The disgraced Hollywood producer is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a move the Academy hopes will send a message that "wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour" in the film industry is over.

Girls are finally getting a bigger role in Thomas the Tank Engine's male-dominated world with the addition of two female main characters, Nia and Rebecca.

Family members of world-renowned Indigenous watercolourist Albert Namatjira say they are "very, very proud" to have the rights to his artwork returned to them, after high-profile Australian millionaire Dick Smith intervened in the negotiations.

A man accused of setting up meetings between Harvey Weinstein and young women says he "did not hunt" for Mr Weinstein as the chorus of Hollywood stars and accusers denouncing the film producer grows larger.

A decade since it was pioneered, the genre cheekily referred to as "RuRo" shows no sign of slowing down. Tales of love and fortunes lost and found in rural regions and the outback continue to strike a chord amongst Aussie readers.