The stunning footage of a ship rocking violently from side-to-side with thousands of cattle onboard has raised further questions about the troubled live export industry, and the safety of ships registered in Panama.

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OPPO has launched the newest additions to its R-series, the R17 & R17 Pro. Packed full of features to capture the night, the R series continues to push the boundaries of smartphone photography, design and innovation.

OPPO’s R series is known for testing the limit with smartphone camera technology and cutting-edge features, all at an affordable price. The new devices in the R-Series have taken the features that Aussies have come to love and improved them to meet their evolving lifestyle needs:

• Improved camera technology, enhanced with AI and a new Sony sensor allows for new flagship features like Ultra Night Mode and TOF 3D Photography in the R17 Pro
• World’s fastest charging technology – SuperVOOC Flash Charge – will charge the R17 Pro to 40% in just 10 minutes.
• A 6.4-inch FHD+ Waterdrop inspired Screen and the first to come with Corning Gorilla Glass 6

Seize the night with state of the art camera technology

Both the R17 & R17 Pro come with an improved 25MP front-facing camera, with enhanced AI selfie beautification technology. On the back, the R17 has a 16MP + 5MP dual rear camera combination. While the R17 Pro has been designed to be the ultimate night shooter, adopting a 12MP+20MP+TOF (Time of Flight) three lens combination camera equipped with F2.4/F1.5 smart aperture, optical image stabilisation and a new AI Ultra-Clear Engine.

These features all combine to create a new ultra-clear night mode, helping customers capture clear, high-quality images in low light settings. When users turn on the camera, the AI engine will determine the current scene and intelligently match the best shooting solution. The ultra-clear engine will then intelligently obtain a clearer picture through algorithms, such as long exposure anti-shake, highlight suppression, dark part details increase, area adjustment and noise removal. Finally, pixel colour reconstruction technology will optimise the colour performance, giving a greater sense of transparency and depth.

OPPO is also the first smartphone brand to use both structured light and TOF technologies in their cameras, making the R17 Pro ready to take advantage of the new AR and VR applications that will come to market thanks to the new technology. The new TOF-Ready 3D camera processes nanosecond bursts of infrared light to better interpret depth for use across a range of applications.

“OPPO is known for delivering camera technology that continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in a smartphone. The R17 & R17 Pro are full of cutting-edge features that showcase what OPPO is capable of, said Michael Tran, managing director at OPPO Australia.

“In particular, we are excited to bring the R17 Pro’s Ultra Night Mode and TOF 3D camera capabilities to Australia. Utilising the latest in smartphone camera technology, OPPO will help its customers seize the night and take advantage of new and exciting camera applications as they come to market. OPPO is excited to be at the forefront of this technology in Australia,”, said Michael Tran, Managing Director at OPPO Australia.

Live life in the fast lane with supercharged performance

OPPO is also bringing SuperVOOC Flash Charging, the world’s fastest charging technology to the R17 Pro. First introduced to OPPO’s Find X Device, the R17 Pro comes packed with a 2*1850mAh bi-cell design for up to 50-watt charging power that improves battery performance. Users will be ready to go in a flash with the R17 Pro capable of reaching 40% charge in just 10 minutes.

To keep things moving fast the R17 & R17 Pro comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB of storage. The R17 Pro unleashes full-speed computing performance and lightening-fast app launch times with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chipset, while the R17 sports the Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 chipset.

To support its supercharged hardware, the R17 & R17 Pro come with OPPO’s latest operating system – ColorOS 5.2, based on Android 8.1.

A tough act to beat

The R17 Series is the first mobile phone to use Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6, one of the world’s toughest smartphone screen technologies. The R17 & R17 Pro will be able to tolerate one-meter drops onto rough surfaces up to 15 times, which is double the strength of Gorilla Glass 5 found on other devices.

Additionally, both the R17 & R17 Pro can be unlocked instantly just by touching the screen. There is a hidden, ultra-photosensitive sensor built into the Gorilla display to ensure the clearest fingerprint images possible.

All of these features are packed into a 6.4 inch water drop screen, with an aspect ratio of 91.5%, and are encased in a beautifully designed tri-colour gradient design, giving the R17 Pro & R17 a premium look and feel of the phone.

“We can’t wait to bring the R17 & R17 Pro to Australia. We believe with these new smartphones we will open up a whole new premium mid-range segment, offering high-quality cameras and supercharged performance. It’s important that we keep offering customers flagship features at affordable prices which meet the lifestyle needs of our customers,” said Tran.

The OPPO R17 devices are available to purchase from November 12th from selected retailers and carriers. For more information, visit www.oppo.com.

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With the high likelihood of an ALP win at the next Federal election, and with it changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, fear is rippling through the investment property market.

In fact, according to RiskWise Property Research CEO Doron Peleg, price reductions accelerated over the last quarter following the day of the Liberal leadership spill of Malcom Turnbull by Scott Morrison on August 24. In addition, since the Wentworth by-election auction results have been noticeably lower.

This is evidenced by last week’s auction results which saw Sydney have the worse preliminary clearance rates in a decade at 47.7 per cent and Melbourne at a preliminary low of 50.5 per cent.

 “The Liberal Party’s leadership spill that saw Scott Morrison become the new Prime Minister effectively put Labor’s probability of winning the next Federal election at 80 per cent, making potential changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax highly likely,” Mr Peleg said.

“From that point of time, we have seen a significant reduction in consumer sentiment in the residential property sector and major drops in the auction clearance rates.”

Mr Peleg said a few months ago before the leadership spill, the likelihood of a Labor win was lower and changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax were less likely. He said while there had already been a slump in Australian house prices, based on CoreLogic data, this fall actually followed a similar pattern to other downturns in the past.

“At that point of time it was nothing we hadn’t seen before and was in line with previous downturns,” he said.

CoreLogic figures show in the downturn of 2003-2006, dwelling values in Sydney fell 7.1 per cent in the space of 12 months, and during the GFC they fell 7.0 per cent. Dwelling values in Sydney have also fallen by 5.6 per cent since peaking in July last year, which is comparable to the previous downturns.

However, since the leadership spill, figures from Westpac’s Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index have shown consumer confidence on residential property continues to deteriorate.

“The ‘time to buy a dwelling’ index has fallen 5.7 per cent in the past two months,” Mr Peleg said.

“Consumer expectations for house prices also fell 7.4 per cent in October to their lowest point ever with the biggest drop in Victoria, likely an effect of falling Melbourne housing prices.

“While tighter credit restrictions and other factors have contributed to the current downturn, the significantly increased likelihood that Labor will win the next Federal election – which will be called on or before May 18, 2019 – and make changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax has definitely been a contributing factor to price reductions.

“In fact, these price reductions have accelerated over the last quarter and we have seen that auction clearance results are very low.”

He said the risk of material price reductions had also increased lately, particularly due to tighter lending standards and buyer expectations for price reductions due to the potential changes in negative gearing and capital gains tax.

“This is similar to AMP Capital’s view, who while initially expecting falls of 15 per cent in Sydney and Melbourne spread out to 2020 (about 5 per cent per annum), have revised their estimate to 20 per cent falls due to tighter credit restrictions and fears of low capital growth due to changes in the tax,” he said.

“According to AMP, this would take average prices back to first half of 2015 in those two cities. Nationally they estimate a fall of nearly 10 per cent to 2020 – previously expected to be 5 per cent.

“So we can see with the increased likelihood of Labor winning the next election, it has already impacted the housing market.

“These changes are very likely to impact the market from now until their full implementation and we won’t see any improvement until the market has adjusted to the new lower prices and reduced investor activity.”

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Iran will respond with equal countermeasures if the United States tries to block its oil exports, the foreign ministry in Tehran says, in the latest tit-for-tat between the two countries.

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The NRL’s number one referee Gerard Sutton is demoted but not dropped for his role in last Friday night’s officiating mistake in the controversial Cronulla versus Canberra encounter.

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Newcastle residents tell a parliamentary inquiry into the management of PFAS contamination the situation is a national disgrace and they need action now.

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A jury hears the pair told a shop assistant large knives were for hunting and later referred to police as “pigs”.

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Ten weeks after the May floods, Hobart residents needing repairs to their homes are facing a six-month wait as tradesmen struggle to get through the workload.

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