Exhibit 24.1
Attachment 3
Form of Power of Attorney
Signed powers of attorney should be sent to Clare Craven of Group Secretariat by email (ccraven@westpac.com.au) or otherwise delivered.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned does hereby:
(i) make, constitute and appoint each of, Peter King, Chief Financial Officer, Curt Zuber, Group Treasurer, Joanne Dawson, Deputy Group Treasurer, David Lees, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Christopher Bannister, General Manager Europe and America, Paddy Rennie, General Counsel, Treasury & Corporate, Michael Clayton, Counsel and Head of Legal, Group Treasury and Sean Crellin, Director — Corporate, Legal and Secretariat, 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 of the Bank on Form F-3 for the offer and sale, at any time or from time to time, of subordinated debt securities of the Bank, including Tier 2 capital instruments (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, including post-effective amendments to register additional classes or types of securities) and any and all additional registration statements, and any amendments thereto, relating to the same offering of securities as those that are covered by the Registration Statement that are filed pursuant to Rule 462(b), 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
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