The housing market is breaking records including how quickly properties are being sold, with the fastest property sales taking place in just 14 days in Victoria and Tasmania.
REA Group Economist Anne Flaherty said "the fastest-selling suburb in the country
was actually one in the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria called St Andrews Beach."
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Whatever happens in the Indo-Pacific, 'it can't be Australia alone' | Sky News AustraliaAustralian Strategic Policy Institute's Peter Jennings says whatever is going to happen in terms of security in the Indo-Pacific, 'it can't be Australia alone'. \n\n'This is only something we will only be able to deal with if we have the United States here in significant numbers if we're working very closely with Japan, and hopefully India,' he said.\n\n'Australia alone, with six subs or twelve subs, we're not going to be a match for the power that is being assembled in the People's Liberation Army Navy and that's frankly just a reality of the power between various countries.\n\n'I knew from the minute Malcolm Turnbull announced the preferred design of the ships a few years ago we were going to have to upgrade the Collins class and that those submarines would actually be the pointy end of the deterrence spear for at least the next 10-15 years.'\n\n
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ABC’s ‘double-standard’ on publishing investigative journalism | Sky News AustraliaThe ABC’s Paul Barry appears to have a “double-standard” when it comes to defending reporting by the national broadcaster, according to Sky News Australia Digital Editor Jack Houghton.\n\nThe Australian’s Sharri Markson has been leading the world with her coverage of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nInternational newspapers have followed her lead, including with revelations employees at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill and were admitted to hospital in November 2019, prior to the first recorded COVID-19 case.\n\nMr Houghton said that Barry had been on a taxpayer funded “crusade” to discredit Markson’s work, mainly her reports which mention the theory that the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\n\n“While the ABC may be happy to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending the publication of unprovable allegations, it appears to have a double-standard when it comes to actually important investigative journalism,” Mr Houghton said.\n\n“This demonstrates a contrast between how much evidence you need to publish life-destroying allegations against a conservative politician and how much evidence you need to raise questions about the biggest global catastrophe in living memory.”
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