Rotormotion, a helicopter charter company, identified the pilot as Peter Barnes, 50, a married father of two.

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Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.

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When Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes sang about pushing surfboards through turnstiles in Misfits, or Midnight Oil's Peter Garret howled "catch the bus to Bondi, sit on the beach and wonder", they were not only conjuring a scene familiar to their '80s pub rock audience but more importantly, they captured a uniquely sunlit Australian branch of angst.

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