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- ↑ "Queries on A.B.C." The Advertiser (Adelaide) . South Australia. 11 February 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 12 August 2018– via National Library of Australia. This situation would be echoed ten years later with TV Week up against the ABC's TV Times