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- ↑ 'Occasional Paper No. 49 TENTH ERIC JOHNSTON LECTURE 1995: Lost Conversations, Recovered Archives' By Roslyn Poignant
- ↑ ""HERALD" WEEK-END MAGAZINE Filming the life of Australia's famous aboriginal artist — Suggestion for approaching Mr. Chifley with a low bow — The wreek of the malabar, Easter 1931". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 29 March 1947. p. 10. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ Namatjira the Painter (1947) at Moving History: 60 Years of Film Australia. Retrieved 16 December 2011
- ↑ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
- ↑ Geoff Mayer, 'Lee Robinson (1923 – 2003)', Screening the Past 30 April 2004
- ↑ 'Film Australia's Outback DVD: Interview with Lee Robinson' Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)
