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- ↑ "Life Membership Induction of Helen Pausacker and Liz Ross" Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 27 May 2012. Accessed: 29 June 2013.
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- ↑ Ross, Liz. (2004). Dare to struggle, dare to win! : builders labourers fight deregistration, 1981–94. Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation. Carlton North, Vic.: Vulgar Press. ISBN 0-9580794-9-8. OCLC 57244478.
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