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References
Craven, Peter. "Porter: friend and betrayer," The Australian, 15–16 January 1994, Review 3.
Mary Lord: Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts (Random House, Sydney, 1993)
Noel Rowe: '"No one but I will know": Hal Porter's Honesty', in Australian Humanities Review, Issue 41, February 2007
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