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- ↑ WARN, Julie Anne, It's an Honour, 26 January 2002.
- ↑ Media Release: Julie Warn re-appointed at WAAPA, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 18 February 2009.
- ↑ "WAAPA Leader to Exit Stage Left". Edith Cowan University. 16 September 2021.
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