Harvey Weinstein verdict brings energy to Australia's unfinished #MeToo movement

With the world watching on, an "untouchable" man was handed a sentence that could see him spend years behind bars, far from the glitz of the Hollywood halls he once ruled.

But as Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault in New York overnight, his lawyer said he took it "like a man", a jarring reaction to the verdict in a case that has become shorthand for unchecked patriarchal power.

On the other side of the world, journalist and lawyer Lucia Osborne Crowley switched off flight mode as she touched down in Sydney to find her phone flooded with news that triggered tears on the tarmac.

In July 2018, eight months after the #MeToo movement took off, Osborne Crowley felt able to share a secret that she'd carried for over a decade — at 15 years old she'd been raped at knife-point, but told no-one.

"I am not exaggerating when I say the #MeToo movement changed, maybe even saved, my life," says Osborne Crowley, who went on to share her story in an essay on ABC News that became a book, I Choose Elena.