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- ↑ "Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission - About the Commission" . Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ↑ Tim Colebatch (27 September 2014). "Dick Hamer: the quiet campaigner". The Sydney Morning Herald . Fairfax Media . Retrieved 1 April 2015.
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