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- ↑ "TELEVISION PARADE". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 25, no. 26. Australia. 4 December 1957. p. 12. Retrieved 31 March 2014– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
