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Books & arts Code-breakers Carolyn Holbrook 10 December 2015 Books | Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line Books & arts Listening to the zeitgeist Andrew Ford 8 December 2015 How important to music is time and place? National affairs An Abbott comeback? Norman Abjorensen 26 November 2015 History and his government’s record suggest it won’t happen, writes Norman Abjorensen Books & arts Close quarters Susan Lever 23 November 2015 Books | Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes Susan Lever. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena

Books & arts The stylish portraits of May and Mina Moore Anne Maxwell 12 October 2015 Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century From the archive Communist, scientist, lover, spy Klaus Neumann 3 October 2015 The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose Essays & reportage Weather, sharks and the world economy: the luck of the political cycle Andrew Leigh 30 September 2015 When America sneezes, writes Andrew Leigh, Australian state governments catch a cold. And when the weather turns bad, guess who’s held responsible? Books & arts Bad moon rising Jane Goodall 31 August 2015 Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall

Correspondents A Magna Carta moment David Hayes 5 June 2015 After eight centuries the revered document of liberty still grips the political imagination, says David Hayes in London Books & arts Who do we think we are? Beverley Kingston 28 May 2015 Books | A new account of the boom in family history, and the insights it has revealed, informs in unexpected ways, writes Beverley Kingston Essays & reportage Manning Clark and the Man in Black Alan Fewster 25 May 2015 ASIO’s ambivalence about Manning Clark might not have incited a diplomatic training incident, but Clark’s response was uncompromising Books & arts Forty millennia of Indigenous history at the British Museum Maria Nugent 8 May 2015 The British Museum’s Indigenous Australia exhibition could change the conversation about relations between Indigenous people, museums and collections