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- ↑ "Australian Drama at Stow Hall". The Advertiser . South Australia. 18 September 1946. p. 12. Retrieved 21 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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- ↑ "New Angle on old Play Theme". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. X, no. 290. New South Wales. 25 February 1946. p. 12. Retrieved 21 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Rees, Leslie (1987). Australian drama, 1970-1985: a historical and critical survey. p. 212.
- ↑ ""Western Limit" At New Theatre". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 33,751. New South Wales, Australia. 25 February 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 21 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Voices Unheard: The Representation of Australian Aborigines by Left-Wing Playwrights 1940s-1960s Gabriela Zabala , Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 60 2012; (p. 42-55)
