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- ↑ Phillip Gwynne, AustLit. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "Meet the Author: Phillip Gwynne" Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Good Reading Magazine. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "Philip Gwynne Bird Sighting"
- ↑ "Children's Peace Literature Award". AustLit. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
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