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References
- ↑ Jeannie Gunn, We of the Never Never , 1908, ISBN 1-4043-3885-3
- ↑ Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won, Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983 (first printed in 1980), ISBN 0-7251-0411-2, pp.186-8
- ↑ "Into the Never Never", Robert Upe, Sydney Morning Herald, June 16, 2007
- ↑ Barcroft Boake, "Where the Dead Men Lie"
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