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- 1 2 3 "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ Wear, Rae (2002). Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier. University of Queensland Press. p. 142.
- ↑ Robinson, Shirleene (February 2010). "Homophobia as party politics: the construction of the 'Homosexual Deviant' in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland" (PDF). Queensland Review. 17 (1): 29–45. doi:10.1017/S1321816600005249. S2CID 142959604.