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Attached is the Australian Agricultural Company Limited's Half Year Financial Report for the half year ended 30 September 2016.

Issued by:

Bruce Bennett

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Australian Agricultural Company Limited

ABN 15 010 892 270

FINANCIAL REPORT For the half-year ended 30 September 2016

Contents

Directors' report � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 2

auditor's Independence Declaration � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 10

Consolidated Income Statement � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 12

Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 13

Consolidated Statement of financial position � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14

Consolidated Statement of Changes in equity � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 15

Consolidated Statement of Cash flows � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16

Notes to the financial Statements � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 17

Directors' Declaration� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 25

Independent auditor's review report to the Members� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 26

Company Information� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 27

this interim financial report does not include all the notes of the type normally included in an annual financial report� accordingly, this report is to be read in conjunction with the financial report for the year ended 31 March 2016 and any public announcements made by australian agricultural Company limited during the interim reporting period in accordance with the continuous disclosure requirements of the Corporations Act 2001�

  1. AustrAliAn AgriculturAl compAny limited |half year report 2017

    DIRECTORS' REPORT

    Your Directors present their report on the Group consisting of Australian Agricultural Company Limited and the entities it controlled (AACo) at the end of, or during, the half-year ended 30 September 2016.

    DIRECTORS

    The following persons were Directors of Australian Agricultural Company Limited during the half-year and up to the date of this report. Directors were in office for this entire period unless otherwise stated.

    Donald McGauchie AO (Non-executive Chairman) Jason Strong (Managing Director)

    Stuart Black AM David Crombie AM Tom Keene

    Dr Shehan Dissanayake Anthony Abraham

    Neil Reisman

    REVIEW AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

    About AACo

    The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is the oldest continuously operating company in Australia with a heritage dating back to 1824.

    AACo's business activities

    AACo is a vertically integrated branded beef company which owns and operates a strategic balance of properties, feedlots, farms and a processing facility comprising around 6.4million hectares of land, which equates to roughly 1% of Australia's land mass. The Company runs Australia's largest herd of Wagyu cattle, producing high grade Wagyu beef which is exported to more than 20 countries around the world. AACo employed 610 employees calculated on a full time equivalent basis as at 30 September 2016 (31 March 2016: 592).

    AACo's business model

    AACo is a fully integrated branded beef business with three principal activities:

    > Sales and marketing of high quality branded beef into global markets.

    > Production of beef including breeding, backgrounding, feedlotting and processing of cattle; and

    > Ownership, operation and development of pastoral properties;

    Marketing and selling its branded beef is where AACo generates revenue and profits. The charts below show the volume and sales contribution by region in H1FY17.

    Sales Revenue (A$m) SalesVolume (Million KGs)

    $11.1

    $41.7

    $26.7

    $47.9

    USA

    Australia Domestic Australia Export

    South Korea

    3.0

    1.7

    2.1

    2.7

    USA

    Australia Domestic Australia Export

    South Korea

    $33.1

    $35.5

    Japan

    Other Countries

    7.2

    17.0

    Japan

    Other Countries

  2. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY LIMITED |HALF YEAR REPORT 2017

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