Dating
Banned on one, blocked on all: Dating app abusers face platform-wide exile
Under a new industry code of conduct, users booted from an online dating service owned by a company with multiple apps will be barred across the other platforms.
- by Clay Lucas
Latest
Reinventing romance: Dating events are back as singles sour on the apps
Dating apps redefined romance for a generation. Now, local entrepreneurs are trying to redefine the industry for 3 million Australian users as many abandon them.
- by Clay Lucas
Paying to play the field: Why singles like Carly are deleting dating apps
They have redefined romance, but the honeymoon is over for dating apps as users become mentally exhausted with the swiping and small talk, not to mention the surging price to be noticed.
- by Clay Lucas
Investigation
Dating in Melbourne
Love for Sale
Dating apps promise genuine connections and fairytale endings. But this investigation by Clay Lucas has revealed dodgy practices and environments where misogyny flourishes.
Exclusive
Apps
Behind the screens: Hook-up dating app Down and its place in a dark industry
Review farms, fake women messaging men and staff able to read your every message – the inside world of a dating app.
- by Clay Lucas
What it’s really like to be non-monogamous in Australia today
From polyamory to open relationships, here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about non-monogamy.
- by Nell Geraets
‘How has this become a thing?’: Navigating sex after divorce
Grey divorce is on the rise, with an increasing number of divorcees dating again, sometimes after decades of being out of the game.
- by Lauren Ironmonger
Woman takes boyfriend to tribunal after he fails to take her to the airport
The woman involved had arranged to be picked up by the man, who she was in a relationship with, but he never arrived to collect her.
- by Sam Smith
Opinion
Domestic violence
Behind the locked doors of a DV safe room wasn’t my life, until suddenly it was
I spent a morning surrounded by women whose once-normal lives had been turned into nightmares by their partners.
- by Julie Lewis
Opinion
Sociology
As a visiting Frenchwoman, I find Australian men to be not at all what I expected
Living in Melbourne and working in hospitality, one cultural difference with France was immediately apparent: men’s behaviour towards women.
- by Elyne Le Faou
Opinion
Information security
What I learnt from watching the Ashley Madison doco with my husband
Dating is surely something that should remain solidly human, but AI is shifting the ground rules.
- by Cherie Gilmour