Criminalising cannabis: How Australia’s war on weed hurts the poor
Most cannabis possession arrests happen in Victoria’s poorest suburbs and towns. A new approach is needed, says the Penington Institute.
- by Clay Lucas
Latest
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
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
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.
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Dating
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
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Victoria floods
Home owners to pay a combined $1m to find out how much they will be flooded
Melbourne Water told Kensington residents it was up to them to make sense of complex new Maribyrnong River modelling data.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Clay Lucas
Beneath the city: Inside Victoria’s largest, most expensive road
Deep underneath our north-eastern suburbs, two mega-machines are embarking on an ambitious project to shape Melbourne’s future.
- by Clay Lucas
A Grampians town’s remarkable recovery after ‘the beast’ burnt through
A bushfire wiped out one-third of the tiny Grampians town of Pomonal 12 weeks ago. The town knew about resilience before the fire hit, and now it’s putting it into action.
- by Clay Lucas
Residents vow to fight government push to quash public housing commission class action
Awil Hussein and his two daughters call the North Melbourne public housing towers home and say their community will be destroyed if a plan to demolish them is allowed to go ahead.
- by Clay Lucas
Merrick Watts’ simple rule during Eltham pub fights: ‘Grab the till and run’
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays, the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
- by Clay Lucas
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