Norman Seckold
Executive Chairman

Welcome to this Annual General Meeting of Nickel Industries. My name is Norman Seckold, and I will be chairing today's meeting. It's 11 a.m., a quorum is present, and I declare the meeting open.

Today's meeting is being convened in accordance with the Corporations Act. The notice of this meeting has been sent to shareholders and is taken as read. All resolutions today will be decided by way of a poll, including valid proxies submitted before the meeting. Computershare has been appointed as scrutineers for each poll. The blue voting cards will be collected and the poll will be conducted after all the business of the meeting has been completed. The formal results of the poll will be notified to the ASX after the meeting and will be posted on the company's website.

As Chairman of the meeting and having been appointed as proxy for shareholders entitled to vote. As stated in the notice of meeting, I will vote all directed proxies in accordance with the directions provided by shareholders, and where authorized, I will vote all undirected proxies in favor of each resolution before the meeting today.

I'd like to introduce you to our Board of Directors with us at meeting today. Joining us here in person are my fellow directors, Chris Shepherd, CFO; non-Executive Director at Emma Hall; Company Sectary, Richard Edwards is with us, as is the company's auditor from KPMG, Adam Twemlow.

With this on Zoom, Managing Director, Justin Werner, who is currently in London on the Road Show; non-Executive Directors, James Crombie; Muliady Sutio, Haijun Wang; and Yuanyuan Xu; as well as our Chief Development Officer, Rachel Zhao; and