When formulating your answer for the following questions, please confine your arguments to the actions and decision of James Hardie and its board of directors and senior management.  While it may be argued that a succession of governments and government departments had access to information about the potential link between asbestos and either mesothelioma, lung cancer or asbestosis but still allowed James Hardie to sell products containing asbestos, this situation should not lessen the corporate governance responsibilities of any board of directors and senior management.
Q1.    Identify the various stakeholders of James Hardie and list next to each stakeholder group what corporate governance responsibilities are owed by its board of directors and senior management to each stakeholder group.  It is possible that some corporate governance responsibilities are owed to more that one stakeholder group.  Where this occurs (in your opinion), you should combine the relevant stakeholder groups into the identification of the specific corporate governance responsibility(ies).

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