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Kurti, Linda

A Perfect Match: When Individualism Meets AI Relationships

July 31, 2026

I wake up. I reach for my phone to look at an algorithm perfectly designed just for me. I put on clothes suited to my own personal style. At the station I see a t-shirt that reads: Focus on yourself, don’t get lost in other people, creating my dream life. On the train I listen to an LA influencer tell me of her deepest traumas and the importance of cutting off toxic people before saying ‘I love you guys.’

Workplaces of belonging – the next leadership frontier

March 17, 2026

The workplace today is more than a site of economic production—it has quietly become Australia’s most prominent social institution. For many, work has surpassed churches, sporting clubs, unions and other civic spaces as the primary environment for community connection, shared purpose and belonging.

This article explores how organisations can foster an authentic sense of connection and belonging among team members and the value proposition for those organisations that do.

Supporting People to Overcome Loneliness

February 9, 2026

How do we help people who are very lonely? Jonathan Andrews, a clinical psychologist and author of The Reconnected Heart: How Relationships Help us Heal, explains that it is the quality of relationships that positively impacts loneliness, not quantity. People need deep connection, not a large number of friends.
a name: kodokushi, or ‘lonely deaths’, where a corpse might go undiscovered for months in an unvisited apartment, before the smell finally alerts someone

Equity for stay-at-home parents is needed to tackle declining fertility

January 2, 2026

Australia’s total fertility rate, averaging 1.48 children per woman during her childbearing years, has reached an all-time low. This figure is far below the replacement rate of just over 2 children per woman. This is not uniquely an Australian problem. Many other developed nations have experienced an even sharper decline in fertility than in Australia.
a name: kodokushi, or ‘lonely deaths’, where a corpse might go undiscovered for months in an unvisited apartment, before the smell finally alerts someone

Male-female differences in beliefs about marriage

September 21, 2025

New data released from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey suggests that there is a growing gulf in terms of men and women’s attitudes towards commitment when it comes to marriage and the involvement of both parents in child-rearing.