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National affairs Mungo Man needs help – to come home Jim Bowler 9 February 2016 It’s time for funds and a plan to preserve and commemorate this visitor from Ancient Australia, writes Jim Bowler, the geologist who discovered Mungo Man’s remains Essays & reportage Postwar boomer Peter Browne 18 January 2016 Robert Menzies’s name is synonomous with a long period of stability and prosperity. Does the legend match the facts? Essays & reportage Kenneth Slessor goes to the movies Tom O'Regan 4 January 2016 The celebrated poet invented his own way of writing about the films of the early sound era, says Tom O’Regan Books & arts Forgotten voices Greg Lehman 21 December 2015 Books | Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes Greg Lehman

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 rise of the antibiotic reformers Ben Wade 19 November 2015 Books | Through agitation, confrontation, persuasion and legislation a group of reformers helped shape today’s medical landscape, writes Ben Wade International The legacies of terror Graeme Dobell 18 November 2015 Just over a century ago another movement tried to terrify the West, writes Graeme Dobell. Its failure helps illuminate ISIS’s campaign and its likely impact Books & arts The enigma of Keith Murdoch Michael Cannon 18 November 2015 A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure

Books & arts Bad moon rising Jane Goodall 31 August 2015 Television | Aquarius is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes Jane Goodall Essays & reportage Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines Gillian Cowlishaw 19 August 2015 Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline… Essays & reportage This glorious moment Stuart Macintyre 12 August 2015 Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes… Essays & reportage The Australian who rewrote world history Robin Derricourt 10 August 2015 In the face of expert opposition, scientist Grafton Elliot Smith promoted the theory that ancient Egypt was the source of almost every major innovation. It was a campaign that…