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Queensland's top cop is set to be grilled about the sexism and misogyny among officers in dealing with domestic violence cases.

The inquiry before Judge Deborah Richards heard on Wednesday that multiple female officers had been sexually assaulted, harassed and bullied by senior male officers.

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll admitted there's a "deep fear" among her officers about the consequences of speaking out.

Victims are also losing confidence in the disciplinary process, she said, in which the only punishment for some perpetrators had been a private chat with a senior male colleague.

That punishment process, known as local management resolution (LMR), has also been used for officers who have had complaints made against them dealing with domestic violence cases.

Late on Wednesday afternoon, counsel assisting Ruth O'Gorman recounted a number allegations about police responding to domestic call outs.

In one case in March 2021, a senior constable insisted on escorting a victim outside and waiting for an Uber with her.

"While waiting he discussed his private life with her, told her he was a bad boy, and probably shouldn't be a police officer, and told her that she was too good looking to have to deal with the sorts of breaches she was dealing with," Ms O'Gorman said.

"She perhaps unsurprisingly felt like he was hitting on her."

Two months later the same officer texted the woman saying they "should hook up soon".

When she didn't respond he sent a second text apologising and saying he had sent it to the wrong person.

Ms O'Gorman said that officer was disciplined using the controversial LMR method.

A senior constable was also punished using that method in 2016 after a probe found he was "deficient" in dealing with a domestic violence case.

He found there was "no DV" despite a respondent telling him that he'd threatened to punch a woman in the face and kick her children in the guts, and had refused to leave her home.

The officer was told to undertake online courses on recognising and responding to domestic violence.

Three years later, the same senior constable was reported by colleagues for his foul and violent comment about a female superior.

"He said in respect of the female officer in charge, 'She's nothing but a c***, and if she doesn't give me a relieving role, I'm gunna punch her in the c***'," Ms O'Gorman said.

She put to the police commissioner that the incident showed the officer's "sexism and misogyny" may have contributed to his earlier failure to respond to the domestic violence incident.

But Ms Carroll insisted it was hard to tell if the officer's failure was due a "disrespect of women".

"It's difficult for me to join those two (incidents)," she said.

The inquiry continues.

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Brittany Higgins will continue giving evidence on day three of the trial for the man accused of raping her.

Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and is facing trial in the ACT Supreme Court.

Ms Higgins sat in the witness box for the first time on Wednesday afternoon after previously providing evidence via video-link from another room in the courthouse.

The court was shown CCTV footage from the night of the alleged assault and prosecutor Shane Drumgold asked Ms Higgins to identify several people in the video.

The footage showed Lehrmann and Ms Higgins drinking with colleagues at The Dock in Canberra on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Over the course of 4.5 hours Ms Higgins is seen to have 11 drinks.

She later told police her recollections from the night were "patchy" because of how drunk she was.

Ms Higgins told police she and Lehrmann went to a popular nightclub with two colleagues, who had also been at the bar, and then shared a taxi home in the early hours of Saturday morning.

On the way, Lehrmann told Ms Higgins he needed to pick up some documents from the office at Parliament House.

The pair worked as political staffers for then-minister Linda Reynolds.

Ms Higgins alleges after the two of them entered Senator Reynolds' office she fell asleep on a couch and woke up to Lehrmann having sex with her.

Recounting the alleged rape, Ms Higgins said she felt "trapped" and "not human" as Lehrmann hovered over her.

"It didn't feel like it was about me at all," she said.

Later in a text message to her ex-boyfriend Ben Dillaway, Ms Higgins said she had been "barely lucid".

"I really don't feel like it was consensual at all," she said.

She also expressed concern at the story becoming public knowledge and later told police she feared damaging the Liberal Party with the allegations.

The trial continues on Thursday.

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A jury has been shown footage from inside Parliament House on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped.

Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and is facing trial in the ACT Supreme Court.

Ms Higgins cried in the witness box as the CCTV footage was played on Thursday.

The jury was also shown pictures of then minister Linda Reynolds' office, where the assault allegedly occurred.

The photos were taken by police two years after the alleged assault.

They show various angles of the office as well as a photo of a grey couch directly in front of the minister's desk.

When a close-up of the couch was shown, Ms Higgins described how she was "jammed up in the corner" when she woke up to Lehrmann having sex with her.

"I felt like a prop," she said.

The jury also heard an audio recording of Lehrmann at the gates to the ministerial entrance.

He told security his name, saying he was with then-minister Linda Reynolds and had been requested to pick up some documents.

Visual footage showed the pair arriving at the building entrance in the early hours of Saturday, March 23, 2019 and being signed in by two security guards.

Ms Higgins walked through the security gate, was required to take off her shoes and struggled to put them back on.

Barefoot and carrying her heels, she and Lehrmann were escorted to the office by a security guard. The footage ended after the pair entered the office.

The footage also showed Lehrmann leaving Parliament House about an hour later and an Uber collecting him.

Ms Higgins was seen leaving the building at 10am that morning, wearing a jacket she said she borrowed from a bag of clothes in the minister's office.

The jury was also shown a photo Ms Higgins had taken of the bruise on her leg a week after the night in question.

Earlier in her evidence, Ms Higgins told the court her leg had been pinned down by Lehrmann's knee during the alleged assault.

Prosecutor Shane Drumgold will continue questioning Ms Higgins before she is cross-examined by Lehrmann's defence lawyer Steven Whybrow.

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Parts of outback NSW are set for more severe weather as a surface trough continues to bring widespread rain and thunderstorms across inland NSW, causing more than a dozen outback rivers to flood.

As a cloud band pulls moisture over central NSW, a severe weather warning for heavy rain and clusters of thunderstorms is in place across inland NSW.

Much of the state will see showers and isolated thunderstorms developing on Thursday afternoon, with some areas over the southwest set for severe storms, heavy rainfall, possible hail and damaging winds, Dean Narramore from the Bureau of Meterology said.

The storm cells fuel a risk of flash flooding and renewed riverine flooding.

A warning area for severe weather extends from Tibooburra in the northeast to Wilcannia in the central west, through to Parkes and Dubbo in central NSW and north to the Queensland border.

It comes as many NSW towns are dealing with renewed flooding, including in the small cotton and wool town of Warren, where rain has been consistent since December.

"It hasn't been hammering with rain, but we have had such a lot of rain consistently, basically since Christmas, that it just doesn't have a chance to dry out," owner of the Macquarie Caravan Park Carolyn Monkley told AAP.

"Rainfall here is totally different to rainfall on the coast. A couple of inches out here makes it very very, very soggy."

Other towns of particular concern include Condobolin, Nyngan, Cobar, Bourke, Wanaaring and Brewarrina.

Flood warnings are current across inland catchments including the Namoi, Macquarie, Bogan, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, Murray, Edward, Culgoa, Birrie, Bokhara, Warrego, Paroo, Barwon, Darling, Macintyre and Snowy rivers.

A flood watch has also been issued for coastal catchments including the Hunter, Hawkesbury and Colo rivers, and Wollombi Brook, with rises expected from Thursday to Friday.

On Wednesday, the federal government announced disaster assistance would be extended to 27 local government areas in inland NSW.

Eleven of the inland communities hit by recent floods have dealt with inundation in August, Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said.

NSW Flood Recovery Minister Steph Cooke, who has worked on assisting the flood-ravaged Lismore community, said the funding would allow inland communities access to support.

"We know that with these types of floods it can take some time to understand and calculate the impacts of an event like this," Ms Cooke said.

"We are continuing to assess the impacts of this event to ensure that appropriate support is available."

The funding can assist people whose homes or properties have been damaged in floods, help councils with restoring essential assets, or be used by primary producers or small business owners.

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