Your Briefing: Home values weakest since 2008

Hello readers. Australian housing market now at its weakest since 2008 and outspoken priest Rod Bower raises ire of Jewish groups.

Hello readers. The Australian housing market is at its ‘weakest in a decade’ and Anglican priest Rod Bower’s “offensive” tweet sparks anger.

Agent David Corous. Auction at 6 Richmond St, Geelong. Agent was David Cortous of McGrath. House sold to couple in New Zealand via buyers advocate Tony Slack. Picture: Alan Barber

Home values ‘weakest in decade’

The Australian housing market is now at its weakest since 2008, with prices nationally falling 4.8 per cent in 2018.

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Father Rod Bower at Gosford Anglican Church with his sign about asylum seekers.pic Sue Graham

Priest raises ire of Jewish groups

Anglican priest Rod Bower has been rebuked after comparing the processing of asylum-seekers on Manus Island to the Holocaust.

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Rishabh Pant with Bonnie Paine and her children. Picture: Twitter.

‘You babysit, we’ll go out’

What happens on the field is supposed to stay there, but visiting wicket keeper Rishabh Pant was in on the joke with Tim Paine yesterday. Meanwhile, Justin Langer’s disregard for the batsmen knocking on the door of an under-performing Test team has irritated a lot of people.

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The Opal Tower at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Wednesday, December 26, 2018. Residents of Sydney's Opal Tower have been told to leave for a second time in four days to enable the company and investigators to conduct a "comprehensive investigation" into a crack on the tenth floor of the building. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Blame game over Opal Tower

A public blame game has erupted between the developer and the builder of the cracked western Sydney high-rise Opal Tower.

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Darrell Simon, picture several years before he vanished. Michelle Smith

Google Maps search fail slammed

A search of a rural property using Google Maps led to a missing man lying dead in a “searched area’’ for almost two years.