Your profile is doing more work than you think, and most people write one that actively counts against them.
Not because it's badly written. Because it's forgettable. Somebody scrolling past has about four seconds to decide whether to stop, and "easygoing, love a laugh, looking for someone genuine" gives them nothing to stop for.
Here's what makes somebody stop.
One real detail beats five general ones, every time.
"I like music" tells nobody anything. "I've seen the same band nine times and I'm not sorry" tells them you're funny, slightly obsessive and worth asking about. It also hands anyone reading it an easy opening line, which is exactly what you want, because most people would message more if they knew what to say.
Same for what you're after. "Looking for someone genuine" is what everyone writes. "I want somebody to go to the football with and argue about it afterwards" is a person.
The specific thing does the filtering for you, too. It'll put some people off, and those are people you were never going to get on with anyway.
The most common mistake isn't a bad photo, it's a misleading one. Heavily filtered, five years old, or so far away nobody can tell.
Three or four is plenty. One clear one where your face is visible and you're not wearing sunglasses. One doing something you actually do. One with other people in it, because it shows you have a life.
And if you use a wheelchair, a stick, a hearing aid, whatever it might be, put it in a photo rather than carefully cropping it out. Everyone who was going to be interested still will be, and you've saved yourself an awkward moment later. Plenty of members here say that's the single thing that made online dating easier.
Read it back out loud. If it sounds like a job application, rewrite it.
The profiles that get answered sound like a person. They're a bit funny, they say one honest thing, and they're short. Nobody reads a wall of text, and the effort of writing one is usually visible in a way that doesn't help.
Three or four short paragraphs is more than enough. The point of a profile isn't to explain yourself completely, it's to give somebody a reason to say hello.
The membership runs in both directions, which is what makes this work.
Disabled people right across Australia, with every kind of condition and every attitude towards it. People with health conditions who've never called themselves disabled. And people with no disability at all who joined because they're open to meeting anyone.
Some want something serious, some want company, some want a friend. Saying which is yours is the fastest way to find the right people rather than the most people.
Australia is enormous, and a first date that involves a flight is not a first date.
So search close first. Your own city, your own state. Keep the first meeting short and somewhere you already know works for you. If getting there or getting in affects where you can go, say so while you're arranging it, because any decent person would far rather be told than left guessing.
You can see who's nearby in your state before committing to anything.
Worth mentioning because plenty of dating apps get this wrong: there's nothing to install here. The site runs in your browser, which means it inherits the accessibility setup you already have, your text size, your screen reader, your voice control, instead of overriding it with its own half-finished version.
Ten minutes here and there is genuinely enough anyway. The members who do well aren't the ones putting in hours.
Free to join, free to look. There are pages for Deaf and hard of hearing members and for amputees and people with limb difference, and the questions we get asked most cover the rest.
Write the honest version, not the polished one. Join free and see who answers.