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- ↑ "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (DVD)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2007-09-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Mills (1996) (TV, ABC) at IMDb
- Alison Jones; Terence Clarke (October 1996). "Alison Jones's Opera Plot Summaries". Opera~Opera (Pellinor). Retrieved 2007-09-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- Atkinson, Ann; Linsay Knight; Margaret McPhee (1996). The Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia, Vol.2. Allen & Unwin. p. 220. ISBN 1-86373-898-3 . Retrieved 2007-09-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- Burnett, Ron (22 October 1996). "Summer of the 17th Doll (cast & critique)". OPERA-L. Retrieved 2007-07-10.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)