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- ↑ Territory cricket identity Ken Vowles drops into The Guestroom, The Guestroom (105.7 ABC Darwin), 16 December 2011.
- ↑ Arnost, Melanie: Labor candidate's assault conviction causes stir, ABC News, 14 August 2012.
- ↑ Results: NT General Election Archived 30 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 25 August 2012.
- ↑ "Ken Vowles, Jeff Collins and Scott McConnell dumped from NT Government's Labor Caucus". ABC News. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ↑ "Ken Vowles has quit politics on the last day of parliamentary sittings for 2019". ABC News. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
