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Big tick for marriage equality as Labor gains: Ipsos poll

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imageOpposition leader Bill Shorten has regained the lead as preferred prime minister.AAP/Julian Smith

More than two thirds of voters support legalising gay marriage in a Fairfax/Ipsos poll that shows Labor again ahead of the Coalition on a two-party basis.

The poll also found 57% believed that in the area where they lived it was not affordable for a...

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A feast fit for kings: how the barons might have celebrated Magna Carta

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imageDining room scene from the Luttrell Psalter, 1325-1335.

For such a seminal historical event, Magna Carta is in some respects poorly recorded. We know quite a lot about who the rebel and loyalist barons were and where they came from, and we can reconstruct up to a point their movements in the weeks leading up to the peace treaty that Magna Carta was...

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Why Pelosi and House Democrats turned on their president over free trade

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imageThe president's last ditch effort to woo House Democrats and their leader, Nancy Pelosi, failed.Reuters

Over the last several days, President Barack Obama pulled out all the stops to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – aka fast track – which would restrict Congress to an up-or-down vote without amendments on trade deals for the next...

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