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- ↑ "Blind adventurer honoured for Australia Day" by Royce Wilson, Westside News via The Courier-Mail , (26 January 2012)
- ↑ Sussex, Roland Denis – Medal of the Order of Australia, Australian Honours Search Facility
- 1 2 "Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex", University of Queensland
- ↑ "A word in your ear", ABC Brisbane
- ↑ "Roland Sussex", National Conference on Incontinence
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