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Sunny Okafor

Sunny writes for everyone who landed last week, still working out which tram goes where.

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Can an AI Keep You Company? The 2025 Research Is Split.

Can a chatbot be your friend? In 2025 the research split clean down the middle: short-term comfort, long-term risk. Here is what the Harvard and MIT studies actually found.

By Sunny Okafor21 June 20264 min

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NEW IN MELBOURNE

Just Moved to Melbourne? Your First Week, Sorted

New to Melbourne? Here is the practical first-week checklist: transport, a SIM, a bank, the official sources for visa and tax, and the one thing no orientation pack covers.

By Sunny Okafor19 June 20264 min

Read the city. Then meet it.

The Dispatch is the reading. Hey Sini is the doing: a standing weekly table of five people near you, the same five, every week.

New in Melbourne?Take a seat

The Dispatch is written under pen names by Hey Sini's editors. The reporting is real; the bylines are a house tradition.