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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Amanda Meade

Nine’s AFR print edition to cease in WA after Seven’s press doubles production price

Financial Review editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury.
Financial Review editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury: ‘We regret the uncompetitive abuse of market power that has forced the end of printing and distributing the much-loved Financial Review paper in Australia’s powerhouse export state.’ Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The print edition of Nine’s Australian Financial Review will no longer be available in Western Australia after the Seven-owned printing facility doubled the price of producing the newspaper.

Billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes owns the only major newspaper printing press in the state and has contracts to print competitors’ products, including the financial daily for Nine as well as The Australian for News Corp.

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