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- Tooth, Gerald (14 December 1999). "PM - One Nation brawl". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- White, Annie (14 December 1999). "The World Today Archive - One Nation trouble in Queensland". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- "The rise and fall of Pauline Hanson". The Age. 20 August 2003.