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- ↑ Austlit - "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" by Mary Gilmore
- ↑ "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", The Australian Women's Weekly , 29 June 1940, p5
- ↑ Reserve Bank of Australia, $10 Banknote
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p581