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- ↑ Denoon, Donald (2005). A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus Books. pp. 66–67.
- ↑ Johnson, Leslie Wilson (1975). Westminster in Moresby: Papua New Guinea's House of Assembly 1964-1972. p. 3.
- ↑ Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 55, 1969. Australian Bureau of Statistics. p. 1170.
- ↑ "Australian Political Chronicle". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 14 (2). 1968.
- ↑ Esa'ala seat to Ward Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 20 October 1970
