SYDNEY: The Walkley Foundation is considering the introduction of a new category at the 68th Walkley award presentations ceremony late next year – the most embarrassing or ill-prepared/researched coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.

While most talk within the nation’s mainstream media at present has Channel 9’s Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw (pictured at top) red-hot favourites for failing to recognise British PM Liz Truss as she arrived at Westminster Abbey even though she was pictured in closeup for a good eight seconds on the TV coverage before a producer gave them the heads up, The Bug‘s Media Glass House staff suspect they don’t have it in the bag just yet.

There’s a fair bit of chatter about the ABC’s Lisa Millar, (pictured below right at an earlier royal encounter) who apparently declared that the 142 military types pulling and guiding the Queen’s gun carriage were soldiers when in fact they were all Royal Navy sailors! Hello sailors! That information must have been available for anyone wanting to get their commentary spot on.

The Bug hasn’t confirmed this yet but there’s also a suggestion on social mediocre that Lisa went on to declare the late monarch had been “interned” at Windsor Castle. We accept that Lisa may not be at the top of her game right now, what with her still going through her own deep grieving process following the passing of her beloved LNP at the May federal election.

Back in the commercial mainstream mediocre, some bizarre comments at least deserve a look in for Walkley glory next year, including the scribe who somehow declared, in total contrast to logic or common sense or the meaning of words, that one mourner among the thousands lining the mall was somehow engaged in her own private tribute to Queen Elizabeth.

Then there was the scribe over at Nine who decided that the tens of thousands of people linking the motorway to Windsor, some 40km from central London and in the county of Berkshire, were all Londoners. We’ll offer an unconditional apology if he checked where each and every one of those people lived.

It beggars belief, though, that at least someone from the Lakes District hadn’t travelled down to pay their respects. Or Berkshire even?

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GENEVA: Australia has been singled out in a new emergency report just published by the expert Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

A spokesperson for the IPCC said the expert group which sets the benchmarks for measuring climate change and mitigation efforts had been forced to issue the report following the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

“The members of the IPCC noted with concern the sheer volume of newspaper liftouts being published across Australia covering every aspect of Her Majesty’s life and reign,” the spokesperson said.

“Although the final impact is yet to be seen, panel members thought it best to issue a report pointing out that the loss of trees as a result of manufacturing the massive volume of paper needed to publish the liftouts will have a detrimental effect on efforts to store carbon and cut global warming.”

The IPCC spokesperson said in making the assessment panel members had relied on modelling used previously to judge the impact of op-eds written by The Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly.

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ADELADE: Attempts by hundreds of volunteers to refloat some 200 mature great white sharks that beached themselves on a remote location on the Great Australian Bight some 200km west of here on Thursday morning have ended in disaster.

Dozens have already passed away. Quite a few of the sharks too.

Thank you! Thank you! You’ve all been very kind and we’ll let ourselves out.