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- ↑ ""LANE END" should please "Bellbird" fans". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 39, no. 28. 8 December 1971. p. 10. Retrieved 10 February 2017– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Blue Hills Goes Urban". Sydney Sun Herald. 9 January 1972. p. 95.
- ↑ "Clash over customs opens Bellbird's urban customs". The Age TV Guide. 6 April 1972. p. 1.
- ↑ "They'll all start bidding". The Age. 14 April 1972. p. 2.
- ↑ "Glib, gossy, composite". The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald. 16 April 1972. p. 101.