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I presume you're after a bi-ocular compound microscope as opposed to a stereo-microscope.
I used to be a microscopist in NZ, before I took up my role as a bioinformatician at ANU.
My own recommendation is to hit up all the Aussie universities you can get hold of (either biological departments or geology depending what you want to look at) and ask if they have any reasonable microscopes they are decommissioning and might sell. You'll get a cracker scope for much, much less that you'd ever pay for new.
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