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Hi Brett,
Nice to see a fellow Aussie on these forums. I’m also a programmer by trade, but dabble in electronics on the side. My work place has a basic electronics workshop, which includes a magnifying lamp and some head mounted magnifiers. The magnifying lamp is really handy when soldering PCBs and fiddly cables, as everything is well illuminated and the detail is much clearer.
Such a lamp might be useful on your workbench. The one in our workshop is a 3 diopter magnification from Altronics, and they also have a 5 diopter model. Here’s a link to their site: http://www.altronics.com.au/search/all/?sr=magnifier+desk+lamp
They also have other types of magnifiers and tools which might help.