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Suzanne Hopf is an Australian speech pathologist and a PhD student at Charles Sturt Universty. She has lived in Fiji since February 2009.

Correspondence to: Suzanne Hopf School of Teacher Education Charles Sturt University Bathurst NSW 2795 email: shopf@csu.edu.au

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