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AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE HOSPITALS
CONTRIBUTION FUND OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED
We have obtained an independence declaration from our auditor, Ernst & Young, which is set out on the following
page and forms part of the Directors’ Report for the year ended 30 June 2009.
Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.

J. A. B. Dunlop
Chairman
Sydney, 24 September 2009

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