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- ↑ Retiring MPs, Australia Votes 2007, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2007.
- ↑ https://honeybee.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AHBIC_Congress-wrap-7.2018.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ Farouque, Farah (12 October 2003). "The Pull of House and home". The Age . Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ Paul A. Pickering (March 1998). "The Class of 96: A Biographical Analysis of New Government Members of the Australian House of Representatives". Australian Journal of Politics & History. 44 (1): 95–112. doi:10.1111/1467-8497.00006 . Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ↑ "Parliamentary Papers Volume 3". Queensland Parliament Legislative Assembly. 1983. p. 71.
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