‘Support will be able to mobilise quickly,’ the emergency management minister, Murray Watt, says
A satellite image of Cyclone Gabrielle off the coast of Queensland heading towards Norfolk Island, taken on Friday morning.A satellite image of Cyclone Gabrielle off the coast of Queensland heading towards Norfolk Island, taken on Friday morning.Fri 10 Feb 2023 07.45 GMTNorfolk IslandThe category three tropical cyclone continues to pick up speed, moving south-east at 46km/h on a direct path toward the island, about 1,440km east of Brisbane.
The emergency management minister, Murray Watt, said the Australian defence force, federal police and emergency personnel teams were on standby.“One of the complications there is that as well as having the residents, there’s also tourists and tourists have been certainly advised that the cyclone is coming. If they choose to leave the island, then the last flight will be leaving fairly shortly,” Watt told ABC on Friday.
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