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- ↑ "John Bernard ('Ben') Egan". classicwallabies.com.au.
- ↑ "Closest Yet To Defeat". The Labor Daily . 8 October 1927. p. 7 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Ben Egan's Two Engagements". The Daily Telegraph . 27 September 1929. p. 27 – via National Library of Australia.