Serial plagiarist Peter Gleeson has been exposed again for using other people’s words, this time by Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission (AFMRC).

AFMRC has been trawling through the work of The Courier-Mail columnist and Sky News host after he was pinged twice for plagiarism since late last month and it claims Gleeson filled almost half a Gleeso Confidential column (at top) with the unattributed reporting of a regional ABC journalist.

The Guardian Australia broke one of Gleeson’s earlier examples of words banditry and here it is on Gleeson’s latest IP theft….

In the latest example, discovered in a “Gleeso Confidential” column from March, the former editor of the Sunday Mail told the moving story of Chinchilla woman Yvette Bracefield, who was “forced to give birth on the side of a regional highway”.

Titled Oh Baby, the Bush Still Gets Raw Deal, the column began by trumpeting a 2017 Sunday Mail series about “the inequity between health services provided to women in the bush, compared with those in the southeast corner”.

“It was confronting stuff, particularly for those women simply wanting to have a baby in a regional city or town,” Gleeson continued. “The State Government pledged to fix it.”

The next eight paragraphs, however, did not cite his paper’s past work. Instead, they reported Bracefield’s recent ordeal in vivid detail.

“We caught Beatrix at the time … but I kept having nightmares that we weren’t going to catch her in time and she was just going to go splat on the asphalt,” she says of her newborn’s traumatic arrival into the world.

The quote, like the next eight paragraphs, was lifted from a story by ABC Southern Queensland reporter Jon Daly published in February. The original reporting, though, was not mentioned.

After a paragraph in which Gleeson derides a hospital spokesperson’s response in Daly’s reporting as “tepid” and “stupid”, the columnist then returns to use the ABC story for another three paragraphs.

Afterwards Gleeson switches to rural banks closing and quotes Robbie Katter. In all, about 45% of the article is taken, without attribution, from the ABC article.

In response to questions from Guardian Australia, a News Corp spokesperson said the organisation would review the matter as part of “ongoing inquiries”.

“We are aware of the new claims regarding Peter Gleeson and have included them into our ongoing inquiries,” the spokesperson said.

Gleeson has been contacted for comment.

End of The Guardian Australia‘s extract. Memo: Peter Gleeson: see how easy it is to give proper attribution? We’d say you should try it some time but we don’t think you deserve to get the chance to do that.

The MGH simply notes, as some on Twitter have, that for a bloke with a track record of getting stuck into the ABC, Gleeson appeared to have no qualms about stealing from one of their reporters.

And we’ll end with just a taste of Twitter reaction to the latest, lazy, unethical approach by Gleeson to what he thinks is journalism.