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Melissa Heagney

Melbourne
As seen in: Domain, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sunday Age, Australian Financial Review, Nine Network, The Canberra Times, Brisbane Times, The New Daily, WAtoday and
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First home owner's mortgage goes up after just six months

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By Melissa Heagney, Tawar Razaghi Verified
| Nine Network Verified
Serehnonn and Dominic Lowe bought their first home during the property boom last year to lock in some certainty after six years of renting in Sydney and in the hopes of starting a family. That was upended when the Lowes' mortgage repayments went up less than six months after taking out a home loan with a rate they expected to hold steady after Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe said he did not expect rates to rise before 2024.
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Victoria’s 11 cheapest towns to buy a house in 2018 revealed

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By Melissa Heagney
| Stock & Land Verified
But travel a few hours out of the CBD, and some of Victoria’s best bargains are on offer. Here are the state’s 11 cheapest towns, based on Domain Group data. NHILL Median house price: $159,000 Distance from Melbourne: 374 kilometres or 4 hours and 21 minutes Victoria’s most affordable town, Nhill, is halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. This quiet little nook is also in the middle of a wheat and sheep-grazing district.
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America's mad love affair with guns cost 3143 kids their lives in just 12 months

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By Melissa Heagney
| The New Daily Verified
A total of 3143 children and adolescents died of a gunshot wound In the United States in 2016, a new tally of childhood deaths has found. These children accounted for 15.4 per cent of all those Americans between 1 and 19 who died in 2016, and a quarter of all those killed by injury rather than disease. As they inch their way back to rates last seen in 1999, childhood deaths attributed to firearms generated 70 per cent more grieving families than those produced by paediatric cancer (1853) in 2016.
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