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Annual  
Report
2019

The pace has quickened, and Kazia now 
has six ongoing clinical trials, each generating 
data, and each creating opportunities to realise 
commercial value.

Kazia Therapeutics Limited

 
Contents

2019 at a glance 

Chairman’s letter 

CEO’s report 

Key milestones and highlights 

2

4

6

8

The GDC-0084 story 

Working with the best 

The Cantrixil story 

The path forward 

Pipeline review 

10

Financial report FY19 

14

15

16

17

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  Annual Report 2019

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at a glance

Who We Are

What We Do

GDC-0084 

GDC-0084 has completed a Phase I clinical trial with 
Genentech and is now undergoing a Phase II clinical trial 
in glioblastoma, sponsored by Kazia, focusing on newly 
diagnosed patients. Initial data was announced in May 
2019 showing that the drug was better tolerated in this 
population than in the more advanced population which 
was the focus of the Genentech study. An expansion 
cohort of 20 patients is being recruited to provide 
confirmatory efficacy signals. Final data is expected in 
late 2019 or early 2020.

GDC-0084 is also involved in another four active trials.

Cantrixil

Currently in a Phase I clinical trial which has established 
a MTD of 5 mg/kg and has shown pleasing efficacy 
signals in the first phase of this trial. Part B of the trial 
has just finished recruitment and we expect to complete 
this study towards the end of 2019.

Collaborations

•  St Jude Children’s Research Hospital is examining 
GDC-0084 in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma 
(DIPG), a rare but very aggressive childhood brain 
cancer

•  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is conducting a 

Phase II study of GDC-0084 in breast cancer brain 
metastases – breast cancer that has spread to the 
brain – in combination with Herceptin

•  GDC-0084 is participating in an NCI-funded multi-
drug study of brain metastases – cancer that has 
spread to the brain from any primary tumor. The 
study is being run by the Alliance for Clinical Trials 
in Oncology and includes drugs from either Eli Lilly, 
Genentech, or Kazia’s GDC-0084

•  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New 
York is investigating GDC-0084 in combination 
with radiotherapy in a Phase I clinical trial for 
cancer that has spread to the brain 

All of these collaborations are being funded primarily 
by the institution conducting the trial, with a small 
financial contribution being made by Kazia.

Kazia Therapeutics 
is an oncology-
focused biotechnology 
company, developing 
innovative anti-cancer 
drugs. Headquartered 
in Sydney, Australia, 
Kazia Therapeutics 
collaborates with 
leading scientists, 
clinicians, and investors 
around the world.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedFinancial Highlights

Our Pipeline

63%

Percentage of our operating cash outflows  
spent on our clinical programs

GDC-0084

65%

$6,174,832

Funds generated from capital raise and sale of shares 
during FY19, substantially funding our  
operations for the year

•  65% of glioblastoma sufferers do not respond  

to existing treatment

• 

Involved in 5 clinical trials 

•  Already administered to more than 75 patients 

•  133,000 cases diagnosed worldwide annually

133,000

$5,613,883

Net current assets (FY18: $5,372,114) available  
for funding our programs into FY20

Cantrixil

•  Cantrixil dose determined in clinical trial to  

be 5mg/kg

•  Already administered to more than 20 patients

56%

41%

Reduction over a 2 year period (FY17 to FY19)  
in cash used in operating activities -  
preserving shareholders’ funds for investment  
into progressing clinical programs

• 

 56% of patients showed stable disease after  
two cycles of treatment 

• 

 240,000 cases diagnosed worldwide annually

240,000

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Letter
FY2019: 
Delivering 
Results

Given the fundamental  
value we see in GDC-0084,  
a potential partnership would 
need to meet a high hurdle, 
but the growing excitement 
of clinicians and researchers 
for the drug has attracted 
considerable attention.

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Kazia Therapeutics Limited 
Dear Shareholder,

Significant progress and support

Funding

During the last year we have made 
significant progress as outlined in 
the CEO’s Report in terms of the 
development of our potentially world-
class clinical assets. Having said this 
the year has not been without its 
challenges, but with the continued 
support of our major shareholders and 
the dedication of a highly resilient and 
focused management team, we have 
been able to achieve our goals.

GDC-0084, our treatment for 
glioblastoma and DIPG, is now in five 
clinical trials covering three entirely 
distinct patient populations at nine 
world-renowned international centres 
of excellence, many of which have 
requested to be involved in, and in 
some cases have been prepared to 
independently fund, the development 
of this potentially exciting new drug. 
With Cantrixil, our treatment for ovarian 
cancer, we have progressed the clinical 
development during the year and seen 
clear signals of activity in patients. We 
have increasing confidence that both 
of our programs are tracking to their 
respective milestones, demonstrating 
positive clinical results that are likely to 
support taking each product to the next 
stage of development.

Share price performance

In FY2019 we achieved all the 
developmental, operational and clinical 
milestones we set ourselves, however 
our achievements have simply not yet 
been recognised in the marketplace and 
as a consequence the share price has 
continued to under-perform. 

This situation has arisen partially 
perhaps because of our reticence to 
over-publicise our achievements as 
was the case in the past but also we 
have had to contend with a constant 
flux in our shareholder register with 
several shareholders selling down on 
a continual basis throughout the year. 
Accordingly our major shareholders and 
directors have significantly increased 
their holdings during the year reflecting 
our confidence in the business. 

Your Board will continue to fund 
the company in a conservative way, 
raising only what is needed to move 
the programs to key milestones, with 
minimal dilution. 

Following a small but meaningful 
fundraise at the end of 2018 we have 
continued to engage actively with 
sector-specialist investors to discuss 
the financing of the next stage of our 
clinical programs. Our overarching 
goal remains to explore all options, 
including partnerships, out-licensing, 
equity investment, and non-dilutive 
funding sources, so that the Company 
moves forward in the manner that 
best generates long term value for 
shareholders. 

Outlook

We remain realistic, and intend to 
continue to manage expectations and 
recognise what it will take to fund our 
programs.

For Cantrixil we will be looking to 
balance the clear signals of activity 
seen in the clinical trials to date with 
the complex and evolving treatment 
landscape for ovarian cancer. The 
Board is inclined to seek early 
partnership opportunities for the 
Cantrixil asset, on the basis that a 
company more specifically focused on 
ovarian cancer may have advantages in 
what is a unique disease area. However, 
the over-riding priority, in this matter as 
in others, is to secure the best value for 
our shareholders, and if the emerging 
clinical trial data or our discussions with 
potential partners and investors lead us 
to believe that Cantrixil should remain 
in Kazia’s hands for the next phase of 
its development, then we are confident 
that we have the right experience and 
capabilities and relationships to take it 
forward. 

The emerging data from the GDC-0084 
phase II clinical trial has provided an 
opportunity to engage actively with 
potential big pharma partners, and we 
continue to have those discussions. 
Given the fundamental value we see 
in GDC-0084, a potential partnership 
would need to meet a high hurdle, but 
the growing excitement of clinicians and 
researchers for the drug, exemplified 
by the broad pipeline of ongoing, 
independently-funded clinical studies, 
has certainly attracted considerable 
attention. Our aspiration is to take 
GDC-0084 forward into a registrational 
clinical trial, commencing in calendar 
2020. This trial would be designed to 
secure an FDA approval, allowing GDC-
0084 to become a commercial product, 
potentially within the next few years. 

In summary I believe that despite the 
challenges that small biotechs such as 
Kazia face in the market, your Company 
remains in a very exciting place. With 
continued access to funds to enable 
us to focus on achieving our key 
milestones for FY2020, your Board and 
Management led by our CEO, Dr James 
Garner, is confident we will create 
meaningful value for all shareholders. 
I would like to thank the Kazia team for 
their continuing efforts and to especially 
recognise the active input we continue 
to receive from our major shareholders 
and those many other shareholders who 
provide ongoing positive support.

Iain Ross 
Chairman

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Report
FY2019: 
Six Clinical  
Trials

The 2019 annual report 
provides a great opportunity 
to reflect on the dramatic 
progress that has been made 
over the last two or three 
years.

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Kazia Therapeutics Limited 
Dear Fellow Shareholder,

Twelve months ago, Kazia was proud 
to have two clinical trials underway, a 
phase I study for Cantrixil and a phase 
II study for GDC-0084. Today, we have 
six.

Each of these studies is being 
conducted under the oversight 
of the US FDA, in the form of an 
Investigational New Drug (IND) 
application, the universal path to a 
product approval. Each of them is being 
performed at world-leading research 
hospitals, by clinicians who are top 
experts in their field. Each of our studies 
lies, in a scientific sense, at the cutting 
edge of clinical research. It is hard to 
point to many companies our size, 
anywhere in the world, which enjoy such 
a rich portfolio of clinical-stage activity.

Four of our studies are primarily 
funded by sources external to Kazia, 
either the hospitals by whom they are 
being conducted or, in the case of the 
recently-announced Alliance study, by 
the US National Cancer Institute, the 
body which partially supported the 
development of such revolutionary 
cancer therapies as Provenge, Velcade, 
and Erbitux. In aggregate, this support 
creates an enormous leverage for 
Kazia. Our own financial investment is 
amplified many times over by the larger 
commitments of these partners.

Both of our in-house clinical programs 
have provided positive data read-outs 
during the first half of calendar 2019, 
and both of them will provide further 
read-outs during the second half of 
the year. Every piece of emerging data 
reported to date has met or exceeded 
our expectations. 

In the GDC-0084 program, our 
portfolio of studies encompasses a 
wide variety of different forms of brain 
cancer, ranging from DIPG, a rare but 
highly aggressive childhood brain 
cancer, to glioblastoma, the most 
common and most aggressive form of 
primary adult brain cancer. Potentially, 
these studies represent an opportunity 
to help many hundreds of thousands of 
patients worldwide each year. And that 
potential is not distant or hypothetical 
or aspirational. Three of our studies 
are phase II studies and, anticipating 
positive data at or around the end of 
calendar 2019, we see the potential to 
initiate a registrational study next year 
that will place GDC-0084 on a direct 
path to approval within just a few years. 
Kazia is about to become a late-stage 
clinical company in 2020.

If successful in Phase III, our drug will 
launch into a disease area that has 
been very poorly served by the last 
two decades of progress in cancer 
treatment. Unlike, say, lung cancer, or 
prostate cancer, or even melanoma, 

where enormous advances have 
been made and increasingly effective 
treatments are readily available, brain 
cancer remains one of the final frontiers 
in oncology. Patients diagnosed with 
glioblastoma today still have to rely on a 
twenty-year-old drug that is ineffective 
for two-thirds of cases. Children with 
DIPG have no approved drugs at all, 
and the options are also extremely 
limited for patients with metastatic 
brain cancer. It is not just hubris when 
we declare an aspiration to transform 
this arid treatment landscape – there 
are few more promising candidates than 
GDC-0084 in the global pipeline for 
brain cancer.

Drug development is a process that 
can most charitably be described as 
methodical, and for investors it can 
sometimes feel downright glacial. 
Observed day-to-day, progress can 
be hard to follow, and it can seem as 
though little is happening. But the 
longer cadence of the annual report 
provides a welcome opportunity to 
reflect on the dramatic progress that 
has been made over the last two or 
three years. That we have come so far 
in such a short time is testament to the 
hard work that is performed every day 
by the Kazia team, and to the vision of 
investors whose support has made the 
company’s work possible.

Summary of trials

Asset

Sponsor 

Phase

Indication

Registration

GDC-0084

Kazia Therapeutics

Alliance for Clinical 
Trials in Oncology

Dana-Farber 
Cancer Institute

St Jude Children’s 
Research Hospital

Memorial Sloan 
Kettering Cancer 
Center

Cantrixil

Kazia Therapeutics

II

II

II

I

I

I

Glioblastoma

NCT03522298

Brain metastases

NCT03994796

Dr James Garner 
Chief Executive Officer

Breast cancer brain 
metastases  
(with Herceptin)

DIPG 
(childhood brain 
cancer)

NCT03765983

NCT03696355

Brain metastases 
(with radiotherapy)

(TBA)

Ovarian Cancer

NCT02903771

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& Highlights:
2018/2019

OCT ‘18

Collaboration announced  
with St Jude for DIPG

Cantrixil Phase I Part A trial in  
ovarian cancer completes, good  
safety and MTD of 5 mg/kg

$3.4m raised from  
sector-specialist investors

Collaboration announced  
with Dana-Farber for  
breast cancer that has  
spread to the brain

SEP ‘18

First GDC-0084 
patient dosed and 
all trial sites open

JUL ‘18

ATM program divested  
for equity + royalties

GDC-0084 glioblastoma trial  
protocol updated to include  
dose optimisation

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedMAY ‘19

Phase IIa study  
of GDC-0084 in glioblastoma  
determines MTD of 60mg

Kazia’s GDC-0084  
included in Alliance  
study for cancer that  
has spread to  
the brain

JAN ‘19

$2.2m R&D  
rebate  
received

APR ‘19

Phase I part A Cantrixil  
study data presented  
at AACR Annual  
Meeting

NOV ‘18

Phase II glioblastoma study  
data presented at SNO  
Annual Meeting

$0.8m raised  
through SPP

Kazia’s work is supported by some of the top cancer 
research centres in the world, each of whom have backed 
the program financially as well as operationally.

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Pipeline  
Review
A Richly Diversified 
Mid-Clinical Pipeline

Few biotech companies 
our size can boast of six 
ongoing clinical trials, all 
under the oversight of the 
US FDA. Kazia’s pipeline is 
broad-based and cutting-
edge, with each clinical 
trial having the potential 
to deliver considerable 
shareholder value.

GDC-0084

FY2019 was the year in which GDC-0084 
returned to the clinic. In September 
2018, the first patients were dosed in a 
phase IIa clinical study in glioblastoma 
(GBM), the most common and most 
aggressive form of primary brain cancer. 
To understand the purpose of this study, 
it is important to recall that Genentech’s 
earlier phase I study had focused on very 
advanced patients. By contrast, Kazia 
has chosen to focus on newly-diagnosed 
patients, who we believe may be a 
more responsive group. We needed to 

Summary of trials

Asset

Sponsor 

Phase

Indication

Registration

GDC-0084

Kazia Therapeutics

Alliance for Clinical 
Trials in Oncology

Dana-Farber 
Cancer Institute

St Jude Children’s 
Research Hospital

Memorial Sloan 
Kettering Cancer 
Center

Cantrixil

Kazia Therapeutics

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II

II

II

I

I

I

Glioblastoma

NCT03522298

Brain metastases

NCT03994796

Breast cancer brain 
metastases  
(with Herceptin)

DIPG 
(childhood brain 
cancer)

NCT03765983

NCT03696355

Brain metastases 
(with radiotherapy)

(TBA)

Ovarian Cancer

NCT02903771

establish that the drug behaved similarly 
in the newly-diagnosed patients, and so 
the ongoing phase IIa study is designed 
to provide that confidence. 

In May 2019, we announced initial data 
from this study, which showed that the 
drug was better tolerated in newly-
diagnosed patients than in the more 
advanced population that had been 
trialled earlier. This was an excellent 
result. It would have been a positive 
result if we had simply determined that 
the same dose was appropriate, but 
the fact that we now have the option to 
consider higher doses in future studies 
means that the drug, if anything, has 
more chance to show efficacy. At 
present, an expansion cohort of 20 
patients is being recruited to provide 
confirmatory efficacy signals, and 
to satisfy some administrative and 
regulatory requirements. We expect to 
report data from this work at the end of 
calendar 2019, or early in 2020.

Although the phase IIa study in 
glioblastoma is the primary focus for 
Kazia, it is now only one of five active 
trials taking place with the drug. A phase 
I study with St Jude Children’s Research 
Hospital is examining GDC-0084 in 
diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a 
rare but very aggressive childhood brain 
cancer. We have excellent preclinical 
data in this disease from some cutting-
edge research by Professor Matt Dun’s 

Kazia Therapeutics LimitedEach clinical trial is in a different patient 
group, and any one of them could define a path 
to realising value for the program.

team at the University of Newcastle, 
so we hope that the drug will be able 
to show benefit in patients. There is no 
approved pharmaceutical treatment 
for DIPG, so it would be an incredible 
achievement if GDC-0084 is able to 
make a difference. The St Jude study is 
recruiting well, and we anticipate being 
able to share some initial insights in the 
second half of calendar 2019.

In October 2018, Professor Nancy Lin’s 
team at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 
commenced a phase II study of GDC-
0084 in breast cancer brain metastases 
(BCBM) – breast cancer that has spread 
to the brain – in combination with 
Herceptin (trastuzumab). This study 
is also recruiting well, and we hope to 
likewise have some initial news to report 
in the second half of calendar 2019. 

More recently, we announced in May 
2019 that GDC-0084 would participate 
in an NCI-funded multi-drug study of 
brain metastases, i.e. cancer that has 
spread to the brain from any primary 
tumour. This is a very challenging area, 
with an estimated 200,000 cases per 
annum in the United States alone, and 
almost no available drug treatments. 
This phase II study, which is being run 
by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in 
Oncology and led by Professor Priscilla 
Brastianos at Harvard Medical School, 
will allocate patients to one of three 
drugs, depending on the genetic profile 
of their tumour. Those with disruption in 
the PI3K pathway will receive GDC-0084, 
while patients with other mutations 
may receive Eli Lilly’s abemaciclib 
or Genentech’s entrectinib. It is an 
enormously positive reflection of the 
potential of GDC-0084 that it is being 
trialled alongside drugs from world-
leading pharmaceutical companies, one 
of which is already an approved product, 
and we are excited to be a part of this 
important research.

Glioblastoma is the most 
common and aggressive  
form of brain cancer.
Despite current therapies,  
it is almost always fatal.

Post year end we announced that 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 
(MSK) in New York, NY would investigate 
the potential use of GDC-0084 in 
combination with radiotherapy in a 
phase I clinical trial for cancer that has 
spread to the brain (brain metastases 
and leptomeningeal metastases). This 
research will explore a new use of GDC-
0084 and will run concurrently with the 
other ongoing studies. MSK is one of 
the world’s leading cancer treatment 
centres, and Kazia is privileged to be 
supporting them in this state-of-the-art 
project. Many cancers have the potential 
to spread to the brain, and they become 
very difficult to treat when they do. The 
work being done at MSK will investigate 
whether GDC-0084 has the potential 
to enhance the effects of radiotherapy, 
which remains the current standard of 
care in most cases.

Five clinical trials means five sets of 
data, each in different forms of brain 
cancer, and the next twelve months is 
sure to provide an exciting flow of new 
information about GDC-0084. 

Nevertheless, we may in time cease 
to refer to the drug by that name. 
In August, just after the close of 
the financial year, the World Health 
Organisation included our drug in their 
biannual list of provisional international 
non-proprietary names (INNs). An INN 
is usually sought some time after phase 
I, and represents the official name of a 
pharmaceutical agent.  

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Pipeline  
Review (continued)

Treatment of brain cancer has improved little in 
recent decades, unlike other cancers

Treatment of brain cancer has improved  
little in recent decades, unlike other cancers.

Brain 
Cancer

Brain 
Cancer
(glioblastoma)

(glioblastoma)

1990s

2000s

2010s

Lung 
Cancer

1990s

2000s

2010s

Lung 
Cancer

3

They are chosen not by companies but 
by the World Health Organisation, and 
the proposed name for GDC-0084 is 
paxalisib. Assuming no objections to this 
name, it is likely to be finalised by the 
end of calendar 2019, and we will begin 
to use this name more frequently as we 
discuss the program.

Meanwhile, Kazia has continued to 
undertake the important background 
work that is necessary to position the 
drug for a potential approval. A 13-week 
toxicology study has been completed 
in two animal species, which was an 
FDA requirement before undertaking a 
registration study. Improvements and 
refinements have been made to the 
manufacturing process to ensure that 
it meets the robust requirements of 
regulatory agencies. Progress has been 

made in protection of the intellectual 
property with patents proceeding to 
grant in a number of territories.

Important preclinical work has also been 
conducted by collaborators and research 
partners. Professor Matt Dun’s team at 
the University of Newcastle, Australia, 
has explored GDC-0084 in preclinical 
models of DIPG. His experiments in the 
laboratory found the drug to be even 
more active in DIPG than in GBM, and 
he has progressed to examining rational 
combination strategies. Professor 
Priscilla Brastianos’ team at Harvard 
Medical School has tested GDC-0084 
in preclinical models of breast cancer 
brain metastases and found it to be 
particularly active in those cases with 
mutations affecting the PI3K pathway.

Milestones to watch for

GDC-0084

2H 2019

2H 2019

2H 2019

Cantrixil

2H 2019

Initial read-out from 
dose expansion cohort 
of phase IIa study in 
glioblastoma

Potential initial data from 
phase I study in DIPG

Potential initial data from 
phase II study in BCBM

Initial read-out from Part 
B of phase I study in 
ovarian cancer

Glioblastoma

About Glioblastoma: 
The most common and most aggressive form of primary brain cancer in adults.

Symptoms:
Headache, nausea, drowsiness and impaired vision.

Treatment:
Treatment path usually consists of surgical resection of the tumour, followed by 
radiation. Patients then usually have a course of temozolomide (chemotherapy). 
Unfortunately temozolomide is only effective in about 35% of patients.

How common is it:
About 133,000 patients per annum worldwide.

Untreated survival rate:  
3-4 months

Median survival rate with best available care:  
12-15 months

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedCANTRIXIL

It was a busy year for Cantrixil, with 
data from the first part of its phase I 
study in ovarian cancer reported at the 
prestigious American Association of 
Cancer Research conference in April 
2019. Part A of the study was designed 
to determine the appropriate dose of 
Cantrixil, and a dose of 5 mg/kg was 
determined. The main side effects were 
abdominal pain and fatigue. This dose 
looks to be well within the range that 
would be expected to be therapeutic, 

and a further 13 patients have now been 
enrolled to Part B to provide further 
insight to efficacy.

Five of the nine patients (56%) in the Part 
A study showed stable disease after two 
cycles of treatment with Cantrixil. Since 
these were very advanced patients, who 
had already failed at least two existing 
treatments, this is a very encouraging 
result, and it suggests that Cantrixil 
may be able to slow progression of 
the disease in some patients. Four of 
the nine patients (44%) remained on 
treatment for the full 24-week duration 

of the study. Given the typical time 
to progression for patients with late-
stage ovarian cancer, this suggests that 
Cantrixil is working to slow the course 
of the disease. One patient showed 
a partial response, which indicates 
that Cantrixil plus chemotherapy had 
successfully shrunk the tumour. 

At the time of writing this report, Kazia 
had recently announced that the full 
cohort of patients had been recruited for 
Part B of the Cantrixil study. We expect 
to report data from Part B towards the 
end of calendar 2019.

Five of the nine patients (56%) showed stable disease 

after two cycles of treatment with Cantrixil. Since these 
were very advanced patients, who had already failed at 
least two existing treatments, this is a very encouraging 
result, and it suggests that Cantrixil may be able to slow 
progression of the disease in some patients.

Ovarian cancer

What is this: Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women and has the lowest survival rate of any women’s 
cancer. It affects about one in 100 women worldwide, with about 240,000 new cases each year.

Symptoms:
Can be hard to detect, but may include 
abdominal or pelvic pain, increased abdominal 
size or persistent abdominal bloating, the need 
to urinate often or urgently and feeling full after 
eating a small amount.

How common is it:
About 240,000 patients per annum worldwide.

Treatment: 
The main treatments for ovarian cancer include 
surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, 
targeted therapy and radiation.

Five-year survival rate: 
45% (breast cancer 90%)

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The GDC-0084  
Story
Designing a New  
Kind of Cancer Drug

How to design the ideal drug for brain 

cancer? Despite enormous progress in diseases 
such as breast cancer, bowel cancer, and 
prostate cancer, many of these resulting from 
Genentech’s own advances, the brain had proven 
stubbornly resistant to new developments in 
cancer treatment.

Nestling on the west side 
of the San Francisco Bay 
Area, Genentech had 
established itself through 
the 1990s onwards as one 
of the most sophisticated 
and enterprising drug 
developers in the new 
field of biotechnology. 
Drugs such as Avastin and 
Herceptin have become 
almost household names, 
and the company led the 
way in so-called targeted 
therapies – a new approach 
to cancer which avoided 
many of the problems of 
older chemotherapy drugs 
by tightly focusing on very 
specific biological processes 
in the cancer cell.

In 2012, researchers at Genentech 
set themselves what may have been 
their greatest challenge yet, simple to 
express but unimaginably complex to 
execute. How to design the ideal drug 
for brain cancer? Despite enormous 
progress in diseases such as breast 
cancer, bowel cancer, and prostate 
cancer, many of these resulting from 
Genentech’s own advances, the brain 
had proven stubbornly resistant to new 
developments in cancer treatment. 

The challenge was not merely an 
intellectual one. Dr Alan Olivero 
(pictured), a senior scientist at 
Genentech, had lost his brother to 
glioblastoma, the most common and 
most aggressive form of brain cancer. 
He knew first-hand the devastation the 
disease could bring upon patients and 
their families, and he was determined to 
find an answer.

Genentech had developed world-
class expertise in a new class of cancer 
drugs called PI3K inhibitors. Since its 
discovery in the 1980s, the PI3K pathway 
had emerged as a central control 
mechanism for a wide range of cancers. 
In glioblastoma, for example, almost 
90% of patients had the PI3K pathway 
activated in some form. The scientists 
quickly realised that it was the perfect 
target for a new drug in brain cancer.

A larger problem remained, however. 
The brain is a unique part of the human 
body insofar as it is protected by the 
“blood-brain barrier” (BBB). The BBB 
prevents many drugs, including most 
cancer drugs, from getting into the brain, 
and thereby renders them useless. It 
took some of the most brilliant medicinal 
chemists in the company to design a 
unique drug: a brain-penetrant PI3K 
inhibitor. That drug we now know as 
GDC-0084.

Genentech is renowned for the quality 
of their drug development, and the 
preclinical research into GDC-0084 
was first class. It showed the drug to be 
broadly active against animal models of 
glioblastoma, and so a phase I human 
trial quickly followed. In 47 patients, 
the study showed that the drug was 
generally well-tolerated, crossed the 
BBB very successfully, and showed 
convincing signals that tumour growth 
was being arrested.

Ultimately, Genentech decided to focus 
their resources on other forms of cancer, 
and Kazia became the custodians of 
GDC-0084 at the end of 2016. It is now 
in five clinical trials in different forms 
of brain cancer, and it is the hope of 
all involved that we may finally be able 
to make progress for patients with this 
terribly challenging disease.

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Working  
with the Best

Kazia is fortunate to 

collaborate with some of the 
world’s leading experts in the 
development of its cutting-edge 
cancer therapies.

• Dr. Priscilla Brastianos is the Director of the Central 
Nervous System Metastasis Center at Massachusetts General 
Hospital Cancer Center of Harvard Medical School. She is 
also the Principal Investigator on the US National Cancer 
Institute-backed Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology 
Foundation phase II study which is using Kazia’s drug 
GDC-0084 for the treatment of brain metastases 
(cancer that has spread to the brain).

Dr Brastianos received her BSc in biochemistry and chemistry 
from the University of British Columbia and her medical school 
training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed 
her internal medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins 
Hospital and her fellowship training at the Dana-Farber Cancer 
Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital. 

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Brastianos has received a number 
of prestigious awards for her scholarship and research, with the 
latter focusing on understanding the molecular mechanisms 
that drive brain metastases. Her hope is that her studies will 
provide an understanding of the molecular pathways that drive 
brain metastasis, which will allow for the development of better 
treatments for this common and devastating complication of 
cancer.

Her pioneering work has led to national multicentre 
cooperative group trials that she is leading. Dr Brastianos also 
leads a multidisciplinary central nervous system metastasis 
clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital.

• Associate Professor Jim Coward is a Brisbane-based 
oncologist who is leading the first clinical trial of Kazia’s 
Cantrixil for recurrent ovarian cancer. He is a medical 
oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the 
University of Queensland School of Medicine and Mater 
Research, Translational Research Institute (TRI). 

Since completing his medical training in 1998, Associate 
Professor Coward has gained extensive experience in the 
delivery of cutting-edge cancer care. 

In 2006, he was appointed as an MRC clinical fellow at 
the Barts Cancer Institute, London, where his research on 
the effects of immunotherapy in advanced ovarian cancer 
successfully translated into a clinical trial in patients with 
platinum resistant disease. This work culminated in a PhD 
award from Queen Mary, University of London in 2010. 

Associate Professor Coward is passionate about delivering 
comprehensive oncology treatment by incorporating scientific 
research from the laboratory into cancer care and providing 
direct access to state-of-the-art clinical trials. He is heavily 
invested in providing cutting edge medicines through a rapidly 
evolving phase one research portfolio, with a predominant 
focus on immunotherapy-based clinical trials for all solid 
tumour types. He currently practices at Icon Cancer Centre 
South Brisbane and Icon Cancer Centre Chermside. 

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The Cantrixil  
Story
Learning from Nature

Today, Cantrixil is close to completing a 
phase I clinical study in late-stage ovarian cancer. 
We have seen promising data so far, which 
validates the faith of the many scientists and 
researchers who have worked on benzyopyran 
molecules over the years

Like all the best science, 
Cantrixil originated with 
a chance observation: 
farmyard animals fed on a 
diet of soybeans and other 
similar foodstuffs showed 
biological changes such as 
feminisation. The reason? 
A class of chemicals called 
isoflavones, which over time 
became a popular natural 
health supplement.

Kazia’s predecessor company, Novogen, 
built an international business in the 
1990s to market a particular isoflavone 
extract from red leaf clover. The lead 
product, Promensil, was marketed as a 
treatment for menopausal symptoms. 
But it had long been known that people 
eating diets rich in soy protein, and 
presumably in isoflavones, were less 
likely to get certain types of cancer, 
and so Novogen began the gradual 
transformation to an oncology biotech 
company.

The outcome of extensive research by 
Novogen scientists was a drug candidate 
named phenoxodiol, now also known 
as idronoxil. Phenoxodiol was what we 
would now term a second-generation 
benzopyran, with the natural isoflavones 
such as genistein being considered first-
generation. The company refocussed 
around the development of phenoxodiol, 
and took it all the way to a phase III 
clinical trial in ovarian cancer. Sadly, 
it failed phase III in 2010. However, 
a number of Novogen scientists felt 
they knew why, and so much had been 
learned about isoflavone chemistry 
that the possibility of building a third-
generation benzyopyran lurked in their 
minds for years to come.

Fast forward to 2013, and the 
opportunity arose to reboot Novogen 
around a new drug platform, focused 
on third-generation benzopyrans. 
Professor Gil Mor at Yale University 
worked alongside the Novogen team 
to understand the efficacy of these new 
chemical entities in ovarian cancer, 
his specialty. They found the new 
molecules to be many times more 
powerful than phenoxodiol, and so the 
drug development program that we 
now know as Cantrixil was launched. 
When Novogen transformed into Kazia, 
we recognised the exciting potential 
of the Cantrixil program, and so were 
pleased to make it the first clinical trial 
we launched.

Today, Cantrixil is close to completing 
a phase I clinical study in late-stage 
ovarian cancer. We have seen promising 
data so far, which validates the faith 
of the many scientists and researchers 
who have worked on benzyopyran 
molecules over the years. The need for 
new therapies in ovarian cancer remains 
substantial, and we look forward to 
seeing if that chance observation so 
many years ago will yield an exciting new 
class of cancer drugs.

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The Path 
Forward

For GDC-0084, our expectation is that the next step is likely 
to be a registrational study – a larger, comparative study 
to demonstrate efficacy in comparison to a control group. 
Kazia plans to discuss this study with the US FDA and with 
clinicians over the remainder of calendar 2019, with a view to 
commencing the study in the first half of calendar 2020.

At this stage, the planned study is expected to include 
approximately 200-250 patients, and will take around two-
and-a-half years to complete. This would position us for the 
submission of a ‘new drug application (NDA) to the US FDA 
in the first half of 2023, with approval expected later that year 
under priority review. Any such plans are naturally subject to 
constant review and refinement, but the key point is that GDC-
0084 is being positioned for a fast path to market.

Kazia has always been clear that it envisages partnering with 
a larger company to bring GDC-0084 to market, and that 
partnering transaction could happen at any time during the 
development of the drug. We are already actively sharing 
progress with big pharma companies, and making sure that 
the emerging data from GDC-0084 is well-understood and 

well-circulated. Our priority, as always, is to ensure that any 
transaction delivers the maximum value for shareholders, and 
the growing body of data over the coming twelve months will 
undoubtedly help to demonstrate the value of our drug.

Along the way, we anticipate seeing regular data read-outs, 
both from our own studies in glioblastoma, and from the 
growing portfolio of collaborations and partnerships. That data 
will inform our planning and provide insight for investors as to 
the progress and potential of the drug. 

With Cantrixil, we expect to finish the ongoing phase I study 
towards the end of calendar 2019, and then to pause for 
consultation with clinician advisors. Although the initial data 
has been very encouraging, it is true that ovarian cancer is a 
complex disease, with a rapidly evolving treatment landscape, 
and it is possible that Cantrixil’s best path forward will consist 
in an early partnering transaction, which will likely depend on 
emerging data from Part B of the ongoing clinical trial. Kazia 
continues to explore all options. 

Any such plans are naturally subject to constant review and 
refinement, but the key point is that GDC-0084 is being 
positioned for a fast path to market

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedFinancal Report FY19

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 Annual Report 2019CEO’s reportPipeline reviewThe GDC-0084 storyThe Cantrixil storyWorking with the bestThe path forwardFinancial report FY192019 at a glanceChairman’s letterKey milestones & highlightsThe directors present their report, together with the financial statements, on the consolidated entity (referred to hereafter as the 
‘consolidated entity’) consisting of Kazia Therapeutics Limited (referred to hereafter as the ‘company’ or ‘parent entity’) and the 
entities it controlled at the end of, or during, the year ended 30 June 2019.

DIRECTORS

The following persons were Directors of Kazia Therapeutics Limited (ABN 37 063 259 754) during the whole of the financial year 
and up to the date of this report, unless otherwise stated:

Iain Ross

Bryce Carmine

Steven Coffey

James Garner

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

During the financial year the principal continuing activity of the consolidated entity consisted of pharmaceutical research and 
development.

DIVIDENDS

There were no dividends paid, recommended or declared during the current or previous financial year.

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS

The loss for the consolidated entity after providing for income tax amounted to $10,270,264 (30 June 2018: $6,039,242).

The attached financial statements detail the performance and financial position of the consolidated entity for the year ended 30 
June 2019.

Cash resources

At 30 June 2019, the consolidated entity had total funds of $5,433,868, comprising cash at bank and on hand of $833,868 and 
short term deposits of $4,600,000. Total current assets at year-end stand at $7,514,175.

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The Directors have considered this to be appropriate. 
Refer to ‘Going concern’ in note 2 to the financial statements for further details.

Rounding of amounts

The Company is a type of Company referred to in ASIC Corporations (Rounding in Financial/Directors’ Reports) Instrument 
2016/191 and therefore the amounts contained in this report and in the financial report have been rounded to the nearest dollar.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedResearch and development report

The company’s lead development candidate is GDC-0084, a small molecule, brain-penetrant inhibitor of the PI3K / Akt / 
mTor pathway, that is being developed as a potential therapy for glioblastoma (GBM), the most common malignant and highly 
aggressive form of primary brain tumour in adults, as well as other forms of brain cancer. GDC-0084 is orally administered and is 
presented in a 15mg capsule formulation. The development candidate was granted orphan designation by FDA in February 2018.

GDC-0084 was developed by Genentech, Inc (South San Francisco, California) and the company entered into a worldwide 
exclusive license for the asset in October 2016. Prior to this transaction, Genentech had completed an extensive preclinical 
development program that provided convincing validation for GDC-0084 as a potential drug for brain cancer. Genentech also 
completed a phase I clinical trial in 47 patients with advanced recurrent grade III and grade IV glioma. The most common adverse 
events were oral mucositis and hyperglycemia. Per RANO criteria, 40% of patients exhibited a best observable response of stable 
disease, and 26% demonstrated a metabolic partial response on FDG-PET.

During the period, the company has commenced recruitment to a phase IIa clinical study in patients with newly-diagnosed 
glioblastoma who exhibit unmethylated MGMT promotor status (NCT03522298). Unmethylated MGMT status confers near-total 
resistance to temozolomide, the existing standard of care, and represents approximately two-thirds of the total incident GBM 
population. This phase IIa study is ongoing at seven centres in the United States. In May 2019, the company reported interim data 
from the initial dose escalation component of the study. In the newly-diagnosed population, a maximum tolerated dose (MTD) 
of 60mg was achieved, which is higher than the MTD of 45mg reported in the phase I study in recurrent patients. Adverse events 
were generally mild and reversible. Dose-limiting toxicities of mucositis and hyperglycemia were consistent with the PI3K inhibitor 
class and with prior clinical experience of this agent. An expansion cohort of 20 patients is currently recruiting, with initial efficacy 
data expected by the end of CY2019 or early in CY2020. 

In October 2018, the company announced a phase I investigator-initiated study at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 
Memphis, TN (NCT03696355). The St Jude study is designed to explore GDC-0084 as a monotherapy for diffuse intrinsic 
pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare but highly-aggressive childhood brain cancer with no approved pharmacological treatments. 
The study seeks to establish an MTD in the paediatric population before enrolling an expansion cohort to seek definitive signals 
of efficacy. The St Jude study is primarily funded by the hospital, with support via a financial grant from Kazia. The study is 
ongoing, with initial data potentially expected in 2H CY2019. 

Also in October 2018, the company announced a phase II investigator-initiated study at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, 
MA (NCT03765983). The Dana-Farber study examines GDC-0084 in combination with Herceptin (trastuzumab) in the treatment 
of HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastases (BCBM), a population for which there are again no approved pharmacological 
treatments. The Dana-Farber study is primarily funded by the hospital, with support via a financial grant from Kazia. The study is 
ongoing, and the company hopes to receive data during the latter part of CY2019 from this trial.

In May 2019, the company announced a phase II study sponsored by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a large academic 
research organisation, and funded by the US National Cancer Institute (NCT03994796). The Alliance study is a genomically-
guided, multi-drug study in patients with brain metastases from any primary tumour. Those with mutations affecting the PI3K / 
Akt / mTOR pathway will be assigned to receive GDC-0084, while patients with other driving mutations may receive abemaciclib 
(Eli Lilly & Company) or entrectenib (Genentech, Inc). The study is due to commence recruitment in July 2019, and is expected to 
recruit approximately 150 patients, evenly divided between the three treatment arms, over the course of a two-year period. 

A number of preclinical experiments with GDC-0084 reported data during the period. Of note, a paper by FM Ippen at al. from 
Harvard Medical School reported in vivo data from a model of breast cancer brain metastases. It concluded that “treatment with 
GDC-0084 markedly inhibited the growth of PIK3CA-mutant [brain tumours].” Meanwhile, R Duchatel et al. from the University 
of Newcastle reported in vitro data examining GDC-0084 in DIPG cell lines in a poster presentation at the SNO Pediatric Brain 
Tumor meeting, and found the drug to be highly active across all tested lines.

Post-period, the company announced that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had selected ‘paxalisib’ as the provisional 
International Nonproprietary Name (pINN) for GDC-0084 and that, subject to final confirmation in late CY2019, the company 
would begin to deploy this name and discontinue public use of the GDC-0084 code number.

Cantrixil (TRX-E-002-1) is the company’s second clinical asset, and is derived from a proprietary drug discovery program. It is 
being developed as a potential therapy for ovarian cancer.

Research undertaken by Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) has provided preclinical evidence that Cantrixil is active against 
both differentiated cancer cells and tumour-initiating cells (sometimes referred to as ‘cancer stem cells’). The latter are thought 
to be an important component of chemotherapy resistance and disease recurrence in diseases such as ovarian cancer, and thus 
Cantrixil has potential to offer benefit to the approximately three-quarters of ovarian cancer patients who are not adequately 
managed by conventional chemotherapy treatments.

In December 2016, the company commenced a phase I clinical trial of Cantrixil in patients with ovarian cancer (NCT02903771). 
The study is designed to establish the safety and tolerability of the development candidate, to determine a Maximum Tolerated 
Dose (MTD), and to explore indicative signals of clinical efficacy. Data from the initial dose escalation cohort was reported at the 
American Association of Cancer Research meeting in April 2019. Cantrixil was broadly well-tolerated, and an MTD of 5 mg/kg 
was determined. Dose-limiting toxicities were generally gastrointestinal in nature. Of nine evaluable patients, five (56%) achieved 
stable disease after two cycles of Cantrixil monotherapy, and one patient went on to exhibit a partial response after treatment 
with Cantrixil and chemotherapy. The study has now completed recruiting a 12-patient dose expansion cohort and is expected to 
report efficacy data by the end of CY2019.

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There were no significant changes in the state of affairs of the consolidated entity during the financial year.

LIKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPECTED RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The consolidated entity has a reasonable expectation that over the course of the coming 12 months:

•  Results will be reported from the phase I clinical trial of Cantrixil (TRX-E-002-1) .

•  Results will be reported from the phase II clinical trial of GDC-0084 in glioblastoma

• 

• 

Initial data will be reported from the phase I clinical trial of GDC-0084 in DIPG at St Jude

Initial data will be reported from the phase II clinical trial of GDC-0084 in BCBM at Dana-Farber

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

The consolidated entity is not subject to any significant environmental regulation under Australian Commonwealth or State law.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedINFORMATION ON DIRECTORS

‘Other current directorships’ quoted below are current directorships for listed entities only and excludes directorships of all other 
types of entities, unless otherwise stated.

‘Former directorships (last 3 years)’ quoted below are directorships held in the last 3 years for listed entities only and excludes 
directorships of all other types of entities, unless otherwise stated.

Name:

Title:

Iain Ross

Non-Executive Director, Chairman

Qualifications:

B.Sc. (Hons). C Dir.

Experience and expertise:

Other current directorships:

Iain, based in the UK, is an experienced Director and has served on a number 
of Australian company boards. He is Chairman of e-Therapeutics plc (LSE:ETX), 
Redx Pharma plc (LSE:REDX), Silence Therapeutics plc (LON:SLN) and Biomer 
Technology Limited. In his career he has held senior positions in Sandoz AG, Fisons 
Plc, Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Celltech Group Plc and also undertaken a number 
of start-ups and turnarounds on behalf of banks and private equity groups. His track 
record includes multiple financing transactions having raised in excess of £300 million, 
both publicly and privately, as well as extensive experience of divestments and 
strategic restructurings and has over 20 years in cross-border management as a 
Chairman and CEO. He has led and participated in six Initial Public Offerings, 
(4 LSE, 1 ASX, 1 NASDAQ) and has direct experience of mergers and acquisitions 
transactions in Europe, USA and the Pacific Rim.

e-Therapeutics plc (LSE: ETX), Redx Pharma plc (LSE:REDX), Silence Therapeutics plc 
(LON:SLN)

Former directorships (last 3 years):

Benitec Biopharma Limited (ASX:BLT), Premier Veterinary Group Plc (LSE:PVG), 
Anatara Lifesciences Limited (ASX:ANR)

Special responsibilities:

Interests in shares:

Interests in options:

Contractual rights to shares:

Name:

Title:

Member of Remuneration and Nomination Committee, Member of Audit, Risk and 
Governance Committee.

475,001 ordinary shares

None

None

Bryce Carmine

Non-Executive Director

Qualifications:

B.Sc., Biochemistry, Microbiology & Genetics

Experience and expertise:

Bryce spent 36 years working for Eli Lilly & Co. and retired as Executive Vice President 
for Eli Lilly & Co, and President, Lilly Bio-Medicines. Prior to this he lead the Global 
Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing and was a member of the company’s Executive 
Committee. Mr Carmine previously held a series of product development portfolio 
leadership roles culminating when he was named President, Global Pharmaceutical 
Product Development, with responsibility for the entire late-phase pipeline 
development across all therapeutic areas for Eli Lilly. During his career with Lilly, Bryce 
held several country leadership positions including President Eli Lilly Japan, Managing 
Dir. Australia/NZ & General Manager of a JV for Lilly in Seoul, Korea. Bryce is 
currently Chairman and CEO of HaemaLogiX Pty Ltd, a Sydney based privately owned 
biotech.

Other current directorships:

Former directorships (last 3 years):

None

None

Special responsibilities:

Interests in shares:

Interests in options:

Contractual rights to shares:

Name:

Title:

Qualifications:

Member of Audit, Risk and Governance Committee, Chair of Remuneration and 
Nomination Committee.

131,293 ordinary shares

None

None

Steven Coffey

Non-Executive Director

B. Comm, CA

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Experience and expertise:

Steven is a Chartered Accountant and registered company auditor and has over 35 
years experience in the accounting and finance industry. He has been a partner in the 
chartered accounting firm Watkins Coffey Martin since 1993. He has previously served 
on the board of an ASX listed public company and sits on the board of a number of 
large private family companies. He audits a number of large private companies as well 
as a number of not-for-profit entities.

Other current directorships:

Former directorships (last 3 years):

None

None

Special responsibilities:

Interests in shares:

Interests in options:

Chair of Audit, Risk and Governance Committee, Member of Remuneration and 
Nomination Committee.

181,474 ordinary shares

5,875 listed options (NRTO)

Contractual rights to shares:

None

Name:

Title:

Dr James Garner

Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director

Qualifications:

MA, MBA, MBBS, BSc (Hons) 

Experience and expertise:

Dr Garner is an experienced life sciences executive who has previously worked with 
companies ranging from small biotechs to multinational pharmaceutical companies 
such as Biogen and Takeda. His career has focused on regional and global 
development of new medicines from preclinical to commercialisation.

Dr Garner is a physician by training and holds an MBA from the University of 
Queensland. He began his career in hospital medicine and worked for a number of 
years as a corporate strategy consultant with Bain & Company before entering the 
pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Kazia in 2016, he led R&D strategy for Sanofi 
in Asia-Pacific and was based in Singapore.

Other current directorships:

Former directorships (last 3 years):

None

None

Interests in shares:

Interests in options:

110,000 ordinary shares 

750,000 options with various exercise prices and expiring 1 February 2021.

Contractual rights to shares:

None

COMPANY SECRETARY

Kate Hill (CA, GAICD, BSc (Hons)) has held the role of Company Secretary since 9 September 2016.

Kate has over 20 years’ experience as an audit partner with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, working with ASX listed and privately 
owned clients. She has worked extensively in regulated environments including assisting with Initial Public Offerings, capital 
raising and general compliance, as well as operating in an audit environment. She is a Non-executive Director of Countplus 
Limited (ASX: CUP) and Elmo Software Limited (ASX:ELO) as well as Chair of their Audit and Risk Committees. She is also Chair of 
Seeing Machines Limited (AIM:SEE).

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS

The number of meetings of the company’s Board of Directors (‘the Board’) and of each Board committee held during the year 
ended 30 June 2019, and the number of meetings attended by each director were:

Full Board

Audit,  
Risk & Governance 
Committee

Remuneration &  
Nomination  
Committee

Attended

Held

Attended

Held

Attended

Held

10

9

10

10

10

10

10

10

4

4

4

-

4

4

4

-

2

2

2

-

2

2

2

-

Iain Ross

Bryce Carmine

Steven Coffey

James Garner

Held: represents the number of meetings held during the time the director held office or was a member of the relevant 
committee.

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Kazia Therapeutics Limited 
 
 
REMUNERATION REPORT (AUDITED)

The remuneration report, which has been audited, outlines the Key Management Personnel (‘KMP’) remuneration arrangements 
for the consolidated entity, in accordance with the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and its Regulations.

KMP are defined as those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the major activities 
of the consolidated entity, directly or indirectly.

The remuneration report is set out under the following main headings:

•  Principles used to determine the nature and amount of remuneration

•  Details of remuneration

•  Service agreements

•  Share-based compensation

•  Additional disclosures relating to key management personnel

Principles used to determine the nature and amount of remuneration

Remuneration philosophy 
Remuneration for Directors and Senior Executives is based on the overall objective of attracting and retaining people of high 
quality who will make a worthwhile contribution to the consolidated entity in the short, medium and long term, and thereby 
contribute to long term shareholder value. The Board and its Remuneration and Nomination Committee take a balanced position 
between the need to pay market rates to attract talent, and the financial resources of the consolidated entity, in determining 
remuneration. 

Non-Executive Directors remuneration
The Constitution of the consolidated entity and the ASX listing rules specify that the aggregate remuneration of Non-Executive 
Directors shall be determined from time to time by General Meeting. The last determination for the consolidated entity was at the 
Annual General Meeting held on 28 October 2005 when the shareholders approved an aggregate remuneration of $560,000.

Non-Executive Directors’ fees are reviewed periodically by the Board and are regularly compared with those of companies of 
comparable market capitalisation and stage of development. The Chairman’s fees are determined independently to the fees of 
other non-executive Directors based on comparative roles in the external market. The Non-Executive Directors fee structure is a 
fixed fee model and includes superannuation. Directors fees for the current financial year have been held at the same level as in 
the prior financial year.

Executive Directors and other KMP
The Board and the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, in consultation with the Managing Director, have put in 
place a remuneration structure which provides incentive for employees to drive the activities of the company forward. These 
arrangements are reviewed annually at the end of the calendar year.

The Board determines an appropriate level of fixed remuneration for the CEO and Group Executives, as well as the proportion of 
performance based remuneration.

The executive remuneration and reward framework has three components:

• 

fixed remuneration

•  short-term performance incentives - cash bonus

•  share-based payments - award of options through the ESOP

Fixed remuneration is reviewed annually by the Remuneration and Nomination Committee based on individual performance, 
the overall performance of the consolidated entity and comparable market remunerations. The Remuneration and Nomination 
Committee approved increases in fixed remuneration during the financial year ended 30 June 2019.

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executives. Short-term incentive payments are granted to executives based on specific annual performance objectives, metrics 
and performance appraisals. Annual performance reviews are conducted at the end of each calendar year and bonuses are paid 
shortly after the performance reviews are completed. Annual performance objectives cover matters such as progress in clinical 
trials, and management of the Company’s financial resources.

The Board or the Remuneration and Nomination Committee may, at its discretion, award bonuses for exceptional performance.

The Remuneration and Nomination Committee approved the payment of cash bonuses to the CEO and employees in respect of 
the financial year ended 30 June 2019.

The long-term incentive comprises equity-based payments. The consolidated entity aims to attract and retain high calibre 
executives, and align their interests with those of the shareholders, by granting equity-based payments based on tenure. 
The share-options issued to executives are governed by the ESOP.

Employee share option plan
The Employee Share Option Plan (‘ESOP’) was approved by shareholders on 4 March 2015 and re-approved by shareholders on 
15 November 2017.

The ESOP provides for the issue of options to eligible individuals, being employees or Officers of the consolidated entity, however 
it excludes Non-Executive Directors. 

Each option issued under the ESOP entitles its holder to acquire one fully paid ordinary share and is exercisable at a price based 
on a formula, which includes the weighted average price of such shares at the close of trading on the Australian Securities 
Exchange for the seven days prior to the date of issue. The number of options offered, the amount payable, the vesting period, 
the option period, the conditions of exercise or any other factors are at the discretion of the Board of Directors.

The consolidated entity issued 250,000 share options under the ESOP during the financial year that ended 30 June 2019. 

Any change to the ESOP will require approval by shareholders.

Use of remuneration consultants
During the financial year ended 30 June 2019, the consolidated entity did not engage remuneration consultants.

Details of remuneration

Amounts of remuneration
Details of the remuneration of key management personnel of the consolidated entity are set out in the following tables.

The KMP of the consolidated entity consisted of the following directors of Kazia Therapeutics Limited:

• 

Iain Ross - Non-Executive Director, Chairman 

•  Bryce Carmine - Non-Executive Director

•  Steven Coffey - Non-Executive Director

•  Dr James Garner - Managing Director, CEO

And the following persons:

•  Gabrielle Heaton - Director of Finance and Administration 

•  Kate Hill - Company Secretary 

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedShort-term benefits

Post-
employment 
benefits

Share-
based 
payments

Cash 
salary  

and fees
$

Cash 
bonus
$

130,270

75,000

75,000

-

-

-

Movements 
in accrued 
leave  
Non- 
monetary
$

Super- 
annuation
$

Equity- 
settled 
options
$

Total
$

-

-

-

-

7,125

7,125

-

-

-

130,270

82,125

82,125

445,500

90,000

16,562

50,873

88,150

691,085

180,000

20,400

2,666

19,038

15,280

237,384

125,000

15,000

-

-

21,580

161,580

1,030,770 125,400

19,228

84,161

125,010 1,384,569

2019

Non-Executive Directors:

I Ross*

B Carmine

S Coffey

Executive Directors:

J Garner

Other Key Management Personnel:

G Heaton

K Hill

* 

Salary paid in UK pounds, but disclosed in Australian dollars using a conversion rate of 0.5527.

The cash bonuses were granted by the Remuneration Committee at a meeting held on 3 December 2018. The amounts were 
determined on a discretionary basis by the Remuneration Committee after assessing the corporate achievements for the 2018 
calendar year.

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Cash 
salary  

and fees
$

Cash 
bonus
$

Movement 
in accrued 
annual leave  
Non- 
monetary
$

Post-
employment 
benefits

Share-
based 
payments

Health 
Insurance
$

Super- 
annuation
$

Equity- 
settled 
options
$

Total
$

2018

Non-Executive Directors:

I Ross***

B Carmine

S Coffey

124,957

75,000

75,000

Executive Directors:

J Garner

425,000

Other Key Management 
Personnel:

G Heaton

K Hill

G Hirsch *

P Leong*, **

170,000

140,000

287,269

320,020

1,617,246

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7,125

7,125

-

-

-

124,957

82,125

82,125

21,038

3,917

37,010

133,171

620,136

-

-

(19,447)

(14,770)

(13,179)

-

-

-

27,735

31,652

14,804

-

6,650

19,132

191,454

159,132

24,426

(9,159)

283,089

-

(32,767)

300,218

90,490

117,027

1,843,236

* 
** 
*** 

Remuneration for the duration of appointment as KMP.
Salary paid in US dollars, but disclosed in Australian dollars using a conversion rate of 0.7753.
 Salary paid in UK pounds, but disclosed in Australian dollars using a conversion rate of 0.5762.

The relative proportions of remuneration that are linked to performance and those that are at risk

Name

Executive Directors:

James Garner

Other Key Management Personnel:

Gabrielle Heaton

Gordon Hirsch

Kate Hill

Peng Leong

Fixed remuneration

At risk - STI

At risk - LTI

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

74% 

79% 

13% 

85% 

-

78% 

-

97% 

100% 

88% 

100% 

9% 

-

9% 

-

-

-

-

-

-

13% 

21% 

6% 

-

13% 

-

3% 

-

12% 

-

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedConsequences of performance on shareholder wealth
Shareholder wealth in a company engaged in drug development is generally driven by successful commercialisation, out-
licence or sale of a drug candidate, and is a long-term proposition, rather than being linked to annual financial performance. 
The directors have selected a CEO and key management team who, in the directors opinion, are well placed to realise such an 
outcome for our shareholders. The Company has recorded losses for the past four years as it is still in a pre-revenue phase, and 
the Company’s share price has not increased over this period.

Voting and comments made at the consolidated entity’s last Annual General Meeting
The consolidated entity received 89.75% of “yes” votes on its Remuneration Report for the financial year ending 30 June 2018. 
The consolidated entity received no specific feedback on its Remuneration Report at the Annual General Meeting.

Bonuses included in remuneration
Details of short term incentive cash bonuses awarded as remuneration to each key management personnel are included in the 
above tables. 

Service agreements

Under Remuneration and Nomination Committee policy, employment contracts are entered into with each of the executives who 
is considered to be KMP. Under the terms of the contracts, remuneration is reviewed at least annually. The employment contracts 
of KMPs include a termination clause whereby a party can terminate the agreement on notice. Such notice may vary between 4 
weeks and 6 months. Under the terms of each contract, payment in lieu can be made by the consolidated entity to substitute the 
notice period. The consolidated entity may terminate the contracts at any time without cause if serious misconduct has occurred. 
In the event that employment is terminated for cause, no severance pay or other benefits are payable by the consolidated entity.

Remuneration and other terms of employment for key management personnel are formalised in service agreements. Details of 
these agreements are as follows:

Name:

Title:

James Garner

Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director

Agreement commenced:

1 February 2016

Term of agreement:

Full-time employment

Details:

Name:

Title:

Base salary to be reviewed annually by the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. 
James's appointment with the consolidated entity may be terminated with the 
consolidated entity giving 6 months' notice or by James giving 6 months' notice. The 
consolidated entity may elect to pay James equal amount to that proportion of his salary 
equivalent 6 months' pay in lieu of notice, together with any outstanding entitlements due 
to him.

The current base salary, as from 1 January 2019, is $458,000 including an allowance for 
health benefits.

Gabrielle Heaton

Director of Finance and Administration

Agreement commenced:

13 March 2017

Term of agreement:

Full time employment

Details:

Name:

Title:

Base salary to be reviewed annually by the Remuneration and Nomination Committee. 
Gabrielle’s appointment with the consolidated entity may be terminated with the 
consolidated entity giving 4 weeks’ notice or by Gabrielle giving 4 weeks’ notice. The 
consolidated entity may elect to pay Gabrielle equal amount to that proportion of her 
salary equivalent 4 weeks’ pay in lieu of notice, together with any outstanding entitlements 
due to her.

The current base salary, from 1 January 2019, is $190,000.

Kate Hill

Company Secretary

Agreement commenced:

9 September 2016

Term of agreement:

Part-time contractor

Details:

Base remuneration is based on time worked. Daily rate to be reviewed annually by 
the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, with an uplift of 10% on the daily rate 
applied from 1 January 2019. The contract is open ended. Kate’s appointment with the 
consolidated entity may be terminated with the consolidated entity giving 60 days’ notice 
or by Kate giving 60 days’ notice.

Key management personnel have no entitlement to termination payments in the event of removal for misconduct.

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Issue of shares
The terms and conditions of each grant of options over ordinary shares granted as remuneration to Directors or other Key 
Management Personnel in this financial year or future financial years are set out below. The options issued on 4 January 2019 
were to Kate Hill (50,000 options, with a fair value at grant date of $7,000) and Gabrielle Heaton (50,000 options, with a fair 
value at grant date of $7,000). Service conditions are that any unvested options are forfeit on cessation of employment. There are 
no performance conditions, consistent with the Company’s Employee Share Option Plan rules, as reapproved by shareholders on 
15 November 2017.

Grant date

4-Jan-19

4-Jan-19

4-Jan-19

4-Jan-19

 No  
of options 

 25,000 

 25,000 

 25,000 

 25,000 

Vesting  
 date

4-Jul-19

4-Jan-20

4-Jul-20

4-Jan-21

Exercise  
 date

4-Jul-19

4-Jan-20

4-Jul-20

4-Jan-21

Expiry date

Exercise price

4-Jan-24

4-Jan-24

4-Jan-24

4-Jan-24

$0.49

$0.49

$0.49

$0.49

Fair value  
per option at  
grant date

$0.14

$0.14

$0.14

$0.14

Options granted carry no dividend or voting rights. Each option is convertible to one ordinary share upon exercise. 
The number and exercise price of options was adjusted during the year ended 30 June 2018 as a result of the share 
consolidation whereby ten of the former ordinary shares of the Company were exchanged for one new ordinary share.

No options were exercised or lapsed during the year.

Additional disclosures relating to key management personnel

Shareholding
The number of shares in the company held during the financial year by each director and other members of Key Management 
Personnel of the consolidated entity, including their personally related parties, is set out below:

Balance at  
the start of  
the year

Purchased 
on market

Balance at  
the end of  
the year

91,819

142,000

220,000

50,000

30,000

533,819

39,474

39,474

255,001

60,000

-

393,949

131,293

181,474

475,001

110,000

30,000

927,768

Ordinary shares

B Carmine 

S Coffey

I Ross

J Garner

K Hill

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedOption holding
The number of options over ordinary shares in the company held during the financial year by each Director and other members of 
Key Management Personnel of the consolidated entity, including their personally related parties, is set out below:

Options over ordinary shares

S Coffey*

J Garner**

K Hill**

G Heaton**

Balance at  
the start of  
the year

Granted as 
remuneration

Balance at  
the end of  
the year

5,875

750,000

220,000

142,000

1,117,875

-

-

50,000

50,000

100,000

5,875

750,000

270,000

192,000

1,217,875

The above listed options were not issued as part of remuneration. 

* 
**  Options issued under the Employee Share Option Plan. Unvested options are forfeited upon cessation of employment with the Company.

Options over ordinary shares - vested

S Coffey

J Garner

K Hill

G Heaton

Vested and  
exercisable

Vested and  

unexercisable

Balance at  
the end of  
the year

5,875

500,000

85,000

55,500

646,375

-

-

-

-

-

5,875

500,000

85,000

55,500

646,375

Other transactions with key management personnel and their related parties
There was no other transaction with KMP and their related parties.

This concludes the remuneration report, which has been audited.

SHARES UNDER OPTION

Unissued ordinary shares of Kazia Therapeutics Limited under option at the date of this report are as follows:

Grant date

16 December 2014

18 December 2014

4 June 2015*

30 June 2015*

30 June 2015

16 November 2015

18 March 2016

18 March 2016

5 September 2016

31 October 2016

12 October 2016

21 November 2016

7 August 2017

5 February 2018

4 January 2019

Expiry date

16 December 2019

18 December 2019

4 June 2020

4 June 2020

30 June 2020

16 November 2020

1 February 2021

1 February 2021

5 September 2021

1 November 2021

17 October 2021

23 November 2021

7 August 2022

5 February 2023

4 January 2024

Exercise  
Price

$1.500 

$1.500 

$4.000 

$4.000 

$4.000 

$2.200 

$1.990 

$2.610 

$1.630 

$1.380 

$1.560 

$1.380 

$0.670 

$0.780 

$0.492 

Closing  
Balance

46,647

19,952

2,948,400

200,000

2,906,500

236,667

500,000

250,000

50,000

12,500

62,000

50,000

224,000

440,000

250,000

8,196,666

* 

Listed options. All other tranches of options shown above are unlisted

No person entitled to exercise the options had or has any right by virtue of the option to participate in any share issue of the 
company or of any other body corporate.

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There were no ordinary shares of Kazia Therapeutics Limited issued on the exercise of options during the year ended 30 June 
2019 and up to the date of this report. 

INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE OF OFFICERS

The consolidated entity has not indemnified the Directors and Executives of the consolidated entity for costs incurred, in their 
capacity as a Director or Executive, for which they may be held personally liable, except where there is a lack of good faith.

During the financial year, the consolidated entity paid a premium in respect of a contract to insure the Directors and Executives 
of the consolidated entity against a liability to the extent permitted by the Corporations Act 2001. The contract of insurance 
prohibits disclosure of the nature of the liability and the amount of the premium.

INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE OF AUDITOR

The consolidated entity has not, during or since the end of the financial year, indemnified or agreed to indemnify the auditor of 
the consolidated entity or any related entity against a liability incurred by the auditor.

During the financial year, the consolidated entity has not paid a premium in respect of a contract to insure the auditor of the 
consolidated entity or any related entity.

PROCEEDINGS ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY

No person has applied to the Court under section 237 of the Corporations Act 2001 for leave to bring proceedings on behalf of 
the company, or to intervene in any proceedings to which the company is a party for the purpose of taking responsibility on behalf 
of the company for all or part of those proceedings.

NON-AUDIT SERVICES

Details of the amounts paid or payable to the auditor for non-audit services provided during the financial year by the auditor are 
outlined in note 27 to the financial statements.

The Directors are satisfied that the provision of non-audit services during the financial year, by the auditor (or by another 
person or firm on the auditor’s behalf), is compatible with the general standard of independence for auditors imposed by the 
Corporations Act 2001.

The Directors are of the opinion that the services as disclosed in note 27 to the financial statements do not compromise the 
external auditor’s independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 for the following reasons:

•  all non-audit services have been reviewed and approved to ensure that they do not impact the integrity and objectivity of the 

auditor; and

•  none of the services undermine the general principles relating to auditor independence as set out in APES 110 Code of Ethics 
for Professional Accountants issued by the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board, including reviewing or 
auditing the auditor’s own work, acting in a management or decision-making capacity for the company, acting as advocate 
for the company or jointly sharing economic risks and rewards.

All services have been pre-approved by the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY WHO ARE FORMER PARTNERS OF GRANT THORNTON 
AUDIT PTY LTD

There are no officers of the company who are former partners of Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd.

AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION

A copy of the auditor’s independence declaration as required under section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 is set out 
immediately after this directors’ report.

AUDITOR

Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd continues in office in accordance with section 327 of the Corporations Act 2001.

This report is made in accordance with a resolution of Directors, pursuant to section 298(2)(a) of the Corporations Act 2001.

On behalf of the Directors

Mr Iain Ross

Chairman

29 August 2019

Sydney

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Dr James Garner

Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer

Kazia Therapeutics Limited 
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Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income 

Statement of financial position 

Statement of changes in equity 

Statement of cash flows 

Notes to the financial statements 

Directors’ declaration 

Independent auditor’s report to the members of Kazia Therapeutics Limited 

Shareholder information 

Page

36

37

38

40

41

65

66

71

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedGENERAL INFORMATION

The financial statements cover Kazia Therapeutics Limited as a consolidated entity consisting of Kazia Therapeutics Limited and 
the entities it controlled at the end of or during the year. The financial statements are presented in Australian dollars, which is 
Kazia Therapeutics Limited’s functional and presentation currency.

Kazia Therapeutics Limited is a listed public company limited by shares, incorporated and domiciled in Australia. Its registered 
office and principal place of business is:

Three International Towers, 
Level 24  
300 Barangaroo Avenue  
Sydney NSW 2000

A description of the nature of the consolidated entity’s operations and its principal activities are included in the Directors’ report, 
which is not part of the financial statements.

The financial statements were authorised for issue, in accordance with a resolution of directors, on 29 August 2019. The directors 
have the power to amend and reissue the financial statements.

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Other income

Finance income

Expenses

Research and development expense

General and administrative expense

Loss on disposal of fixed assets

Fair value losses on financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Impairment of financial assets

Loss on revaluation of contingent consideration

Loss before income tax benefit

Income tax benefit

Loss after income tax benefit for the year attributable to the owners of 
Kazia Therapeutics Limited

Other comprehensive income

Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss

Net exchange difference on translation of financial statements of foreign controlled 
entities, net of tax 

Other comprehensive income for the year, net of tax

Total comprehensive income for the year attributable to the owners of 
Kazia Therapeutics Limited

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

Note

5

6

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

- 

119,170 

1,465,428

12,989,303

99,619 

- 

(6,475,626)

(9,773,662)

(3,785,563)

(5,598,447)

(1,076)

(136,753)

(1,808,512)

(1,114,080)

- 

(2,830,030)

(62,729)

- 

(10,568,459)

(6,344,499)

8

298,195 

305,257 

(10,270,264)

(6,039,242)

(88,986)

(88,986)

(251,332)

(251,332)

(10,359,250)

(6,290,574)

Cents

(17.86)

(17.86)

Cents

(12.48)

(12.48)

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33

The above statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income should be read in conjunction with the accompanying 
notes

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STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOMEFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019Kazia Therapeutics LimitedAssets

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade and other receivables

Other

Total current assets

Non-current assets

Financial assets

Property, plant and equipment

Intangibles

Total non-current assets

Total assets

Liabilities

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

Provisions

Deferred income

Contingent consideration

Total current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Deferred tax

Contingent consideration

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity

Contributed equity

Other contributed equity

Reserves

Accumulated losses

Total equity

Note

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

5,433,868 

5,956,182 

1,710,703 

2,535,479 

369,604 

767,954 

7,514,175 

9,259,615 

167,814 

4,335,463 

- 

1,179 

13,494,483 

14,578,830 

13,662,297 

18,915,472 

21,176,472 

28,175,087 

1,763,940 

2,066,758 

136,352 

- 

- 

161,327 

138,188 

1,521,228 

1,900,292 

3,887,501 

3,710,983 

4,009,178 

1,370,431 

1,036,474 

5,081,414 

5,045,652 

6,981,706

8,933,153 

14,194,766

19,241,934

36,641,519 

31,575,824 

464,000 

464,000 

2,037,453 

1,843,228 

(24,948,206)

(14,641,118)

14,194,766

19,241,934 

The above statement of financial position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONAS AT 30 JUNE 2019Directors’ ReportAuditor’s Independence DeclarationFinancial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s ReportShareholder Information Annual Report 2019Issued
capital
$

Other 
contributed 
equity
$

Available-
for sale 
reserve
$

Foreign 
currency
translation
reserve
$

Share 
based 
payments
reserve
$

Accumulated

losses Total equity
$

$

Consolidated

Balance at 1 July 2017

193,769,409

600,000

(36,824)

(111,350)

2,077,512 (170,961,061)

25,337,686

Loss after income tax 
benefit for the year

Other comprehensive 
income for the year, net 
of tax

Total comprehensive 
income for the year

Transactions with 
owners in their capacity 
as owners:

Share-based payments 
(note 34)

-

-

-

-

Issue of shares (note 20)

29,600

Cancellation of share 
capital (note 20)

(162,223,185)

-

-

-

-

-

-

Cancellation of 
convertible note 
(note 35)

-

(136,000)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(251,332)

(251,332)

-

-

-

(6,039,242)

(6,039,242)

-

(251,332)

(6,039,242)

(6,290,574)

-

-

-

-

165,222

-

-

-

-

-

165,222

29,600

162,223,185

136,000

-

-

Balance at 30 June 2018

31,575,824

464,000

(36,824)

(362,682)

2,242,734

(14,641,118)

19,241,934

The above statement of changes in equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes

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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITYFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019Kazia Therapeutics LimitedIssued
capital
$

Other 
contributed 
equity
$

Available-
for sale 
reserve
$

Foreign 
currency
translation
reserve
$

Share 
based 
payments
reserve
$

Accumulated

losses Total equity
$

$

Consolidated

Balance at 1 July 2018

31,575,824

464,000

(36,824)

(362,682)

2,242,734

(14,641,118)

19,241,934

-

-

36,824

-

-

(36,824)

-

31,575,824

464,000

Adjustment for change 
in accounting policy 
(AASB 9 – note 2) 

Balance at 1 July 2018 - 
restated

Loss after income tax 
benefit for the year

Other comprehensive 
income for the year, net 
of tax

Total comprehensive 
income for the year

-

-

-

Shares issued (note 20)

5,405,760

Share issue costs 
(note 20)

Transactions with 
owners in their capacity 
as owners:

Share-based payments 
(note 34)

(340,065)

-

Balance at 30 June 2019

36,641,519

464,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(362,682)

2,242,734

(14,677,942)

19,241,934

-

-

(10,270,264)

(10,270,264)

(88,986)

(88,986)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

246,387

-

(88,986)

(10,270,264)

(10,359,250)

-

-

-

5,405,760

(340,065)

246,387

(451,668)

2,489,121 (24,948,206)

14,194,766

The above statement of changes in equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes

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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY (CONTINUED)FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019Directors’ ReportAuditor’s Independence DeclarationFinancial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s ReportShareholder Information Annual Report 2019Cash flows from operating activities

Loss after income tax benefit for the year

Adjustments for:

Depreciation and amortisation

Impairment of property, plant and equipment

Net loss on disposal of non-current assets

Share-based payments

Foreign exchange differences

Shares issued for no consideration

Gain on legal settlement

(Gain)/loss on contingent consideration

Fair value loss on financial assets 

Change in operating assets and liabilities:

Decrease in trade and other receivables

Decrease/(increase) in accrued revenue

Decrease in deferred tax

Decrease/(increase) in prepayments

Increase/(decrease) in trade and other payables

Decrease in other provisions

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows used in operating activities is represented by:

R&D cash rebate

Payments to suppliers

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Proceeds from legal settlement

Proceeds from disposal of shares 

Net cash from investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities

Proceeds from issue of shares

Net cash from financing activities

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the financial year

Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

Note

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

(10,270,264)

(6,039,242)

7

1,084,450 

1,547,033 

1,076 

- 

246,387 

- 

- 

- 

142,851 

136,753 

165,222 

(251,322)

29,600 

(8,410,680)

62,729 

(1,461,298)

1,808,511 

3,944,110 

(7,067,111)

(10,196,973)

824,776 

(138,188)

(298,195)

398,350 

(408,867)

(24,975)

1,723,575 

97,185 

(305,257)

(9,872)

87,806 

(57,700)

(6,714,210)

(8,661,236)

2,191,258 

3,973,052 

(8,905,468)

(12,634,288)

(6,714,210)

(8,661,236)

- 

150,000 

2,359,137 

2,359,137 

- 

150,000 

3,815,695 

3,815,695 

-

-

(539,378)

(8,511,236)

5,956,182 

14,454,784 

17,064 

12,634 

35

17

35

20

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the financial year

9

5,433,868 

5,956,182 

The above statement of cash flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes

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The financial statements cover Kazia Therapeutics Limited as a consolidated entity consisting of Kazia Therapeutics Limited and 
its subsidiaries. The financial statements are presented in Australian dollars, which is Kazia Therapeutics Limited’s functional and 
presentation currency.

Kazia Therapeutics Limited is a listed public company limited by shares, incorporated and domiciled in Australia. Its registered 
office and principal place of business is:

Three International Towers 
Level 24, 300 Barangaroo Avenue 
Sydney NSW 2000

The financial statements were authorised for issue, in accordance with a resolution of Directors, on 29 August 2019. The Directors 
have the power to amend and reissue the financial statements.

NOTE 2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below. These policies have 
been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

New or amended Accounting Standards and Interpretations adopted

The consolidated entity has adopted all of the new, revised or amending Accounting Standards and Interpretations issued by the 
Australian Accounting Standards Board (‘AASB’) that are mandatory for the current reporting period.

Any new, revised or amending Accounting Standards or Interpretations that are not yet mandatory have not been early adopted.

Any significant impact on the accounting policies of the consolidated entity from the adoption of these Accounting Standards 
and Interpretations are disclosed below. The adoption of these Accounting Standards and Interpretations did not have any 
significant impact on the financial performance or position of the consolidated entity.

The following Accounting Standards and Interpretations are most relevant to the consolidated entity:

AASB 9 Financial Instruments
AASB 9 Financial Instruments replaces AASB 139 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement requirements. It makes 
major changes to the previous guidance on the classification and measurement of financial assets and introduces an ‘expected 
credit loss’ model for impairment of financial assets. When adopting AASB 9, the Group has applied transitional relief and elected 
not to restate prior periods. Rather, differences arising from the adoption of AASB 9 in relation to classification, measurement, 
and impairment are recognised in opening retained earnings as at 1 July 2018. 

The impacts on the consolidated entity from the adoption of this accounting policy were as follows:

Listed equity investments - available-for-sale financial assets under AASB 139 included listed equity investments of $3,679,542 at 
30 June 2018. These were reclassified to fair value through profit or loss (FVPL) under AASB 9. The associated available-for-sale 
reserve, amounting to $36,824 at 1 July 2018, was reclassified to accumulated losses.

Trade and other receivables - these were classified as loans and receivables under AASB 139 and are now held at amortised cost 
under AASB 9. The R&D tax refund forms the majority of this balance. There was no impact on the financial statements as a result 
of this change.

There was no change to financial liabilities.

AASB 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
AASB 15 replaces AASB 118 Revenue, AASB 111 Construction Contracts and several revenue-related Interpretations. The new 
Standard has been applied from 1 July 2018.

As the consolidated entity does not enter into contracts with customers, the adoption of this standard has not had any impact on 
the financial statements.

Going concern

The consolidated entity incurred a loss after income tax of $10,270,264 (2018: $6,039,242), was in a net current asset position of 
$5,613,883 (2018: net current asset position of $5,372,114) and had net cash outflows from operating activities of $6,714,210 (2018: 
$8,661,236) for the year ended 30 June 2019. 

As at 30 June 2019 the consolidated entity had cash in hand and at bank of $5,433,868 and current assets of $7,514,175.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates continuity of normal activities and 
realisation of assets and settlement of liabilities in the normal course of business. As is often the case with drug development 
companies, the ability of the consolidated entity to continue its development activities as a going concern is dependent upon it 
deriving sufficient cash from investors, from licensing and partnering activities and from other sources of revenue such as grant 
funding. 

The directors have considered the cash flow forecasts and the funding requirements of the business and continues to explore 
grant funding, licensing opportunities and equity investment opportunities in the Company. The directors are confident that these 
strategies are appropriate to generate sufficient funding to allow the consolidated entity to continue as a going concern.

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Accordingly the directors have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis. Should the above assumptions 
not prove to be appropriate, there is material uncertainty whether the consolidated entity will continue as a going concern and 
therefore whether it will realise its assets and extinguish its liabilities in the normal course of business and at the amounts stated in 
these financial statements.

Basis of preparation

These general purpose financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards and 
Interpretations issued by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (‘AASB’) and the Corporations Act 2001, as appropriate for 
for-profit oriented entities. These financial statements also comply with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by 
the International Accounting Standards Board (‘IASB’).

The financial statements have been prepared on an accruals basis and under the historical cost conventions, except for listed 
equity investments which are carried at fair value.

Critical accounting estimates
The preparation of the financial statements requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management 
to exercise its judgement in the process of applying the consolidated entity’s accounting policies. The areas involving a higher 
degree of judgement or complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates are significant to the financial statements, are 
disclosed in note 3.

Parent entity information

In accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, these financial statements present the results of the consolidated entity only. 
Supplementary information about the parent entity is disclosed in note 31.

Principles of consolidation

The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets and liabilities of all subsidiaries of Kazia Therapeutics Limited 
(‘company’ or ‘parent entity’) as at 30 June 2019 and the results of all subsidiaries for the year then ended. Kazia Therapeutics 
Limited and its subsidiaries together are referred to in these financial statements as the ‘consolidated entity’.

Subsidiaries are all those entities over which the consolidated entity has control. The consolidated entity controls an entity when 
the consolidated entity is exposed to, or has rights to, variable returns from its involvement with the entity and has the ability to 
affect those returns through its power to direct the activities of the entity. Subsidiaries are fully consolidated from the date on 
which control is transferred to the consolidated entity. They are de-consolidated from the date that control ceases.

Intercompany transactions, balances and unrealised gains on transactions between entities in the consolidated entity are 
eliminated. Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of the impairment of the asset 
transferred. Accounting policies of subsidiaries have been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies 
adopted by the consolidated entity.

The acquisition of subsidiaries is accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. A change in ownership interest, 
without the loss of control, is accounted for as an equity transaction, where the difference is between the consideration 
transferred and the book value.

Where the consolidated entity loses control over a subsidiary, it derecognises the assets including goodwill, liabilities and non-
controlling interest in the subsidiary together with any cumulative translation differences recognised in equity. The consolidated 
entity recognises the fair value of the consideration received and the fair value of any investment retained together with any gain 
or loss in profit or loss.

Operating segments

Operating segments are presented using the ‘management approach’, where the information presented is on the same basis as 
the internal reports provided to the Chief Operating Decision Makers (‘CODM’). The CODM is responsible for the allocation of 
resources to operating segments and assessing their performance. The CODM is considered to be the Board of Directors.

Foreign currency translation

The financial statements are presented in Australian dollars, which is the consolidated entity’s functional and presentation 
currency.

Foreign currency transactions
Foreign currency transactions are translated into Australian dollars using the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the 
transactions. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such transactions and from the translation at 
financial year-end exchange rates of monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are recognised in profit or 
loss.

Foreign operations
The assets and liabilities of foreign operations are translated into Australian dollars using the exchange rates at the reporting 
date. The revenues and expenses of foreign operations are translated into Australian dollars using the average exchange rates, 
which approximate the rate at the date of the transaction, for the period. All resulting foreign exchange differences are recognised 
in other comprehensive income through the foreign currency reserve in equity.

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The foreign currency reserve is recognised in profit or loss when the foreign operation is disposed of.

Exchange differences arising on a monetary item that forms part of a reporting entity’s net investment in a foreign operation 
shall be recognised initially in other comprehensive income and reclassified from equity to profit or loss on disposal of the net 
investment.

Financial Instruments

Recognition and derecognition
Financial assets and financial liabilities are recognised when the Group becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the 
financial instrument and are measured initially at fair value adjusted by transactions costs, except for those carried at fair value 
through profit or loss, which are measured initially at fair value. Subsequent measurement of financial assets and financial 
liabilities are described below. Financial assets are derecognised when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the 
financial asset expire, or when the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards are transferred. A financial liability is 
derecognised when it is extinguished, discharged, cancelled or expires. 

Classification and initial measurement of financial assets 
Except for those trade receivables that do not contain a significant financing component and are measured at the transaction 
price in accordance with AASB 15, all financial assets are initially measured at fair value adjusted for transaction costs (where 
applicable).

Subsequent measurement of financial assets
For the purpose of subsequent measurement, financial assets are classified into the following categories upon initial recognition: 

• 

• 

financial assets at amortised cost 

financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (FVPL) 

Classifications are determined by both: 

•  The entity’s business model for managing the financial asset 

•  The contractual cash flow characteristics of the financial assets 

All income and expenses relating to financial assets that are recognised in profit or loss are presented within finance costs, 
finance income or other financial items, except for impairment of trade receivables which is presented within other expenses.

Financial assets at amortised cost
Financial assets are measured at amortised cost if the assets meet the following conditions (and are not designated as FVPL): 

• 

• 

they are held within a business model whose objective is to hold the financial assets and collect its contractual cash flows 

the contractual terms of the financial assets give rise to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the 
principal amount outstanding 

After initial recognition, these are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Discounting is omitted where 
the effect of discounting is immaterial. The Group’s cash and cash equivalents, trade and most other receivables fall into this 
category of financial instruments. 

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (FVPL)
Financial assets that are held within a business model other than ‘hold to collect’ or ‘hold to collect and sell’ are categorised at fair 
value through profit and loss. Further, irrespective of business model, financial assets whose contractual cash flows are not solely 
payments of principal and interest are accounted for at FVPL. The Group’s investments in equity instruments and derivatives fall 
under this category.

Impairment of financial assets
AASB 9’s new impairment model uses more forward looking information to recognize expected credit losses - the ‘expected 
credit losses (ECL) model’. The application of the new impairment model depends on whether there has been a significant 
increase in credit risk. The Group considers a broader range of information when assessing credit risk and measuring expected 
credit losses, including past events, current conditions, reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the expected 
collectability of the future cash flows of the instrument. 

In applying this forward-looking approach, a distinction is made between:

• 

• 

financial instruments that have not deteriorated significantly in credit quality since initial recognition or that have low credit risk 
(‘Stage 1’) and

financial instruments that have deteriorated significantly in credit quality since initial recognition and whose credit risk is not 
low (‘Stage 2’).

‘Stage 3’ would cover financial assets that have objective evidence of impairment at the reporting date. ‘12-month expected 
credit losses’ are recognised for the first category while ‘lifetime expected credit losses’ are recognised for the second category. 
Measurement of the expected credit losses is determined by a probability-weighted estimate of credit losses over the expected 
life of the financial instrument.

Classification and measurement of financial liabilities
As the accounting for financial liabilities remains largely unchanged from AASB 139, the Group’s financial liabilities were not 
impacted by the adoption of AASB 9. However, for completeness, the accounting policy is disclosed below.

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The Group’s financial liabilities comprise trade and other payables. Financial liabilities are initially measured at fair value, and, 
where applicable, adjusted for transaction costs unless the Group designated a financial liability at fair value through profit or 
loss. Subsequently, financial liabilities are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

All interest-related charges and, if applicable, changes in an instrument’s fair value that are reported in profit or loss are included 
within finance costs or finance income.

Investments and other financial assets (comparative period accounting policy)

Investments and other financial assets are initially measured at fair value. Transaction costs are included as part of the initial 
measurement, except for financial assets at fair value through profit or loss. They are subsequently measured at either amortised 
cost or fair value depending on their classification. Classification is determined based on the purpose of the acquisition and 
subsequent reclassification to other categories is restricted. 

Financial assets are derecognised when the rights to receive cash flows from the financial assets have expired or have been 
transferred and the consolidated entity has transferred substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership. 

Loans and receivables
Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active 
market. They are carried at amortised cost using the effective interest rate method. Gains and losses are recognised in profit or 
loss when the asset is derecognised or impaired. 

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (FVTPL)
Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (FVTPL) include financial assets that are either classified as held for trading or 
that meet certain conditions and are designated at FVTPL upon initial recognition. 

Assets in this category are measured at fair value with gains or losses recognised in profit or loss. The fair values of financial assets 
in this category are determined by reference to active market transactions or using a valuation technique where no active market 
exists. 

Available-for-sale financial assets
Available-for-sale financial assets are non-derivative financial assets, principally equity securities, that are either designated as 
available-for-sale or not classified as any other category. After initial recognition, fair value movements are recognised in other 
comprehensive income through the available-for-sale reserve in equity. Cumulative gain or loss previously reported in the 
available-for-sale reserve is recognised in profit or loss when the asset is derecognised or impaired. 

Impairment of financial assets
The consolidated entity assesses at the end of each reporting period whether there is any objective evidence that a financial 
asset or group of financial assets is impaired. Objective evidence includes significant financial difficulty of the issuer or obligor; a 
breach of contract such as default or delinquency in payments; the lender granting to a borrower concessions due to economic 
or legal reasons that the lender would not otherwise do; it becomes probable that the borrower will enter bankruptcy or other 
financial reorganisation; the disappearance of an active market for the financial asset; or observable data indicating that there is a 
measurable decrease in estimated future cash flows. 

The amount of the impairment allowance for loans and receivables carried at amortised cost is the difference between the asset’s 
carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted at the original effective interest rate. If there is a 
reversal of impairment, the reversal cannot exceed the amortised cost that would have been recognised had the impairment not 
been made and is reversed to profit or loss.

Available-for-sale financial assets are considered impaired when there has been a significant or prolonged decline in value below 
initial cost. Subsequent increments in value are recognised in other comprehensive income through the available-for-sale reserve.

Finance Income
Interest revenue is recognised as interest accrues using the effective interest method. This is a method of calculating the 
amortised cost of a financial asset and allocating the interest income over the relevant period using the effective interest rate, 
which is the rate that exactly discounts estimated future cash receipts through the expected life of the financial asset to the net 
carrying amount of the financial asset.

Revenue recognition

Revenue from contracts with customers
The Group does not earn revenue from contracts with customers.

Other revenue
Other revenue is recognised when it is received or when the right to receive payment is established.

Grant Income

The R&D Tax Incentive is a government program which helps to offset some of the incurred costs of R&D. Eligible expenditure 
incurred under the scheme in a financial year attracts an additional 43.5% tax deduction, and for a group earning income of less 
than $20 million, the cash value of the additional deduction is remitted to the taxpayer. In accordance with AASB 120, as the 
compensation relates to expenses already incurred, it is recognised in profit or loss of the period in which it becomes receivable. 
Accordingly the group accounts for the R&D Tax Incentive in the same year as the expenses to which it relates.

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Income tax

The income tax expense or benefit for the period is the tax payable on that period’s taxable income based on the applicable 
income tax rate for each jurisdiction, adjusted by changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities attributable to temporary 
differences, unused tax losses and the adjustment recognised for prior periods, where applicable.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognised for temporary differences at the tax rates expected to apply when the assets are 
recovered or liabilities are settled, based on those tax rates that are enacted or substantively enacted, except for:

•  When the deferred income tax asset or liability arises from the initial recognition of goodwill or an asset or liability in a 

transaction that is not a business combination and that, at the time of the transaction, affects neither the accounting nor 
taxable profits; or

•  When the taxable temporary difference is associated with interests in subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures, and the timing 
of the reversal can be controlled and it is probable that the temporary difference will not reverse in the foreseeable future. 

Deferred tax assets are recognised for deductible temporary differences and unused tax losses only if it is probable that future 
taxable amounts will be available to utilise those temporary differences and losses.

The carrying amount of recognised and unrecognised deferred tax assets are reviewed each reporting date. Deferred tax assets 
recognised are reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that future taxable profits will be available for the carrying 
amount to be recovered. Previously unrecognised deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that there 
are future taxable profits available to recover the asset.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset only where there is a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets against 
current tax liabilities and deferred tax assets against deferred tax liabilities; and they relate to the same taxable authority on either 
the same taxable entity or different taxable entities which intend to settle simultaneously.

Kazia Therapeutics Limited (the ‘parent entity’) and its wholly-owned Australian controlled entities have formed an income 
tax consolidated group under the tax consolidation regime. Kazia Therapeutics Limited as the parent entity discloses all of 
the deferred tax assets of the tax consolidated group in relation to tax losses carried forward (after elimination of inter-group 
transactions). The tax consolidated group has applied the ‘separate taxpayer in the group’ allocation approach in determining the 
appropriate amount of taxes to allocate to members of the tax consolidated group.

As the tax consolidation group continues to generate tax losses there has been no reason for the company to enter a tax funding 
agreement with members of the tax consolidation group.

Current and non-current classification

Assets and liabilities are presented in the statement of financial position based on current and non-current classification. 

An asset is current when: it is expected to be realised or intended to be sold or consumed in normal operating cycle; it is held 
primarily for the purpose of trading; it is expected to be realised within 12 months after the reporting period; or the asset is cash 
or cash equivalent unless restricted from being exchanged or used to settle a liability for at least 12 months after the reporting 
period. All other assets are classified as non-current. 

A liability is current when: it is expected to be settled in normal operating cycle; it is held primarily for the purpose of trading; 
it is due to be settled within 12 months after the reporting period; or there is no unconditional right to defer the settlement of the 
liability for at least 12 months after the reporting period. All other liabilities are classified as non-current. 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are always classified as non-current.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents includes cash on hand, deposits held at call with financial institutions, other short-term, highly liquid 
investments with original maturities of three months or less that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and which are 
subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.

Property, plant and equipment

Plant and equipment is stated at historical cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment. Historical cost includes 
expenditure that is directly attributable to the acquisition of the items.

Depreciation is calculated on a straight-line basis to write off the net cost of each item of plant and equipment over their expected 
useful lives from 2.5 to 10 years.

The residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at each reporting date. 

An item of property, plant and equipment is derecognised upon disposal or when there is no future economic benefit to the 
consolidated entity. Gains and losses between the carrying amount and the disposal proceeds are taken to profit or loss.

Research and development

Expenditure during the research phase of a project is recognised as an expense when incurred. Development costs are capitalised 
only when technical feasibility studies identify that the project will deliver future economic benefits and these benefits can be 
measured reliably. 

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Leases

The determination of whether an arrangement is or contains a lease is based on the substance of the arrangement and requires 
an assessment of whether the fulfilment of the arrangement is dependent on the use of a specific asset or assets and the 
arrangement conveys a right to use the asset. 

A distinction is made between finance leases, which effectively transfer from the lessor to the lessee substantially all the risks and 
benefits incidental to ownership of leased assets, and operating leases, under which the lessor effectively retains substantially all 
such risks and benefits.

Finance leases are capitalised. A lease asset and liability are established at the fair value of the leased assets, or if lower, the 
present value of minimum lease payments. Lease payments are allocated between the principal component of the lease liability 
and the finance costs, so as to achieve a constant rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. 

Leased assets acquired under a finance lease are depreciated over the asset’s useful life or over the shorter of the asset’s useful 
life and the lease term if there is no reasonable certainty that the consolidated entity will obtain ownership at the end of the lease 
term. 

Operating lease payments, net of any incentives received from the lessor, are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over 
the term of the lease. 

Intangible assets

Intangible assets acquired as part of a business combination, other than goodwill, are initially measured at their fair value at the 
date of the acquisition. Intangible assets acquired separately are initially recognised at cost. Indefinite life intangible assets are not 
amortised and are subsequently measured at cost less any impairment. Finite life intangible assets are subsequently measured 
at cost less amortisation and any impairment. The gains or losses recognised in profit or loss arising from the derecognition of 
intangible assets are measured as the difference between net disposal proceeds and the carrying amount of the intangible asset. 
The method and useful lives of finite life intangible assets are reviewed annually. Changes in the expected pattern of consumption 
or useful life are accounted for prospectively by changing the amortisation method or period. 

Patents and trademarks
Significant costs associated with patents and intellectual property are deferred and amortised on a straight-line basis over the 
period of their expected benefit, being their finite useful life of 5 years. 

Licensing agreement for GDC-0084
The Licensing Agreement asset was initially brought to account at fair value, and is being amortised on a straight-line basis over 
the period of its expected benefit, being the remaining life of the patent, which was15 years from the date of acquisition. 

Impairment of non-financial assets

Non-financial assets with finite useful lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate 
that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. An impairment loss is recognised for the amount by which the asset’s carrying 
amount exceeds its recoverable amount. 

Recoverable amount is the higher of an asset’s fair value less costs of disposal and value-in-use. The value-in-use is the present 
value of the estimated future cash flows relating to the asset using a pre-tax discount rate specific to the asset or cash-generating 
unit to which the asset belongs. Assets that do not have independent cash flows are grouped together to form a cash-generating 
unit. 

Compound financial instruments

Subsequent to initial recognition, the liability component of a compound financial instrument is measured at amortised cost 
using the effective interest rate method, whereas the equity component is not remeasured. Interest, gains and losses relating to 
the financial liability are recognised in profit or loss. On conversion, the financial liability is reclassified to equity; no gain or loss is 
recognised on conversion. 

Provisions

Provisions are recognised when the consolidated entity has a present (legal or constructive) obligation as a result of a past event, 
it is probable the consolidated entity will be required to settle the obligation, and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount 
of the obligation. The amount recognised as a provision is the best estimate of the consideration required to settle the present 
obligation at the reporting date, taking into account the risks and uncertainties surrounding the obligation. If the time value of 
money is material, provisions are discounted using a current pre-tax rate specific to the liability. The increase in the provision 
resulting from the passage of time is recognised as a finance cost. 

Employee benefits

Short-term employee benefits
Liabilities for wages and salaries, including non-monetary benefits, annual leave and long service leave expected to be settled 
within 12 months of the reporting date are measured at the amounts expected to be paid when the liabilities are settled. 

Other long-term employee benefits
The liability for annual leave and long service leave not expected to be settled within 12 months of the reporting date is measured 
as the present value of expected future payments to be made in respect of services provided by employees up to the reporting 

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date using the projected unit credit method. Consideration is given to expected future wage and salary levels, experience of 
employee departures and periods of service. Expected future payments are discounted using market yields at the reporting date 
on high quality corporate bonds with terms to maturity and currency that match, as closely as possible, the estimated future cash 
outflows. 

Defined contribution superannuation expense
Contributions to defined contribution superannuation plans are expensed in the period in which they are incurred. 

Share-based payments
Equity-settled share-based compensation benefits are provided to employees under the terms of the Employee Share Option 
Plan (‘ESOP’) and consultants as compensation for services performed.

Equity-settled transactions are awards of shares, or options over shares, that are provided to employees in exchange for the 
rendering of services.

The cost of equity-settled transactions are measured at fair value on grant date. Fair value is independently determined using 
either the Binomial or Black-Scholes option pricing model that takes into account the exercise price, the term of the option, the 
impact of dilution, the share price at grant date and expected price volatility of the underlying share, the expected dividend yield 
and the risk free interest rate for the term of the option, together with non-vesting conditions that do not determine whether the 
consolidated entity receives the services that entitle the employees to receive payment. No account is taken of any other vesting 
conditions.

The cost of equity-settled transactions are recognised as an expense with a corresponding increase in equity over the vesting 
period. The cumulative charge to profit or loss is calculated based on the grant date fair value of the award, the best estimate of 
the number of awards that are likely to vest and the expired portion of the vesting period. The amount recognised in profit or loss 
for the period is the cumulative amount calculated at each reporting date less amounts already recognised in previous periods.

•  during the vesting period, the liability at each reporting date is the fair value of the award at that date multiplied by the 

expired portion of the vesting period.

• 

from the end of the vesting period until settlement of the award, the liability is the full fair value of the liability at the reporting 
date.

Market conditions are taken into consideration in determining fair value. Therefore any awards subject to market conditions are 
considered to vest irrespective of whether or not that market condition has been met, provided all other conditions are satisfied.

If equity-settled awards are modified, as a minimum an expense is recognised as if the modification has not been made. An 
additional expense is recognised, over the remaining vesting period, for any modification that increases the total fair value of the 
share-based compensation benefit as at the date of modification.

If the non-vesting condition is within the control of the consolidated entity or employee, the failure to satisfy the condition is 
treated as a cancellation. If the condition is not within the control of the consolidated entity or employee and is not satisfied 
during the vesting period, any remaining expense for the award is recognised over the remaining vesting period, unless the award 
is forfeited.

If equity-settled awards are cancelled, it is treated as if it has vested on the date of cancellation, and any remaining expense 
is recognised immediately. If a new replacement award is substituted for the cancelled award, the cancelled and new award is 
treated as if they were a modification.

Finance costs

Finance costs attributable to qualifying assets are capitalised as part of the asset. All other finance costs are expensed in the 
period in which they are incurred, including interest on short-term and long-term borrowings.

Fair value measurement

When an asset or liability, financial or non-financial, is measured at fair value for recognition or disclosure purposes, the fair value 
is based on the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market 
participants at the measurement date; and assumes that the transaction will take place either: in the principal market; or in the 
absence of a principal market, in the most advantageous market.

Fair value is measured using the assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability, assuming 
they act in their economic best interest. For non-financial assets, the fair value measurement is based on its highest and best use. 
Valuation techniques that are appropriate in the circumstances and for which sufficient data are available to measure fair value, 
are used, maximising the use of relevant observable inputs and minimising the use of unobservable inputs.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified, into three levels, using a fair value hierarchy that reflects the significance 
of the inputs used in making the measurements. Classifications are reviewed each reporting date and transfers between levels are 
determined based on a reassessment of the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

For recurring and non-recurring fair value measurements, external valuers may be used when internal expertise is either not 
available or when the valuation is deemed to be significant. External valuers are selected based on market knowledge and 
reputation. Where there is a significant change in fair value of an asset or liability from one period to another, an analysis is 
undertaken, which includes a verification of the major inputs applied in the latest valuation and a comparison, where applicable, 
with external sources of data.

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Issued capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity.

Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares or options, including share based payments relating to the issue 
of shares are, shown in equity as a deduction, net of tax, from the proceeds.

Earnings per share

Basic earnings per share
Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the profit attributable to the owners of Kazia Therapeutics Limited, excluding 
any costs of servicing equity other than ordinary shares, by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during 
the financial year, adjusted for bonus elements in ordinary shares issued during the financial year.

Diluted earnings per share
Diluted earnings per share adjusts the figures used in the determination of basic earnings per share to take into account the after 
income tax effect of interest and other financing costs associated with dilutive potential ordinary shares and the weighted average 
number of shares assumed to have been issued for no consideration in relation to dilutive potential ordinary shares.

Goods and Services Tax (‘GST’) and other similar taxes

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of associated GST, unless the GST incurred is not recoverable 
from the tax authority. In this case it is recognised as part of the cost of the acquisition of the asset or as part of the expense.

Receivables and payables are stated inclusive of the amount of GST receivable or payable. The net amount of GST recoverable 
from, or payable to, the tax authority is included in other receivables or other payables in the statement of financial position.

Cash flows are presented on a gross basis. The GST components of cash flows arising from investing or financing activities which 
are recoverable from, or payable to the tax authority, are presented as operating cash flows.

Commitments and contingencies are disclosed net of the amount of GST recoverable from, or payable to, the tax authority.

New Accounting Standards and Interpretations not yet mandatory or early adopted

Australian Accounting Standards and Interpretations that have recently been issued or amended but are not yet mandatory, have 
not been early adopted by the consolidated entity for the annual reporting period ended 30 June 2019. The consolidated entity’s 
assessment of the impact of these new or amended Accounting Standards and Interpretations, most relevant to the consolidated 
entity, are set out below.

AASB 16 Leases
This standard is applicable to annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019. The standard replaces AASB 117 
‘Leases’ and for lessees will eliminate the classifications of operating leases and finance leases. Subject to exceptions, a ‘right-
of-use’ asset will be capitalised in the statement of financial position, measured as the present value of the unavoidable future 
lease payments to be made over the lease term. The exceptions relate to short-term leases of 12 months or less and leases of 
low-value assets (such as personal computers and small office furniture) where an accounting policy choice exists whereby either 
a ‘right-of-use’ asset is recognised or lease payments are expensed to profit or loss as incurred. A liability corresponding to the 
capitalised lease will also be recognised, adjusted for lease prepayments, lease incentives received, initial direct costs incurred 
and an estimate of any future restoration, removal or dismantling costs. Straight-line operating lease expense recognition will be 
replaced with a depreciation charge for the leased asset (included in operating costs) and an interest expense on the recognised 
lease liability (included in finance costs). In the earlier periods of the lease, the expenses associated with the lease under AASB 16 
will be higher when compared to lease expenses under AASB 117. However EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation 
and Amortisation) results will be improved as the operating expense is replaced by interest expense and depreciation in profit 
or loss under AASB 16. For classification within the statement of cash flows, the lease payments will be separated into both a 
principal (financing activities) and interest (either operating or financing activities) component. For lessor accounting, the standard 
does not substantially change how a lessor accounts for leases. 

The Standard will not have a material impact on the transactions and balances recognised in the financial statements when it is 
first adopted for the year ending 30 June 2020, because the group is not a party to any material leases.

NOTE 3. CRITICAL ACCOUNTING JUDGEMENTS, ESTIMATES AND ASSUMPTIONS

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect 
the reported amounts in the financial statements. Management continually evaluates its judgements and estimates in relation to 
assets, liabilities, contingent liabilities, revenue and expenses. Management bases its judgements, estimates and assumptions on 
historical experience and on other various factors, including expectations of future events, management believes to be reasonable 
under the circumstances. The resulting accounting judgements and estimates will seldom equal the related actual results. The 
judgements, estimates and assumptions that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of 
assets and liabilities (refer to the respective notes) within the next financial year are discussed as follows:

Research and development expenses

The Directors do not consider the development programs to be sufficiently advanced to reliably determine the economic benefits 
and technical feasibility to justify capitalisation of development costs. These costs have been recognised as an expense when 
incurred.

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ASSUMPTIONS (CONTINUED)

Research and development expenses relate primarily to the cost of conducting human clinical and pre-clinical trials. Clinical 
development costs are a significant component of research and development expenses. Estimates have been used in determining 
the expense liability under certain clinical trial contracts where services have been performed but not yet invoiced. Generally the 
costs, and therefore estimates, associated with clinical trial contracts are based on the number of patients, drug administration 
cycles, the type of treatment and the outcome being measured. The length of time before actual amounts can be determined will 
vary depending on length of the patient cycles and the timing of the invoices by the clinical trial partners.

Clinical trial expenses

Estimates have been used in determining the expense liability under certain clinical trial contracts being performed but not yet 
invoiced.

Share-based payment transactions

The consolidated entity measures the cost of equity-settled transactions with employees by reference to the fair value of the 
equity instruments at the date at which they are granted. The fair value is determined by using the Black Scholes model taking 
into account the terms and conditions upon which the instruments were granted. The accounting estimates and assumptions 
relating to equity-settled share-based payments would have no impact on the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the 
next annual reporting period but may impact profit or loss and equity.

Fair value measurement hierarchy

The consolidated entity is required to classify all assets and liabilities, measured at fair value, using a three level hierarchy, based 
on the lowest level of input that is significant to the entire fair value measurement, being: Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) 
in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the entity can access at the measurement date; Level 2: Inputs other 
than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly; and Level 3: 
Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. Considerable judgement is required to determine what is significant to fair value and 
therefore which category the asset or liability is placed in can be subjective.

Research and development tax rebate

The R&D Tax Incentive is recognised when a reliable estimate of the amounts receivable can be made. For the year ended 
30 June 2019 the group has estimated the rebate which will be received in early 2020 and has accrued that amount as income in 
the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income.

Recovery of deferred tax assets

Deferred tax assets are recognised for deductible temporary differences only if the consolidated entity considers it is probable 
that future taxable amounts will be available to utilise those temporary differences and losses. There have been no deferred tax 
assets recognised in the financial statements.

Business combinations

The consolidated entity entered into a business combination in a prior year. The transaction was complex, involving the licensing 
of an asset from one party and the purchase of a company from another party. Significant judgement was required in determining 
that the transaction was a business combination and in relation to the identification and valuation of assets and liabilities 
acquired.

Contingent consideration

The fair value of contingent consideration is dependent on the key assumptions including probability of milestones occurring, 
timing of settlement and discount rates.

NOTE 4. OPERATING SEGMENTS

Identification of reportable operating segments

The consolidated entity’s operating segment is based on the internal reports that are reviewed and used by the Board of 
Directors (being the Chief Operating Decision Makers (‘CODM’)) in assessing performance and in determining the allocation of 
resources.

The consolidated entity operates in the pharmaceutical research and development business. There are no operating segments for 
which discrete financial information exists.

The information reported to the CODM, on at least a quarterly basis, is the consolidated results as shown in the statement of 
profit or loss and other comprehensive income and statement of financial position.

Major customers
During the current and prior financial year there were no major customers. 

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Bank interest 

NOTE 6. OTHER INCOME

Net foreign exchange gain

Payroll tax rebate

Subsidies and grants

Reimbursement of expenses

Gain on legal settlement (note 35)

Research and development rebate

Gain on revaluation of contingent consideration

Other income

NOTE 7. EXPENSES

Loss before income tax includes the following specific expenses:

Depreciation

Leasehold improvements

Property, plant and equipment 

Total depreciation

Amortisation

Patents and intellectual property

Software

GDC licensing agreement

Total amortisation

Total depreciation and amortisation

Impairment

Leasehold improvements

Finance costs

Interest and finance charges paid/payable

Net foreign exchange loss

Net foreign exchange loss

Rental expense relating to operating leases

Minimum lease payments

Superannuation expense

Defined contribution superannuation expense

Employee benefits expense excluding superannuation

Employee benefits expense excluding superannuation

Other expenses

Revaluation of contingent consideration

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Consolidated

2019
$

-

2018
$

119,170 

Consolidated

2019
$

- 

318 

9,413 

24,614 

2018
$

223,998 

235 

685,033 

8,129 

- 

8,410,680 

1,431,083 

2,200,000 

- 

1,461,228 

1,465,428

12,989,303

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

- 

103 

103 

- 

- 

191,884 

18,759 

210,643 

249,906 

2,138 

1,084,347 

1,084,346 

1,084,347 

1,336,390 

1,084,450 

1,547,033 

- 

- 

17,835 

142,851 

70 

- 

78,521 

300,528 

128,271 

170,456 

1,395,831 

2,212,562 

62,729 

- 

Kazia Therapeutics LimitedNOTE 8. INCOME TAX BENEFIT

Numerical reconciliation of income tax benefit and tax at the statutory rate

Loss before income tax benefit

Tax at the statutory tax rate of 27.5%

Tax effect amounts which are not deductible/(taxable) in calculating taxable income:

Share-based payments

Gain/loss on revaluation of contingent consideration

Research and Development claim

Tax losses and timing differences not recognised

Income tax benefit

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

(10,568,459)

(6,344,499)

(2,906,326)

(1,744,737)

67,756 

17,250 

393,548 

45,436 

(401,837)

605,000 

(2,427,772)

(1,496,138)

2,129,577 

(298,195)

1,190,881 

(305,257)

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

Tax losses not recognised

Unused tax losses for which no deferred tax asset has been recognised – Australia 

57,049,913 

50,330,712 

Potential tax benefit at 27.5%

Unused tax losses for which no deferred tax asset has been recognised – US 
(in Australian dollars)

Potential tax benefit at statutory tax rates at 21% - US (in Australian dollars)

NOTE 9. CURRENT ASSETS - CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Cash at bank and on hand 

Short-term deposits 

NOTE 10. CURRENT ASSETS - TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES

Trade receivables

R&D tax rebate receivable

Less: Allowance for expected credit losses

Other receivables

Deposits held

Less: Provision for impairment of deposits held

15,688,726 

13,840,946 

2,365,967 

2,525,188 

496,853 

530,289 

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

833,868 

2,956,182 

4,600,000 

3,000,000 

5,433,868 

5,956,182 

Consolidated

2019
$

16,767 

2018
$

1,130 

1,439,825 

2,200,000 

(16,767)

- 

1,439,825 

2,201,130 

112,017 

563,982 

(405,121)

119,890 

608,532 

(394,073)

1,710,703 

2,535,479 

Deposits held included a guarantee to the value of €250,000 ($387,657) for the “APO Trend” case. Please refer to note 28 for 
further information on this matter.

Allowance for expected credit losses

The consolidated entity has recognised a loss of $16,767 (2018: loss of nil) in profit or loss in respect of impairment of receivables 
(excluding ‘deposits held’) for the year ended 30 June 2019.

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Prepayments

NOTE 12. NON-CURRENT ASSETS - FINANCIAL ASSETS

Listed ordinary shares – FVTPL (2018: Available for Sale)

Unlisted shares and options - FVTPL

Refer to note 25 for further information on fair value measurement.

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

369,604 

767,954 

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

25,014 

3,679,542 

142,800 

655,921 

167,814 

4,335,463 

NOTE 13. NON-CURRENT ASSETS - PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Plant and equipment - at cost

Less: Accumulated depreciation

Reconciliations

Consolidated

2019
$

- 

- 

- 

2018
$

1,845 

(666)

1,179 

Reconciliations of the written down values at the beginning and end of the current and previous financial year are set out below:

Leasehold 
improvement
$

Plant and 
equipment
$

383,614

6,705

(55,584)

(142,851)

(191,884)

-

-

-

-

105,991

2,480

(88,533)

-

(18,759)

1,179

(1,076)

(103)

-

Total
$

489,605

9,185

(144,117)

(142,851)

(210,643)

1,179

(1,076)

(103)

-

Consolidated

Balance at 1 July 2017

Additions

Disposals

Impairment of assets

Depreciation expense

Balance at 30 June 2018

Disposals

Depreciation expense

Balance at 30 June 2019

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Patents and intellectual property - at cost 

Less: Accumulated amortisation

Licensing agreement - at acquired fair value

Less: Accumulated amortisation

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

2,850,517 

2,850,517 

(2,850,517)

(2,850,517)

- 

- 

16,407,788 

16,407,789 

(2,913,305)

(1,828,959)

13,494,483 

14,578,830 

13,494,483 

14,578,830 

Reconciliations

Reconciliations of the written down values at the beginning and end of the current and previous financial year are set out below:

Consolidated

Balance at 1 July 2017

Disposals

Amortisation expense

Balance at 30 June 2018

Amortisation expense

Balance at 30 June 2019

Patents and 
intellectual 
property
$

GDC licensing 
agreement
$

Total
$

249,906

15,663,176

15,918,354

-

-

(3,134)

(249,906)

(1,084,346)

(1,336,390)

-

-

-

14,578,830

14,578,830

(1,084,347)

(1,084,347)

13,494,483

13,494,483

Software
$

5,272

(3,134)

(2,138)

-

-

-

NOTE 15. CURRENT LIABILITIES - TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES

Trade payables

Accrued payables

Other current liability

Refer to note 24 for further information on financial instruments.

NOTE 16. CURRENT LIABILITIES - PROVISIONS

Employee benefits

Lease make good

Movements in provisions

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

1,049,944 

1,406,887 

713,517 

479 

575,871 

84,000 

1,763,940 

2,066,758 

Consolidated

2019
$

136,352 

- 

136,352 

2018
$

90,744 

70,583 

161,327 

Movements in each class of provision during the current financial year, other than employee benefits, are set out below:

Consolidated - 2019

Carrying amount at the start of the year

Unused amounts reversed

Carrying amount at the end of the year

Lease make 
good 

$

70,583

(70,583)

-

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Contingent consideration

NOTE 18. NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES - DEFERRED TAX

Deferred tax liability associated with Licensing Agreement

Amount expected to be settled within 12 months

Amount expected to be settled after more than 12 months

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

- 

1,521,228 

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

3,710,983 

4,009,178 

298,195 

305,257 

3,412,788 

3,703,921 

3,710,983 

4,009,178 

NOTE 19. NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES - CONTINGENT CONSIDERATION

Contingent consideration

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

1,370,431 

1,036,474 

During the 2017 financial year, the consolidated entity acquired 100% of the issued shares in Glioblast Pty Ltd, a privately-
held, neuro-oncology-focused Australian biotechnology company. On the same day, Kazia entered into a worldwide licensing 
agreement with Genentech to develop and commercialise GDC-0084.

The Glioblast acquisition contains four contingent milestone payments, the first two milestone payments are to be settled with 
Kazia shares, and the third and fourth milestone payments are to be settled with either cash or Kazia shares at the discretion of 
Kazia. Milestone 1 has now been paid out, and Milestone 3 has lapsed.

The Genentech Agreement comprises of one milestone payment payable on the first commercial licensed product sale.

The range of outcomes of contingent consideration are summarised below:

Milestone

Milestone 2

Milestone 4

Milestone 5

Total

Contingent consideration 

High

Low

1,250,000 

1,250,000 

4,199,000 

3,400,000 

1,394,000 

1,394,000 

6,843,000 

6,044,000 

Each milestone payment is probability weighted for valuation purposes. The milestone payments are discounted to present value, 
using a discount rate of 35% per annum, if they are expected to be achieved more than 12 months after the valuation date. The 
contingent consideration was revalued at 30 June 2019 to take into account revised estimated probabilities and timelines of 
certain milestones being achieved, and a portion of the discount has unwound with the resultant loss on contingent consideration 
being recognised in profit and loss.

Kazia is also required to pay royalties to Genentech in relation to net sales. These payments are related to future financial 
performance, and are not considered as part of the consideration in relation to the Genentech Agreement.

NOTE 20. EQUITY - CONTRIBUTED EQUITY

Consolidated

2019
Shares

2018
Shares

2019
$

2018
$

Ordinary shares - fully paid

62,166,673

48,409,621

36,641,519

31,575,824 

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Movements in ordinary share capital

Details

Balance

Date

Shares

Issue price

$

1 July 2017

483,287,914

193,769,409

Share consolidation - note 1

17 November 2017

(434,958,293)

Issue of shares to Scientific Advisory Board

30 November 2017

80,000

$0.000

$0.370 

-

29,600

Cancellation of share capital - note 2

31 December 2017

-

$0.000

(162,223,185)

Balance

Share placement

30 June 2018

48,409,621

31,575,824

24 October 2018

8,900,001

$0.380 

3,382,000

Milestone 1 shares issued in connection with 
purchase of Glioblast Pty Limited (GDC-0084)

9 November 2018

2,820,824

$0.440 

1,250,000

Issued under Share Purchase Plan

23 November 2018

2,036,227

Share issue transaction costs

Balance

Ordinary shares

30 June 2019

62,166,673

-

$0.380 

$0.000

773,760

(340,065)

36,641,519

Note 1 - Share consolidation of 10 to 1, which was approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 15 
November 2017, occurred in the prior financial year.

Note 2 - Section 258F of the Corporations Act allows a company to reduce its share capital by cancelling any paid-up 
share capital which is lost or is not represented by available assets. The directors believe that $162,223,185 of the parent 
entity’s share capital satisfies the criteria in Section 258F of the Corporations Act and accordingly this amount of the 
ordinary share capital was cancelled in the prior financial year.

The shares issued in connection with the purchase of Glioblast Pty Limited constituted a non-cash transaction, and 
accordingly this transaction is not reflected in the Statement of Cash Flows.

Ordinary shares

Ordinary shares entitle the holder to participate in dividends and the proceeds on the winding up of the company in 
proportion to the number of and amounts paid on the shares held. The fully paid ordinary shares have no par value and 
the company does not have a limited amount of authorised capital.

On a show of hands every member present at a meeting in person or by proxy shall have one vote and upon a poll each 
share shall have one vote.

Share buy-back

There is no current on-market share buy-back.

Capital risk management

The consolidated entity’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard its ability to continue as a going concern, 
so that it can provide returns for shareholders and benefits for other stakeholders and to maintain an optimum capital 
structure to reduce the cost of capital.

Capital is regarded as total equity, as recognised in the statement of financial position, plus net debt. Net debt is 
calculated as total borrowings less cash and cash equivalents.

The capital structure of the consolidated entity consists of cash and cash equivalents and equity attributable to equity 
holders. The overall strategy of the consolidated entity is to continue its drug development programs, which depends on 
raising sufficient funds, through a variety of sources including issuing of additional share capital, as may be required from 
time to time.

The capital risk management policy remains unchanged from the prior year.

NOTE 21. EQUITY - OTHER CONTRIBUTED EQUITY

Convertible note - Triaxial

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

464,000 

464,000 

On 4 December 2014, the consolidated entity and the convertible note holder (‘Triaxial’) signed a Convertible Note Deed 
Poll (‘Deed’) which superseded the precedent Loan Agreement between Triaxial shareholders and the consolidated entity. 
The Deed extinguishes the liability created by the Loan Agreement and provides that the Convertible Notes will convert 
into a pre-determined number of ordinary shares on the achievement of defined milestones established in the schedule of 
the Deed. Accordingly the convertible note has been reclassified as an equity instrument rather than debt instrument.

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During the financial year ended 30 June 2017, the Company reached two milestones triggering the conversion of a portion 
of its convertible note as follows;

•  on 11 August 2016 the Company announced the submission of an IND application. On 10 September 2016, the Company 
received a letter from the FDA advising the study may proceed triggering conversion of 20,000,000 ordinary shares.

•  on 31 October 2016, the Company announced it had licensed a Phase II ready molecule triggering the conversion of 

16,000,000 ordinary shares.

During the financial year ended 30 June 2018, a portion of the convertible notes was extinguished.

The remaining portion of the convertible note will be exercised at the holders’ discretion on completion of Phase II clinical 
trial or achieving Breakthrough Designation, and would convert to 1,856,000 ordinary shares if converted. Completion will 
be deemed to occur upon the receipt by the consolidated entity of a signed study report or notification of the designation. 
There is a possibility for an early conversion of the convertible notes if a third party acquires more than 50% of the issued 
capital of the consolidated entity.

NOTE 22. EQUITY - RESERVES

Foreign currency translation reserve

The reserve is used to recognise exchange differences arising from translation of the financial statements of foreign 
operations to Australian dollars.

Share-based payments reserve

The reserve is used to recognise the value of equity benefits provided to employees and executive directors as part of their 
remuneration, and other parties as part of their compensation for services.

NOTE 23. EQUITY - DIVIDENDS

Dividends

There were no dividends paid, recommended or declared during the current or previous financial year.

Franking credits

There were no franking credits available at the reporting date.

NOTE 24. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Financial risk management objectives

The consolidated entity’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market risk, credit risk and liquidity risk. The 
consolidated entity uses different methods to measure and manage the different types of risks to which it is exposed. These 
methods include monitoring the levels of exposure to interest rates and foreign exchange, ageing analysis and monitoring of 
specific credit allowances to manage credit risk, and, rolling cash flow forecasts to manage liquidity risk.

Market risk

Foreign currency risk
The consolidated entity operates internationally and is exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures, 
primarily with respect to the US dollars (‘USD’). Foreign exchange risk arises from future transactions and recognised assets and 
liabilities denominated in a currency that is not the entity’s functional currency and net investments in foreign operations.

As of 30 June 2019, the consolidated entity did not hold derivative financial instruments in managing its foreign currency, 
however, the consolidated entity may from time to time enter into hedging arrangements where circumstances are deemed 
appropriate. The consolidated entity used natural hedging to reduce the foreign currency risk, which involved processing USD 
payments from cash held in USD. Foreign subsidiaries with a functional currency of Australian Dollars (‘AUD’) have exposure to 
the local currency of these subsidiaries and any other currency these subsidiaries trade in.

The carrying amount of the consolidated entity’s foreign currency denominated financial assets and financial liabilities at the 
reporting date was as follows:

Consolidated

US dollars

Euros

Assets

2019
$

Liabilities

2018
$

2019
$

2018
$

30,720

316,588

1,046,504

895,525

-

-

731

-

30,720

316,588

1,047,235

895,525

The consolidated entity had net liabilities denominated in foreign currencies of $1,016,515 as at 30 June 2019 (2018: net liabilities 
$578,937).

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If the AUD had strengthened against the USD by 10% (2018: 10%) then this would have had the following impact: 

Consolidated - 2019

% change

Effect on 
profit before 
tax

Effect on 
equity

% change

AUD strengthened

AUD weakened
Effect on 
profit before 
tax

Effect on 
equity

US dollars

Euros

10% 

10% 

101,578

101,578

73

73

101,651

101,651

(10%)

(10%)

(101,578)

(101,578)

(73)

(73)

(101,651)

(101,651)

Consolidated - 2018

% change

Effect on 
profit before 
tax

Effect on 
equity

% change

AUD strengthened

AUD weakened
Effect on 
profit before 
tax

Effect on 
equity

US dollars

Price risk

10% 

57,894

57,894

(10%)

(57,894)

(57,894)

The consolidated entity is not exposed to any significant price risk.

Interest rate risk

The consolidated entity’s exposure to market interest rates relate primarily to the investments of cash balances.

The consolidated entity has cash reserves held primarily in Australian dollars and United States dollars and places funds on 
deposit with financial institutions for periods generally not exceeding three months.

As at the reporting date, the consolidated entity had the following variable interest rate balances:

Consolidated

Cash at bank and in hand

Short term deposits

2019

2018

Weighted 
average 
interest rate
%

Weighted 
average 
interest rate
%

Balance
$

0.03% 

833,868

1.88% 

4,600,000

0.04% 

2.35% 

Net exposure to cash flow interest rate risk

5,433,868

Balance
$

2,956,182

3,000,000

5,956,182

The consolidated entity has cash and cash equivalents totalling $5,433,868 (2018: $5,956,182). An official increase/decrease in 
interest rates of 100 basis points (2018: 100 basis points) would have a favourable/adverse effect on profit before tax and equity 
of $54,337 (2018: $59,562) per annum. The percentage change is based on the expected volatility of interest rates using market 
data and analysts forecasts.

Credit risk

Credit risk refers to the risk that a counterparty will default on its contractual obligations resulting in financial loss to the 
consolidated entity. The entity is not exposed to significant credit risk on receivables.

The consolidated entity has adopted a lifetime expected loss allowance in estimating expected credit losses to trade receivables 
through the use of a provisions matrix using fixed rates of credit loss provisioning. These provisions are considered representative 
across all customers of the consolidated entity based on recent sales experience, historical collection rates and forward-looking 
information that is available.

The consolidated entity places its cash deposits with high credit quality financial institutions and by policy, limits the amount 
of credit exposure to any single counter-party. The consolidated entity is averse to principal loss and ensures the safety and 
preservation of its invested funds by limiting default risk, market risk, and reinvestment risk. The consolidated entity mitigates 
default risk by constantly positioning its portfolio to respond appropriately to a significant reduction in a credit rating of any 
financial institution.

Generally, trade receivables are written off when there is no reasonable expectation of recovery. Indicators of this include the 
failure of a debtor to engage in a repayment plan, no active enforcement activity and a failure to make contractual payments for a 
period greater than 1 year.

There are no significant concentrations of credit risk within the consolidated entity. The credit risk on liquid funds is limited as the 
counter parties are banks with high credit ratings.

Credit risk is managed by limiting the amount of credit exposure to any single counter-party for cash deposits.

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Liquidity risk

The consolidated entity manages liquidity risk by maintaining adequate cash reserves and by continuously monitoring actual and 
forecast cash flows and matching the maturity profiles of financial assets and liabilities. In particular, contingent consideration 
may be satisfied either by payment of cash or by issue of shares, at the discretion of the entity.

Remaining contractual maturities
The following tables detail the consolidated entity’s remaining contractual maturity for its financial instrument liabilities. The 
tables have been drawn up based on the undiscounted cash flows of financial liabilities based on the earliest date on which 
the financial liabilities are required to be paid. The tables include both interest and principal cash flows disclosed as remaining 
contractual maturities and therefore these totals may differ from their carrying amount in the statement of financial position.

Weighted 
average 
interest 
rate 
%

1 year or less 
$

Between 
1 and 2 
years 
$

Between 
2 and 5 
years 
$

Over 5 
years 
$

Remaining 
contractual 
maturities 
$

-

-

-

1,049,944

713,517

-

1,763,461

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,049,944

713,517

5,193,500

1,394,000

6,587,500

5,193,500

1,394,000

8,350,961

Weighted 
average 
interest  

rate

%

1 year or less 
$

Between  
1 and 2  
years 
$

Between  
2 and 5  
years 
$

Over 5  
years 
$

Remaining 
contractual 
maturities 
$

-

-

-

1,406,887

575,871

4,250,000

6,232,758

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1,406,887

575,871

4,650,000

1,394,000

10,294,000

4,650,000

1,394,000

12,276,758

Consolidated - 2019

Non-derivatives

Trade payables

Accrued payables 

Contingent consideration

Total non-derivatives

Consolidated - 2018

Non-derivatives

Trade payables

Accrued payables 

Contingent consideration

Total non-derivatives

The cash flows in the maturity analysis above are not expected to occur significantly earlier than contractually disclosed above.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedNOTE 25. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT

Fair value hierarchy

The following tables detail the consolidated entity’s assets and liabilities, measured or disclosed at fair value, using a three level 
hierarchy, based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the entire fair value measurement, being:

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the entity can access at the 
measurement date

Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or 
indirectly

Level 3: Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability

Consolidated - 2019

Assets

Ordinary shares - listed

Unlisted options

Total assets

Liabilities

Contingent consideration 

Total liabilities

Consolidated - 2018

Assets

Ordinary shares - listed

Unlisted options

Total assets

Liabilities

Contingent consideration 

Total liabilities

Level 1
$

25,014

-

25,014

-

-

Level 1
$

3,679,542

-

3,679,542

-

-

Level 2
$

-

-

-

-

-

Level 2
$

-

-

-

-

-

Level 3
$

-

142,800

142,800

1,370,431

1,370,431

Level 3
$

-

655,921

655,921

2,557,702

2,557,702

Total
$

25,014

142,800

167,814

1,370,431

1,370,431

Total
$

3,679,542

655,921

4,335,463

2,557,702

2,557,702

There were no transfers between levels during the financial year.

The fair value of contingent consideration related to the acquisition of Glioblast Pty Ltd and the licence agreement is estimated 
by probability-weighting the expected future cash outflows, adjusting for risk and discounting. 

The effects on the fair value of risk and uncertainty in the future cash flows are dealt with by adjusting the estimated cash flows 
rather than adjusting the discount rate. The estimated cashflows were adjusted based on the directors’ assessment of achieving 
contracted milestones as disclosed in Note 19. The probabilities used fell in the range of 35% to 55% and were informed by 
generally accepted industry probabilities of drugs achieving certain milestones in their progression towards registration.

NOTE 26. KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL DISCLOSURES

Compensation

The aggregate compensation made to directors and other members of key management personnel of the consolidated entity is 
set out below:

Short-term employee benefits

Post-employment benefits

Share-based payments

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

1,175,398

1,635,719 

84,161 

125,010 

90,490 

117,027 

1,384,569 

1,843,236 

Please refer to note 30 for other transactions with key management personnel and their related parties.

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During the financial year the following fees were paid or payable for services provided by Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd, the 
auditor of the company:

Audit services - Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd

Audit or review of the financial statements

Other services - Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd

F3 review

Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

119,800 

130,833 

- 

119,800 

11,245 

142,078 

NOTE 28. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

The consolidated entity is continuing to prosecute its Intellectual Property (‘IP’) rights against an Austrian company, APOtrend. At 
30 June 2019 the Austrian Supreme Court has rendered a final decision on the patent infringement. As a result, Kazia is entitled 
to make a claim against APOtrend in relation to two of the three products which were the subject of the claim, while for the third 
product, Kazia’s claim was denied. In respect of this third product, APOtrend is entitled to claim compensation for damages 
caused by a preliminary injunction. At the date of this report, no claim has been made by either party. Kazia is entitled to access 
APOtrend’s books to calculate a license fee/other payment claims against APOtrend. Kazia is currently trying to enforce this right 
in court. 

The consolidated entity has provided a guarantee to the value of €250,000 ($387,657) with the court to provide a security for 
potential damage claims raised by APOtrend (which is not limited to this amount, however). As at 30 June 2019, the receivable 
balance continues to be fully impaired on the basis that it is unlikely to be recovered.

NOTE 29. COMMITMENTS

The Company is not a party to any contracts with material commitments.

NOTE 30. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Parent entity

Kazia Therapeutics Limited is the parent entity.

Subsidiaries

Interests in subsidiaries are set out in note 32.

Key management personnel

Disclosures relating to key management personnel are set out in note 26 and the remuneration report included in the directors’ 
report.

Transactions with related parties

There was no other transaction with KMP and their related parties.

Receivable from and payable to related parties

There were no trade receivables from or trade payables to related parties at the current and previous reporting date.

Loans to/from related parties

There were no loans to or from related parties at the current and previous reporting date.

Terms and conditions

All transactions were made on normal commercial terms and conditions and at market rates.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedNOTE 31. PARENT ENTITY INFORMATION

Set out below is the supplementary information about the parent entity.

Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income

Loss after income tax

Total comprehensive income

Statement of financial position

Total current assets

Total assets

Total current liabilities

Total liabilities

Equity

Contributed equity

Other contributed equity

Reserves

Accumulated losses

Total equity

Parent

2019
$

(7,198,302)

(7,198,302)

2018
$

(5,378,469)

(5,378,469)

Parent

2019
$

7,015,002 

20,677,299 

213,444 

5,294,858 

2018
$

7,902,064 

26,817,536 

1,714,055 

6,759,707 

36,641,519 

31,575,823 

464,000 

2,489,121 

(24,212,199)

464,000 

2,205,789 

(14,187,783)

15,382,441 

20,057,829 

Reserves comprise Share Based Payments reserve of $2,489,121 (2018: Share Based Payments reserve of $2,242,734 and 
Available for Sale reserve of $(36,824)).

Contingent liabilities

The parent entity had no contingent liabilities as at 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2018, except as detailed in note 28.

Capital commitments - Property, plant and equipment

The parent entity had no capital commitments for property, plant and equipment at as 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2018.

Significant accounting policies

The accounting policies of the parent entity are consistent with those of the consolidated entity, as disclosed in note 2, except for 
the following:

• 

Investments in subsidiaries are accounted for at cost, less any impairment, in the parent entity.

•  Dividends received from subsidiaries are recognised as other income by the parent entity and its receipt may be an indicator 

of an impairment of the investment.

NOTE 32. INTERESTS IN SUBSIDIARIES

The consolidated financial statements incorporate the assets, liabilities and results of the following subsidiaries in accordance with 
the accounting policy described in note 2:

Name

Kazia Laboratories Pty Ltd

Kazia Research Pty Ltd

Kazia Therapeutics Inc.

Glioblast Pty Ltd

Principal place of business/
Country of incorporation

Australia

Australia

United States of America

Australia

Ownership interest

2019
%

100.00% 

100.00% 

100.00% 

100.00% 

2018
%

100.00% 

100.00% 

100.00% 

100.00% 

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Consolidated

2019
$

2018
$

Loss after income tax attributable to the owners of Kazia Therapeutics Limited

(10,270,264)

(6,039,242)

Weighted average number of ordinary shares used in calculating basic earnings 
per share

Weighted average number of ordinary shares used in calculating diluted earnings 
per share

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

Number

Number

57,503,555

48,376,525

57,503,555

48,376,525

Cents

(17.86)

(17.86)

Cents

(12.48)

(12.48)

1,865,000 unlisted convertible notes with a face value of $464,000, 5,048,266 unlisted options and 3,148,400 listed options have 
been excluded from the above calculations as they were anti-dilutive.

NOTE 34. SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS

The options in tranches 1 - 3 in the table below have been issued as consideration for services rendered in relation to capital 
raising conducted during a previous year by the consolidated entity.

The options in tranches 4 - 14 in the table below have been issued to employees under the ESOP. In total, $246,387 (2018: 
$165.222) of employee remuneration expense (all of which related to equity-settled share-based payment transactions) has been 
included in profit or loss during the year and credited to share-based payment reserve. 

2019

Grant date

Expiry date

04/03/2015

04/03/2015

16/12/2019

18/12/2019

Exercise 
price

$1.500 

$1.500 

24/06/2015

30/06/2020

$4.000 

15/11/2015

16/11/2020

$2.200 

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

05/09/2016

05/09/2021

12/10/2016

31/10/2016

21/11/2016

17/10/2021

01/11/2021

23/11/2021

07/08/2017

07/08/2022

05/02/2018

05/02/2023

04/01/2019

04/01/2024

Weighted average exercise 
price

$1.990 

$1.990 

$2.610 

$1.630 

$1.560 

$1.380 

$1.380 

$0.670 

$0.780 

$0.492 

Balance at 
the start of 
the year

Granted

Exercised

Forfeited on 
cessation of 
employment

Balance at 
the end of 
the year

46,647

19,952

519,000

236,667

300,000

200,000

250,000

50,000

62,000

12,500

50,000

224,000

440,000

-

2,410,766

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

250,000

250,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

46,647

19,952

519,000

236,667

300,000

200,000

250,000

50,000

62,000

12,500

50,000

224,000

440,000

250,000

2,660,766

$2.120 

$0.490 

$0.000

$0.000

$1.960

At the end of the period the following options were vested and exercisable:

•  Options from Tranche 1 to Tranche 6, Tranches 8, 10 and 11 were vested and exercisable

•  Options in Tranches 7 and 14 were unvested

•  Options from Tranche 9 and 13 were vested and exercisable as to 50%

•  Options from Tranche 12 were vested and exercisable as to 25%

All remaining options are expected to vest in future periods. No options have expired during the financial year.

The weighted average remaining contractual life of options outstanding at the 30 June 2019 is 1.43 years.

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2018

Grant date

Expiry date

04/03/2015

16/12/2019

04/03/2015

18/12/2019

Exercise 
Price

$1.500 

$1.500 

Balance at 
the start of 
the year

466,470

199,521

24/06/2015

30/06/2020

$4.000 

5,190,000

15/11/2015

16/11/2020

$2.200 

3,633,334

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

$1.990 

3,000,000

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

$1.990 

2,000,000

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

$2.610 

2,500,000

05/09/2016

05/09/2021

$1.630 

2,000,000

12/10/2016

31/10/2016

21/11/2016

17/10/2021

01/11/2021

$1.560 

$1.380 

620,000

500,000

23/11/2021

$1.380 

2,000,000

Granted

Exercised

Forfeited on 
cessation of 
employment

Balance at 
the end of 
the year

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(419,823)

(179,569)

(4,671,000)

-

-

-

-

(3,396,667)

(2,700,000)

(1,800,000)

(2,250,000)

-

-

-

(1,800,000)

(150,000)

(558,000)

-

(450,000)

(37,500)

(1,800,000)

(150,000)

46,647

19,952

519,000

236,667

300,000

200,000

250,000

50,000

62,000

12,500

50,000

224,000

440,000

07/08/2017

07/08/2022

05/02/2018

05/02/2023

$0.670 

$0.780 

-

-

224,000

440,000

-

-

-

-

Weighted average exercise price

$0.244 

$0.740 

$0.000

$2.140 

$2.120 

22,109,325

664,000

(16,628,392)

(3,734,167)

2,410,766

* Options from Tranche 1 to Tranche 6, Tranches 8, 10 and 11 listed above were vested and exercisable at the end of the period.
Options from Tranche 9 listed above include 1/4 vested options at the end of the period.
All remaining options are expected to vest in future periods.

The weighted average remaining contractual life of options outstanding at the 30 June 2018 is 2.97 years. 

Employee share options

During the year ended 30 June 2019, 250,000 options have been issued to the employees by the consolidated entity pursuant to 
the Company’s Employee Share Option Plan.

•  Tranche 14 of 250,000 options vesting equally over 2 years in 6 monthly intervals

An option will only vest if the option holder continues to be a full-time employee with the Company or an Associated Company 
during the vesting period relating to the option. 

Conditions for an option to be exercised: 

•  The option must have vested and a period of 1 year from the date the option was issued must have expired;
•  Option holder must have provided the Company with an Exercise Notice and have paid the Exercise Price for the option.
•  The Exercise Notice must be for the exercise of at least the Minimum Number of Options;
•  The Exercise Notice must have been provided to the Company and Exercise Price paid before the expiry of 5 years from the 

date the Option is issued.

Options Valuation

In order to obtain a fair valuation of these options, the following assumptions have been made:

The Black Scholes option valuation methodology has been used with the expectation that the majority of these options would be 
exercised towards the end of the option term. Inputs into the Black Scholes model includes the share price at grant date, exercise 
price, volatility, and the risk free rate of a five year Australian Government Bond on grant date.

Risk-free rate and grant date
For all tranches, the risk-free rate of a five-year Australian Government bond on grant date was used. Please refer to the table below for 
details.

Options in Tranches 4 to 14 have various vesting periods and exercising conditions. These options are unlisted as at 30/06/2019.

No dividends are expected to be declared or paid by the consolidated entity during the terms of the options.

The underlying expected volatility was determined by reference to historical data of the Company’s shares over a period of time. 
No special features inherent to the options granted were incorporated into measurement of fair value.

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Based on the above assumptions, the table below sets out the valuation for each tranche of options:

Grant date

Expiry date

04/03/2015

16/12/2019

04/03/2015

18/12/2019

24/06/2015

30/06/2020

15/10/2015

16/11/2020

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

18/03/2016

01/02/2021

05/09/2016

05/09/2021

12/10/2016

31/10/2016

21/11/2016

17/10/2021

01/11/2021

23/11/2021

07/08/2017

07/08/2022

05/02/2018

05/02/2023

04/01/2019

04/01/2024

Share 
price at 
Grant Date

Exercise 

price Volatility (%)

Remaining 
Life (years)

Risk free 
Rate (%)

Fair value 
per option

$0.180 

$0.180 

$0.245 

$0.140 

$0.115 

$0.115 

$0.115 

$0.105 

$0.098 

$0.090 

$0.092 

$0.430 

$0.500 

$0.340 

$1.500 

$1.500 

$4.000 

$2.200 

$1.990 

$1.990 

$2.610 

$1.630 

$1.560 

$1.380 

$1.380 

$0.670 

$0.780 

$0.492 

120.00% 

120.00% 

150.00% 

158.11% 

130.00% 

130.00% 

130.00% 

122.00% 

122.00% 

122.00% 

122.00% 

74.50% 

74.50% 

74.50% 

2.46 

2.47 

3.00 

3.38 

3.59 

3.59 

3.59 

4.19 

4.30 

4.34 

4.40 

4.00 

3.00 

3.00 

2.07% 

2.07% 

2.02% 

2.04% 

2.00% 

2.00% 

2.00% 

1.60% 

1.89% 

1.87% 

2.10% 

1.95% 

1.95% 

1.95% 

$1.500 

$1.500 

$2.170 

$1.280 

$0.810 

$0.860 

$0.870 

$0.840 

$0.780 

$0.720 

$0.730 

$0.206 

$0.200 

$0.140 

NOTE 35. SETTLEMENT OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS 

In the prior financial year, the consolidated entity reached an agreement with another ASX listed company, Noxopharm Limited, in 
relation to that company’s key asset, NOX66. Under this agreement, the consolidated entity has released Noxopharm Limited from any 
claims of ownership it believes it may have had of NOX66 or the IP and technology that underpins it. In return, the consolidated entity 
received the following:

1)  5,970,714 ordinary shares in Noxopharm Limited, held under voluntary escrow until 14 June 2018 (value at date of 

settlement: $6,490,680); 

2)  3,000,000 unlisted options in Noxopharm Limited, with an exercise price of $0.80, expiring 18 January 2020, unable to 

be exercised prior to 18 July 2018 (value at date of settlement: $1,770,000);

3)  extinguishment of certain convertible notes (book value: $136,000); and

4) a cash payment of $165,000 (including GST) from Noxopharm Limited.

Items 1,2 and 4, totalling $8,410,680 net of GST, have been reflected in the profit and loss as ‘other income’ while item 3, 
representing $136,000, has been dealt with as a movement in equity in the 2018 financial year.

NOTE 36. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Since the end of the financial year the Company signed an agreement with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in 
New York, whereby MSK will investigate the potential use of Kazia’s investigational new drug, GDC-0084, in combination with 
radiotherapy in a phase I clinical trial for cancer that has spread to the brain (brain metastases and leptomeningeal metastases). 
This research will explore a new use of GDC-0084 and will run concurrently with other ongoing studies in different forms of brain 
cancer.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedDIRECTORS’ DECLARATION

In the directors’ opinion:

• 

• 

• 

• 

the attached financial statements and notes comply with the Corporations Act 2001, the Accounting Standards, the 
Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory professional reporting requirements;

the attached financial statements and notes comply with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the 
International Accounting Standards Board as described in note 2 to the financial statements;

the attached financial statements and notes give a true and fair view of the consolidated entity’s financial position as at 
30 June 2019 and of its performance for the financial year ended on that date; and

there are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due 
and payable.

The directors have been given the declarations required by section 295A of the Corporations Act 2001.

Signed in accordance with a resolution of directors made pursuant to section 295(5)(a) of the Corporations Act 2001.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Mr Iain Ross

Chairman

29 August 2019

Sydney

Dr James Garner

Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer

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Kazia Therapeutics Limited          Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd ACN 130 913 594 a subsidiary or related entity of Grant Thornton Australia Ltd ABN 41 127 556 389  ‘Grant Thornton’ refers to the brand under which the Grant Thornton member firms provide assurance, tax and advisory services to their clients and/or refers to one or more member firms, as the context requires. Grant Thornton Australia Ltd is a member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL). GTIL and the member firms are not a worldwide partnership. GTIL and each member firm is a separate legal entity. Services are delivered by the member firms. GTIL does not provide services to clients. GTIL and its member firms are not agents of, and do not obligate one another and are not liable for one another’s acts or omissions. In the Australian context only, the use of the term ‘Grant Thornton’ may refer to Grant Thornton Australia Limited ABN 41 127 556 389 and its Australian subsidiaries and related entities. GTIL is not an Australian related entity to Grant Thornton Australia Limited.  Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.  www.grantthornton.com.au Level 17, 383 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000  Correspondence to: Locked Bag Q800 QVB Post Office Sydney NSW 1230  T +61 2 8297 2400 F +61 2 9299 4445 E info.nsw@au.gt.com W www.grantthornton.com.au Independent Auditor’s Report To the Members of Kazia Therapeutics Limited   Report on the audit of the financial report  Opinion We have audited the financial report of Kazia Therapeutics Limited (the Company) and its subsidiaries (the Group), which comprises the consolidated statement of financial position as at 30 June 2019, the consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, consolidated statement of changes in equity and consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and notes to the consolidated financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies, and the Directors’ declaration.  In our opinion, the accompanying financial report of the Group is in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including: a giving a true and fair view of the Group’s financial position as at 30 June 2019 and of its performance for the year ended on that date; and  b complying with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001.  Basis for opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Report section of our report. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the auditor independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical requirements of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the financial report in Australia. We have also fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code.  We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.    67

Directors’ ReportAuditor’s Independence DeclarationFinancial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s ReportShareholder Information Annual Report 2019   Material uncertainty related to going concern We draw attention to Note 2 in the financial statements, which indicates that the Group incurred a net loss of $10,270,264 during the year ended 30 June 2019, and had a net operating cash outflows of $6,714,210. As stated in Note 2, these events or conditions, along with other matters as set forth in Note 2, indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter. Key audit matters  Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance in our audit of the financial report of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the financial report as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.   In addition to the matter described in the Material uncertainty related to going concern section, we have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report.  Key audit matter How our audit addressed the key audit matter Intangible asset impairment (Note 2 and Note 14)  The Group carries on its statement of financial position the Licensing Agreement which grants the Company the right to develop the GDC-0084 molecule. The asset has a carrying value of $13.5million and is being amortised over the 20-year life of the underlying patent.   AASB 136 Impairment of Assets requires an entity to assess at the end of each reporting period whether there is any indication that an asset may be impaired. If any indication exists, the entity shall estimate the recoverable amount of the asset.  Assessing whether there is any indication that an asset may be impaired involves a high degree of judgement. This area is a key audit matter due to the complexities and high degree of judgement in assessing whether there are indicators of impairment. Our procedures included, amongst others: • obtaining an understanding of and evaluating management’s process and controls related to the assessment of the existence of impairment indicators; • reviewing and assessing management’s documented consideration of the existence of any impairment indicators; • considering each of the internal and external factors outlined by AASB 136 and assessing whether any indicators of impairment are present;  • evaluating all information gathered to form a view as to the reliability of management’s determination; and • assessing the adequacy of the relevant disclosures in the financial statements.    68

Kazia Therapeutics Limited   Completeness of contingent consideration  (Note 17 & Note 19)  During the 2017 financial year, the consolidated entity acquired 100% of the issued shares in Glioblast Pty Ltd, a privately-held, neuro-oncology-focused Australian biotechnology company. On the same day, Kazia entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with Genentech to develop and commercialise GDC-0084. As disclosed in Note 19, the acquisition agreements contain contingent payments dependent on the achievement of contracted milestones. Management experts were used in the assessment of the likely success and timing of each milestone. The estimate of the contingent consideration at 30 June 2019 is $1.37 million.  We consider the fair value of the contingent consideration at 30 June 2019 to be a key audit matter due to the high level of subjectivity and management judgement involved in calculating the contingent consideration and the materiality of the amounts in question.  Our audit procedures, amongst others included the following:   obtaining an understanding of and evaluating management’s process and controls related the estimation of the of the liability;  evaluating the competence, capabilities and objectivity of management's experts;  obtaining management’s calculation of the contingent consideration liability and assessing the key inputs and assumptions made by management’s experts;   where management’s assumptions are applied to other critical accounting estimates, such as the valuation of intangible assets described above, assessing whether those assumptions have been applied consistently across estimates; and   assessing the adequacy of the relevant disclosures in the financial statements. Recognition of R&D tax incentive (Note 6, Note 8, Note 10)  Under the research and development (R&D) tax incentive scheme, the Group receives a 43.5% refundable tax offset of eligible expenditure if its turnover is less than $20 million per annum, provided it is not controlled by income tax exempt entities. A Registration of R&D Activities Application is filed with AusIndustry in the following financial year and, based on this filing, the Group receives the incentive in cash.   Management engaged an R&D expert to perform a detailed review of the Group’s total R&D expenditure to determine the potential claim under the R&D tax incentive legislation. The receivable at year-end for the incentive was $1.44million. This represents an estimated claim for the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.  This area is a key audit matter due to the size of the receivable and because there is a degree of judgement and interpretation of the R&D tax legislation required by management to assess the eligibility of the R&D expenditure under the scheme.  Our procedures included, amongst others:   obtaining and documenting, through discussions with management, an understanding of the process to estimate the claim;  evaluating the competence, capabilities and objectivity of management's expert;  utilising an internal R&D tax specialist in: o reviewing the methodology used by management for consistency with the R&D tax offset rules; and  o considering the nature of the expenses against the eligibility criteria of the R&D tax incentive scheme to assess whether the expenses included in the estimate were likely to meet the eligibility criteria.    inspecting supporting documentation for a sample of expenses claimed to assess validity of the claimed amount and eligibility against the R&D tax incentive scheme criteria;  comparing the nature of the R&D expenditure included in the current year estimate to the prior year claim;   comparing the eligible expenditure used in the receivable calculation to the expenditure recorded in the general ledger;   considering the entity's history of successful claims;  inspecting copies of relevant correspondence with AusIndustry and the Australian Taxation Office related to the claims; and  assessing the adequacy of the relevant disclosures in the financial statements.  69

Directors’ ReportAuditor’s Independence DeclarationFinancial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s ReportShareholder Information Annual Report 2019   Information other than the financial report and auditor’s report thereon The Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Group’s annual report for the year ended 30 June 2019, but does not include the financial report and our auditor’s report thereon.   Our opinion on the financial report does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.   In connection with our audit of the financial report, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial report or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.   If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.   Responsibilities of the Directors for the financial report  The Directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation of the financial report that gives a true and fair view in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Act 2001 and for such internal control as the Directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of the financial report that gives a true and fair view and is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.   In preparing the financial report, the Directors are responsible for assessing the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Directors either intend to liquidate the Group or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.   Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial report  Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial report as a whole is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with the Australian Auditing Standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of this financial report.   A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial report is located at the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board website at: http://www.auasb.gov.au/auditors_responsibilities/ar1.pdf. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.  Report on the remuneration report Opinion on the remuneration report We have audited the Remuneration Report included in pages 25 to 31 of the Directors’ report for the year ended 30 June 2019. In our opinion, the Remuneration Report of Kazia Therapeutics Limited, for the year ended 30 June 2019 complies with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001.     70

Kazia Therapeutics Limited   Responsibilities The Directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation and presentation of the Remuneration Report in accordance with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Remuneration Report, based on our audit conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards.      Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd Chartered Accountants     S M Coulton Partner – Audit & Assurance  Sydney, 29 August 2019   SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION

The shareholder information set out below was applicable as at 23 August 2019.

Range

1 - 1,000

1,001 - 5,000

5,001 - 10,000

10.001 - 100,000

Over 100,000

Total

Holding less than a marketable parcel

EQUITY SECURITY HOLDERS

The names of the twenty largest quoted equity security holders are listed below:

HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED

WILLOUGHBY CAPITAL PTY LTD 

MNA FAMILY HOLDINGS PTY LTD 

KILINWATA INVESTMENTS PTY LTD 

D & G BROWN INVESTMENTS PTY LIMITED

MISS MI OK CHONG

MR EVAN KNIGHT MORGAN + MRS CAROLYN MARY MORGAN  


C & L JACKSON INVESTMENTS PTY LTD 

MR IAIN ROSS

EL CORONADO HOLDINGS

PHYTOSE CORPORATION PTY LTD 

MR TONY MARK ELDRIDGE + MRS ANITA MAREE ELDRIDGE  


MRS ALISON LOUISE SUTERS + MR MARK GERARD SUTERS

MR JOHN PETSAS

CITICORP NOMINEES PTY LIMITED

MR MOHAMMED SHAHEED

DR ANDREW HEATON

YAT HING INVESTMENT PTY LTD 

MR ROSS RICHARD EDDISON

MRS JANET LOUISE BOWTELL

MR ANDREW WENG SEN KOK

SUBSTANTIAL HOLDERS

Substantial holders of equity in the Company are:

WILLOUGHBY CAPITAL PTY LTD 

MNA FAMILY HOLDINGS PTY LTD 

PLATINUM INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FUND *

* Held by a nominee

Total holders

3,104

975

299

394

50

4,822

3,262

Units

23,797,096

7,220,000

1,855,792

1,844,000

790,174

624,312

500,000

475,212

475,001

453,164

442,697

400,000

340,076

330,511

315,421

286,876

246,536

229,474

220,725

200,000

200,000

Number 
of shares

840,152

2,487,823

2,288,404

11,309,209

45,241,085

62,166,673

1,025,707

% Units

38.28

11.61

2.99

2.97

1.27

1.00

0.80

0.76

0.76

0.73

0.71

0.64

0.55

0.53

0.51

0.46

0.40

0.37

0.36

0.32

0.32

41,247,067

66.35

7,220,000

1,855,792

6,578,948

15,654,740

11.61

2.99

10.58

25.18

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Directors’ ReportAuditor’s Independence DeclarationFinancial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsIndependent Auditor’s ReportShareholder Information Annual Report 2019VOTING RIGHTS

The voting rights attached to ordinary shares are set out below:

Ordinary shares

On a show of hands every member present at a meeting in person or by proxy shall have one vote and upon a poll each share 
shall have one vote.

There are no other classes of equity securities.

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Kazia Therapeutics LimitedCORPORATE DIRECTORY

DIRECTORS

Mr Iain Ross 
Mr Bryce Carmine 
Mr Steven Coffey 
Dr James Garner

COMPANY SECRETARY

Ms Kate Hill

REGISTERED OFFICE

Three International Towers, 
Level 24 
300 Barangaroo Avenue  
Sydney NSW 2000

PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS

Three International Towers, 
Level 24 
300 Barangaroo Avenue  
Sydney NSW 2000

SHARE REGISTER 

Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited  
Level 4  
60 Carrington Street  
Sydney NSW 2000  
Tel: 1300 787 272

AUDITOR

Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd 
Level 17 
383 Kent Street 
Sydney NSW 2000

STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING

Kazia Therapeutics Limited ordinary shares are listed on the 
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX code: KZA)

Kazia Therapeutics Limited’s ordinary shares trade in the 
United States in the form of ADRs on the NASDAQ Capital 
Market (NASDAQ code: KZIA). At year end each ADR 
represents ten ordinary Kazia shares. 

Kazia Therapeutics Limited options are listed on the Australian 
Securities Exchange (ASX code KZAO)

WEBSITE

www.kaziatherapeutics.com

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