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Sex and power on holiday come at a price for women

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It has always been a mystery to me why the media and advertising use sex to sell us everything, but always stop short of selling us sex directly. Perhaps it is because, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde (and House of Cards Season 1): “Everything in the world is about sex … except sex. Sex is all about...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on gay marriage

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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...

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