Speaker 1: Well, tens of thousands of first home buyers are at
Speaker 1: risk of wipeout due to a sliding housing market. This
Speaker 1: is according to Coalition Analysis, which is suggesting that buyers
Speaker 1: who took up the five percent deposit scheme before the
Speaker 1: May budget would now be falling into negative equity. The
Speaker 1: number is at thirty four thousand, so that's based on
Speaker 1: the number of people who signed up to the program
Speaker 1: in the months before the budget. Now, given that Morgan
Speaker 1: Stanley is predicting a ten percent drop in the housing market,
Speaker 1: so couple that with just a five percent deposit, so
Speaker 1: that's how they come to those figures. Prop Check Analysis
Speaker 1: is showing that the total value of housing across the
Speaker 1: country is taking a two hundred and thirty billion dollar hit.
Speaker 1: Two men have been charged after a fake gun scare
Speaker 1: in Sydney. Police descended on Moore Park last night after
Speaker 1: a witness reported one of the men carrying a firearm
Speaker 1: and wearing body armor. The two men, aged in their thirties,
Speaker 1: were arrested and a replica firearm, a vest and a
Speaker 1: badge were seized. Officers allegedly found prohibited drugs on one
Speaker 1: of the men, who was granted bail to appear in
Speaker 1: court later in the month. The other man was refused
Speaker 1: bail and Willipohl in court today after being charged with
Speaker 1: possessing an unregistered, unauthorized pistol. Well protesters have rallied outside
Speaker 1: a One Nation event in Melbourne. Up to five hundred
Speaker 1: people rallied outside the town Hall Hotel in Hawthorne East,
Speaker 1: carrying banners, chanting and banging drums. One Nation was holding
Speaker 1: an event to celebrate the announcement of candidates running in
Speaker 1: the upcoming Victorian election. The Upper House candidate Mark Nicholson,
Speaker 1: talking to News twenty four, was defiant in the face
Speaker 1: of protesting. James Ashby says security required for Pauline hands
Speaker 1: and outweighs that of Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi. A former
Speaker 1: NRL star and gambling addict, has told a parliamentary inquiry
Speaker 1: of the inducements in wagering and that betting company promoters
Speaker 1: even allegedly supplied him with drugs. The form At Canberraiders
Speaker 1: player Luke Bateman told a parliamentary inquiry he was just
Speaker 1: twenty three years of age when gambling promoters allegedly offered
Speaker 1: to supply him with illegal drugs. Bateman, who gambled away
Speaker 1: his NRL earnings. Told the inquiry the betting industry lacked
Speaker 1: a duty of care and says gambling inducements destroyed his
Speaker 1: life and that of family members. At least eleven people,
Speaker 1: including three children, were killed in a drone strike on
Speaker 1: a popular tourist resort in Russia. Well Moscow is blaming Ukraine,
Speaker 1: claiming it was a deliberate attack on civilians. A specialist
Speaker 1: medical disaster team was dispatched to the area as authorities
Speaker 1: reported nine people have sustained serious injuries. Tourists in the
Speaker 1: Black Sea resorts say there were no sirens sounded before
Speaker 1: the actual drone strike. Kiev has not yet commented. Europe's
Speaker 1: wildfire crisis is deepening as new blazers emerged during widespread
Speaker 1: heatwayh that's taking place across the continent right now. More
Speaker 1: than four hundred firefighters are battling fires in Greece as
Speaker 1: strong and erratic winds whip up flames. Authorities are conducting
Speaker 1: emergency evacuations of villages and settlements in Attica, northwest of Athens.
Speaker 1: Five firefighters have died so far battling blazers in the country.
Speaker 1: Residents evacuated from towns near the French city of Bordeaux
Speaker 1: are being allowed to return for now following a reprieve
Speaker 1: in conditions. More than two hundred and twenty thousand people
Speaker 1: were evacuated by a fire which scorts through forty two
Speaker 1: thousand hectares of land, but a new blaze has broken
Speaker 1: out in a netherlens, prompting evacuations and disrupting some train services.
Speaker 1: Cooler weather is expected to sweep across several countries later
Speaker 1: on in the week, which is hoped will aid crews
Speaker 1: in their fight against those fires.