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How does class impact on Australians' love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open

  • Written by: Rose Butler, DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
How does class impact on Australians' love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the openMick Tsikas/AAP

People from different class backgrounds often fall in love in books and on screen — think Sally Rooney’s Normal People, Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi, or Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. But this is not just a fictional trope, it happens in real life, too.

Australia is historically thought...

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