Housing Affordability Hits Record Lows

the update hello i'm eleanor quirk latest data shows housing affordability is continuing to plummet real estate australia's found national affordability is currently at its lowest ever level with the average household in a position to afford just 12 of properties economist luke redmond says the government's five percent deposit scheme has increased competition at the lower end of the market because of

the removal of income caps, they could be quite relatively high income earners that can show up at the lower middle end of the market, access the 5% deposit scheme and be able to compete and potentially out-compete households that might not have the income level that they do and the borrowing capacity that they do.

Australian experts are arriving in Nepal today as the desperate search for flood survivors continues.

Drone pilots and forensic teams among the dozens of Australian personnel to join the disaster efforts.

36 Australians remain missing.

The Coalition and One Nation are both poised to challenge Labor's social media regulations set to be unveiled next week.

The party's fighting the measures on the grounds of free speech.

The Prime Minister will outline a digital duty of care which would give Australians the right to opt out of social media algorithms.

And overseas, a judge in the US state of Massachusetts has declared a mistrial in the triple murder case of Lindsay Clancy.

The 36-year-old was charged with three counts of murder, admitting she killed her three children, but arguing she was suffering postpartum psychosis.

The case collapsed after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.