Australia politics live: Chalmers says opposition having ‘meltdown’ not marketing problem as Coalition targets Labor on housing
Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Chalmers defends house price forecasts The government has been facing some heat over the cooling house market around Australia with falling auction clearance rates, and forecasts that house prices in Sydney and Melbourne could fall more than $100,000. Auction clearance rates in Brisbane came up on the weekend, if you compare the preliminary numbers from the week before. They also came up in Adelaide. They came
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21.58 EDT‘She gets a layer of misogyny,’ Burns tells inquiryTory ShepherdJosh Burns, who is Jewish, told the royal commission into antisemitism earlier of his guilt that his partner, Victorian Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell, has copped misogyny on top of antisemitism.He told the inquiry about the impact of antisemitism on his staff after his office was vandalised, and that there had been more than 1,000 phone calls and 10,000 abusive social media messages.And he said “probably one of the hardest things” was to have someone you love get abused”: double quotation mark[She gets] the same questioning of her loyalty and the same attribution of blame that I get. But she gets a layer of misogyny and a layer of sort of violent, sexualised comments on top of it as well that I don’t get.
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