Detectives from the Cyber and Identity Crime Unit have arrested a 30-year-old man after allegedly uncovering specialist equipment used to produce fake identities at Godwin Beach in Queensland in February. Fraud investigators executed a search warrant at the May Street property yesterday where they allegedly seized a commercial grade identity card printer and around 500 blank magnetic stripe cards. They also allegedly found forged driver licenses, bank cards, staff ID cards, mobile phones, sim...

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A clearance rate of 81 per cent was recorded this weekend compared to 81 per cent last weekend and 73 per cent this weekend last year. There were 1063 auctions reported to the REIV, with 856 selling and 207 being passed in, 102 of those on a vendor bid. The summer auction market, from December to February, has delivered the highest number of auction sales on record with almost 5,600 homes sold under the hammer

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The Melbourne home auction market has stormed into the autumn selling season with its best February performance since 2001 and the second best on record. Melbourne recorded a strong clearance rate of 78.5 per cent over February which was higher than the 75.2 per cent recorded over last December and well ahead of the 72.8 percent reported over February 2016. The high clearance rate was achieved despite Melbourne hosting its highest ever number of February auctions with 2963 listed with the...

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