Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has ruled out making deals with the Greens in perpetuity, saying the party has a “toxic cultural problem” around women.

Premier Andrews says he will not strike a minority government deal with the Greens should Labor fail to win Saturday’s state election, and will never negotiate with people who refuse to call out denigration of women.

His comments come after a Greens candidate, Angus McAlpine, came under fire last week for previously releasing rap music that included misogynistic lyrics including date rape.

The proposed Indooroopilly bikeway has been transformed into the Indooroopilly Riverwalk, with two stages of the planned construction now to be completed at once to create an 800-metre shared path.

Brisbane City Council announced the four-stage bikeway, of which stage one alone was projected to cost about $8.5 million, would eventually connect the western suburbs of Kenmore and Indooroopilly to the University of Queensland.

Saturday afternoon saw dangerous thunder, hail storms and damaging winds in Brisbane, striking the Gold Coast, Noosa and parts of Gympie, Scenic Rim, Redland City and the Sunshine Coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns Queenslanders of flash flooding, large hailstones and destructive winds up to 125 km/h with heavy rain as the storm moves north.

Far right protesters used smoke bombs and pepper spray against trans-rights activitists in Kiev on Sunday.

Police assisted activists by directing them into a nearby Subway station and blockading it from protesters.

Organisers of the march say the attack demonstrates an increase in far right radical aggression in Ukraine.

Homophobia is still commonplace in Ukraine, where Pride marches have only recently become legalised.

The future of Google News is uncertain as the EU threatens a ‘link tax’ for news stories.

Vice president of Google News, Richard Gringas, says he’s deeply concerned about the proposals which are designed to help struggling news publishers when their stories appear in search results.

In 2014 the Spanish government attempted to charge Google for use of news sites and the company responded by shutting down Google News in Spain.

Queensland massage parlours are more frequently offering illegal prostitution, causing hardship in the licensed brothel sector.

Prostitution Licensing Authority chairman Walter Tutt says the proliferation of false massage parlours is a contributor to the decline in licensed brothels, with the end of June seeing just 20 licensed brothels.

Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy focus on youth issues in the final week of the state election campaign, with promises of a free dental care and a proposed a boot camp to discipline non-violent juveniles, respectively.

The Premier promised free dental coverage for state school kids if it wins next weekend's state election, with the scheme costing $396 million.

Greenslopes resident Jean Kruck is protesting potential tree clearing on Stephens Mountain behind Greenslopes hospital, in an effort by city planners to increase city views in the area.

On Tuesday night, Brisbane City Council approved the Coorparoo Neighbourhood Plan, which entails protecting five hectares of Stephens Mountain, and it drew 421 submissions.

Brisbane City Council has requested citizens’ metadata from telecoms companies, prompting calls of "Big Brother" from the council's Labor opposition.

According to the telecoms industry, the BCC is among more than 100 bodies making thousands of requests for details of numbers called by phone users, their location, the length of calls, email addresses and other information telcos are obliged to keep for two years under national security laws passed in 2015.

Indigenous women in Canada allege they were coerced into sterilisation, according to a class action lawsuit filed this week.

The women say their fallopian tubes were tied, burned, or cut in public hospitals when they were unable to give sufficient consent.

Amnesty International has announced it will lobby the UN committee against torture to increase pressure on the Canadian government to act on the breach of human rights.