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- 1 2 Cynthia Coyne, '"Bye and Bye when all the Natives have gone': Daisy Bates and Billingee", in Uncommon Ground: White Women and Aboriginal History, ed. Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005)
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