Business acquisition share price optional price per share.

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- Definition

Business acquisition share price optional shares paid.

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- Definition

Debt facility expected to be used to fund future acquisition.

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- Definition

Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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- Definition

Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Amount of liability recognized arising from contingent consideration in a business combination.

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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events - Additional Information (Detail) AUD / shares in Units, AUD in Millions, $ in Millions			1 Months Ended
	Nov. 02, 2015 USD ($)	Nov. 02, 2015 AUD AUD / shares shares	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)
Subsequent Event [Member] \| REA Group [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business acquisition, cost of acquired entity	$ 350	AUD 500
Prospective debt facility \| AUD		AUD 480
Unruly Holdings Limited [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business acquisition, cost of acquired entity			$ 90
Unruly Holdings Limited [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Future consideration primarily related to payments contingent			$ 86
iProperty Group Limited [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Shares purchase price \| AUD / shares		AUD 4.00
Shareholders elect to receive, cash \| AUD / shares		AUD 1.20
Shareholders elect to receive, shares \| shares		0.7
iProperty Group Limited [Member] \| Maximum [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Equity interest percentage		20.00%