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- ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144
- ↑ "Video Overview Going Down (1983) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ Haydn Keenan, 'Going Down', AACMI, January 2008 Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed 13 October 2012
