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- ↑ "NSW Election 2015 - The Entrance". ABC News . March 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ↑ "NSW Division - Dobell 2004". Australian Electoral Commission. 9 October 2004. Retrieved 4 April 2015.