MELBOURNE: Senior editors at the Sunday Herald Sun have been left red-faced after it was revealed the stairs Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews fell down and badly injured himself on last year were actually at the back of his holiday rental. (pictured)

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BRISBANE: Self-confessed plagiarist Peter Gleeson (far right) has returned to his work desk but on “restricted duties” after taking a short personal leave break.

Gleeson will be restricted to sprouting risible right-wing rubbish on Sky News Australia and penning risible right-wing rubbish for The Courier-Mail.

In a joint statement, Sky News chief executive Paul “Boris” Whittaker and The Courier-Mail editor Chris Jones said Gleeson “was well aware he needed to lift his game”.

“There are Labor governments all over the place that need to be gotten rid of,” they said.

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SYDNEY: Fears that the recent spate of vandalism by climate change activists directed at artworks had spread to Sydney have been dismissed by NSW Police.

Following an attack on an Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup at the National Gallery in Canberra this week all galleries across the nation are on high alert for similar protests.

A NSW Police spokesperson said an emergency triple-0 call had been received at Sydney police headquarters yesterday which prompted an emergency dash to a Leichhardt art gallery.

“The caller reported what they believed to be a hideously and deliberately disfigured work of art,” the police spokesperson said.

“But when police arrived they were told the piece in question was a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth painted as a tribute by Anh Do, star of ABC TV’s Brush With Fame program. (pictured)

“After being told the artwork had been untouched police left the scene,” the spokesperson said.

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MEMO SUBS: From the Melbourne bureau – Need to replace the intro in the Melbourne NIB. Apologies for the terrible omission Fixed now.

MELBOURNE: Senior editors at the Sunday Herald Sun would have been left red-faced had there been a skerrick of journalistic professionalism or the slightest interest whatsover in the basic tenets of the craft calling for fairness and balance in any of them after it was revealed the stairs Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews fell down and badly injured himself on last year were actually at the back of his holiday rental. (pictured)