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Australian house prices slump, with Sydney recording steepest drop in a decade | Sky News AustraliaAustralian house prices have slumped, dropping 6.5 per cent in 2018. \n\nEconomists say the drop is due to the restricted access to credit with banks being forced to tighten lending standards and slow loan applications. \n\nSydney recorded its steepest drop in a decade last year, with the average house price now sitting at $1.06 million and $702,000 for units. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Sydney man accused of exploiting 15-year-old girl | Sky News AustraliaA Sydney man has been accused of exploiting a 15-year-old girl by sending sexually explicit messages and requesting she reply with images and video footage of herself. \n\nThe 25-year-old was arrested at Sydney Airport on December 15 after officers seized mobile phones and computers from his Quakers Hill home. \n\nThe Sydney man has been charged with using a carriage service to solicit child pornography. \n\nHe has been granted strict conditional bail and is due to front court at the end of January. \n\n\n\n
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Two unvaccinated children bring measles to Sydney from Sri Lanka | Sky News AustraliaTwo unvaccinated children have been diagnosed with measles in Sydney after returning from a trip to Sri Lanka.\n\nNSW Health has issued a warning to those who travelled on flight SQ221 with the children, which arrived in Sydney from Singapore on January 11.\n\nThe children also caught a train on January 11 from Sydney International Airport to Meadowbank via Central.\n\nNSW Health’s Dr Vicky Sheppeard is urging anyone susceptible to measles who may have come into contact with the children to be aware of the symptoms of the disease.\n\nIt brings the number of Sydney measles cases to eight in the past three weeks.\n\n\n\n\n
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Rally calling for pill testing to be held in Sydney | Sky News AustraliaA rally will be held in Sydney on Saturday with the public demanding the introduction of pill testing at music festivals in NSW.\n\nIt follows the Royal Australasian College of Physicians calling for pill testing in an open letter to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThere have been five deaths at music festivals in the state in four months.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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MPs join crowds in Sydney pill testing rally | Sky News AustraliaLarge crowds have taken to the streets of Sydney calling for New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian to introduce pill testing at festivals following a number of suspected drug overdoses.\n\nGreens leader Richard Di Natale addressed the crowds along with independent MP Kerryn Phelps and Greens MP David Shoebridge, urging the Premier to 'get out of the way' on pill testing.\n\nThe rally comes amid the state's government introduces tough new music festival regulations, which will require events to meet minimum safety standards from March 1.\n\nMs Berejiklian has dismissed public outcry, insisting pill tesing would only encourage drug use.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Sharp falls in property value forecast for Sydney and Melbourne | Sky News AustraliaSydney's property market is likely to fall 3.3 per cent this year, while Melbourne house values could fall as much as 6 per cent, according to Moody's Analytics.\n\n
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Beloved Sydney schoolboy dies in Austrian avalanche | Sky News AustraliaThe teenager who died in an avalanche while skiing with his family in Austria has been identified as 16-year-old Max Meyer. \n\nAustrian Police say the teenager was skiing with his parents and brother when a snow shelf fell and buried him at the ski village in St. Anton am Arlberg on Wednesday local time. \n\nMax was set to start Grade 11 at the International Grammar School in Ultimo, where tributes are today flowing for the beloved 16-year-old. \n\n\n\n\n\n
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