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Coming up on your breakfast update, auction clearance rates down again, a school holiday weather warning, and Australia's women claim the T twenty World Cup. I'm Dusty Fitzpatrick with the latest from Tapped News The latest auction clearance data shows Australia's property market has faced another tpid wake gh Phillips report There's been a slight improvement in Sydney's auction clearance rates rising above fifty percent after last week's low of forty seven point three. Across the city, five hundred sixty two homes were auctioned. That's eighteen percent down on this time last year. For the third week in a row, the national rates sits just below fifty percent of four thousandteen hundred tootal auctions, Hugh Phillips reporting Prime Minister is expected to sign a security agreement with Fiji in an effort to counter China's influence in the region Anthony Albanzi has touchedown in the country and will later travel to the Solomon Islands as part of a diplomatic blitz Kill host Tonga and PNG in Brisbane on Wednesday. before capping it off with a visit from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Expert Sarah Newing calls for calm as New South Wales grapples with its first confirmed case of the H five N one bird flu. The giant petrel was the sixth bird detected with the virus across Australia in the last fortnight, with another dead bird now undergoing lab testing Sydney University, Director of Wildlife Health, Annabelle Olson. says at this stage there's no need for widespread panic. Australia and New South Wales. are incredibly well prepared. We have anticipated this. And we already have measures in place if the threat increases beyond this one isolated case. The Reserve Bank is facing criticism from economists who claim it hasn't done enough to offset government spending. New data shows Australia now shares the highest underlying inflation rate among major advanced economies, outpaced only by Iceland Experts argue the RBA's rate cuts last year were too early School holiday plans in Queensland are facing a major blow as a powerful weather system lashes parts of the state. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued hazardous surf warnings for a number of top tourist destinations on the coast. And a new book about Donald Trump's second term as U. S. president's been released The two New York Times journalists behind the text conducted more than one thousand interviews with both friends and foes of Mr. Trump Jonathan Swann has told sixty Mutes, they also spoke with the president himself. He handed us a two page document And he said it was written by a historian and he wanted us to read it. And so it opens by saying Donald Trump is the most powerful man who's ever existed. It turned out, we went and did some research. This wasn't history and it was written by a former golf Caddy In finance, one Australian dollar is buying sixty nine US cents. Sport Australia has won the Women's T twenty World Cup after winning its final against England by seven wickets at Lords, last place ess and and has lost its eleventh AFL game in a row after falling to St Kilda one hundred seventeen points to fifty The power took down the kangaroos seventy three fifty two at home The Blues have arrived in Brisbane, ahead of the state of Origin Deider at Sun Corp Strange will have to go through a full training session today if he's to play on Wednesday. Overnight, the Paramount Eels have rebounded from last week's loss to beat the Manley Seagulls twenty three points to fourteen All the Kights have down the Dlphins in a one point thriller to wrap out round eighteen of the NRL Novakchovich has made Wimbledon history after beating Russia's Roman ofion in round four seven six six three three six six three The Serbian star passes Roger Federer's record of one hundred and six men's match wins at the Grass Court Grand Slam I'm Dusty Fitzpatrick, and that's the latest from Tapp News