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- ↑ "On this day", The Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2010, p 36 via factiva accessed 21 September 2011.
- ↑ Sydney James Butlin, Foundations of the Australian Monetary System, (Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1968).
- 1 2 Vic Carroll, "The old, old story: the rich get richer while the rest go under", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 1992, p 13 via factiva accessed 16 September 2011.
- ↑ Mike Scanlon, "Crime of the centuries", The Newcastle Herald, 7 February 2009, p 10 via factiva accessed 21 September 2011; book review: Carol Baxter, Breaking The Bank (Allen & Unwin, 2008).
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