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- ↑ David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p276
- ↑ Wilson, Jake. "Carlton + Godard = Cinema: An Interview with Nigel Buesst". In Senses of Cimema (27). Retrieved 10 February 2011.
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- ↑ Bonjour Balwyn at IMDb
- ↑ Bruce Hodson, 'The Carlton Ripple and the Australian Film Revival', Screening the Past 23 Nov 2008 Archived 18 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 September 2012
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 260–261
