Highly respected newsreader Ian Ross died early Wednesday morning in a Gold Coast hospital, aged 73.
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Producer-writer-director Rod Hay is developing projects based on one of Australia's most notorious criminals and a controversial English explorer and colonial governor.
Streaming and DVD rental service Quickflix is resisting calls from a small group of US investors for a general meeting aimed at removing the current board and electing four new directors.
Chelsea Williamson and Rebecca Robinson are the latest among a crop of young Western Australian actors who are striving for international careers.
Director Alister Grierson acknowledges the ABC has given his film Parer's War a tough time-slot next Sunday night, programmed against the finale of Downton Abbey on Seven and the Logie Awards on Nine.
A team of Sherpas working with an Australian documentary crew was just metres away when the devastating avalanche struck Mount Everest last week, killing at least 13 Nepali guides.
The most popular film or TV title bought online in Australia last year was also the most widely pirated: season three of Game of Thrones.
An online education program that encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teenagers to be cybersafe has won an international award.