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- ↑ "Aussie Soap Archive: Number 96". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ↑ ""Arcade"". The Australian Women's Weekly . 23 January 1980. p. 21. Retrieved 18 October 2015– via National Library of Australia.
