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- ↑ "Announcement of Chair and CEO of the Catholic Church Council for the Royal Commission" (Press release). Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ "Justice Owen Farewell" (PDF). Supreme Court of Western Australia. 29 June 2010.
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