ASX LIMITED — Major Shareholding Notification 2009

Sep 21, 2009

Form 605

Corporations Act 2001 Section 671B

Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder

To Australian Securities Exchange Limited (ASX) ACN/ARSN 008 624 691

1. Details of substantial holder

Name Barclays Group lodged by Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited ABN 33 001 804 566 (Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited)

The holder ceased to be a substantial holder on

The previous notice was given to the company on The previous notice was dated

02 September 2009

28 August 2009

28 August 2009

2. Changes in relevant interests

Particulars of each change in, or change in the nature of, a relevant interests of the substantial holder or an associate in voting securities of the company or scheme, since the substantial holder was last required to give a substantial holding notice to the company or scheme are as follows:

Date of change	Person whose relevant interest changed	Nature of change	Consideration given in relation to change	Class and number of securities affected	Person’s votes affected
02/09/09	Barclays Group see Annexure A	Reduction in voting power	Average price $33.7251	Ordinary (2,233,914)	(1.34%)

3. Changes in association

The persons who have becomes associates of, ceased to be associates of, or have changed the nature of their association with, the substantial holder in relation to voting interests in the company or scheme are as follows:

Name and ACN/ARSN (if applicable) Nature of association See Annexure A

4. Addresses

The addresses of persons named in this form are as follows:

Name	Address
Barclays Global Investors Australia Limited	Level 43,225 George Street,SydneyNSW 2000

Signature

_________ Company Secretary Barclays Global Investors Australia

22 September 2009 Date

Barclays Global Investors Australia

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This is “Annexure A” of 1 page referred to in Form 605 Notice of ceasing to be a substantial holder

Relevant interest in Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) held by members of the Barclays Group.

The list of Barclays entities with relevant interest are as follows:

Barclays Global Investors Japan Ltd Barclays Global Investors Ltd Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd Barclays Global Investors NA Barclays Global Fund Advisors Barclays Capital Securities Ltd Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd Barclays Global Investors Australia Ltd Barclays Bank Plc

The JP Morgan Chase Bank Inc. and various other custodians (Custodians) hold shares in ASX as custodian and for which the members of the Barclays Group are either:

• the responsible entity or trustee of pooled investment products such as registered managed investment schemes (Funds); or

• the investment manager of Portfolios held for a number of institutional investors. The institutional investors are generally superannuation funds regulated under the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993 .

The holding of shares in ASX was acquired as part of the wide portfolio of Australian shares and units acquired for the Funds and the Portfolios.

The members of the Barclays Group and the Custodians may hold relevant interests due to the capacity of these entities to dispose of the shares in ASX.

Each investor in a Fund owns an undivided interest in the Fund’s assets, no client directly owns any asset of the Fund. The unitholding of each Fund varies from time to time as clients enter and withdraw from the Funds. The various institutional investors with portfolios delegate the management of the portfolios to the members of the Barclays Group.

_________ Company Secretary Barclays Global Investors Australia

22 September 2009 Date

Barclays Global Investors Australia

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