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- ↑ Australian Films at the Australian Box Office Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine Report for Film Victoria
- ↑ Bullseye at National Film and Sound Archive
- 1 2 Suzanne Brown, Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford University Press, 1993 p266
- ↑ "Blazing the trail from Birdsville", Cinema Papers, January 1986 p45
- ↑ "Production round-up", Cinema Papers, November 1985 p48
- ↑ "Umbrella Entertainment". Archived from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
