EX-99.S.1 7 dex99s1.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY

Power of Attorney

Exhibit (s)(1)

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Director or Officer of ABERDEEN AUSTRALIA EQUITY FUND, INC. (the “Fund”) constitutes and appoints Sander M. Bieber, David J. Harris, Jennifer O. Epstein, Wendy Fox, Karl Paulson Egbert, Tiffany A. Ford and Patrick W. Dennis and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution for such attorney-in-fact in such attorney-in-fact’s name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the registration statement on Form N-2 relating to shares of the Fund’s Common Stock, $.01 par value per share, beneficially owned by Landesbank Berlin AG, and any amendments, exhibits, or supplements to such registration statement, and to file and/or withdraw the same, with all other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person in his or her capacity as a Director or Officer of the Fund, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Power of Attorney on the date indicated below.

/s/ Alan Goodson				August 29, 2007
Signature				Date
Alan Goodson
Printed Name