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- ↑ Newsprint - Derwent Valley Mills The Mercury 16 March 1938 page 5
- ↑ Australian Newsprint - The Tasmanian Mills The West Australian 14 December 1938 page 13
- ↑ Newsprint Industry is Born The Herald 24 February 1941 page 4
- ↑ Newsprint Industry in Operation The Advocate 27 February 1941 page 5
- ↑ Fairfax buys 1.2m shares in ANM Canberra Times 23 August 1972 page 25
- ↑ Project Worth $155m ANM Ltd to proceed with Albury newsprint mill Canberra Times 29 June 1978 page 17
- ↑ Wran opens $190m plant at Albury Canberra Times 29 August 1981 page 21
- ↑ TPC to investigate Fairfax assets sale Canberra Times 17 March 1988 page 3
- ↑ Fletcher given green light to buy ANM stake Canberra Times 16 June 1988 page 17
- ↑ Norske to Acquire Fletcher Challenge's Paper Group Recycling Today 3 April 2000
- ↑ Norske Skog Will Buy Paper Division Of Fletcher Challenge for $2.5 Billion Wall Street Journal 4 April 2000
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