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- 1 2 Brian Sodeman – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- 1 2 Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.