An Australian-first study into imaged-based sexual abuse - also known as revenge porn - has found nearly one in 10 adults have taken nude photos or recorded footage of others without consent.

RMIT researchers surveyed 4,200 people aged 16 to 49 and found more than 6% of respondents have shared the images or footage and close to 5% had made threats to do so.

Labor warns it will embrace the hard line border control policies of the current government and forcibly return South-East Asian refugees if elected this May.

The comments come in spite of world wide condemnation of the policies which have seen would-be refugees languishing in detention centers for years without adequate medical aid.

Shadow immigration minister Scott Neumann issued a statement to migrants on Friday, warning the journey across the Timor sea would not be worth their money or their lives.

Disaster assistance has been extended to Cassowary Coast Regional Council, as well as primary producers in Charters Towers, Croydon and Etheridge affected by Queensland’s monsoonal floods.

Assistance is being provided through the jointly funded Commonwealth-Queensland Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) and is in addition to assistance already activated for the flooding event.

Queensland’s Lockyer Valley is replanting more than 12,000 koala food trees in hopes of attracting koalas’ return to the region.

The new forest sits between healthy koala populations at Rosewood and Walloon but growing residential development on the lower end of the forest is putting pressure on environmental conservation.

Ipswich City Council Planning Officer John Young says there are already promising signs of return and the council expects this to continue as the trees grow, the canopy closes and ongoing wild dog management yields results.

The Vatican is convening senior bishops from around the world this week to discuss the management and prevention of sexual abuse within the Catholic church.

The unprecedented meeting will attempt to tackle the two-decade long scandal that saw predator priests relocated from parish to parish, rather than reported to authorities.

Father Federico Lombardi says the credibility of the Catholic church is at stake and no member of the hierarchy is immune to repercussions.

The Financial Times reported yesterday Berlin will stop extraditing Germans to Britain immediately after Brexit even if it leaves the European Union with a deal, citing a formal notification submitted by Germany to the European Commission last week.

The notification cites concerns faced by Britain and the EU in maintaining their security cooperation at the current level after Brexit, according to the report.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29.

One billion trees will be planted across Australia over the next 30 years, as part of a new forestry deal intended to assist the country in reaching its Paris Agreement climate target.

The deal will remove 18 million tonnes of greenhouse gas per year, offsetting the current production of 500 million tonnes per year.

Environmentalists say the importance of coal to the Australian economy is the country’s main obstacle to hitting its carbon emissions target and efforts must be intensified to lower emissions by 2030.

Members of NSW's festival industry, including those from the cancelled Psyfari and Mountain Sounds events, will attend a meeting today on a proposed licensing system.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian's new licensing system is due to start in March, with interim measures currently in place for summer festivals deemed high risk.

Steve Demian from Psyfari says the meeting is a chance for their voices to be heard and added to the many voices calling for the licensing scheme to be scrapped.

Queensland miners are calling for financial support for sufferers of dust diseases such as black lung and silicosis.

Protesters gathered outside of BHP’s Brisbane offices to ask for the development of a medical and living expense fund for victims to access after their workers compensation expires.

Former coal miner Jim Pearce says mining companies are so far resisting the call to help over one hundred Queensland miners affected by the diseases.

The former chief executive of Ipswich City Council, his wife and two businessmen have been sentenced in Brisbane District Court on Friday for corruption.

Carl Wulff, 66, his wife Sharon Oxenbridge, 50, and businessmen Wayne Myers, 64, and Claude Walker, 61, all pleaded guilty in December after they were charged following a lengthy Crime and Corruption Commission investigation into the council's dealings.