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- ↑ "Honour For Australia's Little Films". The Sunday Herald . Sydney. 9 August 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 30 August 2015– via National library of Australia.
- ↑ "Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ↑ Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2004 accessed 17 December 2011
- ↑ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
