I think it was a, some shareholders focus on some, well, I think, quite narrow issues, and didn't look at the whole, big picture of the company and saying it's in the interest of the company and it's in the interest of all shareholders, in different ways. Now that's their right, you know, we went through this argument with them, and some of them agreed and said, OK, we understand now and we will vote in favor, others didn't. Uh, that's shareholder democracy. 

 

Woodside stocks closed the day down nearly 1.5% at $41.90, and that was pretty much the story across the whole market today which finished deep in the red, where it has been all day: 

The All Ordinaries finished down 1.5% as did the ASX 200. 

 

Across the region: 

And the Nikkei is down as is the Hang Seng. 

 

To commodities: 

And gold continues to trade higher while West Texas Crude and Tapis are lower. And the US Dollar, the Australian Dollar is buying 92.85 US cents