The coalition is pressuring Labor to release the full details of its climate change policies.

An economic modeller has suggested the opposition’s target to cut carbon emissions could be detrimental to farming, mining, electricity, and transport industry revenue.

Labor leader, Bill Shorten, has dismissed this and promised to release his party’s policies soon.

It could take years to hire 200 new train drivers for Queensland Rail following a shortage of drivers and an unsustainable reliance on overtime.

Only 66 new drivers have been recruited, amounting to one new driver every 12 days from October 21, 2016, until February 1 this year, taking into account natural attrition - meaning at the current rate, it would take until September 19, 2023 to reach the goal of 200 new drivers on the network.

Brisbane councillors have been put on notice to be careful of what they say if council meetings become livestreamed, proposed to begin on the 7th of May.

A trial of the stream will occur at the meeting next week and, if successful, will mean every meeting is streamed once council returns from autumn recess.

In local news, the mango industry has discovered a highly infectious bacteria causing “ugly veins” to appear in the fruit.

Scientists have identified the mystery disorder as resin canal discolouration (RCD), and declared affected mangoes safe to eat, though the blemishes and discolouration caused by RCD makes the fruit basically unsellable.

Jindalee’s DFO is adding six new cinemas as part of its redevelopment plans after recently being sold.

The upgrade will include a new theatre complex, as well as an Eat Street-style dining precinct, and a redesigned retail section.

Looking at national news, the ongoing battle to eradicate European carp from Tasmanian lakes is coming to an end after 25 years with less than 20 of the pest fish remaining.

The Inland Fisheries Service, or IFS, director John Diggle says it has been a “long war” and tedious mission that cost millions of dollars to eradicate the carp because each female can lay up to 1 million eggs and the prolific breeder has no natural predators.

Refugees on Nauru have been exposed to asbestos after dumped shipping containers filled with asbestos sheeting were discovered only metres away from the Fly Camp settlement.

Leaked minutes from a meeting between Nauru’s Government and Australian officials says Brisbane construction firm, Canstruct, identified the ‘safety concern’, and noticed some of the refugees were using the sheeting to build sheds, unaware of the danger.

Moving on to international news, Australian thermal coal exports are under pressure with China’s import restrictions spreading.

Following last months reports that customs officials were holding up coal imports “indefinitely”, Platts, the respected industry newsagency, has reported that the restrictions had spread to the southern port of Fangcheng.

The Platts report says radioactivity on Australian coal was being tested by customs officials which could see coal taking three months to clear customs.

The US government is ordering a review into the certification process which allowed Boeing’s 737 Max to fly for several international airlines.

Questions have been raised as to time taken by the American Federal Aviation Administration to ground the planes, after a failure in the anti-stall system caused two separate crashes, killing 346 people.