In two incident and emotion-packed acts, it turns from raunchy sitcom into an unflinching exploration of desire.

Hit TV mini-series House of Hancock will not be broadcast or streamed again after Channel 9 made a grovelling apology for its portrayal of mining magnate Gina Rinehart and her family.

Former lead singer of The Smiths, Morrissey, has beaten off stiff competition to win this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award with a cringe-worthy scene.

Genuine reconciliation requires a blending of "two very different cultures" to create a composite Australian identity that both black and white communities can identify with, says former prime minister Paul Keating.

It was her lightness that got Teresa Palmer the role in the psychosexual thriller, but it was the darkness of the material that attracted her in the first place.