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Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. – ‘S-1/A’ on 7/11/19 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 7/11/19, at 4:17pm ET   ·   Accession #:  1213900-19-12524   ·   File #:  333-232332

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 7/11/19  DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.      S-1/A                 71:7.9M                                   Edgar Agents LLC/FA

Pre-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement (General Form)   —   Form S-1
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: S-1/A       Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1                         HTML   1.11M 
 2: EX-23.1     Consent of Ernst & Young, LLP                       HTML     19K 
 9: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     34K 
10: R2          Consolidated Condensed Interim Balance Sheets       HTML     90K 
11: R3          Consolidated Condensed Interim Balance Sheets       HTML     41K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
12: R4          Consolidated Condensed Interim Statements of Loss   HTML     63K 
                and Comprehensive Loss                                           
13: R5          Consolidated Statements of Changes in               HTML    112K 
                Stockholders' Equity                                             
14: R6          Consolidated Condensed Interim Statements of Cash   HTML     84K 
                Flows                                                            
15: R7          Going Concern, Nature of Operations, and Corporate  HTML     40K 
                History                                                          
16: R8          Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML     81K 
17: R9          Valent Technologies, LLC                            HTML     28K 
18: R10         Derivative Liability                                HTML     61K 
19: R11         Stockholders' Equity                                HTML    227K 
20: R12         Financial Instruments                               HTML     36K 
21: R13         Related Party Transactions                          HTML     22K 
22: R14         Current and Deferred Income Taxes                   HTML     37K 
23: R15         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     25K 
24: R16         Supplementary Statement of Cash Flows Information   HTML     31K 
25: R17         Financial Risk Management                           HTML     34K 
26: R18         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     32K 
27: R19         Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)          HTML    129K 
28: R20         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML     25K 
29: R21         Derivative Liability (Tables)                       HTML     57K 
30: R22         Stockholders' Equity (Tables)                       HTML    202K 
31: R23         Financial Instruments (Tables)                      HTML     28K 
32: R24         Current and Deferred Income Taxes (Tables)          HTML     47K 
33: R25         Supplementary Statement of Cash Flows Information   HTML     30K 
                (Tables)                                                         
34: R26         Financial Risk Management (Tables)                  HTML     33K 
35: R27         Going Concern, Nature of Operations, and Corporate  HTML     37K 
                History (Details)                                                
36: R28         Significant Accounting Policies (Details)           HTML     30K 
37: R29         Significant Accounting Policies (Details Textual)   HTML     45K 
38: R30         Valent Technologies, LLC (Details)                  HTML     49K 
39: R31         Derivative Liability (Details)                      HTML     37K 
40: R32         Derivative Liability (Details 1)                    HTML     41K 
41: R33         Derivative Liability (Details Textual)              HTML     71K 
42: R34         Stockholders' Equity (Details)                      HTML    100K 
43: R35         Stockholders' Equity (Details 1)                    HTML     30K 
44: R36         Stockholders' Equity (Details 2)                    HTML     37K 
45: R37         Stockholders' Equity (Details 3)                    HTML     40K 
46: R38         Stockholders' Equity (Details 4)                    HTML    118K 
47: R39         Stockholders' Equity (Details 5)                    HTML     38K 
48: R40         Stockholders' Equity (Details 6)                    HTML     30K 
49: R41         Stockholders' Equity (Details 7)                    HTML     51K 
50: R42         Stockholders' Equity (Details 8)                    HTML     35K 
51: R43         Stockholders' Equity (Details 9)                    HTML     58K 
52: R44         Stockholders' Equity (Details 10)                   HTML     90K 
53: R45         Stockholders' Equity (Details 11)                   HTML     33K 
54: R46         Financial Instruments (Details)                     HTML     28K 
55: R47         Related Party Transactions (Details)                HTML     23K 
56: R48         Current and Deferred Income Taxes (Details)         HTML     47K 
57: R49         Current and Deferred Income Taxes (Details 1)       HTML     44K 
58: R50         Current and Deferred Income Taxes (Details          HTML     46K 
                Textual)                                                         
59: R51         Commitments and Contingencies (Details)             HTML     27K 
60: R52         Stockholders' Equity (Details Textual)              HTML     91K 
61: R53         Stockholders' Equity (Details Textual 1)            HTML     66K 
62: R54         Stockholders' Equity (Details Textual 2)            HTML     52K 
63: R55         Stockholders' Equity (Details Textual 3)            HTML     46K 
64: R56         Supplementary Statement of Cash Flows Information   HTML     43K 
                (Details)                                                        
65: R57         Financial Risk Management (Details)                 HTML     27K 
66: R58         Financial Risk Management (Details 1)               HTML     28K 
67: R59         Financial Risk Management (Details Textual)         HTML     48K 
68: R60         Subsequent Events (Details)                         HTML     51K 
70: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    133K 
69: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX    101K 
 3: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- dmpi-20190331                       XML   2.20M 
 5: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- dmpi-20190331_cal               XML    142K 
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 7: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- dmpi-20190331_lab                     XML   1.14M 
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 4: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- dmpi-20190331                         XSD    211K 
71: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001213900-19-012524-xbrl      Zip    171K

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