First draft of opening plenary presentation

Here is the first pass at what i intend to present at the opening 
plenary next monday.

if anyone has ideas about what i may have missed or would like to 
propose changes to this, please let me know in the next 48 hours.

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regards
tim mcgrath
phone: +618 93352228  
postal: po box 1289   fremantle    western australia 6160