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- ↑ La Trobe University Staff Directory http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=TAMurray
- ↑ The Australian Academy of the Humanities http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellows/Searches/FellowsSearch.asp?whichpage=4&FN=&type=&SN=&Panel=&Disc=8&KW=&Op=AND&Sort=S&Order=A&pagesize=10
- ↑ ABC Radio Interview http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/03/23/2853639.htm
- ↑ About the Casselden Place dig Department of Planning and Community Development
- ↑ Royal Exhibition Building, Museum Victoria
