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- ↑ ABC World Today broadcast 24 July 2002
- ↑ ABC 2007 federal election coverage 26 November 2007
- ↑ "Letters Patent". Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Commonwealth of Australia. 11 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "Sex abuse advocates welcome royal commission". ABC News . Australia. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
