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hanabi,

Well said mate. I go along with your comments and the NO vote as well.

I have been in AOE since around the 30 or 40 cents mark myself, and I don't intend to let this opportunity of owning this company for the long term, slip through my fingers. Especially since two foreign companies are doing the T/O.

If the T/O will fall, maybe, and I repeat maybe, the sp will go back down a little, but it will go back up again. I am quite positive about that.

I feel also positive that if Shell smell the chance that they are not going to get us as they wanted to, and at what price they wanted to, they may dig a little deeper into their pockets.

At the same time, if our beloved Management start to think seriously, what is wrong with them approaching PetroChina and do a deal with them about the LNG plant in Gladstone. I am sure that they (PetroChina with the way the Chinese Governement is thinking about tying up as much as possible to supply their ever increasing demands), would jump at the chance of getting an offtake agreement for all of what we will produce. The Japanese, that are constantly hungry for energy as well, they wouldn't be far behind it either if they were given the opportunity.

I am really totally lost as to why the Management is doing this. Especially since they are doing nothing to tell us what is going on, and as to why this is going on.

A little more transparency is all we ask for.

Buddy