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- ↑ "Outback figures in radio serial". Weekly Times . No. 4315. Victoria, Australia. 5 March 1952. p. 37. Retrieved 13 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Jubilee radio serial awards". Daily Mercury . Vol. 85, no. 283. Queensland, Australia. 27 November 1951. p. 1. Retrieved 13 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Jubilee Radio Serial Winners", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC, 1 December 1951, retrieved 13 February 2024– via Trove
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- ↑ "Radio Round-up". The Mail (Adelaide) . Vol. 41, no. 2, 070. South Australia. 2 February 1952. p. 24. Retrieved 13 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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