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- ↑ "Plays of the Air: "The Dingo" Vance Palmer's Tale of the Queensland Coast", ABC Weekly, 13 April 1940, retrieved 19 February 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "The Literary and Critical Page". Advocate. Vol. LV, no. 2717. 30 October 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Tuesday [June 15]", The Wireless Weekly, June 11, 1937, retrieved 19 February 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "Playwrights of Australia: Plays, Novels, Poems", The Wireless Weekly, November 23, 1940, retrieved 19 February 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "ABC Programmes — Wednesday, June 17", ABC Weekly, 13 June 1942, retrieved 19 February 2024– via Trove
- 1 2 "Radio Plays for Next Week A. B. C.", ABC Weekly, 7 November 1953, retrieved 19 February 2024– via Trove