Border workers reject pay offer

Australian Border Force officers have overwhelmingly rejected a new pay offer as they strike around the country.

More than 10,000 Department of Immigration and Border Protection staff took part in a ballot with 90 per cent rejecting a government offer.

The offer would have cut the take-home pay of many staff by $8000 a year or more, the public sector union's national secretary Nadine Flood said in a statement on Tuesday.