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- ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p120
- ↑ Interview with Tom Cowan, 12 November 1998 Archived 14 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 11 October 2012
- ↑ Scott Murray, "Sweet Dreamers", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p113
