American multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs’ London staff have been offered free sex-change surgery and fertility treatments in the latest step to encourage more women to stay with the firm.

The move, announced by chief executive Richard Gnodde in a staff town-hall meeting, comes as the bank fights to change its reputation as a conservative old boys' club.

Brett Sengstock revealed his horrific stories of  sex abuse when he was a child on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes program.

The predator was Hillsong founder Brian Houston’s father, Frank Houston, a high-profile pastor who used his position of power to sexually abuse young boys.

The matter was never reported to the police, even when Brian Houston found out about his father’s actions in 1999.

Queensland battery grants and loans scheme was launched to encourage Queenslanders to use renewable energy. The grants and loans are for people to apply to install batteries to store solar power.

Queensland householders can go online and apply for interest-free loans of up to $10,000 and grants of $3000 to purchase batteries or combined solar-battery systems.

Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said 1500 Queensland households and small businesses would be able to cut their power bills by storing solar power and using it after sunset.

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.