CHALLENGER LIMITED — Major Shareholding Notification 2012

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Sydney

Level 15, 255 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia GPO Box 3698 Sydney NSW 2001 www.challenger.com.au

15 August 2012

Telephone 02 9994 7000 Facsimile 02 9994 7777

The Manager Company Announcements Office ASX Limited 20 Bridge Street

SYDNEY NSW 2000

By electronic lodgement

Dear Sir

Re: Notice of initial substantial holder ~ G8 Education Limited (GEM)

We enclose notice of initial substantial holder in G8 Education Limited. This notice is given by Challenger Limited and each of its subsidiaries named in Annexure 1 to this notice.

Yours faithfully

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Company Secretary

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Melbourne Level 19, 31 Queen Street PO Box 297, Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000 Telephone 02 9994 7000 Facsimile 02 9994 7777 Brisbane Level 7, 320 Adelaide Street GPO Box 3234, Brisbane QLD 4001 Telephone 07 3136 5400 Facsimile 07 3136 5407 Perth Level 2, 168 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 Telephone 08 9261 7412 Facsimile 08 9321 5277 Adelaide Level 7, Suite 714, 147 Pirie Street Adelaide SA 5000 Telephone 08 7071 7042 Facsimile 08 8227 0395

Challenger Limited ABN 85 106 842 371 Challenger Group Services Pty Limited ABN 91 085 657 307 Challenger Life Company Limited ABN 44 072 486 938 AFSL 234670 Howard Commercial Lending Limited ABN 65 000 033 143 Challenger Listed Investments Limited ABN 94 055 293 644 AFSL 236 887 CIF Investment Trust 1 ARSN 114 139 703 CIF Investment Trust 2 ARSN 114 139 632 Challenger Wine Trust ARSN 092 960 060 Challenger Diversified Property Trust 1 ARSN 121 484 606 Challenger Diversified Property Trust 2 ARSN 121 484 713 Challenger Management Services Limited ABN 29 092 382 842 AFSL 234 678 Challenger Retirement and Investment Services Limited ABN 80 115 534 453 AFSL295642 RSE Licence No. L0001304 Challenger Mortgage Management Pty Ltd ABN 72 087 271 109 Challenger Securitisation Management Pty Ltd ABN 56 100 346 898 AFSL 244593

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603 page 1/2 15 July 2001

Form 603

Corporations Act 2001 Section 671B

Notice of initial substantial holder

To Company Name/Scheme

ACN/ARSN

G8 Education Limited

123 828 553

1. Details of substantial holder (1) Name Challenger Limited (and entities listed in Annexure 1) ACN / ARSN (if applicable) 106 842 371

The holder became a substantial holder on

13/ 08 / 12 .

2. Details of voting power

The total number of votes attached to all the voting shares in the company or voting interests in the scheme that the substantial holder or an associate (2) had a relevant interest (3) in on the date the substantial holder became a substantial holder are as follows:

3. Details of relevant interests

The nature of the relevant interest the substantial holder or an associate had in the following voting securities on the date the substantial holder became a substantial holder are as follows:

4. Details of present registered holders

The persons registered as holders of the securities referred to in paragraph 3 above are as follows:

5. Consideration

The consideration paid for each relevant interest referred to in paragraph 3 above, and acquired in the four months prior to the day that the substantial holder became a substantial holder is as follows:

603 2/2 15 July 2001

6. Associates

The reasons the persons named in paragraph 3 above are associates of the substantial holder are as follows:

Name and ACN/ARSN (if applicable) Nature of association N/A N/A

7. Addresses

The addresses of persons named in this form are as follows:

Name Address Challenger Limited and each Level 15, 255 Pitt Street, Sydney entity named in Annexure 1

Signature

print name Suzie Koeppenkastrop capacity Company Secretary

sign here

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date 15/08/2012

DIRECTIONS

• (1) If there are a number of substantial holders with similar or related relevant interests (eg. a corporation and its related corporations, or the manager and trustee of an equity trust), the names could be included in an annexure to the form. If the relevant interests of a group of persons are essentially similar, they may be referred to throughout the form as a specifically named group if the membership of each group, with the names and addresses of members is clearly set out in paragraph 7 of the form.

• (2) See the definition of “associate” in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001.

• (3) See the definition of “relevant interest” in sections 608 and 671B(7) of the Corporations A.

• (4) The voting shares of a company constitute one class unless divided into separate classes.

• (5) The total number of votes attached to all the voting shares in the company or voting interests in the scheme (if any) that the person or an associate has a relevant interest in.

• (6) The person’s votes divided by the total votes in the body corporate or scheme multiplied by 100.

• (7) Include details of:

• (a) any relevant agreement or other circumstances by which the relevant interest was acquired. If subsection 671B(4) applies, a copy of any document setting out the terms of any relevant agreement, and a statement by the person giving full and accurate details of any contract, scheme or arrangement, must accompany this form, together with a written statement certifying this contract, scheme or arrangement; and

• (b) any qualification of the power of a person to exercise, control the exercise of, or influence the exercise of, the voting powers or disposal of the securities to which the relevant interest relates (indicating clearly the particular securities to which the qualification applies).

See the definition of “relevant agreement” in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001.

• (8) If the substantial holder is unable to determine the identity of the person (eg. If the relevant interest arises because of an option) write “unknown”.

• (9) Details of the consideration must include any and all benefits, money and other, that any person from whom a relevant interest was acquired has, or may, become entitled to receive in relation to that acquisition. Details must be included even if the benefit is conditional on the happening or not of a contingency. Details must be included of any benefit paid on behalf of the substantial holder or its associate in relation to the acquisitions, even if they are not paid directly to the person from whom the relevant interest was acquired.

Annexure 1

This is page 1 of 4 pages of Annexure 1 referred to in Form 603 signed by me and dated 15/08/2012

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Company Secretary

Annexure 1

This is page 2 of 4 pages of Annexure 1 referred to in Form 603 signed by me and dated 15/08/2012

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Company Secretary

Annexure 1

This is page 3 of 4 pages of Annexure 1 referred to in Form 603 signed by me and dated 15/08/2012

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Company Secretary

Overseas Companies Appia Europe Limited Appia Finance 2 Limited Appia Finance Limited Appia Group Limited (Jersey) Appia Investments Limited CDPG Luxembourg Holdings SARL CDPG Luxembourg II SARL CDPG Luxembuorg SARL CDPG Malta Limited Challenger Connections Limited Challenger Connections Mid Company Limited Challenger DPG France II SAS Challenger DPG France SAS Challenger Group Services (UK) Limited Challenger Harbourmasters Holdings Jersey Limited Challenger Holding (Vagyonkezelo) KFT Challenger Hungary International Capital Investment and Management Ltd Liability Company Challenger Jersey I3 Limited Challenger Jersey Management Limited Challenger Jersey Trustee Limited Challenger LBC Terminals Holding Company Limited Challenger LBC Terminals Jersey Limited Challenger LBC Terminals Limited Challenger Life (UK) Limited Challenger Luxembourg Holding No. 1A SARL Challenger Luxembourg Holding No. 1B SARL Challenger Luxembourg Holding No. 2 SARL Challenger Management Services (UK) Limited Challenger MBK Emerging Market Infrastructure Fund Pte. Ltd Challenger MBK Fund Management Pte. Ltd Challenger Northern Gas Ltd (Jersey) Challenger SCR LLP Member Limited Challenger SkyBridge Fund (LP) Limited Challenger SkyBridge Fund (SLP) Limited Challenger Southern Water Limited Challenger Structured Credit Management Limited

Annexure 1

This is page 4 of 4 pages of Annexure 1 referred to in Form 603 signed by me and dated 15/08/2012

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Company Secretary

Overseas Companies Challenger Towers Ltd (Jersey) Challenger UK Tank Storage Limited Challenger UK Terminals Ltd Challenger Wales and the West Gas Ltd (Jersey) Challenger Welcome Break Limited Clashfern Investments (UK) Limited CMS (UK) Pty Limited GasValpo Jersey Holding Company Limited Greensands Holdings Jersey Limited GV Cayman Company Limited GV Chile Holding Limitada GV Chile Limitada GV Jersey Trustee Company Limited GV Jersey Trustee Company No. 2 Limited Inexus Group Holdings Inexus Group Limited Interstar Home Loan Corporation NZ Limited (Foreign) Kabushiki Kaisha C & K Lazor Mangro Namroc Oikos Limited Oikos Storage Limited Rozal Rozalia Park Sabrand Limited SCI Aulnay Invest SCI Gennevilliers Invest Structured Credit Research LLP

15/08/2012

Annexure 2

This is page 1 of 1 page of Annexure 2 referred to in Form 603 signed by me and dated

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Suzie Koeppenkastrop

Transactions: G8 Education Limited (GEM) Ordinary Fully Paid As at 13/08/2012