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- ↑ "Rotten luck with an oyster shell puts Girdler down and out". Sydney Morning Herald . 21 April 2001.
- ↑ Veage, John (6 March 2018). "Call for more defibrillators to be available throughout the shire". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader.