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- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p22
- ↑ 'Mr Brown' and riddle of the man who just vanished By Richard Macey Sydney Morning Herald 25 May 2002 accessed 22 June 2013
- ↑ "Papers of Scott Hicks : Summary record ["Info" tab]". State Library of South Australia . Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ↑ Scott Hicks at IMDb
- ↑ "The true story of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax - one of Australia's most audacious heists". www.abc.net.au. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ↑ "Qantas in protest about hijack film". Canberra Times . 1 November 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ↑ Teeseling, Ingeborg van (21 May 2018). "The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
