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Line of Credit Facility, Additional Availability for Financial Guarantee

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Line of Credit Facility, Financial Guarantee Capacity

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Line of Credit, Outstanding Financial Guarantee

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Number of Shares Issued under a Share-based Compensation Arrangement, Which Have Vesting Conditions associated with Performance and Service Conditions

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other that Options, Percentage of Shares Issued Based on Performance of Adjusted EBITDA

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other that Options, Percentage of Shares Issued Based on Performance of Group Adjusted EBITDA

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Stock Option Award Exercise Price as a Percentage of the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION Stock-Based Compensation (Details) AUD in Thousands, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2016 AUD shares	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Common stock reserved for issuance to participants \| shares				261,639	261,639
Share-based compensation arrangement award vesting period	5 years
Stock-based compensation	$ 372	$ 533
Restricted stock units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance and service conditions \| shares	500,000
Granted, Number of share of restricted stock (shares) \| shares	530,687	144,664
Stock-based compensation	$ 127	$ 148
Stock options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock Option Award Exercise Price as a Percentage of the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock			100.00%
Stock-based compensation	$ 5	$ 0
Restricted stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted, Number of share of restricted stock (shares) \| shares	0	590,100
Stock-based compensation	$ 240	$ 385
Non-Employee Director \| Restricted stock units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted, Number of share of restricted stock (shares) \| shares	30,687
Corporate \| Restricted stock units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other that Options, Percentage of Shares Issued Based on Performance of Gross Margin Ratio	100.00%
Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe \| Restricted stock units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other that Options, Percentage of Shares Issued Based on Performance of EBITDA	80.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other that Options, Percentage of Shares Issued Based on Performance of Gross Margin Ratio	20.00%
Financial Guarantee Facility \| National Australia Bank Limited and Bank of New Zealand [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Line of Credit Facility, Financial Guarantee Capacity				AUD 3,000	$ 2,297
Line of Credit, Outstanding Financial Guarantee					1,855
Additional availability for financial guarantee					$ 442
New Zealand Receivables Agreement [Member] \| National Australia Bank Limited and Bank of New Zealand [Member] \| NEW ZEALAND
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
LIne of Credit Facility, Notice Period	90 days