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- ↑ "Country profile: Solomon Islands", BBC
- ↑ "Solomon Islands Government's fate uncertain following coup", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 6 June 2000
- ↑ "Radio Happy Isles: Programme Schedule 2001" Archived 6 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ "Radio Happy Isles: Programme Schedule 2001" Archived 6 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ SEWARD, Robert, Radio Happy Isles: Media and Politics at Play in the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8248-2106-8, pp. 234