Sadly the ADB records the death of many of its friends during the last year. The newsletter features obituaries for Les Hetherington, Barry McGowan, Brian Fletcher, John Molony, and Helen Jones.

In other news, Stephen Wilks reports on a pilot project ‘The Dictionary of the House of Representatives’ and Rani Kerin muses on ‘The Art of Biography’. And don’t miss Malcolm Allbrook’s article about the first issue of the NCB’s scholarly journal, Australian Journal of Biography and History.