Your afternoon Briefing: Industry backs first-home buyer call, GetUp faces grilling over election tactics

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Hello readers. The housing industry has backed a call for first-home buyers to enter the property market, GetUp faces a grilling over their election campaign tactics.

Assistant Minister to the Treasurer Michael Sukkar MP officially opened Hamilton@Fairfield, 60 new social and affordable housing units developed by Hume Community Housing at Fairfield, NSW, Australia, 16th May 2018. (AAP IMAGE / Robert Pozo).

Industry backs first-home buyer call

The housing and real estate industries have backed Michael Sukkar’s call for first-home buyers to snap up a property now if they can.

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Nicolle Flint MP, federal member for Boothby, at her office in Marion SA, talks about the federal election campaign against her.

GetUp faces grilling over tactics

Liberal MP Nicolle Flint joins fellow backbencher Kevin Andrews in complaining to parliament about the left-wing activist group’s election campaigning.

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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, local fishing boats move in to recover the passengers and crew of Air Niugini flight following the plane crashing into the sea on its approach to Chuuk International Airport in the Federated States of Micronesia. The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday in Micronesia now says that one man is missing, after earlier saying that all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane. (James Yaingeluo via AP, File)

‘Oblivious’ crash pilots ignored alerts

Two seconds before impact, the Australian co-pilot of the doomed Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 yelled “too low, too low”. But it was too late.

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A model case of double standards

A recent air-rage episode should be a lesson to our plethora of anti-discrimination warriors that — shock horror — white people aren’t the only ones capable of racism.

The Centrelink sign is seen in the west NSW town of Broken Hill, Sunday, July 8, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Jobs growth weak

Employment growth was weaker than expected in June, as the jobless rate remained unchanged.