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- ↑ "Kefford Group Tour" Australian Bus Panorama 13/2 October 1997 page 10
- ↑ "Swan Transit" Australian Bus Panorama 12/1 August 1996 page 25
- ↑ "Adelaide Bus Tendering Results Announced" Australian Bus Panorama 15/4 February 2000 page 21
- ↑ "Adelaide Bus Tendering Results" Australian Bus Panorama 15/5 April 2000 page 29
- ↑ Competitive Tendering for Bus Services Seventh International Conference on Competition & Ownership in Land Passenger Transport June 2001
- ↑ History Archived 25 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine SouthLink
- ↑ "New Metropolitan Bus Contracts for Adelaide" Minister for Urban Development & Planning 17 February 200
- ↑ Serco bus drivers end strike ABC News 19 February 2005
- ↑ Report on the Adelaide Metro Bus Service Contracts Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport August 2011
- ↑ New Contractors for Adelaide bus services Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure 29 April 2011
- ↑ Provision of Bus Passenger Transport Services for the Adelaide Metro Public Transport Network Tenders SA
- ↑ 186 Ken Grenda & family Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Business Review Weekly rich list May 2013
- ↑ Operator ATE Sold Australasian Bus & Coach 11 March 2015