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- ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p119-120
- ↑ Jan Epstein, "With Love to the Person Next to Me", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p235
