Abstract
It's 11 pm and 2GB's Brian Wiltshire begins his weeknight program Midnight Matchmaker with a slow, melancholic song about a boy looking for ‘a girl with no face, no name, no number’. The song sets the mood for the next hour in which Sydney's lonely and unattached men and women are offered an opportunity to find love and companionship. Blatantly sentimental as the song may be, it's a truthful reflection of the growing problem of human isolation and loneliness that has been precipitated by the replacement of traditional, small, close-knit communities with large, inherently mobile cities.
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