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- ↑ "Constitutional and Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea - Occasional Paper No 19" Archived April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , 1986
- ↑ "PPP hails late MP Zurenuoc", The National, 26 January 2012
- ↑ London Gazette, 30 December 1994