Encouraging news for first-home buyers with a new report declaring now is the most affordable time to buy.  Despite soaring housing prices and lockdown hurdles.Twenty million dollars in cash and assets were seized from an alleged meth-trafficking syndicate operating across Tasmania and Victoria — but police fear they haven’t got their hands on all of the money used by the syndicate.Australia must remain vigilant about the “grave possibility” of military coercion from China, with the global power now within striking range of Australian shores.Geelong will be given a $142 million free kick by the state government with work on the final redevelopment stage of Kardinia Park to begin at the end of the AFL season.For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription at heraldsun.com.au