^NZ, Australia 'should consider merger'. The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 2006 [20 March 2008]. （原始内容存档于2020-06-04）. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs [found] "While Australia and New Zealand are of course two sovereign nations, it seems to the committee that the strong ties between the two countries – the economic, cultural, migration, defence, governmental and people-to-people linkages – suggest that an even closer relationship, including the possibility of union, is both desirable and realistic..."
^Population clock. Australian Bureau of Statistics website. Commonwealth of Australia. [15 December 2016]. （原始内容存档于2011-08-21）. The population estimate shown is automatically calculated daily at 00:00 UTC and is based on data obtained from the population clock on the date shown in the citation.
^Population clock. Statistics New Zealand. [14 October 2017]. （原始内容存档于2017-07-12）. The population estimate shown is automatically calculated daily at 00:00 UTC and is based on data obtained from the population clock on the date shown in the citation.
^Keith Lewis; Scott D. Nodder; Lionel Carter. Zealandia: the New Zealand continent. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 11 January 2007 [22 February 2007]. （原始内容存档于2013-07-25）.
^Wakefield's influence on the New Zealand Company: Wakefield and the New Zealand Company. Early Christchurch. Christchurch City Libraries. [21 March 2008]. （原始内容存档于18 March 2008）. and in relation to Wakefield's connection with South Australia: Edward Gibbon Wakefield. The Foundation of South Australia 1800–1851. State Library of South Australia. [20 March 2008]. （原始内容存档于30 July 2008）.
^There were shipping connections between relatively minor ports and New Zealand, for example "the schooner Huia, which carried hardwood from Grafton on the north coast of New South Wales to New Zealand ports and softwoods in the other direction until about 1940." + "Trans-Tasman passenger shipping operated as an extension of the Australian interstate services, most intensively between Sydney and Wellington, but also connecting other Australian and New Zealand ports. Most of the Australian coastal shipping companies were involved in the trans-Tasman trade at some stage" per Deborah Bird Rose. Chapter 2: Ports and Shipping, 1788–1970. Linking a Nation: Australia's Transport and Communications 1788–1970. Australian Heritage Commission. 2003 [2021-02-03]. ISBN 0-642-23561-9. （原始内容存档于2007-10-10）. Also illustrating the point are the many wrecks of the Union Steam Ship Company "scattered around New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific, but nowhere more thickly than in Tasmania and the dangerous bar harbours of Greymouth and Westport" per McLean, Gavin. Union Steam Ship Company – History & Photos. NZ Marine History. New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. [20 March 2008]. （原始内容存档于21 June 2008）.
