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Journalists at Australian newspapers go on strike on eve of Olympics

Journalists from The Age newspaper protest outside their offices in Melbourne on July 26, 2024 [William West/AFP]

Journalists at some of Australia’s biggest newspapers have gone on strike on the eve of the Paris Olympics after management knocked back their demands for higher pay.

Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped working at 11am on Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the 33rd Olympic Games.

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