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The Centralian advocate Fri 11 May 2018

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Title

The Centralian advocate Fri 11 May 2018

Collection

Centralian Advocate; NewspaperNT

Date

2018-05-11

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Language

English

Subject

Community newspapers -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs; Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Newspapers; Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Newspapers.; Australia, Central -- Newspapers

Publisher name

Nationwide News Pty. Limited

Place of publication

Alice Springs

File type

application/pdf

Use

Copyright. Made available by the publisher under licence.

Copyright owner

Nationwide News Pty. Limited

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C01275

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/299848

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/381191

Page content

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