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- ↑ Barber, Lynden (29 July 1986), "Bringing the bands back home", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Anderson, Doug (7 December 1988), "Noise's quiet achiever to quit", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Hubble, Ava (15 March 1993), "Antennae", The Sydney Morning Herald
- 1 2 Jamrozik, Wanda (21 September 1992), "Noise speaks volumes", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ "The silence", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 August 1987
- ↑ Anderson, Doug (25 May 1987), "The Noise", The Sydney Morning Herald
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