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- ↑ "ALS Committee". als.asn.au. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ↑ "Australian Linguistics Society - About". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "ALAA/ALS conference website". Archived from the original on 14 May 2018.
- ↑ "Aboriginal elder the last speaker of his language".
- ↑ "Fellow Profile – Ilana Mushin". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
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