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Peter Renshaw authored this page on 19 December 2005 at 11:09 Hrs.
I've decided to allow the text content on the site fall under the Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial License Australia. If you want to see the original definition you can read more about it here. I have included the license in full on this page so there is no excuse for not reading the license if the link fails.
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