Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. — Major Shareholding Notification 2007

Dec 20, 2007

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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ACN 005 357 522

Company Secretary’s Office 6/100 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000

Telephone: 61-3 9273 6141 Facsimile: 61-3 9273 6142

To: Company Announcements Platform Australian Securities Exchange SYDNEY

1300 300 021

From: Simon Pordage Deputy Company Secretary Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

Date: 21 December 2007 No. of Pages: 1 Priority: High (including this)

IMPORTANT

This facsimile contains information that is confidential and which may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use, distribute or copy this facsimile. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately by phone (reverse charges) and return the original facsimile to us by mail at our expense. Thank you.

Please find below an announcement for immediate release.

ANZ APEP and APEP Plus Relevant Interest in ANZ Shares

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ( ANZ ) is required to disclose to the Australian Securities Exchange the percentage of its shares in which it has an interest as a result of put options granted to clients under the ANZ Protected Equity Portfolio and ANZ Protected Equity Portfolio Plus products.

As at 20 December 2007 , ANZ held a relevant interest in 13,359 fully paid ordinary shares in ANZ, comprising 0.0007% of the issued share capital of ANZ.

Yours sincerely

Company Secretary

John Priestley