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- ↑ Denoon, Donald (2005). A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus Books. p. 49.
- ↑ Johnson, Leslie Wilson (1975). Westminster in Moresby: Papua New Guinea's House of Assembly 1964-1972. p. 10.
- ↑ "Australian Political Chronicle". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 13 (2). 1967.
