You and many others would be justifiably pissed off. And might even sell shares in the short term out of sheer anger. So it is strategically clever to say that Talga is considering the option to include overseas investors into the loyalty options (so that the share price stays above A$0.38 and many holders will still participate in the capital increase).
By default, such publications often have a paragraph along the following lines:
“The Bonus Offer is not being extended and Bonus Options will not be issued to Shareholders with a registered address which is outside Australia or New Zealand.”
"It is not practicable for the Company to comply with the securities laws of overseas jurisdictions having regard to the number of overseas Shareholders, the number and value of Loyalty Options these Shareholders would be offered and the cost of complying with regulatory requirements in each relevant jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Loyalty Offer is not being extended and Loyalty Options will not be issued to Shareholders with a registered address which is outside Australia and New Zealand."
But there may be cases where overseas holders were able to benefit from such options, my experiences are quite limited. I do at least remember Lake Resources tried to make it possible:
https://lakeresources.com.au/wp-con...tions-for-offshore-shareholders_31-aug-21.pdf
Apart of that, as a European share holder of a ASX company, you should be used to constant disadvantages like:
- higher spread between buy and sell side
- exclusion from capital raises
- trading outside ASX trading hours and thus without the possibility of reacting to announcements at short notice without a trading halt