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- ↑ Labor backs deputy mayor for Derwent, ABC News, 4 December 2011.
- ↑ Neales, Sue: Ballot box fatigue in Derwent, The Mercury, 4 May 2011.
- ↑ Jackson, Trevor: Choo-choo, my coo-ca-choo, ABC Tasmania, 31 January 2005.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
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- ↑ "Derwent election result confirmed" (Press release). Tasmanian Electoral Commission. 7 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
