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- ↑ "The Amalgamated AAT – 1 July 2015 - What is changing and what is staying the same" (PDF). Administrative Appeals Tribunal . Government of Australia . Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ↑ "Administrative Review Council - Report number 8 - 1981 - Social Security Appeals" (PDF). Administrative Review Council . Government of Australia . Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ↑ Julian Gardner (1995). "Julian Gardner - The Social Security Appeals Tribunal: 20 years of evolution" (PDF). Alternative Law Journal . 20 (5). Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ↑ "Social Security Appeals Tribunal annual report 2014/15" (PDF). Administrative Appeals Tribunal . Government of Australia . Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ↑ Dennis Pearce (2015). Administrative Appeals Tribunal (4thition ed.). LexisNexis Butterworths. p. 3. ISBN 9780409342932 . Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ↑ "Fact sheet Seven: Appealing child support decisions to the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT)". Department of Human Services (Australia) . Government of Australia . Retrieved 13 August 2019.