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- 1 2 3 4 She'll drive a hard bargain for Papua Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1972, p35
- ↑ John D. Waiko, A Short History of Papua New Guinea, Oxford University Press, 2001 [1993], ISBN 0-19-553164-7, p.182
- ↑ "The Reluctant Nation", Time magazine, September 29, 1975
- ↑ Papua New Guinea election results Devpolicy
- ↑ "Papua New Guinea: Under the Spell", Pacific Journalism Review, Vol 2, #1 (November 1995)
- ↑ Sepoe, Orovu, "To make a difference: Realities of women’s participation in Papua New Guinea politics", Development Bulletin, no. 59, 2002, page 40 (Electronic version Archived 2009-09-13 at the Wayback Machine )
- ↑ Josephine Abaijah and Eric Wright (1991) A Thousand Coloured Dreams: The Story of a Young Girl Growing up in Papua , Dellasta Pacific. Mount Waverley, Victoria, 1991. ISBN 978-0-947138-32-5.
