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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Schedule of Exchange Rates Used to Convert Australian Dollar into US Dollars (Detail) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016 | Mar. 31, 2015 | Mar. 31, 2014
Foreign Currency [Abstract] |  |  |
Assets and liabilities | 1.3060 | 1.3096 | 1.0845
Statements of operations | 1.3577 | 1.1419 | 1.0716
Cash flows - beginning cash | 1.3096 | 1.0845 | 0.9597
Cash flows - ending cash | 1.3060 | 1.3096 | 1.0845
Cash flows - current period movements | 1.3577 | 1.1419 | 1.0716

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