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Director of Macquarie Tourism and Leisure, Director of Canterbury Bankstown Leagues Club and a consultant to Service Corporation International Australia. In mid June 2012, John Brown sparked local controversy after supporting a full page ad in the local
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interview in 1987 to having sexual intercourse with Brown on his desk in his office at
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producer that they would be edited out of the program. Murray's on-screen revelation continues to be referred to occasionally in the
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