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The Standards deal with the following main areas:
• corporate assets and information:
(a) company funds and property;
(b) corporate records and accounting;
(c) confidential and proprietary information;
(d) insider trading;
(e) legal disputes;
• conflicts of interest;
• dealing with others:
(a) government officials;
(b) business hospitality;
(c) prohibited payments;
• equal opportunity and unlawful harassment;
• safety of the workplace and environmental protection; and
• relationships with competitors and other trade practices.
Employees are encouraged to raise any matters of concern with their supervisor or the relevant Company’s general counsel.
Shareholders
Shareholders play an integral part in corporate governance and the Board ensures that shareholders are kept fully informed through:
• the Annual Report which is distributed to all shareholders and the Full Financial Report which is available to all shareholders
on request;
• continuous disclosures made to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, US Securities and Exchange
Commission, and the Stock Exchanges in Australia, New York, New Zealand and London; and
• notices and explanatory memoranda of extraordinary and general meetings.
Shareholders may raise matters of concern at general meetings and have ultimate control in corporate governance as they vote for
the members of the Board, the Company’s governing body.
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Statement of Corporate Governance (Continued)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE, 2002
THE NEWS CORPORATION LIMITED
Annual Report 2002