Correspondent's Notebook

In the heart of Australian politics

8 April 2011

Radio Australia recently farewelled its esteemed Canberra correspondent, Linda Mottram, who has been reporting from the Australian capital for two and a half years.

Radio Australia reporter, Joanna McCarthy, will be filling her shoes for the next three months.

Here she tells us about adjusting to life as a reporter in the nation’s political hub.

Make-up of a suicide bomber

1 April 2011

It has been a year since the Moscow Metro was hit by a terrorist attack, carried out by the so-called Black Widow suicide bombers.

The ABC’s Moscow correspondent, Norman Hermant, travelled to the village home of one of the bombers to speak to her father.