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- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p100
- ↑ 1980 Sydney Morning Herald article on the play accessed 12 July 2013
- ↑ The Liberation of Skopje , retrieved 28 May 2020
