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- ↑ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p32
- ↑ The 7th Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 6-16 July 2006 Archived 27 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 October 2012
