Statement from Director of 9News Melbourne

Below is a statement from Hugh Nailon, Director of 9News Melbourne:

I would like to sincerely apologise to Georgie Purcell for a graphic error that occurred in last night's bulletin.

Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting.

As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original.

This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for that we apologise to Ms Purcell unreservedly. - Hugh Nailon, Director of 9News Melbourne