Category: News
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Seniors trialling Holly home safety monitors
Seniors may not always be the keenest to use new technology, but trials are now underway to help elderly people stay in their own homes rather than move into care. The City of Greater Geelong has partnered with Samsung Australia and Deakin University to develop a new monitoring device and system that can track…
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Australian Prime Minister Fails To Endorse Same-Sex Marriage Time Scale Pledge
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has controversially failed to support Attorney-General George Brandis over a pledge made on Sky News. Senator Brandis had said that the government would hold a plebiscite on the issue of same-sex marriage before the end of the year if it won the upcoming federal election. The aim would be for the…
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Australian cities encouraged to bid for 2022 Gay Games
Australian cities are being encouraged to bid for the 2022 Gay Games, with the Federation of Gay Games calling for expressions of interest to host the games before the deadline on the 15th April 2016. The games have not been held in the Southern Hemisphere since the 2002 games took place in Sidney, Australia. The…
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Is Female Success Bad For Relationships?
With gender stereotypes rather more fluid these days due to changing workplaces, it’s not surprising that success in business or creative areas is not necessarily going to come to the man of the household.. Recent research by psychologists suggests that many people still expect a woman to have a successful male partner, rather than a…
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What Do Your Shoes Say About You?
Fashion and dating gurus have been talking this week about the impact of the shoes you wear on your first meeting with someone. Some interesting opinions have been expressed above and beyond explaining the belief that well maintained and clean shoes demonstrate a care and attention that transfer into how people maintain their relationships: Street…
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The Search for The One
Romance is alive and well in Australia according to a recent report. This year’s Date of the Nation report has surveyed online daters and found that over three quarters of the people asked are actively looking to spend the rest of their lives with ‘The One’. Even more interestingly, and counter to the scare stories…
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Cupid Sells Its Casual Dating Service
In an interesting move, one of the biggest players in the online dating business has agreed to sell its “casual dating” business to a company that was set up by one of its own co-founders. The deal is worth around seventy four million Australian dollars. Cupid say that they are selling that side of the…
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Being mindful with social media
Two different news items this week demonstrate the difficult lessons that some men still have to learn when it comes to social media and their love lives. In one, a guy called Trevor was chatting with a girl he’d met through an online dating app about the weather when he sent an unsolicited naked picture…
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The Happiest Couples Met Online
A study this week has concluded that if you met your partner online, you are more likely to be happy and stay together than couples who met any other way. The study by US researchers was looking at how the dynamics of marriage may be being altered by the internet, and specifically by online dating.…
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Watch Out For Bad Neighbours
Rumours in the news this week are swirling around Madison Ashton following her eviction from Paramount Apartments. The former mistress of Richard Pratt is now facing yet more accusations of running a brothel out of a residential building. The issue appears to be that Ms Ashton has been running a licensed brothel successfully in Darlinghurst,,…
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Do We Need Dating Schools?
There’s a new schools program in the United States that is trying to address the harm that can be caused by bad dating habits. Aimed at teenagers, the program encourages them to define their relationships with other people into categories such as “just texting”, “casually hooking up”, “friends with benefits” or “monogamous”. The program not…
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Senior Dating Hots Up
If you ever thought that getting older meant an end to passion and lust, then perhaps it’s time to reconsider. An increasing number of retirement homes have been reporting issues in recent years with their residents having far more active sex lives than they had perhaps anticipated. What’s more, many of them are adopting an…
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Gimmicky Dating Sites
Another week and news of another dating site giving itself a gimmicky focus hits the deck. There’s something about taking the open opportunities and free access of a dating and finding ways to narrow it again that somehow seems to chime with the wider public. Rather than putting your interests in your profile as something…
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Aussies Prove Size Matters – But Not How You Think
Australian researchers recently showed that guys who are well endowed really are more attractive to women. Just like any other physical attribute, male genitalia are subject to sexual selection, and certainly before we all started wearing clothes it really would have all been out, front and centre for prospective mates to assess. This is why…
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Are Relationships The New Taboo?
An American sociologist called Leslie Bell has produced a book recently about the difficulties some young women are making for themselves by treating relationships as something of a taboo. The book: “Hard To Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” looks at recent trends tied to people’s focus in recent years on their…