platform. See notice of meeting. See text of 5 questions submitted. No early proxy disclosure and only protest 34% in favour of board opposed shareholder resolution on climate transition plan.

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.

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.

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

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