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The daily ASX report is nothing to do with existing short positions which may be months old. It supposedly reports the amount of sales made on the previous day which were declared short sales.

As far as I can tell, there is a group of privileged organisations which have been allowed to short-sell financial and property stocks for various unclear "hedging" and "arbitrage" purposes. ASIC have authorised them to do it. And it is clear that those privileged organisations have been doing quite a lot of it recently, particularly in the property sector.

So assertions by the media and others that "short selling of financials ( including property stocks ) is currently banned", are not correct. Some are allowed to short and they are doing it.

ASX reports it every day.