How our fear of death shapes our prejudices and makes Tony Abbott more popular

By John Elder
Updated November 23 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am

Anthropologist Rohan Bastin regularly visits a public sauna in Corio "where locals are free with their opinions". At a recent steaming, he found a group of men and women talking about the absurdity of gun control - what with all these jihadists turning up to cut our heads off.

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