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- ↑ Peter M'Callum Dowding, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ The Lawrence Government: Perspective by David Black, Carmen Lawrence Collection, Curtin University Library. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, Western Australia: Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. p. 91. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
- ↑ Judith (Judy) Mary Edwards, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2016.