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- ↑ "The New Music Network closes – AMC to continue Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address". Australian Music Centre . Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ↑ "Richard Gill and his Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address" by Andrew Ford, The Music Show, Radio National, 24 October 2015
- ↑ "An action plan towards gender equality in music: Cat Hope". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ↑ "2019 Paul Lowin Prizes & Glanville-Hicks Address, 22 October in Melbourne". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ↑ "Hello human, welcome to art (Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address 'Dissonance' by Flynn & Humphrey on 21 September)". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ↑ "2020 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address by Sunny Kim on 8 December". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ↑ Maddy Briggs (13 October 2023). "Elena Kats-Chernin delivers 2023 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address". Limelight . Retrieved 17 October 2023.