Santos Limited

STO

Santos Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, transportation, and marketing of natural gas. The company is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia and currently employs 3,958 full-time employees. Supporting these three business units are two functional divisions: Santos Energy Solutions and Upstream Gas and Liquids. The Cooper Basin produces natural gas, gas liquids and crude oil. Gas is sold primarily to domestic retailers, industry and for the production of liquefied natural gas, while gas liquids and crude oil are sold in domestic and export markets. Its GLNG project in Queensland produces liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export to global markets from the LNG plant at Gladstone and is also sold to the domestic market. Northern Australia and Timor-Leste is centered on the Bayu-Undan/Darwin LNG (DLNG) project.

Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF

VAS

VAS.AX was created on 2009-05-04 by Vanguard. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on total market equity. Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF seeks to track the return of the S&P/ASX 300 Index before taking into account fees, expenses and tax.

Lynas Rare Earths Limited

LYC

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. engages in the production of rare earth minerals. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 1,127 full-time employees. The Company’s operations include Mt Weld, Lynas Malaysia, Kalgoorlie and Lynas USA. The company focuses on developing the Mt Weld resource, which includes ongoing exploration, production of mixed rare earths concentrates, and an expansion project to increase concentrate feedstock production to support 12,000 tons per annum of finished NdPr oxide. The Lynas Malaysia advanced materials plant is located on a 100-hectare site in the Gebeng Industrial Estate, a purpose-built petrochemical industry zone near Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaysia. Its rare earths processing facility in Kalgoorlie undertakes value-added processing of rare earths. The firm's subsidiaries include Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Lynas Africa Ltd, Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd and Lynas USA LLC.

Paladin Energy Ltd

PDN

Paladin Energy Ltd. engages in the development and operation of uranium mines. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The firm also owns a portfolio of uranium exploration and development assets in the mining jurisdictions of Canada and Australia. Its segments include Australia, Namibia and Canada. The LHM is located in central western Namibia, approximately 80 kilometers (km) east of Swakopmund and 85 km northeast of the Walvis Bay deepwater harbor. Its Patterson Lake South (PLS) Project hosts the Triple R deposit, a high-grade and near-surface uranium deposit. The property comprises over 49 claims covering approximately 57,622 hectares. The company owns a number of greenfield exploration projects that are prospective for hosting high-grade uranium, including West Cluff, Larocque, Seahawk, Merlin, Corsair and Typhoon. Its projects also include Michelin (Labrador, Canada), Mount Isa and Manyingee projects in both Queensland and Western Australia.

Austal Limited

ASB

Austal Ltd. engages in the design and construction of customized aluminum commercial and defense vessels. The firm offers naval, government and commercial operator ships, systems and support. The firm designs, constructs and supporting commercial vessels, including passenger ferries, vehicle passenger ferries, offshore and windfarm vessels for operators throughout the world. The company offers both defense and commercial operators in maritime technologies to optimize the performance of their ships, operations and their complex on-board information management, communications, radar and weapons systems. The company provides through-life capability management and vessel support services, including crew training and instruction, vessel servicing, repairs and maintenance, integrated logistics support, vessel sustainment and information management systems support. The firm has contracted approximately 350 vessels to over 122 commercial and defense operators in 59 countries worldwide.