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- ↑ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, September 1987 p. 67
- 1 2 Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 83
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- ↑ Bruce, David (18 March 1988), "Losing love in tangled webs", The Age
- ↑ Hawker, Phillipa (2 September 1988), "Art that starts in the home", The Age
- ↑ Anderson, Doug (18 January 1993), "Hungry Heart", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Demody, Susan (1 December 1988), "Love, Sex and the Melodrama of Relationships", Filmnews
