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- ↑ Keith Windschuttle "The Value of Literature", Introduction to Dead White Males, by David Williamson, Currency Press, Sydney 1995 Archived 2013-04-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 November 2012
- ↑ Holland, Peter (2005). Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780521850742 . Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ↑ "David Williamson in Conversation". ABC Radio National. 25 July 2006.
- ↑ Cochrane, Peter (14 March 1997). "Williamson's World". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 15.