EXHIBIT 7
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned does hereby:
(i) make, constitute and appoint each of Sean Crellin, Director, Legal and Head of International Practice Group, New York branch, Christopher Bannister, General Manager, Europe and America, Curt Zuber, Group Treasurer, Joanne Dawson, Deputy Group Treasurer and Paddy Rennie, Counsel & Head of Legal, Group Treasury, acting alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power to act in his or her name, place and stead to execute on his or her behalf, as an officer and/or director of Westpac Banking Corporation (the “Bank”), a Registration Statement on Form F-6 for the offer and sale, at any time or from time to time, of American Depositary Shares representing ordinary shares of the Bank (the “Registration Statement”), including a prospectus and exhibits to such Registration Statement, and any and all amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement (including any and all post-effective amendments), and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”), and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory body, and any and all other instruments which any of said attorneys-in-fact and agents deems necessary or advisable to enable the Bank to comply with the Act, the rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC in respect thereof, and, if applicable, the securities or Blue Sky laws of any State or other governmental subdivision;
(ii) give and grant to each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the premises as he or she might or could do in person, with full power of substitution and resubstitution; and
(iii) ratify and confirm all that his or her said attorneys-in-fact and agents or substitutes may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto subscribed this power of attorney this 1st day of May, 2013
| /s/Lindsay Maxsted | Chairman |
| Lindsay Maxsted | |
| /s/ Elizabeth Bryan | Director |
| Elizabeth Bryan | |
| /s/Gordon Cairns | Director |
| Gordon Cairns | |
| /s/ Ewen Crouch | Director |
| Ewen Crouch | |
| /s/ John Curtis | Director |
| John Curtis | |
| /s/ Robert Elstone | Director |
| Robert Elstone | |
| /s/ Peter Hawkins | Director |
| Peter Hawkins | |
| /s/ Ann Pickard | Director |
| Ann Pickard | |
| Managing Director and Chief Executive | |
| /s/ Ann Pickard | Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
| Gail Kelly | |
| Chief Financial Officer | |
| /s/ Philip Coffey | (Principal Financial Officer) |
| Philip Coffey | |
| Deputy Chief Financial Officer | |
| /s/ Peter King | (Principal Accounting Officer) |
| Peter King | |
| Authorized Representative in the | |
| /s/ Sean Crellin | United States |
| Sean Crellin |