---
category: Private Organization
location: Melbourne, Australia
start: 1854
summary: The Age is an Australian newspaper based in Melbourne that rejected Oscar
  Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear
  facility, which were subsequently purchased by The Sunday Times.
tags:
- Organization
- Media
- Australia
---

*The Age* is an [Australian](/places/australia/) newspaper based in Melbourne. [Oscar Guerrero](/people/oscar-guerrero/) attempted to sell photographs of [Israel's](/places/israel/) nuclear facility, provided by [Mordecai Vanunu](/people/mordecai-vanunu/), to *The Age*, but was rejected. [Robert Maxwell](/people/robert-maxwell/) later tried to buy *The Age* newspaper for $750 million [Australian](/places/australia/), but this move was thwarted by the [Australian](/places/australia/) [Labor](/organizations/labor-party/) government's foreign ownership policy.[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.