VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on gay marriage

Written by The Conversation

University of Canberra Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis Mark Evans and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including Labor’s same sex marriage push, political point scoring on the issue, Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s announcement that dual citizens engaging in terrorist activity will be stripped of their citizenship and the GST on women’s sanitary products.

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