‘There’s an us v them mentality’: are young Australian men and women drifting apart politically?

‘The hill is so much steeper than I thought it was’ … Grace Richardson witnessed the political gender divide first-hand on a date. Photograph: Tamara Dean/The Guardian

After Grace Richardson broke up with her long-term boyfriend, she entered a period she affectionately refers to as her “rat girl summer”.

“I was using Hinge, I was going out, I was meeting people. I was 23, flirty and thriving,” the Sydney musician and podcast producer says.