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- ↑ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria. Retrieved 24 October 2012
- ↑ "Features: Movie team on location at the beach". The Canberra Times . Vol. 60, no. 18, 447. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 April 1986. p. 13. Retrieved 18 July 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "The Place at the Coast". The Australian Jewish News . Vol. 26, no. 6. Victoria, Australia. 10 November 1989. p. 29. Retrieved 18 July 2023– via National Library of Australia.
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