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- ↑ Wesfarmers chairman Trevor Eastwood to retire Business Spectator, 3 July 2008 [ dead link ]
- ↑ Wesfarmers chairman to step down Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Inside Retailing, 4 July 2008
- ↑ Wesfarmers investors veto chief's pay rise Sydney Morning Herald BusinessDay, 15 November 2008
- ↑ See Bob Every Director profile on Wesfarmers official website (accessed at 8 November 2010)
- ↑ The bucks stop here Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February 2008
- ↑ Dean Paatsch Investors pay dearly for failure to heed warnings on corporate governance The Age BusinessDay, 22 November 2008
- ↑ Alan Kohler: Unfair and unstoppable Business Spectator, 15 June 2009