SYDNEY -- Australian new home sales rose 0.2% in April, according to a monthly survey released Monday by HIA-Jeld-Wen. Sales of detached houses rose 0.4% in the month, while sales of multi-units posted a third consecutive monthly decline, falling by 2% in April, the survey showed.Copyright © 2011 MarketWatch, Inc. d with his father in the airstrike. "This house was the house of the nation." Yassin, 37, said little has been changed in the house since his father's death. "We only posted new framed photos and organized his conference room to allow people to go in and out freely," he said. The sheik's widow, two of his sons, including Abdel Hamid, and more than 25 relatives still live in the five-room home. The living room, which served as Yassin's office, is decorated with pictures of the bearded cleric alongside fellow Hamas leaders and Arab dignitaries, including the late King Hussein of Jordan and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In the center of the room is the wheelchair Yassin used to get around the house, decorated with a portrait of the cleric wrapped in his trademark brown blanket. Yassin's bedroom is decorated with more portraits on the bed. Inside a small glass box are the fragments of the wheelchair he was sitting on when he was killed. Nearby are his Quran, and a special metal stand used to attach the book to his wheelchair, a collection of books, videotaped speeches and his old computer. "This museum will help us revive the memory of the great imam, the martyr Ahmed Yassin, among the Arab and Islamic nation," says an inscription in the guest book by Hamas' prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, who was the sheik's longtime assistant. The house has played an important role in the history of Hamas, an Islamic movement formed in the 1980s that today has a potent army and controls the Gaza Strip. The house hosted the first meeting of Hamas' leadership. Families would visit to seek Yassin's advice, Arafat would visit on Muslim holidays and Hamas still use