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- ↑ ""Ghost's roads, ghost's lives by Rebecca Starford"". Australian Book Review, October 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ↑ "The case for The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett". The Conversation, 26 March 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ↑ ""CBCA – Winners 2008"". CBCA. Retrieved 7 October 2024.