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- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p213
- ↑ "NO PART FOR WINNING ACTRESS". The Canberra Times . 9 December 1974. p. 3. Retrieved 4 August 2013– via National Library of Australia.
