The woman, aged in her 20s, fell at Cape Woolamai in Phillip Island and was winched to safety by an air ambulance on Sunday.

A Victoria police spokesperson said she fell down the cliff face on Sunday afternoon and confirmed that “crews worked to winch the woman to safety”.

Bass Coast acting police inspector Dave Fyfe told the ABC that the woman’s injuries were not life-threatening but included multiple fractures.

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Home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo has stood aside pending an investigation after a series of leaked texts called into question whether he made partisan interventions under the Coalition governments.

Photograph: Albert Perez/AFL Photos/via Getty ImagesMore contenders for footy’s highest individual honour, Melbourne’s Christian Petracca and Port Adelaide’s Zak Butters, arrive at the Brownlow Medal ceremony:

Photograph: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos/Getty ImagesAfter stepping out as a couple for the first time at the opening night of Moulin Rouge last month, the host of Triple J’s the The Hook Up Dee Salmin is making her Brownlow Medal debut on the arm of Collingwood captain Darcy Moore:

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In a statement posted on Instagram on Sunday night, the singer claimed drummer Gillies and bass player Joannou repeatedly denied him an opportunity to read an advanced copy of their tell-all memoir, Love & Pain, ahead of the airing of the two-part Australian Story documentary A Silver Lining, released to coincide with their upcoming book.

A Silver Lining, the first part of which aired on Monday 18 September, features interviews with Gillies and Joannou on the Aria-winning trio’s rise from teenagers in early 90s Newcastle to global superstardom.

According to a story in the Daily Telegraph, however, Johns and his brother and label manager, Heath, granted clearance for the songs to be used in the ABC’s terrestrial broadcast of the first part of A Silver Lining, but not on iView.

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Pezzullo’s decision to stand aside on Monday, pending an urgent investigation, did little to quell the uproar about the leaked WhatsApp messages, which appeared to show the top public servant making political interventions, disparaging a fellow departmental secretary, and advocating for a right winger to be installed in his portfolio.

Further messages published on Monday showed he also lobbied to censor journalists and advocated for the introduction of “D-Notices”, a system used abroad to attempt to control the reporting of sensitive national security matters.

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance on Monday criticised the “disturbing” attempt to censor and criminalise journalism, saying it was “symptomatic of a political and bureaucratic culture towards the public’s right to know that has pervaded Canberra for the past two decades”.

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