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- ↑ "Mr John Newton Carey". Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- David Black (2014), The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition). Perth [W.A.]: Parliament of Western Australia.
