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- ↑ "Tasmanian Aboriginals: Manuta Tunapee Puggalugglia Publishing House". Tasmanianaboriginal.com.au. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ↑ "Tasmanian Aboriginals:". Tasmanianaboriginal.com.au. 26 May 2001. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ↑ 'Mansell insists the Lia Pootah are white fellas who "don't have a single drop of Aboriginal blood in their veins"': Matthew Denholm, 'A bone to pick with the Brits,' The Australian, 17 February 2007: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/a-bone-to-pick-with-the-brits/story-e6frg6z6-1111113008054