Your afternoon Briefing: Property slide not done yet

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s your digest of today’s top stories.

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s your digest of today’s top stories.

10/11/18 Auctioneer working at an auction at 68 Renwick St, Redfern. Photographer: Adam Yip

More property falls to come

Leading indicators of selling activity, potential household stress and a reduction in credit availability suggest the housing market and prices will deteriorate further, industry experts and analysts warn.

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28/10/2018: Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten, greets Premier Daniel Andrews, at the Victorian state Labor election launch at Monash University in Clayton. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Shorten defends Vic Labor’s China deal

Bill Shorten defends Daniel Andrews for joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, arguing the deal was part of the “normal day to day work” of state MPs.

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Strawberry sabotage ‘spite’

A court has heard a woman accused of sticking sewing needles into strawberries was motivated by revenge as she is denied bail.

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Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton speaks at the Victoria Police Centre in Melbourne, Saturday, November 10, 2018. Police and city officials were responding to the Bourke Street terrorist incident yesterday afternoon. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

‘What if trolley man hit a police officer?’

Victoria’s top police officer has cautioned the public against taking actions similar to those of the “trolleyman” who intervened in the Bourke Street terrorist attack while a fundraising initiative to say thank you to the homeless man has raised more than $110,000.