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- ↑ "N.Z. Newspaper Owners Resent Censorship". The Age . No. 27, 293. Victoria, Australia. 9 October 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 15 November 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "News in Brief". The News . Adelaide. 9 October 1942. p. 3. Retrieved 16 March 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Peter Finch in Austerity Film", ABC Weekly, 4 (37), Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 12 September 1942, retrieved 14 November 2023– via Trove
- ↑ "New Films". The Sydney Morning Herald . 12 October 1942. p. 7. Retrieved 16 March 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "At City Theatres". The Telegraph . Queensland, Australia. 10 October 1942. p. 4 (Sports Final). Retrieved 15 November 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "The New Films". The Daily Telegraph . Vol. III, no. 48. New South Wales, Australia. 11 October 1942. p. 23. Retrieved 15 November 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Newsreels – Chauvel War Short". Smith's Weekly . Vol. XXIV, no. 33. New South Wales, Australia. 17 October 1942. p. 19. Retrieved 15 November 2023– via National Library of Australia.