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- 1 2 Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p139
- ↑ "Production Survey". Cinema Papers. No. 89. August 1992. p. 85.
- ↑ "Melbourne International Film Festival Archive".
