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Tinder's new safety features won't prevent all types of abuse

  • Written by: Rosalie Gillett, Research Associate in Digital Platform Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
Tinder's new safety features won't prevent all types of abuseShutterstock/Wachiwit

The dating app Tinder has faced increasing scrutiny over abusive interactions on the service. In November 2019, an Auckland man was convicted of murdering British woman Grace Millane after they met on Tinder. Incidents such as these have brought attention to the potential for serious violence facilitated by dating apps.

Amid...

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BTS are winning hearts the world over – but we are still wary of language diversity

  • Written by: John Hawkins, Assistant Professor, School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
BTS are winning hearts the world over – but we are still wary of language diversityEPA/ANGEL COLMENARES

In 2017, Toni Watson was busking on the streets of Byron Bay. A couple of years later, using the moniker Tones and I, her song about that experience would become the world’s most played track.

Dance Monkey has now been streamed a billion times. It was the most popular track last week in Israel, Malaysia and Switzerland...

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All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry norm

  • Written by: Richard Robinson, Research Fellow/Hospitality Management, The University of Queensland
All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry normHeston Blumenthal at a media event at Dinner by Heston in 2016. The restaurant bears his name but he does not own it. Tracey Nearmy/AAP

The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage-theft scandal, with the high-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Melbourne allegedly underpaying its staff by A$4 million, is the tip of the iceberg for wage...

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'I wouldn’t want to buy even if I had the money.' The rise of renters by choice

  • Written by: Alan Morris, Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
'I wouldn’t want to buy even if I had the money.' The rise of renters by choicefizkes/Shutterstock

The private rental sector has expanded at more than twice the rate of the increase in Australian households in the last two decades. This increasingly diverse form of tenure now houses about one in four of us.

Australia’s lightly regulated private rental sector means the insecurity of tenants is a key factor in why most...

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