Afternoon Update: ABC staff strike; Australia opposes Israel occupation in Lebanon; and the perils of a crammed Test cricket summer

Journalist Fran Kelly addresses striking ABC staff outside the Ultimo office in Sydney. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Good afternoon. At 11am, more than 2,000 ABC staff around Australia walked off the job for 24 hours, forcing services across television, radio and digital to use BBC content and repeat programming.

“I’ve seen too many sensational journalists, sensational producers leave not because they want to, but because they had to,” broadcasting great Fran Kelly told striking staff outside the ABC’s Ultimo office in Sydney. “It’s not acceptable that you get stuck on a pay level you’re not able to live on.”