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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Caitlin Cassidy and Amanda Meade

BBC and NWA: the day ABC staff went on strike – and left Aunty looking ‘a bit different’

Fran Kelly wears a black t-shirt with
Journalist Fran Kelly addresses ABC staff after walking off the job at the broadcaster’s Ultimo studios. Staff are striking over sustainable jobs, fair pay and improved working conditions. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Broadcasters had warned their audiences that the ABC would look “a bit different” on Wednesday – and as the clock struck 11am, they weren’t wrong.

As more than 2,000 ABC staff walked off the job for the first time in two decades in protest of their working conditions, the public broadcaster’s news channel switched over to the BBC.

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